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Monday, June 23, 2014

Alan Turing: June 23, 1914 - June 7, 1954

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Alan Mathison Turing ,  OBE ,  FRS  ( 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was a British mathematician,  logician ,  cryptanalyst , philosopher,  com...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

The Log Splitter of Avenue P

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Photo by Anthony Napoli, Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn

Baptism by Fire: Touch the Wall and Touch the Heart

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N.R. Kleinfield's NYT cover story on FDNY "proby" Jordan Sullivan is deeply felt and Pulitzer worthy. A must read in today...
Friday, June 20, 2014

When Drones Fall....

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Over 400 drones have crashed since 2001, many internationally at scenes of various US l'aventurra , but also in the US, according to Fed...

"Quantam" Leap of Number of Refugees Worldwide: NY Times

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The NY Times reports "We  are not facing an increasing trend, we are really facing a quantum leap,” in the number of refugees worldwide...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

The Freeway to Mars

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Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to put humans on Mars and bring them back home to Earth within 10 - 12 years - that's decades B...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Income Inequality: The Topic for Our Time

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On Monday, more than 10,000 MoveOn members across the country gathered online to watch Senator Elizabeth Warren and acclaimed economist Thom...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Melior est pax in vita, in morte pax

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From Jordi Savall's Jerusalem
Friday, May 23, 2014

Friday Reverie: "Taking a Chance on Love"

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Ethel Waters and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, "Taking a Chance on Love" from Cabin in the Sky.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Crooner's Delight: New from Bob Dylan - Full Moon and Empty Arms

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From Spirits in the Night, a forthcoming album by Bob Dylan, a performance of a Frank Sinatra tune. A nice article on Dylan, his love fo...
Friday, April 25, 2014

The Piketty Factor: "Capital in the 21st Century" - The right book for the "Right" Time?

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Economist Thomas Piketty's book, "Capital in the 21st Century" is already causing a stir in media, political and economic circ...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Love for Sale: John Tuturro's Fading Gigalo

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John Tuturro's Fading Gigalo, somewhat ill-named but surprisingly rich in nuance for what sounded like a run of the mill sex farce.. Woo...

Anti-Semitism Amidst the Chaos in Ukraine

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A flier distributed outside of a synagogue in East Ukraine ordered Jews to register and provide proof of property ownership; local officials...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Ai Weiwei: According to What? Comes to Brooklyn Museum

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Springtime at the Brooklyn Museum is an event in itself with the opening of the first major New York area retrospective if the work of artis...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

"Reconstructing the Universe": Italian Futurism's Paradoxes and New Ideas

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" Boxes of love  is  preserved" is a  collection of short stories by  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti  , originally published in  1927  ...
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