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Good News, Everyone! It’s The 10 Best Inventions From Futurama

Invented by the Professor to give animals super intelligence, the Electronium Hat was a wearable device introduced in the season one episode “Mars University.” It used sunspots to produce “cognitive radiation,” whatever that means. The monkey Guenter gets uplifted by the hat and spends much of the episode quarrelling with Fry and lamenting the fact […]

The Question of Socialism (and Beyond!) Is About to Open Up in These United States

Gar Alperovitz is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. He is the author of the forthcoming book What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution (Chelsea Green, May Day 2013). Reposting this from Truthout. With Americans’ interest in […]

Sierra Leonean diplomat leads UN Classroom Conversations on Sexual Violence conflict

The main focus of a recent Classroom Conversations on Sexual violence in conflict and beyond: a conspiracy of silence was what we can do individually and collectively to stop violence against women? The highlights of the two hour conversation held at the UN Headquarters in New York was the devastating forms of sexual violence which […]

Stainslaw Lem

“Timof comics” has just published a graphic novel entitled “Robot…” – an adaptation of two stories by Stanislaw Lem.  The drawings are the work of a Polish couple living in London.  The artists’ previous achievements include a well-received comic adaptation of Bulgakov’s “Master and Margarita”. Danuta Schejbal, a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine […]