Tag: New York Times

  • Poetry in Afghanistan: New York Times Profiles Matiullah Turab

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    The New York Times features the life and writing of Matiullah Turab. Mr. Turab is a popular poet who performs throughout Afghanistan and works during the day as a metalsmith. With his unflinching words, Mr. Turab, 44, offers a voice for Afghans grown cynical about the war and its perpetrators: the Americans, the Taliban, the Afghan government,…

  • Parenting Expands Spiritual Practice

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    Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg discusses how motherhood has impacted her religious practices and expanded her spritual expression in The New York Times: When I was a rabbinical student and then a new rabbi, I wrote and spoke often about the importance of regular spiritual practice. Fixed discipline, I said, could hold you in your attempts to…

  • 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…

  • Golden Rice: Spending Millions to Reinvent the Wheel

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    Beth Hoffman’s article in Forbes mirrors my sentiments exactly.  In response to a commenter, she asks: The question is – after 30 years of research, how much has actually been spent creating a product like Golden Rice? How many billions of vitamin A supplements could have been purchased and passed out already – saving the…

  • Agribusiness advocacy organizations work to block “time-tested” strategies to increase crop yields in drought conditions

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    The New York Times has a great piece by Gary Paul Nabhan on the threat posed to our food supply by the heat wave now blanketing the Western States: People living outside the region seldom recognize its immense contribution to American agriculture: roughly 40 percent of the net farm income for the country normally comes…

  • Leaders of world sovereignty movement react to 2013 world food prize going to GMO scientists

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    Lappé and Shiva’s remarks echo those of the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance, which stated that the prize going to the biotech giants “sends precisely the wrong message about sustainable solutions to hunger and poverty.” “Never mind that Monsanto is a sponsor of the prize (and that the list of other backers reads like a who’s who of big ag…

  • Rural Folk Poetry of Afghanistan

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    Poetry magazine is devoting its entire June issue to Journalist Eliza Griswold and London Filmaker Seamus Murphy’s project which portrays “Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems…” For 10 years, journalist Eliza Griswold reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for publications like The New York Times and The New Yorker. But she was frustrated that…

  • Bloomberg still trying to create the nanny state – in a good way.

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    If the endeavor gets off the ground, all 8 million residents of the most populated city in the United States will have to start putting aside food waste and other organic materials, such as houseplants and eggshells, then package them separately to be picked up by specialized trash collectors. Compostable waste will have to be…

  • Where Jewels Come From

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    The New York Times has an interesting article on how gems tell us “important things about the planet.” Every gem fixed to every ring or necklace was forged deep inside our planet, according to its own recipe of elements, temperature and pressure. In the journal Geology, Dr. Harlow — writing with Robert J. Stern of…