Joy Harjo's Inaugural Reading as U.S. Poet Laureate

Will Fully Autonomous Weapons Spark Wars? #TeamHuman #KILLERROBOTS

MC YOGI - Heaven Is Here (feat. Matisyahu) - OFFICIAL VIDEO

Calina Lawrence - ʔəshəliʔ ti txʷəlšucid | Dir. Tomas Karmelo Amaya

"CHASING ICE" captures largest glacier calving ever filmed #WaterEvent

Barrie Trower and Mark Steele on #5G (2019) | BETTER AUDIO

EMF Pollution from Humans

"Electromagnetic pollution (EMF) may be the most significant form of pollution human activity has produced in this century, all the more dangerous because it is invisible and insensible." - Andrew Weil, M.D., Author of 8 Weeks to Optimum Health & Spontaneous Healing

Wong Ping on his exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, 2019

The Purple Thistle

COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required from Joyful Threads Productions on Vimeo.
The only rules at The Purple Thistle were no alcohol, no drugs, no assholes (ie no racism, sexism or homophobia and clean up after yourself) and no sleeping (naps were okay). Kids at The Purple Thistle governed themselves via anarchist-based principles of consensus decision making and mutual aid.*
*The principle of mutual aid creates a safe space for people to ask for and offer help. It also promotes economic solidarity whereby no member of the community is allowed to go without.

Meteor or UFO Explodes in the Sky Over Town in Upstate New York Meteor o...

Meteorit über New York explodiert - Erste Daten

South Park - American Economics

South Park - American Economics

thanks to Paul

America’s First Opioid Epidemic

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were all familiar with, if not addicted to, laudanum.
Doctors had been alerted to the dangers of addiction starting in the 1870s.
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Boom crashed

My old Boom blog hit a critical error - someone hacked it or planted a bomb in it. I hate when that happens.

The insect apocalypse DW Documentary

How to See Palestine Whole

Louis Haghe after a drawing by David Roberts, “Gaza”(1839) lithograph, From The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia vol. 2, (1843) pl. 15; Royal Subscription edition (image courtesy Library of Congress Digital Collections)

To observe that images distort reality is nothing new. (John Berger and his collaborators reminded us of this in Ways of Seeing nearly 50 years ago.) What is more interesting and important is to see how and why this is done in European and, eventually, American images of Palestine.

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