Category: Infotainment
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Thinking West: Campfire Coffee Recipe
El Portal has decided to publish its own recipe of a western favorite: campfire coffee. Campfire coffee is an art and a science, despite what many city folks might believe. Moreover, coffee is just as important to the cowpokes of the range as it is to the business folks of the city. Unlike those city slickers who visit…
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When Superintelligent AI Arrives, Will Religions Try to Convert It? (Gizmodo)
Zoltan Istvan (Gizmodo) examines how the world’s religions might handle the creation of superintelligent artificial intelligences. It appears that, much like American corporations in a recent Supreme Court case, superintelligent AIs may find God, too, with a little help, of course…. Like it or not, we are nearing the age of humans creating autonomous, self-aware…
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Portugal
According to the CIA World Factbook, Portugal is slightly smaller in size than Indiana. In 2001, Portugal decriminalized drug possession, which precipitated in fewer drug crimes and even fewer drug abuse cases amongst Portugal’s youth. Portugal was one of the world’s leading maritime powers during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. During the early years of…
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More from Jim O’Donnell
Danube River at Night – My Shot of the Day – October 16, 2014. More Pictures of Beautiful Bratislava by Night. We be will hosting two major events while Jim O’Donnell is in Portales: Reading on Friday, the 23rd at 2pm in JWLA 112 Lecture on Thursday the 29th at 2pm in JWLA 112
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Exploring the Rackova Valley – Tatras National Park – Slovakia (Jim O’Donnell)
We be will hosting two major events while Jim O’Donnell is in Portales: Reading on Friday, the 23rd at 2pm in JWLA 112 (our nice, new lecture hall) Lecture on Thursday the 29th at 2pm in JWLA 112
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More from Jim O’Donnell: Egypt, Day One-Around the World in Eighty Years
Egypt, Day One-Around the World in Eighty Years.
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15 Words you never knew came from literature (Infographic)
http://visual.ly/track.php?q=http://visual.ly/15-words-you-never-knew-came-literature&slug=15-words-you-never-knew-came-literature
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What are we now? Modernist? Postmodernist? How about metamodernist?
The Metamodernist Manifesto by Luke Turner 1. We recognise oscillation to be the natural order of the world. 2. We must liberate ourselves from the inertia resulting from a century of modernist ideological naivety and the cynical insincerity of its antonymous bastard child. 3. Movement shall henceforth be enabled by way of an oscillation between…
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