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  • The Obesity Era

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    This is an exceedingly long but intriguing article by David Berry reposted from aeon: Years ago, after a plane trip spent reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground and Weight Watchers magazine, Woody Allen melded the two experiences into a single essay. ‘I am fat,’ it began. ‘I am disgustingly fat. I am the fattest human I know. I have…

  • Photo of the Day – in Honor of International Women’s Day

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  • Sunday’s Poem

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    Noshi Gillani Is a poet from Pakistan who writes in Urdu. Noshi Gillani was born in Pakistan in 1964. Her fifth collection of poems: Ay Meeray Shureek-E-Risal-E-Jaan, Hum Tera Intezaar Kurtay Rahey (O My Beloved, I Kept Waiting for You) was published in Pakistan in 2008. Can Someone Bring Me My Entire Being? My arms, my eyes, my face? I am a…

  • Anti-Mystic Activist Killed in India

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    Looks like these “men of God” felt Dr. Dabholkar was a pretty big threat to their mumbo jumbo.  Not a very mystical way to act. From The New York Times World desk: NEW DELHI — The police on Wednesday detained a member of Sanatan Sanstha, a right-wing Hindu organization, in the killing last week of an…

  • Mohsen Namjoo Stirs Things Up

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    Jon Pareles introduces us to Mohsen Namjoo and his music in The New York Times: The songwriter Mohsen Namjoo stirs things up in Iran. Mr. Namjoo…plays the setar, a long-necked lute, and is steeped in Persian classical and literary traditions. But in Iran, where Western music was banned in 2005, Mr. Namjoo decided to fuse Persian music…

  • Obama and Mandela

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    I always thought Obama looked a lot like Mandela.  I was reading the Huffington Post and they had these two articles back to back with the above pictures.  What do you think?

  • A Poem For Saturday

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    Originally posted on The Dish: by Alice Quinn The supreme poet Seamus Heaney passed away yesterday in a Dublin Hospital at age 74. No one alive wrote more eloquently about the art and the poets who meant the most to him: George Herbert’s “daylight sanity and vigor,” “the pure consequence of Elizabeth Bishop’s style,” “the…

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  • Friday’s Poem

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    Back in LA Hanging out at the Light House Mixing with the black cats — All attention and aggression Arms lightly resting On the backs of worn wooden chairs, Fingers casually brushing Against the light fabric of a dress Tan bare legs tapping to the beat Eyes locking, smiling Two drink minimum loosens up the…

  • An Afghan Designer and His Life-Saving Creation

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    Afghani designer Massoud Hassani wants his work to help save lives in his native country – a place with nearly 10 million land mines.