December 2011
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North Korea invites South Korea to funeral.  →
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“And at once I knew I was not magnificent”
– Justin Vernon
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“It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also...”
– Friedrich Hayek (via nathanielstuart) This is so wrong but so right.
Dec 5th
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In today's neuroscience news, a bunch of... →
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“I don’t want to deal with myself. I don’t want to exist. I just want to think.”
– Zizek, in this article (via insearchofwisdom)
Dec 3rd
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Marriage Equality is now part of ALP platform....
“an historic moment” for Australia via GetUp!
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ABC Classic 100 countdown →
Tune in now, it’s so humbly divine no. 14 Górecki Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
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“While most scientists would write off the event as a freak accident, two...”
– Maybe the single most amazing science story ever written.  (via moorehn) The future (probably due to lack of funding for the arts) lacks imagination, let me put this in perspective - you’ll sabotage the LHC but you won’t stop Lou Reed and Metallica from collaborating? Pfft. (via thenoobyorker)
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Aid: Can It Work? →
kohenari: Since Professor William Easterly is now actively posting to a new Tumblr blog, I thought it would be fun to link to a book review by Nick Kristof of Easterly’s The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (and several other aid-related books that came out around the same time, back in 2006). Maybe my favorite quote from...
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