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CRIME & JUSTICE

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theater, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

ARTIST IMPRISONED IN EACH ONE OF US

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Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 –1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate. Russell was a prominent anti-war activist; he championed anti-imperialism and went to prison for his pacifism during World War I.  Later, he campaigned against Adolf Hitler, then criticized Stalinist totalitarianism, attacked the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War, and was an outspoken proponent of nuclear disarmament. In 1950 Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought”.

THE THOUGHT YOU CANNOT THINK

Patricia “Pat” Christine Hodgell (born March 16, 1951) is an American fantasy writer, artist and professor. She taught for many years in the English Department at University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, but retired in 2006 to pursue a full-time writing career.

Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher known for popularizing the idea of friendly artificial intelligence.  He is a Research Fellow and co-founder at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a private research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California

MARBLE RACING!

This “Marble Race” proves that a sports commentator can turn a brilliantly meaningless “sport” into a gut-wrenching, heart-pounding EPIC of drama, suspense and surprise that competes with any other racing event, but without burning fossil fuels or abusing horses, dogs and people! Woo Hoo!

Thanks to Greg Woods (from F1FanWoodsie) for the commentary on this epic marble race! It’s just the same video as the original, but the commentary will make this race more spectacular!

A very amazing long marble run made on a sand hill, 12 marble competes to win this epic rally! Only one marble will win. This marble race is divided in 4 stages, each of them contains lots of obstacles like junctions, slaloms, half pipes, a funnel and a jump.

Location: Klimduin Schoorl (near Alkmaar, the Netherlands)

Track length: ±230 meter (±750 feet)

Height difference: ± 40 meter (±125 feet)

Music: Riding the Sunrise (royalty free, coming from my partner program)

via Presurfer

CHEMTRAILS AND HAARP: WEATHER AS WARFARE

WRAPPED

ADMIRE YOU

Admiration is the most desirable form of energy one being can give or receive. Everyone is seeking admiration, knowingly or not. When we are admired, or admire others, we feel uplifted and expanded. When our actions, thoughts, or emotions are NOT admired we feel rejected and depressed.  It has been said that the universe consists of creations that you not been admired and are still waiting to be admired.  So, if you’re not getting the admiration you KNOW you deserve, don’t wait for others to give it to you!  Give it to yourself.  Here is 12 minutes of applause and cheering you can use to admire YOU!

ADMIRATION

Respect and warm approval: their admiration for each other was genuine

1.1  (the admiration of) Something regarded as impressive or worthy of respect: her house was the admiration of everyone

1.2  Pleasurable contemplation: they were lost in admiration of the scenery

Origin:   Late Middle English (in the sense ‘marveling, wonder’): from Latin admiratio(n-), from the verb admirari

DEAD OR ALIVE

Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian-era English author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which remain in use to this day.

THINK NOT EXIST NOT

(image: Shizaru by Ewelina Koszykowska)

COGITANT ~ from Latin, Present participle of cogitare. “to think”

I THINK THEREFORE I HAVE A TOOTHACHE

Milan Kundera  (born 1 April 1929) is a Czech-born writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalized French citizen in 1981.

Kundera’s most famous work, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, was published in 1984. The book chronicles the fragile nature of an individual’s fate, theorizing that a single lifetime is insignificant in the scope of Nietzsche’s concept of eternal return. In an infinite universe, everything is guaranteed to recur infinitely. In 1988, American director Philip Kaufman released a film adaptation.

Prior to the Velvet Revolution of 1989 the Communist régime in Czechoslovakia banned his books. He lives virtually incognito and rarely speaks to the media. A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he has been nominated on several occasions