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Anti-GMO Activists Launch Fishy Art Car Campaign
Fishy Art Cars set to launch anti-GMO campaign on August 5th reports Arin Greenwood at the Huffington Post: On August fish — sorry, make that August 5th — anti-GMO activists will be launching a nationwide demonstration with a visual punch. Part of that punch is a car topped by a fish tomato sculpture, nicknamed Fishy Tomato,…
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Edible Landscape Saves $700 in Grocery Bills
Rosalind Creasy along with her writing partner, Cathy Wilkinson Barash decided to experiment with creating an edible landscape to see what kind of cost savings could be realized at the grocers. Their results are chronicled in an article in Mother Earth News. The Objective I took a 5-by-20-foot section of garden bed by my tiny lawn…
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Farm Workers Get Help To Be Their Own Boss
Kirk Siegler featured a piece on ALBA Organics on Morning Edition at NPR. You can go here for the broadcast. Although ALBA concedes that not everyone will make it, this still gives migrant farm workers an opportunity to become their own boss. Here’s an excerpt from the story: Northern California’s Salinas Valley is often dubbed…
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Mary Magdalene in the Gnostic Gospels
Many Christians don’t know that it took 500 years to compile the New Testament. Early Christianity was fraught with conflicts and controversies. Many of the gospels written as early as 50 years after the death of Jesus were known to church leaders, but never made it into the new Canon. Until the discovery of the Nag…
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Susan Cain: The power of introverts
In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated.
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Fox’s “Zealot” Interview Creates Comedy Gold And Sends the Book to No. 1
The completely unselfaware and unnecessarily hostile interview Fox’s Lauren Green conducted with Reza Aslan was pure unintended hilarity. Green repeatedly asked why a Muslim would write about Jesus. To which Aslan replied, “”Because it’s my job as an academic. I am a professor of religion, including the New Testament. That’s what I do for a…
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Nature’s Ceaseless Variety Produces Living Rock
Jess Zimmerman‘s entertaining piece about a sea creature that looks like a rock is, well…strange. se The fact that this sea creature looks exactly like a rock with guts is not even the weirdest thing about it. It’s also completely immobile like a rock — it eats by sucking in water and filtering out microorganisms — and its…
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Meteor Viewing Best in August
Ellen Miller at the Science Recorder gives stargazers a heads up – the meteor viewing season has arrived: …Late July to early August [are] widely regarded as the best time to view meteor showers in the Northern Hemisphere. The peak viewing is in mid-August, but meteors can be observed up to that point with more regularity than during…
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