Author: Daniela

  • Where The Atheists Are

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Mapped: The highest reported share of self-described atheists is in China: an astounding 47 percent. Faith has a complicated history in China. The state is deeply skeptical of organized religion, which it has long considered a threat to its authority. In the Taiping rebellion of the 19th century, a religious…

  • Sunday Prayer

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  • Bukowski On Being Censored

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    Originally posted on The Dish: In 1985, the Public Library of Nijmegen, Netherlands pulled from its shelves Charles Bukowski’s Tales of Ordinary Madness, calling the book “very sadistic, occasionally fascist and discriminatory against certain groups (including homosexuals).” Bukowski reacted in a letter to journalist Hans van den Broek: If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals…

  • Food Imports on the Rise

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    Marianela Fader from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, and colleagues, calculated the growing capacity of every country in the world, and compared it with food requirements, both now and projected forward to 2050.  Using current data on population, and food and water consumption in each nation, they were able to assess what…

  • The Uyghurs

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    What strikes me about the Uyghurs is how work and entertainment are done in community.  Knife sharpening, hair cutting, baking and  weaving are all communal enterprises – whether it be a row of knife sharpeners plying their trade on the square or weavers sitting four to a bench producing a carpet.  This is what modern…

  • Truly Inspiring

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    Mohammed Assaf managed to get past all the roadblocks and barriers to make it to the first stage of Arab Idol’s competition in Cairo. From a Gaza refugee camp, he eventually had to climb over the walls of the compound where the auditions were taking place because he arrived too late. Once inside, without a…

  • Ubuntu – “I am what I am because of who we all are.”

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  • Community Supported Agriculture

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    If you haven’t done so already, you might want to consider joining a CSA if you want to have fresh produce from a local farm this spring and summer. Here are the basics: a farmer offers a certain number of “shares” to the public. Typically the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other…

  • About Dot Earth

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    ABOUT DOT EARTH By 2050 or so, the human population is expected to reach nine billion, essentially adding two Chinas to the number of people alive today. Those billions will be seeking food, water and other resources on a planet where, scientists say, humans are already shaping climate and the web of life. In Dot…

  • Antibiotic Resistance – another reason to reduce meat consumption (if you needed one)

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    One of the hundreds of reasons to choose homeopathy over allopathic medical options… the dangerous rise in antibiotic resistant bugs. Antibiotic resistance is one of the world’s most pressing public health threats. Did you know you may unknowingly be choosing antibiotic-laden foods to put in your shopping cart and into your family’s mouths?”Though persistent organic pollutants…