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Why do passports and banknotes have to be like this – clumsy montages of national symbols in an 18th-century style? Perhaps it’s because they’re all mostly designed and printed by the same firm, DeLaRue of Basingstoke, purveyor of high-security printed matter since 1821. They do exceedingly fine ridge intaglio printing, exquisite watermarks and multicoloured UV…
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elmer season: Curious about…Ancient Energy as a Design Tool.
elmer season: Curious about…Ancient Energy as a Design Tool. curiositychronicles: Songlines, also called Dreaming tracks by Indigenous Australians within the indigenous belief system, are paths across the land (or, sometimes the sky) which mark the route followed by localised ‘creator-beings’ during the Dreaming. The paths of the songlines are…
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Lane Kenworthy’s “Social Democratic America”
Lane Kenworthy’s “Social Democratic America” azspot: Although Kenworthy’s theory of history suggests that reforms will come piecemeal and not in one big slate, he does provide one of the most complete descriptions of what a future social democratic America could look like. Among other things, he proposes the following: Universal health insurance Universal system of…
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Rethinking Exercise as a Source of Immediate Rewards
Rethinking Exercise as a Source of Immediate Rewards kenyatta: Three years ago, I wrote about research by Dr. Segar and othersshowing that promoting physical activity to prevent or control disease, lose weight or sculpt one’s body, and prescribing doses as if exercise were medicine, wouldn’t get most people to do it and keep doing it.…
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Sadly, the Church basically lost the struggle against usury. This failure helped make the terrible cruelties of the conquistadors possible. And it also helped make possible the capitalist economic system which we have today, financed largely by interest bearing loans. Capitalism’s ability to make Christian religion “seem frivolous in comparison” to the imperative of economic…
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Technoccult: Captain America is a Progressive Super Hero
Technoccult: Captain America is a Progressive Super Hero technoccult: Klint Finley Steven Attewell writes: Steve Rogers doesn’t represent a genericized America but rather a very specific time and place – 1930’s New York City. We know he was born July 4, 1920 (not kidding about the 4th of July) to a working-class family of Irish…
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pigeony: bronzebasilisk: wretneck: mbt1991: zoophobiacrazies: sparou: I cried a bit. holy shit best CGI short I have ever seen ffff Dear Pixar, Somebody beat you to it. <gif snipped> Holy crap an actual respectful non appropriation depiction of Dia de los Muertos, and a fucking adorable story to boot <3 I love this omfg (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)