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    • 24 Ratings
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    Occupy DC -McPherson Square & Park Police - a photo essay

    FEBRUARY 6, 2012 12:40PM

    By the traveler


    Topics: open+call, 'open call, photography, belief/religion, economy, environment, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 2 Ratings
    • 169 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Winter Dreams

    FEBRUARY 6, 2012 9:13AM

    By HL Lee


    Topics: the fleeting world, walking, henry david thoreau, nature, flower gardens, horseshoe crabs, beaches, summer, provincetown, wellfleet, cape cod, travel, photography, environment, animals

    • Editor's Pick
    • 72 Ratings
    • 1545 Views
    • 89 Comments
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    Beauty and the Pricks

    FEBRUARY 9, 2012 3:18AM

    By Algis Kemezys


    Topics: thorny, desert, arid, plants, garden, cactus, travel, photography, family, environment, design, comedy, animals

    • Editor's Pick
    • 72 Ratings
    • 1256 Views
    • 84 Comments
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    She Shows Sea-Shells by the Sea Shore

    JANUARY 26, 2012 8:48AM

    By Algis Kemezys


    Topics: science, travel, photography, family, environment, design, sea-shells, bodrum, aegean, halicarnassus, herodotus, alexander the great, bodrum denis müzesi, bodrum maritime museum, sema sagat, animals, television

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 1735 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    A Stroll Through My Old (Formerly Segregated) Neighborhood

    JANUARY 19, 2012 7:35PM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: segregation, working class, neighborhoods, glenmont, maryland, jim crow, environment, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1428 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    The End of the World, 2012 Edition

    JANUARY 16, 2012 10:23AM

    By HL Lee


    Topics: belief/religion, environment, news, poetry, politics, science, technology, end of the world 2012, mayan calendar, end of the world, the apocalypse, robert frost, the fleeting world

    • Editor's Pick
    • 45 Ratings
    • 1281 Views
    • 67 Comments
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    Silver from Blue and Grey

    JANUARY 12, 2012 12:51PM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: self preservation, homesickness, health, environment, family, good will, revelation, dread, good will, redemption, fear, violence, blue sky, grey streets, chicago

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 715 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Layers of Time and Existence

    JANUARY 9, 2012 6:41PM

    By Lauren J Barnhart


    Topics: books, belief/religion, environment, fiction, jeanette winterson, sexing the cherry, puritans, england, seattle, the view from my window

    • Editor's Pick
    • 58 Ratings
    • 1244 Views
    • 79 Comments
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    My View of Bitez Bay

    JANUARY 10, 2012 6:28AM

    By Algis Kemezys


    Topics: the view from my window, environment, family, photography, open call, travel, bitez, balanced stone sculpture, sunset, the view from my window

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 753 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    The Creationists

    JANUARY 11, 2012 1:30PM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: cartoon saturday, cartoon saturdays, members of the grand old reptilian party (g.o.r.p.), jobs, evil toast, animals, business, comedy, environment, family, food/drink, little folk, labor, jobs, 1%, pre-history, comedy, cartoon

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 2597 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    A Better Class of Criminal

    JANUARY 6, 2012 8:21AM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: chicago, unions, labor, environment, economy, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 34 Ratings
    • 1366 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    Synthetica

    JANUARY 5, 2012 8:02AM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: synthetic need, sculpture, watchers, watching, mannequins, pathos, projection, history, human surrogates, victim, environment, decay, visual poetry, uncertain rekoning, certitude, histories, ficional need, waiting, alone, sythetic sex, sex, love, empathic projection, design, fashion, silence

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 341 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Snowshoeing the Kadunce

    JANUARY 2, 2012 12:52PM

    By Lin Salisbury


    Topics: environment, minnesota, new beginnings, shoreline, water, woods, hiking, home, dogs, kadunce river, grand marais, lake superior, north shore, sports, environment, snowshoeing

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 1569 Views
    • 31 Comments
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    The Body's Attainable Limits

    DECEMBER 12, 2011 8:54AM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: art, invention, making, ideas, visualization, extending the body, prosthetics, materials, metals, fabrics, the body's limits, begining in the arts, art school, sculpture, humor, comedy, visual gags, puns, conceptual amputation, enhancing functionality, cyborg, analog robotics, design, environment, fiction, health, poetry, politics, science, technology

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 1595 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    The Heartbreaking Upper Big Branch Mine Settlement

    DECEMBER 8, 2011 8:33AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: corporate murder, corporations are people too, regulatory capture, mike elk, senator joe manchin, deregulation, government regulation, environmental regulation, all the devils are here, bethany mclean, inc., mccoy coal group, npr, howard berkes, jr., ken ward, richard trumpka, coal tattoo, charleston gazette, alpha national resources, kevin stricklin, increasingly clean coal, tony oppegard, msha, mine safety and health administration, gary wayne quarles. booth goodwin, gary quarles, don blankenship, massey energy, rex mullins, clay mullins, upper big branch mine settlement, upper big branch mine disaster, coal mining disasters, coal mining, coal, environment, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 383 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    The Hell Above

    NOVEMBER 27, 2011 8:01PM

    By Jeff Sawyer


    Topics: animals, environment, comedy, attic, havahart trap, cartoon squirrels, squirrels

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 521 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Cold Fist in the Belly

    NOVEMBER 21, 2011 7:42PM

    By Firechick


    Topics: insomnia, fear, leadership, technology, environment, firefighting

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 2054 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    Coal Mining in Appalachia

    NOVEMBER 21, 2011 7:15PM

    By les stone


    Topics: photography, politics, environment, news

    • Editor's Pick
    • 50 Ratings
    • 1210 Views
    • 61 Comments
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    Dealing with Kildare

    NOVEMBER 18, 2011 5:18AM

    By Algis Kemezys


    Topics: morphic resonance, rupert sheldrake, paleochora, souvala, dance, cats, dogs, greece, aegina, travel, photography, environment, comedy, belief/religion, animals, aw

    • Editor's Pick
    • 43 Ratings
    • 1005 Views
    • 75 Comments
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    From Being Shot At To Giving Shots

    NOVEMBER 12, 2011 11:57AM

    By Poppi Iceland


    Topics: my brilliant second career, politics, economy, environment, family, news, open+call, travel, open call

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