Today’s News

Jill Bolte Taylor, a scientist bodhisattva, comes back into the world from a brain crushing stroke and brings one of the most profoundly enlightening messages about human thought that I have ever read.
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For the historical record, Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama, "Meet the Press," Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008
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What I find interesting is how fast they had this out. Notice their very effective use of McCain’s snotty expressions, the choice of the final stammering “90%” in an old clip that clashes with the rest of the highly sophisticated understated design and throws the statement into high relief by contrast.
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Sarawak, Borneo — the price of rice jumped up 40% three months ago. This was just as the traditional rice-year began again. The weather was odd and much of August, the traditional burn month of the slash-and-burn technique, was rainy. Traditional slash-and-burn (also called swidden) agriculture is a method employed for thousands of years...
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If I may step away from the politics for just a brief post, one of my professional heroes, James Nachtwey, was one of the 3 2007 recipients of the TED prize, which carries with it the opportunity to access the resources of the TED conference in order to change the world… to, in essence,...
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