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Worth considering the cited polls, pondering the implications of Shariah law and the question in full. Author states, "here’s what also needs to be said: certain forms of contemporary Islam are an enormous, confounding problem and a threat to the liberal political and social order. The threat isn’t just from bombs, bullets, and butcher’s knives. It’s also, and perhaps more gravely, from ideas that may well be fundamentally unassimilable to a liberal way of life." - Adriano

Directed and edited by Chandler Perry. Prop list (before tax): Tin Pans $2.00 Duct Tape $3.00 Spray Paints $3.00 Cardboard Boxes $1.50 Gloves $5.00 Keyboard $1.50 Corn $1.50 Plastic Bowls $1.00 Tangerines $2.75 \\ Original music: "No Time for Caution" by Hans Zimmer. - Adriano

Sous la direction de Matthias Pintscher, les trente et un solistes de l’Ensemble intercontemporain poursuivent l’exploration de la musique de notre temps à la Philharmonie. http://www.philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr... \\ 221, avenue Jean-Jaurès, 19e Paris - Adriano

Full book released online at Imgur link above via http://www.raminnazer.com -- the best in 2014, very funny, deserving some thought. So to an alive 2015 New Year! - Adriano

"A consortium of Princeton University Press, Hebrew University and Caltech has been publishing his papers with English translations, and the first 13 volumes went online this week at http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu . The site will eventually include 30 volumes, with some 14,000 annotated documents. Most future Einstein researchers no longer have to make the journey to the cozy house on the edge of the Caltech campus where the scholars of the Einstein Papers Project were eager to embrace their rare visitors and ply them with guidance, insights and tea." - Adriano

"We report a controlled longitudinal study to investigate pre-post changes in brain gray matter concentration attributable to participation in an MBSR [meditation] program. Anatomical MRI images from sixteen healthy, meditation-naïve participants were obtained before and after they underwent the eight-week program. Changes in gray matter concentration were investigated using voxel-based morphometry, and compared to a wait-list control group of 17 individuals. Analyses in a priori regions of interest confirmed increases in gray matter concentration within the left hippocampus. Whole brain analyses identified increases in the posterior cingulate cortex, the temporo-parietal junction, and the cerebellum in the MBSR group compared to the controls. The results suggest that participation in MBSR is associated with changes in gray matter concentration in brain regions involved in learning and memory processes, emotion regulation, self-referential processing, and perspective taking." - Adriano

see also Hölzel, B.K., et al. (2011), How does mindfulness meditation work? Proposing mechanisms of action from a conceptual and neural perspective. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 537-559. http://pps.sagepub.com/content... - Adriano

Impressive... "consists of *three* movements, performed without a break. The work grows from a five note motif: C, D, E flat, B and C sharp, which contains the four pitch-classes of the composer's musical monogram: DSCH (E flat being S and B being H in German). This monogram appears in a number of his other string quartets, including the Eighth, as well as his Tenth Symphony." - Adriano

get your invite for the NEW Youtube Music Key: https://www.youtube.com/musicke... - Adriano

After all these years, finally met him... he shared his French puns, and I briefed him about IPython notebooks. - Adriano

just prepare yourself for the multiverse interpretation of quantum mechanics, with its inherent conflict with time as directional causality in general relativity, as source for entertainment. There are several WTF moments, good and bad (even an uncredited M.D. Team America moment :-) See it in 70mm film version, not digital. [Heard 2001 may be re-released as new print, confirm?] - Adriano

Hans Zimmer has answered several questions regarding the Interstellar soundtrack: https://www.quora.com/How-did... His use of 2001 tonality on huge church organs is quite remarkably during the film. In some segments, the music forcibly inserts itself to substitute for emotional expression behind the characters. - Adriano

Joe Morgenstern's review nails it precisely: http://online.wsj.com/article... ... and then there's this: Testing for real NASA helmets includes dropping an 8 lbs steel ball from 6 feet. So after all that advanced physics, we have a plain butt-head fail :-( - Adriano

with Borges' literary flourish, translated from Spanish. \\ "What I have said today is fragmentary. It would have been absurd for me to have expounded on a doctrine to which I have dedicated many years – and of which I have understood little, really – with a wish to show a museum piece. Buddhism is not a museum piece for me: it is a path to salvation." - Adriano

#borgesborges - Alfonker Tapir

Asoka was emperor of India, not China (just to get the facts straight). - Maitani

"Thomas Jefferson is an American saint because he wrote the words "All men are created equal," words he clearly didn't believe since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He's a rich white snob who's sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So, yeah, he writes some lovely words and aroused the rabble and they went and died for those words while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community? Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fuckin' pay me." - Adriano

And here's the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch... Based on the 1974 novel "Cogan's Trade," by George V. Higgins, the film stars Brad Pitt as Jackie Cogan, a mobster called upon to investigate a robbery at an illegal card game run by an amiable thug named Markie (Ray Liotta). The late James Gandolfini plays a boozing, whoring Mafia hit man. - Adriano

Utterly amazing from a DMV guy... worth reading if you are interested in analytical philosophy: what the practice of early Wittgenstein might mean in a "conventional" language, to the implications of the private language argument, then back to trying to express the ineffable in ordinary experience. For gaps in meanings, along the way we get to actually encounter Lakoff at his Berkeley home: metaphor is in the idea and can't be wished away with grammar (ontology embedded in language as revealed by the taxonomy behind word units). [Thanks @maitani for showing me this article :-] - Adriano

