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Mendocino Talking
Gene Logsdon: The Contrary Farmer
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Our Mendocino Talking series of interviews with local denizens in the Anderson Valley Advertiser
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The Contrary Musician
Shortcuts To Mastering Piano & Guitar
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How Playing an Instrument
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International Headlines
- Facebook posts record revenues for first quarter despite privacy scandal
- After all the hugs, Macron stands up for everything Trump vowed to destroy
- Qatari man held for 13 years over links to al-Qaida: I was tortured on US soil
- Older men on e-bikes behind rising death toll among Dutch cyclists
- Peter Madsen sentenced to life for murdering journalist Kim Wall
- Malta losing money 'hand over fist' from Azerbaijan energy deal, claim experts
- Northern Ireland papers: no simple solution to hard border, say UK officials
- Golden State Killer: hope for unsolved serial killer case as ex-cop arrested
- Hank Azaria on The Simpsons' Apu controversy: 'I'm willing to step aside'
- The largest thing in the universe? Cosmic collision 12bn years ago created mega-galaxy
Building Resilient Communities
- Minnesota Court Says Activists can Use Climate Change as a Defense in TrialDoes climate change pose such an imminent threat to the planet that it’s okay to break the law in order to stop it? Four climate activists currently awaiting trial in Minnesota for shutting off a tar sands pipeline think so — and on Monday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals agreed that they should be allowed to make that argument before a jury when their case g […]
- Between Trump and a Devastated PlaceSeven months after Juan and Jonathan Leija were forced to evacuate their flooded homes during Hurricane Harvey, the cousins face challenges that go beyond just recovering their lives. Building back isn’t easy for anybody, but the Leijas are doing it as looming policy decisions threaten to uproot them again.
- Storm WarningsThe argument between orthodox economists and their critics resembles one that occurred in weather forecasting in the mid-nineteenth century, with the establishment of the UK Meteorology Office in 1854 by Admiral Robert FitzRoy.
Brain Pickings
- Esperanza Spalding Performs William Blake’s Short Existential Poem “The Fly”A centuries-old, timeless meditation on chance, suffering, and the improbable glory of life.
- Evolutionary Biologist Lynn Margulis on the Spirituality of Science and the Interconnectedness of Life Across Time, Space, and Species"The fact that we are connected through space and time shows that life is a unitary phenomenon, no matter how we express that fact."
Modern Stoicism
- Stoicism and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy by Walter J. MatweychukThis post is the transcript of Dr. Walter J. Matweychuk’s presentation at the STOICON 2017 conference in Toronto, Canada. Video recording of this talk and others are available in the Stoicon 2017 Resources site. I am a clinical psychologist who was drawn to begin to study Stoic philosophy a few years ago to better understand … Continue reading "Stoicism […]
- Stoic Echoes in the Upanishads by Eric O. ScottWhat is the cause of the cosmos? Is it Brahman? From where do we come? By what live? Where shall we find peace at last? What power governs the duality Of pleasure and pain by which we are driven? —The Shvetashvatara Upanishad, 1.1 When you subscribe to a tradition as rich and universally relatable as Stoicism, … Continue reading "Stoic Echoes in the Upa […]
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