Author: Daniela
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New Exhibition Powerful Mixture of Old and New Cultural Pracitces
John Pohl’s article in The Gazette reviews the Musée d’art contemporain’s new exhibition titled Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture. The exhibit itself is powerful mixture of cultural practices old and new, where traditional forms get a contemporary remake. The artwork is a collage of the old and new. One major theme is aboriginals’ connection with…
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You Tube Video of the Day
In his article in the Statesman Russell Brand reiterates that he is “utterly disenchanted” with the current political system and imagining its overthrow is “the only way I can be enthused about politics.” He concludes that adhering to one concept or another is not enough, that our consciousness itself must change. In order to survive…
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Action Alert
Big Rules Spell Bad News for Small Farms Love your local farms, farmers markets, and CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture)? They could be in trouble thanks to heavy-handed new rules proposed under the Food Safety & Modernization Act (FSMA). Unless the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) agrees to some key changes in the FSMA, your local farmer…
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Haida People’s Rogue Geoengineering Project Condemned by Scientists
NPR’s Morning Edition recently grappled with the issue of geoengineering. The program discussed the Haida people’s 2012 attempt to bring salmon back to their waters, by using iron dust to create an algae bloom, and the scientific community’s response to it. In the summer of 2012, a small group of the Haida people, a native…
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Kati Bihu
Originally posted on Viewfound: Yesterday, Laxmi Puja coincided with another Assamese festival called Kati Bihu. This state being predominantly agricultural since ancient times, most festivals are related to crops. On this day people place earthen lamps in crop fields and pray for a good harvest.
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Robert Shiller on Income Inequality
Robert Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management‘s International Center for Finance. Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was Vice President of the American Economic Association in 2005, and President of the Eastern…
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Food Industry Hiding Behind GMA in Labeling Fight
Others have asked, and I agree, if GMO’s are as benign as the industry claims they are, why not label foods and let the consumer decide? Instead “companies like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, General Mills and Kellogg’s have thrown down plenty of cash to defeat various initiatives across the country, and the story isn’t any different in…
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