Author: Daniela
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They’ve Shut Down Red Square!
Originally posted on The Dish: VIDEO: Thousands protest #Navalny verdict in Moscow, dozens detained http://t.co/hmpnWHfEUH — RT (@RT_com) July 18, 2013 Mass protests have broken out in Moscow following the show-trial conviction of opposition leader and Moscow mayoral candidate Alexei Navalny, whose final update on Twitter urged supporters to congregate at Manezhnaya Square. Tweets from the scene:…
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New Economic System Needed and Growing
On the Popular Resistance blog, Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese insist that a new economic system is needed to create a democratized economy: People are realizing that they cannot make it in the current Wall Street dominated corporate capitalist economy. It is not designed for most people to make it. Rather it is designed for a small…
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Who’s Writing Your News Content?
I just received a newsletter from William Reed Newsmedia titled Science & Nutrition that I didn’t sign up for, but that focuses on topics that are of interest to me. So, when an article titled, “Autism linked to decreased microbe diversity in the gut” popped up I clicked on it. I landed on a page…
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Biosensor tattoo monitors sweat to gauge physical exertion
Originally posted on Gigaom: Wearable electronics like the FitBit (see disclosure) allow people to track physical activity like never before. But accelerometers and altimeters can only tell the wearer so much. Researchers at the University of California-San Diego have developed a sensor that is applied to the skin like a temporary tattoo. Once in place, it…
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Trayvon Martin and American Justice, Cont’d.
How do you think the Zimmerman trial would have ended under these circumstances? Elspeth Reeve takes Richard Cohen of the Washington Post to task in her Atlantic Column: Richard Cohen’s column in Tuesday’s Washington Post— arguing that George Zimmerman was right to assume Trayvon Martin was a criminal, because he was a black male—is racist and…
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Changing Climate, Changing Architecture
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…
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Tuesday Prayer
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…