Even before _Philosophical Investigations_, Wittgenstein had thought about the verification problem of whether a mentioned color in a conversation was in fact the same to participants, cf. Blue and Brown notebooks. (Only the rotational shift in their color wheels needs to be consistent during the conversation :-) -- but more generally see "trippy" https://www.quora.com/What-ar... So, so much for conciseness, and what were we talking about? - Adriano

then nominates Putin here: https://www.youtube.com/watch... - Adriano

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Thrilled to see a rare Aztec last week (in black though, not pale green :-) - Adriano

Very impressive, but not sufficiently technical: Guillermo Ochoa during Mexico's run to the knockout stage, and Tim Howard despite a record-breaking 16 saves during USA's match against Belgium. - Adriano

Carlos Santana nails it: "I think Messi has a mystique about him, he has that street [football] thing. I don't think he even really looks like a football player – he looks like a **plumber** to me! It's a compliment, because when he focuses, I admire the gift he has so much. Because it is a beautiful God-given gift to be in the top echelon of greatest [players]." http://www.fifa.com/worldcu... - Adriano

"Crowing over the 7-1 win felt out of place for many who revere Brazilian soccer. Watching Brazilian children sobbing on screen fused German joy with pity. And it wasn't only heartbroken Brazilians who wanted the German team to stop scoring. "4-0 would have been enough," said Harald Schumacher, a 1980s German goalkeeping legend. "You get a guilty conscience" after inflicting such humiliation on hosts, he said. Sorrow for a fallen adversary could be seen as a sign that Germans are still uncomfortable about triumphalism. Nearly seven decades after World War II, reservations still run deep here about displays of unfettered national pride, especially if it comes at other nations' expense." - Adriano

"The Soccer Power Index (SPI) match-predictor (which uses a poisson distribution to estimate the range of possible scores) gave Germany only a 0.022 percent probability (about one chance in 4,500) of scoring seven or more goals. Likewise, SPI gave Germany a 0.025 percent probability (one chance in 4,000) of beating Brazil by six goals or more. Statistical models can fail at the extreme tails of a probability distribution." - Adriano

"I've never seen so many thousands of fans breaking down within just 25 minutes of the start of a game and by 29 minutes they were already exhausted of tears. Scolari decided to take a risk and go for a more offensive scheme, pressuring their German opponents. However, Germany quickly exposed and targeted the hole in the left side of Brazil's defense, and scored two early goals. This broke down the Brazilian team emotionally, and created even more defensive vulnerabilities which were used by German midfielders to score. The match was essentially over after those crazy first 30 minutes, in which Germany scored 5 goals." - Adriano

Best on point: https://www.quora.com/How-did... - Adriano

"$GS Economists tackle the knockout round of the #WorldCup. See the updated predictions: http://link.gs.com/IsXl " Details of the Elo model tweaks: http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thi... \\ There is an octopus which will do better :-) but for me it will be a very tight game with p(Brazil to win against Argentina in the final)=56%. - Adriano

This will be interesting!! - Sepi ⌘ سپی

Or, say, a dozen other transport ships. See the entire album, just wow! - Adriano

A ship to ship ships. - John (bird whisperer)

She ships ship ships by the ship shore. - bentley

yo, dawg... - Big Joe Silenced

Xoogler Jason Grishkoff: "Our aim is to provide you with a great way to share and create looping animations. Gifs are great, they are emotive, non intrusive, a fun entertainment medium and very popular! Billions are viewed on a monthly basis. We plan to improve this platform by creating easy to use tools to share and create looping animations and allow you to choose to use the traditional gif file or try our HTML 5 player for better playback and quality." CREATE: https://www.giflike.com/create - Adriano

Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 2012. - Adriano

Le dur désir de durer, 1946, Œuvres complètes t.II, p.83, Gallimard, La Pléiade. - Adriano

e.g. "During the recent rematch, Spain searches for their 2010 World Cup Final victory over the Netherlands increased 2.5x. \\ Searches for star striker Robin Van Persie spiked recently in the Netherlands, even overtaking those for Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh." - Adriano

RT @mattcutts "if you go to Google and search for [world cup] you can watch the goals from the games in bite-size videos!" - Adriano

One of the most glorious headers ever! setting the stage for Spain's worst defeat since 1588. Chrome only: watch the ENTIRE Spain 1 vs Netherlands 5 match by submitting this URL http://cloudyvideos.com/d2kh8to... at this page: http://codepen.io/decho... \\ Study the epic tiki-taka fail vs 5-3-2 formation. - Adriano

This is the Japanese minimalistic shoegazing post-rock band famous for their beautiful performances (not to be confused with the UK Mono which is a Bondesque band famous for Formica Blues :-) - Adriano

This is absolutely amazing and powerful!! - Sepi ⌘ سپی

Stunning view over the Adriatic Sea, near Bari, see https://maps.google.com/maps... coordinates 40.99616, 17.221327 - Adriano

Leonard Cohen (original studio version), The Civil Wars (surprisingly good cover), Leonard Cohen (recently live). - Adriano

I accidentally downloaded this 6-hour set instead of adding to a playlist. No regrets -- though it's all over the electronic map: chillout, trance, funk, EDM, ... - Adriano

really strong abstract expressionism combined with Nolde figurative painting -- there's a certain calmness behind the agitated surface oil. Peter Selz did an interview, published in her catalog called “New Images of Man and Woman.” - Adriano