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  • June 19, 2020 at 11:13 pm #116818
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    from Malala Yousafzai graduates from Oxford University
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/malala-yousafzai-graduates-oxford-university/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=91293098&fbclid=IwAR2WAwnkadXQfDuZucqqByW-YOljK0hWi5Mmiz3hLzw50-e1ovOeHjExiwU
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    Human rights activist Malala Yousafzai is celebrating the completion of her degree at the University of Oxford. Her graduation comes eight years after Yousafzai survived being shot by the Pakistani Taliban.

    “Hard to express my joy and gratitude right now as I completed my Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree at Oxford,” the 22-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate tweeted Thursday night. “I don’t know what’s ahead. For now, it will be Netflix, reading and sleep.”

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    Malala became an iconic figure in 2012 when she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman as she rode the bus to school — targeted for campaigning for girl’s education rights. At the time, she was writing an anonymous blog for BBC News about life in Pakistan under the Taliban.

    She recovered at an intensive care unit in Birmingham, England, where she continued her education after her family relocated there permanently.

    In 2014, at age 17, she became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for her education advocacy. She continues to advocate for girls’ education through her nonprofit, the Malala Fund.

    June 19, 2020 at 11:21 pm #116820
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    June 27, 2020 at 3:22 am #117174
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    June 27, 2020 at 3:26 am #117175
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    June 28, 2020 at 1:26 am #117244
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    June 29, 2020 at 2:22 am #117301
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    June 29, 2020 at 10:30 am #117321
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    July 2, 2020 at 8:24 am #117447
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    July 5, 2020 at 7:20 am #117584
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    July 9, 2020 at 7:19 am #117741
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    July 9, 2020 at 8:15 pm #117801
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    bbc:https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190411-the-violent-attack-that-turned-a-man-into-a-maths-genius
    The violent attack that turned a man into a maths genius

    Futon salesman Jason Padgett cared little about anything beyond partying and chasing girls, then one fateful night changed him forever…
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    …But while Padgett was experiencing all these negative consequences from his attack, something incredible was happening too. The way Jason was seeing things changed.

    “Everything that was curved looked like it was slightly pixelated,” he explains. “Water coming down the drain didn’t look like it was a smooth, flowing thing anymore, it looked like these little tangent lines.”

    The same thing happened with clouds, sunlight streaming between trees and puddles. To Padgett, the world essentially looked like a retro video game. Seeing such a radically different view of his surroundings evoked conflicting emotions in Padgett. “I was surprised…confused. It was beautiful but it was also scary at the same time.”

    Because of these visions, Padgett began to think about huge questions in relation to mathematics and physics. Given his hermit-like existence at that time, the internet became a valuable source of information to him as he read extensively about mathematics online…
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    ….“I would always describe that math was shapes not numbers and that was the first time I’d heard anybody but me talk about what numbers looked like,” says Padgett.

    He scoured the internet for more information and came across Berit Brogaard, a cognitive neuroscientist now at the University of Miami. The pair spent hours talking on the phone and from these conversations, Brogaard hypothesised that Padgett had synaesthesia – essentially a cross-wiring of the brain in which the senses get mixed up…..see link…

    July 15, 2020 at 3:01 am #118002
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    July 16, 2020 at 11:15 am #118049
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    July 16, 2020 at 2:02 pm #118062
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    A michael bennet quote, fwiw:
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    One of my heroes has always been Muhammad Ali. … Ali always stood strongly with the Palestinian people, visiting refugee camps, … and always willing to be a ‘voice for the voiceless.’ I want to be a ‘voice for the voiceless,’ and I cannot do that by going on this kind of trip to Israel.

    –Michael Bennett, American Super Bowl Champion, activist
    link:https://www.bdsmovement.net/news/15-quotes-mark-15-years-bds

    July 17, 2020 at 9:09 pm #118097
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    Will White-Jesus statues be the next to fall?

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    link:https://theconversation.com/the-long-history-of-how-jesus-came-to-resemble-a-white-european-142130?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2017%202020%20-%201680416205&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2017%202020%20-%201680416205+Version+A+CID_0d7f3e4ec385d8cf5621a3114a1b07a0&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=The%20long%20history%20of%20how%20Jesus%20came%20to%20resemble%20a%20white%20European

    The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
    July 17, 2020
    The portrayal of Jesus as a white, European man has come under renewed scrutiny during this period of introspection over the legacy of racism in society.

