Seine River, Paris.
“One of my best friends was killed in gun violence…”
Originally shared by lynn paden
“One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here, so it’s important to me,” McCartney told CNN at the march.
http://time.com/5213991/paul-mccartney-john-lennon-march-for-our-lives/
Creeping Trumpism, part 17
“FBI Director Defends Remarks That Chinese People In U.S. Pose Threats”
Astronomy Haiku
Hong Kong
Putin sending Trump a message?
Putin sending Trump a message?
Originally shared by Lynn Keller
The anti-Putin Russian exile who was found dead at his London home this week was murdered. He was a close associate of Russian oligarch and prominent Putin critic Boris Berezovsky, who was found dead in his ex-wife’s house in England in 2013.
The Consciousness Deniers
Originally shared by rare avis
On Consciousness: The New York Review Of Books
“What is the silliest claim ever made?
“The competition is fierce, but I think the answer is easy. Some people have denied the existence of consciousness: conscious experience, the subjective character of experience, the “what-it-is-like” of experience. Next to this denial—I’ll call it “the Denial”—every known religious belief is only a little less sensible than the belief that grass is green.”
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This essay is adapted from Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc., published this week by New York Review Books.
Family at the market
Obama has a brother!
Today I learned:
Originally shared by Bin Ziegler
Obama’s brother -excellent pianist