January 2012
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The phases of mitosis
inter – ‘between, among’ - Latin
pro - ‘in front of, on behalf of, instead of, on account of’ - Latin
meta - ‘with, across, after’ - Greek
ana - ‘up, back, again’ - Greek
telo - ‘end’ - Greek
Source: my computer’s dictionary
December 2011
2 posts
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With all this extra stressing the question I wonder is:
After death, after my...
– Wise ol’ Tupac
November 2011
2 posts
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A list of all the working groups at Occupy Wall...
Communication: Networks.
Signals: We run the radio.
Tech: We used to be internet.
Women Occupying Wall Street: Women’s caucus
Queer Empowerment
Information: Information desk, etc.
Minutes: (you’re reading them right now!)
Worker Co-ops: Starting co-ops
Best Practices: Transparency
Sustainability: Composting, bike power, local food
Library: Free knowledge
Finance: Keep the money safe...
July 2011
3 posts
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The people, yes,
Out of what is their change
from chaos to order
and chaos...
– Carl Sandburg, The People, Yes
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People feel they have very little economic or political agency, very little...
– Once Greece Goes…
June 2011
2 posts
Feel free to ask me anything.
May 2011
3 posts
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated...
– Martha Graham
April 2011
6 posts
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March 2011
2 posts
After that the Æsir feared that they should never be able to get the Wolf bound....
– Prose Edda
February 2011
4 posts
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When a nation goes down or a society perishes, one condition may always be...
– Carl Sandburg
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...
– Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
January 2011
6 posts
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It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of...
– Charles Darwin, The origin of species by means of natural selection
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Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first...
– Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals
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December 2010
4 posts
I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils;
And her quick look, a...
– Theodore Roethke, Elegy for Jane (My student, thrown by a horse). (via exempli-gratia)
Is humanity a single giant brain in the process of laying down its own neural...
– JSTN: Followup question Consider this lecture on the transition between individual and group dynamics: http://oyc.yale.edu/ecology-and-evolutionary-biology/principles-of-evolution-ecology-and-behavior/content/sessions/lecture22.html
November 2010
7 posts
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Lecture on the impact of evolutionary thought on... →
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Rule 34, the Amish, and fandom’s willingness to wear its sweaters inside-out are...
– Cory Doctorow
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The name is originally from Greek δελφίς (delphís), “dolphin”, which...
– Wikipedia
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October 2010
9 posts
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He is an anticapitalist socialist who is too cozy with Wall Street, a...
– Education of a President
I remember going into Steve’s house and he had almost no furniture in it. He...
– John Sculley on Steve Jobs