    As protesters called for the removal of Confederate statues in the U.S., activist Shaun King went further, suggesting that murals and artwork depicting “white Jesus” should “come down.”

    His concerns about the depiction of Christ and how it is used to uphold notions of white supremacy are not isolated. Prominent scholars and the archbishop of Canterbury have called to reconsider Jesus’ portrayal as a white man.

    As a European Renaissance art historian, I study the evolving image of Jesus Christ from A.D. 1350 to 1600. Some of the best-known depictions of Christ, from Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” to Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel, were produced during this period.

    But the all-time most-reproduced image of Jesus comes from another period. It is Warner Sallman’s light-eyed, light-haired “Head of Christ” from 1940. Sallman, a former commercial artist who created art for advertising campaigns, successfully marketed this picture worldwide…..see link

    July 21, 2020 at 2:03 pm #118205
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    July 24, 2020 at 11:37 am #118342
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    July 29, 2020 at 11:15 pm #118612
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    July 30, 2020 at 8:09 am #118624
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    That lady has one of those faces/bone-structures that may very well look better without hair. I know that wasn’t the point.

    Rex Chapman does it again. Man, he’s becoming an internet Tweet-legend.

    July 30, 2020 at 7:21 pm #118674
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    fortune:https://fortune.com/2017/09/08/pledge-of-allegiance-francis-bellamy-immigration/
    How a Socialist Ended Up Writing the Pledge of Allegiance
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    Charles Dorn

    September 8, 2017
    “…One hundred twenty-five years ago, a former minister turned advertiser published an oath that would become a hallmark of American schooling. Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance partly as a marketing scheme. The Youth’s Companion, one of the first weekly magazines in the nation to target both adults and their children, hired Bellamy to develop promotional strategies for commemorating—and profiting from—the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage to America. He was an odd choice for the job. An outspoken supporter of workingmen’s rights, Bellamy was vice president of Boston’s Society of Christian Socialists and an avid participant in the social gospel movement: a late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century crusade against social, political, and economic injustice.

    Much of Bellamy’s activism was in response to a dramatic increase in U.S. immigration that took place during his lifetime. Rather than joining a rising tide of nativism, Bellamy and other social gospel advocates anticipated that a “well-organized and patriotic public education system” would inculcate newcomers with American ideals and values. Accordingly, the highlight of Bellamy’s Columbus Day program involved assembling students at their local schools to recite a pledge in salute to the American flag (with the Companion profiting from flag sales throughout the lead-up to the event). The U.S. didn’t have an official pledge of national loyalty, however, so Bellamy composed his own: “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

    Bellamy later admitted writing the pledge with an eye toward the ritual entailed in reciting it rather than an understanding of its meaning. “When you analyze it,” he claimed, “you find a mouthful of orotund words, most of them abstract terms—a bunch of ideas rather than concrete names . . . this pledge would seem far better adapted to educated adults than to children.” Nevertheless, school boards around the country began compelling student recitation as part of a morning flag salute. In 1898, New York became the first state to legislate the requirement, passing its statute one day following the U.S. declaration of war against Spain. By 1917, with the eruption of nationalism accompanying America’s entry into World War I, pledging allegiance to the flag became a fixture of public education in America….see link….

    July 31, 2020 at 9:52 am #118683
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    Even Entomologists are struggling with race knowledge these days.
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    bug-blog:http://bugeric.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-problem-with-murderanything.html

    “…the fact that i can speak more intelligently about social wasps, than people of color is disgraceful….”
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    July 31, 2020 at 4:54 pm #118694
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    July 31, 2020 at 11:00 pm #118721
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    This ad is getting accolades for its editing.

    It’s also a message about unity and diversity.

    It’s still an ad. What qualifies it as a kinda good & interestin thing?

    I dunno, just thought I would post it.

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    August 1, 2020 at 7:24 pm #118757
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    The good news.
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    August 1, 2020 at 10:21 pm #118765
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    Vietnamese lady’s point of view.
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    August 2, 2020 at 12:17 pm #118781
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    August 7, 2020 at 10:03 pm #119012
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    August 13, 2020 at 10:44 am #119217
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    August 13, 2020 at 4:56 pm #119235
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    August 13, 2020 at 5:16 pm #119237
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    He was a white guy in a wheelchair, though. If he’d been black…

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