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  • The real fear: I-am-not-a-Homo-phobia

    With all do props to @NatBaimel Continue reading

  • Bill Moyers’ farewell message to young activists: ‘Over to you. Welcome to the fight’

    Moyers & Company host Bill Moyers delivered a message of encouragement for young progressives in the face of seemingly harrowing odds, drawing the curtain on his 44-year broadcast career on Friday. “To this new generation I say: over to you.… Continue reading

  • The Benefits of Fewer NYPD Arrests

    The slowdown also challenges the fundamental tenets of broken-windows policing, a controversial strategy championed by NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton. According to the theory, which first came to prominence in a 1982 article in The Atlantic, “quality-of-life” crimes like vandalism and… Continue reading

  • Millennials Changing Money Management Forever

    Over the past three years… more than $1 billion has been sunk into tech-driven personal finance companies…with a special emphasis on startups targeting young investors, complete with the user-friendly, low-cost, mobile-enabled features they crave (social responsibility is a plus, too)…… Continue reading

  • Sacred Medicine

    “…when we began working with community-health workers to take care to patients, the outcomes we all sought were much more likely to happen. Instead of asking “why don’t patients comply with our treatments?” we began to ask, “How can we… Continue reading

  • Fairy Tales: Honest Harshness, Wishful Hoping

    Folktales, bedtime stories, and reworked myths open us up to the power contained in the “amoral scheme of the world.’ Fantastic images can become mundane by having pithy morals at the end… but they can be reinvigorated and lead beyond… Continue reading

  • Does Cultural Oppression Affect Us Genetically?

    Whether one is talking about coffee farmers in Ethiopia or the service employees at a local McDonald’s, there are the stressors being pressed down upon the working poor at every turn. What are the epigenetic consequences of oppression? Continue reading

    Does Cultural Oppression Affect Us Genetically?
  • 2015 #love

    Make this a year of love: #consolation #comprehension #compassion Continue reading

  • In Search Of A Science Of Consciousness

    One of the extraordinary and exciting claims advanced in Evan Thompson’s new book Waking, Dreaming, Being is that some meditative practices — for example the sorts of focused attention practices developed in some Buddhist traditions — can actually be thought… Continue reading

  • The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit – review

    “After the artist Georgia O’Keeffe left New York for the mesa of New Mexico, she began signing letters to friends “from the faraway nearby”. The striking oxymoron has given Rebecca Solnit the title for her new, inspired reverie, which wanders… Continue reading