Author: Daniela

  • Photo of the Day

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    The Critic, 1943 Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig (June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968), a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography. Weegee worked in the Lower East Side of New York City as a press photographer during the 1930s and ’40s, and he developed his signature style by following the city’s emergency services and documenting…

  • Welikandagama, Welimada Organic Farm – Sri Lanka

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    People all over the world are becoming aware of the deleterious effect of pesticides on human health.  The following article is about a local peoples’ fight to restore  their natural watershed in  Uma Oya, Welikandagama in Sri Lanka and the agricultural specialist Athula Priyantha’s efforts to further rejuvenate it through farming without chemicals.  (Dr. Prasanna Cooray’s…

  • Chicago Urban Farm Receives USDA Organic Certification

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    The FarmedHere urban farming company, which has been successfully conducting urban farming work in the Chicago area since 2011, has received USDA organic certification. The organic vertical farming practice makes use of derelict warehouses to produce food for the community. The company recently expanded with a new 90,000 square foot post-industrial building in Bedford Park,…

  • Epistemology in light of mysticism

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    Originally posted on Just Thomism: In their neurological account of mystical experience (book/ article), Andrew Newberg and Eugene D’Aquili draw attention to a portion of the brain responsible for orienting the person in space. As you approach anything the angle of your perspective on it is constantly changing, and it takes a remarkable number of calculations to orient yourself…

  • Pesticides Linked to Development of Parkinsons

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    Amy Boulanger reports on the link between Parkinsons and pesticides in a recent article in Medical Daily: Choosing an organic-based diet might be a healthier option for helping prevent the onset of PD, or helping those already diagnosed with the disorder. Numerous studies demonstrate the health risks of exposure to pesticides, which are used to…

  • GMO Foods Cont’d

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    Keith Kloor argues in Discover magazine that “the worst misinformation and myths about genetically modified foods has spread from the anti-GMO fringes to the mainstream.”  He feels that the anti-GMO movement is based on fear and not science.  To back up his view he quotes an article published in Scientific American by Pam Ronald, a University of…

  • Top Thirteen Reasons to Avoid GMO Foods

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    Dr. Chandra’s article in today’s The Canadian clearly lays out what GMO foods are , why they are not safe for consumption and what the implications are for the environment: Genetically modified food or GMO is the food stuff prepared from genetically altered organisms, generally from modified crops by altering the DNA by means of…

  • Monday Prayer

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    Please Accept My Condo Her cell phone cut my deepest sympathies short. The fault of a patchy connection, she guessed, when she showed me days later and we laughed off our faces at my truncated text. I didn’t know her adequately to ask who she’d lost; we were barely close enough to suffer a telecommunicational…

  • Morocco’s Fes Festival: Music, mysticism and meaning

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    Get ready for flamenco guitar, social consciousness and Sufi mystics. The world’s most spiritual music fest kicks off this week. By CNN Travel staff 3 June, 2013 Uzbekistan’s Yuldusz Turdevia Ensemble performed at the 2012 Fes Festival in Morocco. The official goal of Morocco’s annual Fes Festival (June 7-15) “is to harness the arts and spirituality in the…

  • Merging of Science and Spirituality

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    In an article in The New India Express, Swahilya Shambhavi reflects on the merging of science and spirituality: Though the borders of science are closely merging into spirituality when it comes to subjects such as quantum physics, which tells us that each time someone observes this universe, the whole pattern changes. That is what Vedanta…