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Art and Science Unite at Stanford
By Angela Hayes, Peninsula Press An excerpt from this article is below. Read the full story on the Peninsula Press. Once emphatically separated from each other, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and art are connecting in exciting and enlightening ways. Stanford University, known for its strong science and engineering programs, is part of this trend. An increasing number of…
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Community Ownership at top of Organic Farms’ Agenda
News of community buy-outs in Scotland has become more common in recent years, as land from Assynt to Eigg and Knoydart to Gigha and South Uist has been taken into local ownership with the help of the Scottish Government in a bid to give control of the land to the people who live on it.…
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Become a WWOOFer and Travel The World For Next to Nothing
WWOOF — an acronym for Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms — offers you a way to travel the world for next to nothing. (Normally, you pay only to get there.) At the organization’s website, you can search the database of organic farms around the world to see who’s looking for someone to help out. WWOOF hosts are those…
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Umbrella
Originally posted on Viewfound: More beautiful photography from Biswajit Dihidar. Viewfound View original post
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Saturday Prayer
WOLVES The birds’ departure from his heart leaves the plains white where the story is white and sleep is white and silence is the caller’s icon. A laugh of sand will sprout when the door is opened from fear’s angle, a hymn for the grand winter, and the voices of those who left long ago…
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Canadian visa refusal for Palestinian poet overturned after social media campaign
A social media victory is being claimed on behalf of the leading Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan after his visa to enter Canada to attend a prestigious poetry award ceremony – initially denied – was granted on Thursday. Zaqtan was shortlisted for the C$65,000 (£41,000) Griffin poetry prize in April for his 10th collection Like a Straw Bird It Follows…
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Asia Curbs US imports of wheat after genetically modified sample found
The discovery of rogue genetically modified wheat in a farmer’s field in Oregon shook global confidence in the safety of America’s food supply on Friday. Billions in food exports were potentially at stake following the disclosure by the US Department of Agriculture of the existence of the GM wheat plants. The GM variant, developed by the agricultural giant Monsanto, has never…
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Photo of the Day
This breathtaking mosaic of the Milky Way was imaged in the Alqueva Dark Sky Reserve of Portugal, just before dawn in early April of 2013. Though the waning crescent Moon shines brightly (lower center), it’s not so bright as to interfere with the glow of the Milky Way, shown here arching over the Convent of Orada (constructed in 1670). Click on image to…
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New Paradigm: Earth Democracy
Vandana Shiva has long advocated that we change our worldview from separation from nature to connectedness with it. In this excerpt from her essay New Paradigm: Earth Democracy, she addresses the root of the problem and urges us to again become part of the Earth community: The same technological and economic systems that violate the…
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