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  • For Your Entertainment

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    Tinariwen has a pretty unique sound, making use of traditional West African instruments in addition to rock instrumentation. This has resulted in a unique sound that has recently brought them much attention in the Western world. Artists from the U.S. such as Nels Cline of Wilco and Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio. Lovers…

  • The Abatement of Cruelty

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Matthew Scully has written a powerful, emotional and, to my mind, largely persuasive piece about the moral necessity of changing our collective treatment of farm animals. It is framed – somewhat relentlessly – as an argument designed to make pro-life conservatives look afresh at the moral question of animal cruelty,…

  • Ditch the Low Fat Diet and Eat Like an Early Victorian for Better Health

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    Reposted from “to your Health.” One of the biggest mistakes I see in nutrition is that we that we look at life in these narrow “slices” of time, and think this is how things always have been. We might think that nutritionally, we’re a little worse than a while ago (or not), but we don’t…

  • Monsanto Drawing Opposition Across Globe

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    Increasingly Monsanto is drawing opposition across the globe.  In The Times of India Laxmi Prasanna reports on a recent conference held in Thiruvananthapuram that attracted green activists and scientists from around the world. As part of the global call against Monsanto, participants including green activists from 400 cities across the world including Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram will organise…

  • Folklore Mondays: Halloween Meltdown ’13 Edition (#1)

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    Originally posted on The Angry Scholar: To kick off everyone’s favorite month of the year, here’s a short piece on the origins of the Halloween holiday by folklorist Jack Santino, of Bowling Green State University. (I know it’s a week late–you can blame the government shutdown for the delay, as the text I cite here…

  • Festival of Navratri Dedicated to Goddess Durga

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    In the BoldSky Blog, Sanchita Chowdry educates readers about the festival of Navratri and the Goddess Durga: The festival of Navratri is dedicated to the nine forms of Goddess Durga known as the Navadurga. Devi Durga is the form of Shakti or the Infinite Power. It is believed that She manifested Herself into nine divine…

  • Sunday Prayer

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    THIRD HEAVEN Because the spirit, too, knows loneliness disasters happen in the universe and someone like myself, smallest of men, finds grace, a nimbus on the wall at noon. After the hurricane, I drove back home from hiding out safely inside a church. I saw downed oaks squashed across roof on roof or telephone wires;…

  • Meet Deborah Szekely, a 91-Year-Old Wellness Warrior

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    Reposted from The Atlantic The nonagenarian just started her “project for the next decade.” EMMA GREEN Organic food may be a fad of the 21st century, but Deborah Szekely, 91, has been organic farming since 1930. In her nine decades of life, she has run for Congress, managed a federal agency, and served as a…

  • Farmer to Farmer Program Spearheading Agroecology Efforts in Nicaragua

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    Carmen Herrera writes about a program in Nicaragua which “encourages an appreciation of local knowledge to reestablish food sovereignty. ” In an area carved into small farms known as minifundios, where each lot measures 0.75 to 1.5 Ha (1.8 to 3.7 acres), participants in the project called Farmer to Farmer (Campesino a Campesino) are spearheading…

  • New Chinese President Looking to Religion to Fill Moral Void

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    Corruption has become so bad in China, the new president is now looking to religion to potentially fill the moral void. The predictions of His Holiness the Dalai Lama that the new Chinese President, Xi Jinping, might come forward with humane reforms in dealing with Tibet appear to be coming true. The Central Tibetan Administration reported…