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More than meets the eye

Facts + Identity = Mess

by Pier Marton | Jul 6, 2014 | Eco, Education, Ideas, Politics, Popular, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Teach, US

[cf. Ajahn Sumedho’s book: Don’t Take Your Life Personally] RELATED TO Pier Marton’s BEYOND BELIEF The New York Times’ THE UPSHOT Debate That Divides When Beliefs and Facts Collide by Brendan Nyhan @BrendanNyhan JULY 5, 2014 Do Americans understand the scientific...

Aspirin/Willow Bark Against Cancer?

by Pier Marton | May 20, 2014 | Cancer, Death, Health, Sci/Nat, Women

[Against aspirin’s gastrointestinal bleeding & burning take refrigerated acidophilus] From the NYTimes: A Cancer Treatment in Your Medicine Cabinet? By Drs. MICHELLE HOLMES and WENDY CHEN May 19, 2014 We believe that it might be possible to treat breast cancer —...

Starling Murmurations/Nuées d’Étourneaux

by Pier Marton | Mar 18, 2014 | Dance, Ideas, Idées, Sci/Nat, Sights, Sound, Wars

Is proper perspective a prerequisite to forgive ugliness? Est-ce que la distance permet de pardonner la laideur? It takes space to get to the harmony of dissonance… L’harmonie de la dissonance demande de l’espace… Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new...

Life as a Concept

by Pier Marton | Mar 13, 2014 | Art, Death, Future Tech, NON, Sci/Nat, Sound, Spectacle

“What we know” from art, science, philosophy: bubbles ready to be poked. Life is not what we think it is; the door is ajar. More on one of my websites. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)...

Sauvez Les Enfants du Dr. Beat Richner (Beatocello) – [Save his Children!]

by Pier Marton | Mar 11, 2014 | Asia, Cancer, Care, Death, France, Health, Music, Peace, Politics, Sci/Nat, Time, Youth

Every year he saves 100 000 lives – Jährlich rettet er 100 000 Leben – Chaque année il sauve 100 000 vies. Son credo : «développer une médecine de riche pour les pays pauvres»/His credo: «develop rich medicine for poor countries» One more great Arte Reportage (cf....

The Unseen Wins (Here Bacteria)

by Pier Marton | Feb 9, 2014 | Art, Death, Health, Peace, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Wars, Women

“We try to control microbes, but the unseen world remains victorious.” Lydia-Marié Joubert, Cell Sciences Imaging Facility, Stanford University, California “Antimicrobial resistance is a hot topic, especially since it has become clear that our efforts to eradicate...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus