ThePoliticalMillennial

A sleeping giant of thought, an advocate for a well informed opinion. Left handed, always in the right mind. Millennial. https://www.facebook.com/ThePoliticalMillennial

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Difference between how to use something and how something works is fundamental and yet profound in all disciplines.

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(via How Misinformation Spreads On The Internet | IFLScience)

I like the use of the words ‘digital wildfire’ and ‘echo chambers’. This is also a good example of how confirmation basis forms and how they’re maintained online. 

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucTJ7Jqwsqo)

It’s like watching and listening to a really well written essay.

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Art of Disagreement

It’s like an art because if you practice and practice in the right way, it can really be a beautiful thing. 

Practicing in the right way means you have to have courage, patience, perspective. //I’ll elaborate on this later

Disagree more. Learn something. 

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMHwU4F-3cU) 

Hmmm...

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FAMOUS AUTHORS

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.

Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.

Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.

The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.

Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

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Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.

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MATH AND SCIENCE

FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.

Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.

Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.

Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.

FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.

Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.

Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.

International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.

Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.

Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.

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The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.

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PLAYS

ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.

Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”

ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

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Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.

The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.

Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.

Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.

Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.

The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.

Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.

John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.

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Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.

KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.

Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.

Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.

Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.

Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.

Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.

Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.

CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.

Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.

HISTORY AND CULTURE

LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.

The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.

Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.

Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.

Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

RARE BOOKS

Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.

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Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.

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MYSTERY

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POETRY

The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.

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Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.

Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.

CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.

PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.

World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.

DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.

A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.

Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.

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Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

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… and here is a gift for all of us.

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5 Cookie Pro Tips from TED-Ed (and Science)

1. Cookies are for everyone. But everyone has cookie preferences. When you slide that cookie tray into the oven, you’re setting off a series of chemical reactions that transform one substance - dough - into another - cookies! The better you understand ‘Cookie Chemistry’, the better equipped you will be to create the cookies you crave.

2. Lots goes on in that oven, but one of science’s tastiest reactions occurs at 310º. Maillard reactions result when proteins and sugars breakdown and rearrange themselves into ring like structures which reflect light in a way that gives foods their distinctive, rich brown color. As this reaction occurs, it produces a range of flavor and aroma compounds, which also react with each other forming even more complex tastes and smells.

3. The final reaction to take place inside your cookie is caramelization and it occurs at 356º. Caramelization is what happens when sugar molecules breakdown under high heat, forming the sweet, nutty and slightly bitter flavor compounds that define…caramel! So if your recipe calls for a 350º oven - caramelization will never happen. 

So, if your ideal cookie is barely browned - 310º will do. But if you want a tanned, caramelized cookie, crank up the heat! Caramelization continues up to 390º degrees.

4. No need to check that oven like a fiend. You don’t even really need a kitchen timer - when you smell the nutty, toasty aromas of the Maillard reaction and caramelization, your cookies are ready! 

5. Baking is chemistry, friends! That’s right - PURE. SCIENCE. Check carefully before altering those recipes - chances are some of those ingredients and quantities are there for a reason.

Curious what else happens in that oven? Check out the TED-Ed Lesson  The chemistry of cookies - Stephanie Warren

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New Year’s Resolutions

A New Year’s Resolution that is to make you a ‘better’ person in some arbitrary amount of time is unreasonable. 

For some it’s not a bad idea. I’m sure for some people it’s the best idea they could have, but the idea of becoming a ‘better’ person is all a matter of perspective and I feel that that is lost. 

Following this logic: if you’re successful at becoming a better person it could mean people like you more and you base how great you are of a person on how people like you. So, you try to maintain your status among these people or keep the quantity of these people (having the fear of even losing one).

Only problem in that lies the lack of perspective. 

People will like things about you and people will hate things about you. That’s a good thing. It means you’re being a person. Doing everything you can to make people happy with your existence is much less becoming of a person and of more a salve to approval. We’ve evolved to be better than that. 

Put simply, if you’re going around fishing for other people's approval you’ll find that it is as effective as putting out one fire in the garden of your social life without acknowledging the inevitability of another fire somewhere else soon.

There aren’t a lot of people out there who think about you as much as you think about yourself. And so, they’re not continuously thinking ‘how can this person make me happy’--however, there are a few people who’d be so entitled to think so.

If you have any resolution this year let it be that you will be more aware of your flaws and weaknesses in your social life. You can’t change the way people think about you (people probably don’t think that much about you in the first place), but you can only give them a more well informed opinion and whatever they decide to do with that information (even if they forget entirely) is up to them. 

Accepting that 100% of the people you encounter won’t like you or something about you is critical to developing and grooming your social skills and making decisions as to who is in and who is out of your social life is your responsibility. 

Having awareness is a better key to unlocking a better door to a better resolution in reference to conquering your flaws in the idea of becoming a better person.

Be advised, some of this conquering could be completely internal. That could mean the absence of your unneeded input or the absence of you entirely to avoid a foreseeable situation.

In my book, if you contribute to society you’re a good person. And at that point you can only become better if you produce or advocate with the intentions to build agency or productivity for society. 

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Achievements and Mistakes

Achievements come and go. Mistakes remind you how far you’ve come and are a constant reminder of the person you’re becoming.

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Mistakes and Achievements

Mistakes come and go. Achievements remind you how far you've come and are a constant reminder of the person you’re becoming. 

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I have heard you cry For seasons and centuries.

I have watched you cry For the sons and daughters Your neighbours took into slavery. Those sons and daughters that were Enslaved to fix the neighbors’ roof - Yet yours still leaks till today.

For so long, I have seen you shed tears, For being...