Author: Daniela

  • “Is There At the Heart of Spirituality a Powerful, Redemptive, and Transformative Idea?”

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    In his recent article “Think Spirituality Is Easy? Think Again…” Roger Gottlieb asks “Is there at the heart of spirituality a powerful, redemptive, and transformative idea?”  He believes there is: “… one that is simply expressed but often excruciatingly hard to put into practice. The idea is this: our lives will be far happier, in an…

  • Photo of the Day – Fishing in Kerala

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    National Geographic Photo Gallery

  • New Flu Vaccines Contain Genetically Modified Protiens

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    A new vaccine for influenza has hit the market, and it is the first ever to contain genetically-modified (GM) proteins derived from insect cells. According to reports, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the vaccine, known as Flublok, which contains recombinant DNA technology and an insect virus known as baculovirus that is purported…

  • Tupelo Press Launches New Literary Magazine and Poetry Contest

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    For all the poets who visit: The North Adams, Massachusetts–based Tupelo Press has announced the launch of a new online literary magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, and with it an inaugural poetry contest. The winner will receive one thousand dollars and publication in the first issue of Tupelo Quarterly.   The prize is currently open for submissions. Using the online submission manager,…

  • Vandana Shiva & Satish Kumar – Permaculture Day Interview

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  • Pliosaurus Kevani

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    It’s the most fearsome  creature that ever lived and could have devoured a Tyranosaurus-Rex for breakfast… and it is called Kevan. The Pliosaurus kevani, to give it its proper name, ruled the oceans 150million years ago. Equipped with a massive jaw studded with 12in teeth, the ‘sea rex’ had the biggest bite in history. The…

  • Agroecology – A Potentially World-Saving Concept

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    In his recent article “How to Feed the World” on the World Policy Blog,  Alvaro Rodriguez notes that our current industrial food system is failing to feed the world. Today roughly 15 percent of the world’s population, some 1 billion people, goes hungry. At the same time, fertilizer overuse remains a major cause of environmental…

  • Honoring Abdullah Comert

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    Abdullah Comert is now the second confirmed casualty of the uprising in Turkey. The 22 year-old was pronounced dead last night from wounds to the head sustained by “unidentified gunmen,” but eyewitness accounts are placing the blame on police, whose brutal tactics have been well-documented by protesters.  His final Facebook post is up on reddit.  If  you want to…

  • Literary Quote for the Day

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    “The great artist looks beneath the flux of everyday reality and sees eternal, unchanging symbols…he takes ephemeral events and relocates them in an undying atmosphere…This is why not only the sculptors but all the great artists of classical Greece, wishing to ensure the perpetuation of every contemporary memorial to victory, relocated history in the elevated…

  • Attack Of The Patent Trolls

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Litigation by patent trolls, often called Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), has exploded in recent years: Felix Salmon explains why this is a major problem: Go to any technology conference these days, and you’re likely to find VCs who say that there are entire sectors they refuse to invest in, just because the waters…