Happy autumnal equinox!

Happy International Day Of Peace!

I think they go really well together. Gratitude for the abundance of the year, a point of astronomical balance, and hope for abundance and safety as we move into the dark half of the year seems like an excellent moment to ask Who will you make peace with today? Seems to me that if we all ( Read more... )

Check out the documentary Aluna, about the isolated Columbian tribe theKogi, who wish us to know that our superficial understanding of the world is leading us to deeply damage the Earth and all life:

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Nuclear weapons: an accident waiting to happen

In July 1956, a plane crashed in Suffolk, nearly detonating an atomic bomb. In January 1987, an RAF truck carrying hydrogen bombs skidded off a road in Wiltshire. Other near-misses remain top secret. Who is really at risk from Britain's nuclear weapons?

• Eric Schlosser

• The Guardian,
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Lissa Rankin's latest TEDTalk covers ground familiar to anyone who saw her previous talk. This time, she's talking to health care providers about the urgent need to take an holistic approach and to revolutionise the health care system. She's more specific about what stress is, and about the need to reject stress as "normal":

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Let this interview with a marine conservationist from the European organisation The Black Fish first terrify you at the scale of the destruction of marine life (we may be facing fish-free oceans in a generation if we only continue to consume at the current rate), the lack of interest in saving our species' life-support system, and the fact that ( Read more... )

Just read something that horrifies me:

Albert Speer, who was tried at Nuremberg for his senior role in the Nazi administration, including using forced labour in his armaments factories, got 20 years in Spandau prison.

Bradley Manning, who refused to cover up the illegal abuse and torture of civilians, just got 35 years and a dishonourable ( Read more... )

Is Coconut Oil Bad For You?

July 30, 2013
Some who profit from coconut oil claim it has miraculous powers, curing everything from cancer to jock itch. The boldest claim may be that it is a potential cure for Alzheimer’s, based on a series of anecdotes and one study I profile in my 3-min video Does Coconut Oil Cure Alzheimer’s? Long story short, as ( Read more... )

I can't remember when I first realised that it wasn't fair to have an aristocracy and monarchy. Early on. Before my teens, certainly. As a devourer of fantasy and sci-fi, though, that unequal, unjust social hierarchy seemed to be in my face all the time. Definitely by the time I was in my teens, I was a confirmed republican - in an entirely non- ( Read more... )

Burka Avenger: Pakistan's cartoon superhero battling for girls' education

The first animated TV series produced in Pakistan offers a positive role model to counter Taliban opposition to girls'

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Link to video: Burka Avenger: the Pakistani cartoon challenging the Taliban on girls' education
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Name: Burka Avenger.

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A combination of a wide variety of herbicides, pesticides and fungicides killing off the bees? Who'd have thunk?

Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought

By Todd Woody @ greenwombat 12 hours ago


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