Author: Daniela

  • Sephardic Folklore – the Spanish Romancero

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    Dr. Samuel Armistead, who passed away this year, considered his scholarly work on the Spanish Romancero to be his crowning achievement.  The Romancero is a tradition of stories and ballads handed down in Sephardic folklore.  Dr. Armistead’s website Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews provides a wealth of information on the oral literature of Sephardic Jews…

  • Stephen Mauldin

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    Originally posted on Critique Collective: Today’s interview is with Stephen Mauldin, a painter and instructor living in Oregon with great interest in creating new painting techniques to express content he has developed for over forty years. Mauldin holds an MFA with a concentration in painting and printmaking from the University of Idaho as well as…

  • America Exporting Poisons to Rest of World

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    Reposted from Salon.com: After eating a school lunch that was made with cooking oil tainted with the toxic pesticide monocrotophos, 23 Indian children were recently killed. While the media has highlighted the widespread use of highly hazardous chemicals in India and subsequent health effects, what’s largely unreported is the role that the United States has played — and continues…

  • Activist Farmers in Philippines Destroy Golden Rice Crops

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    Asingh at the Asian Pacific Post reports on a group of activist farmers in the Philippines who stormed a government research facility and destroyed an area of genetically modified rice crops the size of 10 football fields. According to New Scientist, the farmers say that genetically modified organism (GMO) foods have not been established to…

  • Curiosity “Tastes” Martian Air

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    Alicia Chang, science writer for the AP, relays some interesting information discovered by Curiosity about the Martian atmosphere: The Curiosity rover has tasted Mars’ air: It’s made mostly of carbon dioxide with hints of other gases. There was a small surprise: Viking found nitrogen to be the second most abundant gas in the Martian air,…

  • Sound Sleep, Sound Mind

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    Originally posted on The Dish: by Matt Sitman Russell Foster, who researches the neuroscience of sleep, explores its importance for mental health: http://youtu.be/LWULB9Aoopc In an interview, Foster discusses his early experiments into the connection between sleep and sanity: [P]eople have been talking about people with really disrupted sleep with mental illness since the 1880s. So it’s a…

  • Diana Nyad at TEDMED

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  • Tuesday’s Poem

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    Easy Reader News profiles RD Armstrong, better known in the underworld of poetry as Raindog.  The well known  San Pedro poet started the Lummox Journal, “with the idea that I might be able to sell enough subscriptions that I’d be able to buy stamps for my own stuff, to send out submissions to other magazines.”…

  • The Throne of Adulis

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    An inscribed marble throne at the Ethiopian port of Adulis offers us a rare window into the fateful events comprising what has come to be known as the Red Sea Wars. Tirelessly examined by scholars of Arab historiography but woefully overlooked by the world at large, the sixth century international conflict was waged between Christian…

  • Sustainability Does Not Travel Well

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    Pamela Mar explores the distinction between the meaning of sustainability in the East vs. the West and concludes that “sustainability does not travel well.” …the definition of sustainability – i.e. progress which stems from balancing economic, environmental and social priorities – may resonate globally, but the strategies for implementing it have to be tailored to…