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Author Archives: Duncan Toms
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U.S. Military Desperate To Be Handed Just One Solid War It Can Knock Out Of The Park
ARLINGTON, VA—Reportedly fed up with complicated and protracted operations overseas, top Pentagon officials acknowledged this week they were desperate to be given just one straightforward, no-nonsense military engagement they could really knock out of the park. “Given all these messy, … Continue reading
A space used for one purpose with sacred intent
Half an hour from Brockwood near Chithurst is a monastery. A Buddhist monastery of a forest tradition. I don’t know the name of the tradition or founder. This evening a few friends and I went to their Saturday public service, … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Meditation
Tagged buddhism, chithurst monastery, monks, sacred spaces
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Winchester Architecture – Winchester College and College Street
College Street runs east from Kingsgate, south of Cathedral Close. The street begins typically, with a few shops in C18 buildings. Further along is the house where Jane Austen died, and Wolvesey Palace, the home and offices of the Bishop … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Hampshire, Photos, Travel
Tagged architecture, flint court, winchester college, wren building
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‘Christopher Walken’ reads Where the Wild Things Are and describes the pictures
I like the way he says Wild Thing I also like: There’s a bear strung up. I assume murdered. Maybe a suicide. I don’t know. … Max doesn’t look scared, he’s kind of annoyed, like, you know: Who are these … Continue reading
Every hour you work over 40 hours a week is making you less effective and productive over both the short and the long haul
If the boss asks you to work 50 hours, you work 55. If she asks for 60, you give up weeknights and Saturdays, and work 65. Odds are that you’ve been doing this for months, if not years, probably at … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health, Life
Tagged 40-hour week, efficiency, overtime, overworked, stress
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“Hello! You’ve Been Targeted For a Drone Assassination!”
Posted in Current Affairs
Tagged constitutional rights, drones, fair trial, tom the dancing bug, war on terror
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Tunguska by Fanfarlo
I came across Fanfarlo today via Word magazine’s cover disc. In this song they are singing about mysterious event in 1908 that destroyed 80 million trees in Siberia with a force 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped … Continue reading
Whitney Houston’s Death and the Music Industry
As I’m writing this, Twitter, which is the ideal medium for bogus admiration and fake indignation, is up in arms over Sony raising the price of a Whitney Houston compilation only 24 hours after her death. … In cases like … Continue reading
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Heroes
One by one, or all at once, heroes drop away Leaving you lost You’re looking for more More of the same Heroes real or imagined Both are real Heroes in fiction or friends Or family And are just like you … Continue reading
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Light on Life by BKS Iyengar – Chapter 4: Clarity – The Mental Body (Manas)
Quotations I’ve selected from the forth chapter of Iyengar’s Light on Life. You cannot hope to experience inner peace or freedom without understanding the workings of your mind and of human consciousness in general. … With right perception and understanding … Continue reading
Posted in Intelligence, Life, Reading, Yoga
Tagged consumerism, ego, intelligence, iyengar yoga, manas, mind, wisdom
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Winchester Architecture – Brooks, Parchment St, St Peter St, Jewry St, Tower St
These streets run north from the shopping area, out towards the Roman North Wall. Upper and Lower Brook Streets are mainly residential, with a few shops and the Heritage Centre at the southern side. Parchment Street runs north from Boots … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Photos, Travel
Tagged architecture, brooks, buildings, C17, C18, georgian, Jewry St, Parchment St, St Peter St, Tower St, winchester, Wren
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Tagged data, facebook, infographic, information, internet traffic
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Earworm: The Wall
This morning’s earworm. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. We don’t need no education. We don’t need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher, leave those kids alone. Hey, Teacher, leave those kids alone! All in all … Continue reading
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The Cane Toad in Australia
We brought you in to eat the beetles But they were too high on the crop And you hopped away And mated making thousands Who mated making thousands And hopped away And mated making thousands And hopped away Along the … Continue reading
Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong
The threat of climate change is an increasingly important environmental issue for the globe. Because the economic questions involved have received relatively little attention, I have been writing a nontechnical book for people who would like to see how market-based … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Earth
Tagged agw, climate change, global warming contrarians
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