Author: Daniela

  • For Your Enjoyment

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    I LOVE GOATS!!

  • Our Contribution To The Fossil Record

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Mother Earth has turned our plastic trash into a new type of stone: Most plastic in the ocean disintegrates into small pieces (which don’t go away, either), but some of it melts into “molten” plastic, and it fuses with all the regular, organic materials below it, forming a super-hard monolithic stone. It was…

  • Moral Monday Shames North Carolina Legislature

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    Moral Mondays Shames NC Lawmakers, So They’re Restricting Statehouse Access (via http://crooksandliars.com) By karoli May 17, 2014 8:00 am – Comments North Carolina lawmakers announced strict new rules aimed at limiting Moral Monday protests, or even better, ending them. Conservatives in North Carolina really do not like the weekly protests in the state capitol…

  • Quote for the Day

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  • The Corbett Report: Ryan Grant Explains Distributism

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    I am not a regular listener of The Corbett report nor do I agree with all their views.  However, they had an interesting interview with Ryan Grant, contributing editor of The Distributist Review to explore the philosophy of distributism and its attempt to create a decentralized economy based on the widespread distribution of private property. Show notes: The Distributist Review…

  • How Could This Happen to Me?

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    Alan Watts’ lectures are always worth the listen.  His eldest son Mark Watts reviewed and cataloged these talks for public broadcast. In 2005 Amber Star of Zencast.org created Alan Watts podcast to help disseminate these lectures to a new iPod listening generation . Today the Electronic University and Zencast.org are pleased to present the highlights…

  • Quote For The Day

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    Originally posted on The Dish: “The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away. No sooner was one a young…

  • Rooftop Farming in New York City

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    In New York City, farming on a rooftop is not just an idea. Brooklyn Grange farms more than two and a half acres of rooftops in Brooklyn and Queens, and then sells what it produces to New Yorkers. A special soil mixture is used to minimize weight on the roofs and allow rapid drainage during…

  • Pope Francis Calls for Redistribution of Wealth

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    I am thrilled the most recognized moral authority in the world – The Pope – is calling for a “worldwide ethical mobilization.” VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis called Friday for governments to redistribute wealth to the poor in a new spirit of generosity to help curb the “economy of exclusion” that is taking hold…

  • Mental Health Break

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Monks with mad moves: MCA-DAY “Buddhist Monks” from KNARF® New York on Vimeo.