What's the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter?

I really wish I could find my old lesson plan about Chanukah. I dug in the garage, got really dusty, found loads of other lesson plans, but not this one. So I'll do my best to recount it from memory.

Although Hanukah is a minor holiday (not in the Torah even), it's a timely story ( Read more... )

This Article Won't Change Your MindThe Atlantic ( Read more... )

Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination
A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in betweenBy Amanda Montañez ( Read more... )

A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry.
New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that attacks the brain

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https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight

It's your birthday tomorrow and you're not here
Matter is neither created
Nor destroyed
It merely changes form
I wish I could believe in Heaven
Where a complete version of you exists
With your twinkling eyes
Your mischievous smile
The honk you make when blowing your nose
Your hands and fingers which can't stop moving
Be still I say when we hug
Be here in this ( Read more... )

"What is the point to have you in my life if you're not as cool as my solitude."
-Frenchie LaRose

sometimes the last days
the last moments
come bubbling up from memory and
bulldoze me

the French word "bouleversement" captures some of the feeling, "a turning upside down"

the word 'shattered' also works nicely

implies very

sharp

edges

Enormous cavern
clawed into being with your absence
Swallowing me whole
Drowning
Screaming underwater
Come back!
I want the frustration and the stubbornness The confusion and the disappointment
I want your laughter
I want the terrible advice I didn't ask for
I want your nosiness your mischievousness your childishness and your child-like-ness
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‘Silence Is Health’: How Totalitarianism Arrives

Uki Goñi

The backlash in the US today against immigrants and refugees, legal abortion, even marriage equality, rekindles for me uncomfortable memories of the decay of democracy that preceded Argentina’s descent into repression and mass murder.

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