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Decades before Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, Eminem or Lil Wayne made names for themselves in mainstream hip-hop, Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash and Kool Herc introduced the movement to the first adopters, who spread the genre to the masses via not only music, but dancing, art and DJing. That rich history of hip-hop culture, dating back to the days of b-boys [...]

The US government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage “fake people” on social media sites and create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues. The contract calls for the development of “Persona Management Software” which would help the user create and manage a variety of distinct fake profiles online. The [...]

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Cerebral Constipation – The act of completely forgetting the name of an actor, song, book, movie or name of anything that one is generally familiar with. The “on-the-tip-of-my-tongue” phenomenon. The ‘mind-burp’ is the moment of relief, the actual recall. i.e., “Aha! I got it! I remember!”   Ex: The movie buff had a bad case [...]

A small but growing movement known as deschooling, life learning, unschooling, and edu-punk is home-schooling returned to its postwar progressive roots, far from the Bible-thumping mould that has come to dominate the modern image of home-schoolers. Unschooling takes children out of schools, but, unlike a lot of home-school approaches, it doesn’t import the classroom into [...]

Dr. Francis Cress Welsing – The lecture that she used to make the book. (For those who read, I STRONGLY recommend the book also… but some people don’t read) Via: [...]

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We already know all too well about ?uestlove‘s nerdish tendencies when it comes to music – the man is a walking Encyclopedia, with a wealth of musical knowledge most mortals would be unable to retain. Now the man of many talents will try his hand at a book, combining his headful of music factoids with [...]

Don’t expect Sony, the studio behind “The Social Network,” to receive a friend request from Facebook anytime soon. The new David Fincher-directed quasi-fictional movie about the famed social networking site isn’t exactly being met with open arms (or even a poke) by the company’s top brass. Facebook’s take on the matter could be summed up [...]

Jay-Z and author dream hampton’s long delayed book Decoded is set for a November 16th release through Random House imprint Spiegel & Grau. The book will serve as both a memoir, and an exploration of some of the God MC’s most infamous lyrics through in-depth discussions with Hov himself and some of the people closest [...]

Mental Masturbation – Intellectual activity that serves no practical purpose “we debated and created a perfect system of government, but it was all just ,mental masturbation” Is Your Brain Getting Off, but You’re Getting Nowhere? How to Break the Addiction MORE BELOW… [...]

The Central Intelligence Agency has hired Xe Services, the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, to guard its facilities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to an industry source. The previously undisclosed CIA contract is worth about $100 million, said the industry source, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the deal, which [...]