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I was thinking about how hospitals are full of people going through shit helping other people going...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:14:05 +0530

I was thinking about how hospitals are full of people going through shit helping other people going through shit. Then I realized that almost every profession is like that. We are a planet full of struggling people, making our livings providing for the needs of other struggling people.

I’m not sure if this is a happy thought or a sad one.

9 questions to ask yourself about your social media addiction

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:53:48 +0530

Is it necessary to share this? Will it add value to my life and for other people?
Can I share this experience later so I can focus on living it now?
Am I looking for validation? Is there something I could do to validate myself?
Am I avoiding something I need to do instead of addressing why I don’t want to do it?
Am I feeling bored? Is there something else I could do to feel more purposeful and engaged in my day?
Am I feeling lonely? Have I created opportunities for meaningful connection in my day?
Am I afraid of missing out? Is the gratification of giving in to that fear worth missing out on what’s in front of me?
Am I overwhelming myself, trying to catchup? Can I let go of yesterday’s conversation and join today’s instead?
Can I use this time to simply be instead of looking for something to do to fill it?

Source: 99U

Faith and Theology: Banishing Falstaff: Shakespeare and the moral vision of comedy

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:30:17 +0530

Faith and Theology: Banishing Falstaff: Shakespeare and the moral vision of comedy

Finding My Memory

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:18:01 +0530

Finding My Memory :

What changes when you lose your short-term memory? Everything, as this man’s story will tell you.

When Sexism Just Sounds So Darn Friendly| Benevolent sexism

Sun, 05 May 2013 17:08:41 +0530

When Sexism Just Sounds So Darn Friendly| Benevolent sexism :

Just read it.

Oh, smile.

Sat, 04 May 2013 20:12:00 +0530

Oh, smile.

Exploding your emotional bandwidth

Sat, 04 May 2013 18:59:58 +0530

Exploding your emotional bandwidth:

What an odd, charged, fascinating moment, this space of not knowing. It forces us to isolate the emotional toll into pure feeling, pure shared humanity, divorced of social or geopolitical wedge. Unable to aim our accusations at something, to find scapegoat or excuse, all our normal engines of intolerance and blame are momentarily rendered useless.

Make no mistake, we will almost certainly find out who did it. Then the frantic political blogs and talking heads will finally get to embark upon some heated, semi-intellectual conversation about insanity, or domestic terrorism, or racism, or some new form of the same old demons we haven’t considered yet.

Will it help? Will we learn anything new? Maybe. Doubtful. Maybe we’ll just re-learn the old chestnut that America must have its demons. We must have our enemies. If we can’t find any, we invent them. It’s what we do.

Meantime, we just mourn and grieve and collect ourselves. We just gather in. It won’t last long, but perhaps this is the most important moment of all. Perhaps this is where we find our soul.

mangooopopsicle: COLOMBIA: ART: PEDRO COVO I’m excited to share...

Sat, 04 May 2013 18:22:40 +0530

mangooopopsicle:

COLOMBIA: ART: PEDRO COVO

I’m excited to share work for the first time from Colombia and especially from Pedro Covo. At first I was looking for a few pieces which show a theme within his reservoir, however I fell for the diversity of style. This is a mixed collection of Covo’s personal and editorial pieces.

Pedro tells me the inspiration for personal pieces comes from drawing, which is something he does every day in addition to doing live photo studies. And for editorial, his process “is to make an analogy or a connection of ideas to express an intelligent point of view about the text without falling in the most obvious solution.” His consistency lies in his unpredictability.

In case you were wondering what’s in his toolbox, he uses watercolors, oils or digital and sometimes all three. To see more of Covo’s work, visit his website here.

"I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 19:36:52 +0530

“I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles - and he always fixed my car.
Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I’d prove myself a moron, and I’d be a moron, too. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.
Consider my auto-repair man, again. He had a habit of telling me jokes whenever he saw me. One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say: “Doc, a deaf-and-mute guy went into a hardware store to ask for some nails. He put two fingers together on the counter and made hammering motions with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?”
Indulgently, I lifted my right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two fingers. Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed raucously and said, “Why, you dumb jerk, He used his voice and asked for them.” Then he said smugly, “I’ve been trying that on all my customers today.” “Did you catch many?” I asked. “Quite a few,” he said, “but I knew for sure I’d catch you.” “Why is that?” I asked. “Because you’re so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn’t be very smart.””

- Isaac Asimov (via damp-earth)

30 Days Of Sexism | Kotaku Australia

Thu, 02 May 2013 19:35:19 +0530

30 Days Of Sexism | Kotaku Australia:

thinhline:

From March 7 – April 7, I documented everything blatantly sexist anyone has said to me. None of these comments were provoked, none of them were replies to something I said, none of them were at all out of the ordinary and the vast majority of them (an original count of 77 images) have been taken out so that this post isn’t as long as it probably should be. This is a 10-picture indication of what it’s like to be a woman who endorses game culture, every single month.

