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Loving it !
“We love our fish!” says Ina Bouker, a Yupik native and teacher from Dillingham who opposes the mine. “The salmon always run. But if their habitat is destroyed, they will not come back.” Source: National Geographic
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Sacred Contexts
This is a most wonderful interactive, educational, insightful, creative project by the British Library, which has the best and most resourceful website ever…. Check it out… Understanding Sacred Text Sacred Context Home
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Unveiled: Women of the Middle East
By Naomi Wolf Among the most prevalent Western stereotypes about Muslim countries are those concerning Muslim women: doe-eyed, veiled, and submissive, exotically silent, gauzy inhabitants of imagined harems, closeted behind rigid gender roles. So where were these women in Tunisia … Continue reading
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Now and Then
Watercolour of the ghats at Haridwar from ‘Views by Seeta Ram from Mohumdy to Gheen Vol. V’ produced for Lord Moira, afterwards the Marquess of Hastings, by Sita Ram between 1814-15. Marquess of Hastings, the Governor-General of Bengal and the … Continue reading
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On Pain
Sometimes I come across people who will insist that pain is an illusion. Ultimately they are right, but as it happens, I am someone who is sought out to provide relief, if nor cure, for pain. So for me to … Continue reading
I am the Poém of Earth…
THE VOICE OF THE RAIN. AND who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated: I am the Poém of Earth, said the voice of the rain, Eternal I … Continue reading
Old world or New Earth
Wooden models…or no gas ? Shift the way you move… or Romancing 125 years of combustion engine ?
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The 2011 Oil Shock
THE price of oil has had an unnerving ability to blow up the world economy, and the Middle East has often provided the spark. The Arab oil embargo of 1973, the Iranian revolution in 1978-79 and Saddam Hussein’s invasion of … Continue reading
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Making use of aloneness
42 The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things. All things have their back to the female and stand facing the male. When male and female … Continue reading
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