Author: Daniela

  • Sunday Prayer

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    SHE IS THE CREATOR There’s a tradition that Muhammad said, “A wise man will listen and be led by a woman, while an ignorant man will not. “Someone too fiercely drawn by animal urges lacks kindness and the gentle affections that keep men human. Anger and sharp desiring are animal qualities. A loving tenderness toward…

  • Honeyhunters | Eric Valli

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    Originally posted on Iconic Photos: "Going down the rope required Zen concentration," Valli recalled. Twice a year for nearly 12,000 years, men of Gurung tribe of central Nepal have braved the Himalayan foothills to harvest the honey of the world’s largest species of honeybees. The knowledge of extracting honey from hives that were precariously parched on…

  • Traditional forest knowledge is not folklore

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    Author: Barbara Fraser Researchers and policymakers have a lot to learn in designing and implementing climate change adaptation strategies from smallholder farmers in the Amazon, says Miguel Pinedo-Vásquez, scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Director of International Programs at the Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability at Columbia University. “Traditional forest knowledge and practices are…

  • 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism

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    Ha-Joon Chang is one of the leading heterodox economists and institutional economists specialising in development economics. Currently a Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge, Chang is the author of several widely-discussed policy books, most notably Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002). Chang is also known for being an important academic influence on the economist Rafael…

  • Seeking Solace in mysticism

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    ISLAMABAD: Tucked away in the library of Kuch Khaas, a group sat to dissect the poetry of 13th century Persian poet Rumi on Tuesday. Known as the “Mathnawi Circle”, the group members gather every week to read out and interpret select verses, forming a story, from “Mathnawi”, one of the sufi saint’s finest pieces. Shazray Hussain,…

  • Ravi Shankar to hold live event on Facebook today

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    Art of Living founder Sri Ravi Shankar would hold a live event titled “Face2Face” on Facebook which would be a unique initiative of converting Facebook into a tool for meaningful dialogue for transformation. The event would take place between 7:30pm and 9pm on June 23. Participants would “Like” the page across the globe, as a…

  • Mars had oxygen-rich atmosphere

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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere four billion years ago – more than a billion years before Earth, according to a study of rock samples. NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover Photo: REUTERS By Nick Collins, and Agencies Rocks collected by Nasa’s Spirit rover from the surface of the Gusev crater were found to contain five times as much nickel as…

  • US approves a label for meat free of Genetically Modified products.

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  • Photo of the Day

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    Arizona, 2007 Photograph by Frans Lanting, National Geographic A shaft of light bisects the distinctive Navajo Sandstone shapes of Antelope Canyon, a slot canyon near Page formed by millennia of flash flooding.

  • A Poem For Saturday

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Muriel Rukeyser was born on December 15, 1913, so this year marks her centennial. While at Vassar College she founded – along with Elizabeth Bishop, Mary McCarthy, and Eleanor Clark – an undergraduate literary magazine called Con Spirito. Rukeyser was in Spain as its civil war erupted, reported on its…