Our vanishing public spaces

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:45:18 +0530

Our vanishing public spaces:

A city is not its gated communities, but its public spaces. These define the character of any urban environment and connect the people of the city. Since we don’t have these, our cities have no (or are losing) character and have no sense of connectedness. Disregard of public spaces is only one aspect of our poor urban development. While we grapple with this complex overall problem, a step forward on the specific issue of public spaces would be if all academic institutions were to throw open their gates and play a role similar to the one like GKVK.

One crisp, beautiful Bangalore winter evening, as I shook hands with our Afghan friends, one of them held on to my hand. He looked at my son and said, “You are lucky, you play with your son”. It was my Kabuliwala moment. After a few months, we saw them no more at GKVK. I wished then, as now, that they are playing with their sons.

HT @samar11

I am working on making healthy and non-restrictive IT policies at work. On discussing options with...

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:37:11 +0530

I am working on making healthy and non-restrictive IT policies at work. On discussing options with co-workers and other departments have realized our general attitude towards the law and rules is very strange.

Most people would restrict the freedom of the majority to prevent a minority from misusing freedom.

It is assumed that people cannot be trusted, that given freedom, everyone will misuse everything.

I don’t know if this attitude comes from our culture, or if the culture (of oppression, corruption and greed) comes from this belief.

What does this mean for what we believe about ourselves? Are we cheats and robbers and psychopaths, all?

"At the heart of leadership is a deceptively simple question: “Am I willing to risk my personal..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:28:29 +0530

“At the heart of leadership is a deceptively simple question: “Am I willing to risk my personal reputation, status, and safety for the good of others?” Sometimes in life it can feel foolhardy to rush in to try and make a difference, but doing so is rarely a foolish act. It’s an act of leadership.”

theparisreview: Slip is onelaw of crashamong dozens. There is alsoshift—moving agranite lozengeto...

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:02:32 +0530

theparisreview:

Slip is one
law of crash
among dozens.

There is also
shift—
moving a
granite lozenge
to the left
a little,
sending down
a cliff.

Also toggles:
the idle flip
that trips
the rails
trains travel.

No act
or refusal
to act, no
special grip
or triple lock
or brake stops

crash: crash
quickens
on resistance
like a legal system
out of Dickens.

—Kay Ryan, “Crash”

Nilanjana Roy: A is for Apple: what college won't teach you

Wed, 01 May 2013 22:52:44 +0530

Nilanjana Roy: A is for Apple: what college won't teach you:

You know this, but a good review. Someone ought to write about what universities should teach, and how. Because those teachers who are produced from our educational factories have no idea what else to do.

What they should teach in sex ed

Wed, 01 May 2013 21:03:24 +0530

Porn is not how real sex works.

You’re going to feel a lot of new, frustrating and abstruse feelings for others, this is normal, you are not a pervert.

Masturbation is not evil. You won’t go to hell, go blind, impotent or weak if you rub one out.

Depending on your social settings and beliefs, you might be ok with having sex before marriage- this is normal. You might not believe in sex before marriage, this is normal too.

If she/he says “no”, it means NO. If he/she says “stop”, STOP.

You will confuse lust with love a lot, this is normal.

Condoms will drive you crazy, but they’re worth it.

People who have more sex than you are not sluts. People who have less sex than you are not prudes. Don’t use those words, they hurt you, not those you aim them at.

The pictures they will show you at school and in books wont make any sense at all. You will have to figure out what goes where once you have access.

Become familiar with your body, exploring it with someone else has a special joy, but so does going solo (han solo, heh).

You will learn a lot of bullshit from friends and books, so be mindful, learn to unlearn as you gain experience.

No one really knows how real sex is supposed to work, we are all students till we die.

Don’t mix alcohol and sex till you are reasonably good at handling at least one of them.

Some boys like boys, some girls like girls, some girls feel they are boys, some boys feel they are girls, some girls like boys. All this is normal and good. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Add yours here

Mothers and Anti- Mothers in Indian Cinema.

Wed, 01 May 2013 13:30:48 +0530

Mothers and Anti- Mothers in Indian Cinema.

brucesterling: 1993 A.D.

Wed, 01 May 2013 13:23:48 +0530

brucesterling:

1993 A.D.

Where are the female heroes? explore-blog: An animated look...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:43:25 +0530

Where are the female heroes?

explore-blog:

An animated look at what literature’s most famous hero archetypes teach us.

"No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:03:07 +0530

“No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work’s sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.”

- C. S. Lewis ~ The Weight of Glory