Tag: Chile

  • Wednesday’s Poem

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    Canto XII from The Heights of Macchu Picchu Arise to birth with me, my brother. Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows. You will not return from these stone fastnesses. You will not emerge from subterranean time. Your rasping voice will not come back, nor your pierced eyes rise from…

  • Chileans Protest Against the “Monsanto Law”

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    RT News provides video footage of protests in Chile against GMO’s and the “The Monsanto Law.” Thousands of Chileans have rallied against a bill dubbed the “Monsanto law” that would let multinationals patent GMO seeds. Activists say it will not only compromise food sovereignty in Chile, but will also harm consumer health. Mass protests were…

  • Nature’s Ceaseless Variety Produces Living Rock

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     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…