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    Good for them!

  • Photo of the Day

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    Photographer Alexey Kljatov captures the delicate intricacies of snowflakes: “When I started to shoot snowflakes five years ago, I couldn’t imagine how different and unusual they looked. With the naked eye we usually see only big crystals, 5 mm and bigger, and most of them just one type, stellar dendrites. But [the] most unusual and interesting crystals…

  • The Befana Regatta On The Grand Canal

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    VENICE, ITALY – JANUARY 06: Rowers dressed in costume race along the Grand Canal for the “Befana” Regatta on January 6, 2014 in Venice, Italy. In Italian folklore, Befana is an old woman who delivers gifts to children throughout Italy on the feast of the Epiphany on January 6 in a similar way to Saint…

  • Sustainable, People-Centered Agriculture Lies in Agroecology

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    In keeping with the general theme of a new “gift” economy, Colin Tudge and Graham Harvey’s article in the Ecologist focuses on “a sustainable, people-centered agriculture.” …we are launching our ‘Manifesto for a new agriculture’ at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2014. A key theme is ‘agroecology’ – farming that takes its lead from nature. It conceives…

  • It’s This Cold Today

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    How cold is it in Wisconsin today?  Cold enough to turn boiling water into snow.

  • Mapping Our Emotions

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    Originally posted on The Dish: A new set of experiments asked participants to read short stories or watch movies and then “color in the areas of their body where sensations became stronger (the red and yellow) or weaker (blue and black) when they felt a certain way”: The mapping exercise produced what you might expect:…

  • Quote For The Day

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    Originally posted on The Dish: “Union with God is not something we acquire by technique but the grounding truth of our lives that engenders the very search for God. Because God is the ground of our being, the relationship between creature and Creator is such that, by sheer grace, separation is not possible. God does…

  • The Dharma Of Proust?

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Pico Iyer argues that Proust was an “accidental Buddhist,” quoting from Within a Budding Grove to illustrate his point: “We do not receive wisdom,” [the painter] Elstir tells the narrator (who has just realized that “this man of genius, this sage” is a “foolish, corrupt little painter” in another context),…

  • For Your Enjoyment

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    I adopted a Lab/Basset Hound mix in May.  His unbounded joy playing in the  snow seems to be shared by all breeds.

  • Monsanto Seed Patents Create Modern Day Zamindari System

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    In an interview with Darshan Kakri at the Mahesh Chandra Regmi Lecture series, Vandana Shiva was asked, “Why should countries like Nepal with a predominantly traditional agricultural base be concerned about the entry of a company like Monsanto in its territory?” Regardless of how you feel about the safety of their genetically modified seeds, Shiva’s response provides one of…