Author: Daniela

  • Vandana Shiva on Geoengineering – A Marriage of Stupid Scientists and Evil Minds

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  • Changing Climate, Changing Architecture

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    Originally posted on The Dish: William Gething, coauthor of Design for Climate Change, warns that traditional construction materials will “behave differently” in a world wracked by global warming: Brick, for example, is likely to become more saturated, particularly with increasing insulation standards, so it is likely to be less effective at keeping moisture out. Materials move more in…

  • Tuesday Prayer

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    Tonight BY AGHA SHAHID ALI 1949–2001 Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar —LAURENCE HOPE Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell tonight? Whom else from rapture’s road will you expel tonight? Those “Fabrics of Cashmere—” “to make Me beautiful—” “Trinket”—to gem—“Me to adorn—How tell”—tonight? I beg for haven: Prisons, let open your…

  • A Teen With An Internet Connection vs Cancer

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    Originally posted on The Dish: At age 13, after losing a family friend to pancreatic cancer, Jack Andraka set out to discover why the available tests couldn’t detect the disease earlier and at a lower cost. Amazingly, he stumbled upon a way to do just that – he estimates his method is 168 times faster,…

  • Trayvon Martin and American Justice

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    Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic best describes the underlying societal attitudes and narratives that resulted in the acquittal of George Zimmerman.  My own response is one of impotence and sadness.  I’m so sorry for the parents of Trayvon Martin.  They had to fight to get this trial, endure the criminalization of their 17-year-old son and then…

  • The “Portable Toxic Threat Detector” lets you know if your food is safe to eat

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    If you are interested in knowing what’s in your food, you may soon be able to use the portable toxic threat detector or PTTD, a mechanism developed by third year electronics and telecommuncation engineering students at GH Raisoni College of Engineering, Saurabh Puranik, Shreya Dhondarikar, Sagar Nasre and Sowmya Singh.  It will not only tell you…

  • Mystic Monday

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    I imagine I should call today Mystic Monday as everything I’ve posted so far has to do with art, poetry and mysticism.  Don’ t worry, I’ll get back on track.  I had wanted to focus on this yesterday in keeping with our religious tradition of setting Sunday aside for prayer and reflection.  Unfortunately, I wasn’t…

  • Similarity between Christianity and Upanishads

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    When the gnostics were labeled as heretics and their writings banned from Christian texts instead of incorporated into them, Christianity lost its own form of mysticism.  In yestereday’s post Vipin Tyagi at the Speaking Tree blog highlights the similarties between some of the gnostic texts found at Nag Hammadi and Hinduism. By: Vipin Tyagi A fascinating spiritual aspect…

  • Parked

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    Originally posted on Viewfound: I like the misty, mythological feel of this photo – a modern day Charon navigating the soul across the river Styx. Viewfound View original post

  • Taras Shevchenko – Iconic Ukrainian Poet, Artist and Nationalist

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    Taras Shevchenko has a unique place in Ukrainian cultural history and in world literature. His writings formed the foundation for the modern Ukrainian literature to a degree that he is also considered the founder of the modern written Ukrainian language (although Ivan Kotlyarevsky pioneered the literary work in what was close to the modern Ukrainian in the end of the 18th century.)…