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The grokking eagle podcast
by Ixi Voxel
Grok means to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with and to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment. We will look for meaning and connection among, qualified sources, news and events. Topics covered include, in random order, technology, social trends, environment, history, data analytics, mathematics, or whatever calls the eye of the grokking eagle
Episodes
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Senior crime
BloombergBusiness reported a sharp uptick in crime rates among senior citizens around the world. In South Korea for example, crimes committed by people 65 and over rose 12.2 percent from 2011 to 2013, which includes a shocking 40 percent increase in violent crime, such as murder, robbery, and…
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Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor, surviving Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Kaufering and Türkheim. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, the will to meaning, and is most notable for the best-selling book Man's Search for Meaning Continue...
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Guns in America
Every day, 100 Americans are killed by gun violence, and hundreds more are injured. While most of these shootings are not in public schools, children safety at school is a major concern. Gun control measures are currently political non-starters and people are turning to palliatives like…
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Arn-Wolf
Eagle (Arn) is a symbol of leadership and forsight but man knows that his roots are closer to the wolf. The wolf is very dear to man and represent the purity of heart he has lost in his quest for godness. The wolf is a loner that fights to death for the clan if need comes. Continue reading → The...
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Christmas truce
‘Twas Christmas in the trenches where the frost, so bitter hung The frozen fields of France were warmed as songs of peace were sung For the walls they’d kept between us to exact the work of war Had been crumbled and were gone forevermore. My name is Francis Tolliver, in Liverpool I dwell Each...
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Pay it forward
The expression "pay it forward" is used to describe the concept of asking the beneficiary of a good deed to repay it to others instead of to the original benefactor. The concept is old, but the phrase may have been coined by Lily Hardy Hammond in her 1916 book In the Garden of Delight. Continue...
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Justino
My grandfather Justino was the Benjamin of a long list of siblings. The older ones were more surrogate parents than brothers and sisters. The records show that he was born in Cameron County, Texas, in 1897, however the family folklore says he falsified the records to enlist for World War I when…
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Lord of the flies
The title “Lord of the flies” is a translation of the Hebrew Ba´alzevuv, a devil whose name suggests decay, destruction, demoralization, and panic. Golding´s Beelzebub is the anarchic, amoral driving force whose function seems to insure the survival of the individual. The tenets of civilization…
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Alan Watts’s Books
If you can really understand this, then the seed of that radical revolution has already been planted. Change comes into being when there is no fear, when there is neither the experiencer nor the experience; it is only then that there is the revolution which is beyond time. But that cannot be as...
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with luck, balls are better than brains
The U.S. was founded on two racist principles: the system of slavery, the source of much of its wealth (and England’s too), and the need to rid the national territory of Native Americans, whom the Declaration of Independence explicitly describes as “the merciless Indian savages,” and whom the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Grok means to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with and to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment. We will look for meaning and connection among, qualified sources, news and events. Topics covered include, in random order, technology, social trends, environment, history, data analytics, mathematics, or whatever calls the eye of the grokking eagle
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Ixi Voxel
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Grok means to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with and to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment. We will look for meaning and connection among, qualified sources, news and events. Topics covered include, in random order,...
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