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A dog playing fetch by himself:

Janmashtami Holds Special Place Among All Hindu Festivals

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Sanchita Chowdhur posts about the special place Janmashtami holds among all Hindu festivals: Janmashtami or the birthday of Lord Krishna has a huge spiritual significance in Hinduism. As the legend goes, Lord Krishna was born in the darkness of night, inside a cell of a jail where His parents were locked up by his cruel…

Is extremism in defense of GM food a vice?

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By Nathanael Johnson: Grist When a study came out in 2012 associating gruesomely lumpy rats with genetically modified food, critics trashed it so thoroughly that a group of researchers and advocates called foul. This went beyond legitimate scientific critique, they wrote. It was evidence that “those with a vested interest attempt to sow unreasonable doubt around inconvenient results.”More recently, a…

Girl steals bike back from bike thief

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Payback is a Bitch — and a nice young Canadian Woman!!

Traditional Forms of Cooperation Basis for Modern Cooperatives in Sudan

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In a recent editorial, the Sudan Vision supports using traditional forms of cooperation in their country as the basis for forming modern cooperatives: The cooperatives have been developed in a local context to solve problems that beset ordinary people, based on the traditional mutual work in the specific local environment. Cooperatives movement has its deep-rooted…

What Protection Of Traditional Knowledge Means To Indigenous Peoples

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By Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch World Intellectual Property Organization member states in July concluded the biennium work of the committee tasked with finding agreement on international legal tools to prevent misappropriation and misuse of genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore. Indigenous peoples and local communities are holders of a substantial part of this knowledge and…

The White Man Who Marched On Washington

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Originally posted on The Dish: by Matt Sitman Michael Kazin revisits a neglected episode in the Civil Rights movements: The 1963 March on Washington featured just one prominent white speaker. “We will not solve education or housing or public accommodations, as long as millions of Negroes are treated as second-class economic citizens and denied jobs,”…

Anis Mojgani performs Shake the Dust at HEAVY AND LIGHT.

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Anis Mojgani, the two-time National Slam Poetry Champion, stole the show reminding everyone of the power of words and the value in their stories. Here, he performs “Shake the Dust.”

Soil Organisms: A Whole World Beneath Our Feet

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Dirty Microbes by Molly Michelson explores the importance of soil organisms: Soil microbes include everything from bacteria to fungi, and article author Richard Conniff likes to call the lot collectively “the agribiome.” These microscopic life forms have the potential to solve many crises facing agriculture today—everything from climate change and drought to Salmonellaand other food-bourn illnesses, from the costs…

Georgian Legend Dance

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