Author: Daniela

  • Poets Dream of Peace in Afghanistan

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    In a recent piece Dawn.com focuses on twenty Pashtun poets that get together every week  to share their dreams of peace: Jalalabad is regarded as the heartland of Afghan poetry in a region better known for its warriors than its wordsmiths, on a plateau south of the Himalayan mountains of the Hindu Kush. Meeting every Friday —…

  • Is Genetically Modified Food Bad for Health?

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    Md Nasir Ahmed, a Noah Project reader, has written an informative and well-researched article about GMO’s   I’ve posted it below.  You can also find it at GreenMagz.info. GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organism, basically it means food made in the laboratory which refers to crop plants created for human or animal consumption using the latest…

  • Women Break Through the “Grass Ceiling”

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    Eleanor Bader celebrates women’s leading role in the sustainable and organic agriculture sector: According to the US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, the number of women-operated farms more than doubled in the 25 years between 1982 and 2007. In fact, female farmers now make up the fastest-growing sector of the country’s changing agricultural landscape…

  • Manned Mission to Mars by 2017?

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      Joel Achenbach reports on Billionaire’s desire to send humans to Mars by as early as 2017: Billionaire Dennis Tito, tired of being told that we can’t send humans to Mars just yet, on Wednesday revealed his scheme for launching two astronauts to the red planet as early as December 2017.Dubbed “Inspiration Mars,” the fly-by…

  • Do Antibiotics Make Us Fat?

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Kiera Butler and Jaeah Lee review research on the question: [A] growing body of evidence suggests that antibiotics might be linked to weight gain. A 2012 New York University study found that antibiotic use in the first six months of life was linked with obesity later on. Another 2012 NYU study found that mice given…

  • Behind the door

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    Originally posted on Joshi Daniel Photography: Old man | Trivandrum, Kerala, India

  • CommonKindness Celebrates America’s Cooperatives with Money-Saving Coupons

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    During the month of November, 2013, CommonKindness is paying special tribute to over 29,200 cooperatives that provide essential products and services to American consumers. To celebrate, the printable grocery coupon leader is giving shoppers free coupons for products made by cooperatives, highlighting the work of these cooperative on the CommonKindness website and social media pages, and featuring…

  • G.K. Chesterton on Vegetarianism

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    “THEN, of course, there is the larger and more philosophical riddle of why the vegetarians, or fruitarians, try to make their dishes sound, or even seem, like meat dishes? Why do they talk non-sense about nut-cutlets or tomato toad-in-the-hole? Why do they make nutton rhyme to mutton, and nutter rhyme to butter? It seems a…

  • Beautiful Google Ad from India is a Must Watch

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    It had me crying almost from the beginning!

  • Another Sunday Prayer

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    While trying to find Tavener’s composition, The Beautiful Names, a setting of the 99 names of God in the Muslim tradition, sung in Arabic, I came across this beautiful rendition and decided to post it instead. The 99 Names of Allah, also known as The 99 Most Beautiful Names of God (Arabic: أسماء الله الحسنى‎ ʾasmāʾ allāh al-Ḥusnā),…