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This Fine Wine Made At An Italian Penal Colony Is No 2-Buck Chuck
Off the coast of Tuscany, prisoners serving the end of their sentences are learning to make wine from a 30th-generation winemaker. It’s a unique approach to rehabilitation that seems to be working.Source: www.npr.org Continue reading
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Michigan, Nation Must Look at North Carolina’s ”Moral Mondays”
Moral Mondays, spreading rapidly to other states, aim to help ordinary citizens take back their state governments from corporate-backed extremists.Source: truth-out.org Continue reading
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Joel Berg: How Hungry Is America?
Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, speaks to GRITtv about hunger in the United States, food deserts in the Bronx and new community-based solutions.Source: www.truth-out.org Continue reading
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Singapore library will destroy LGBT-friendly kids’ books at behest of bigot
Singapore’s National Library Board will pulp three LGBT-friendly children’s picture books that it earlier removed from its collections.Source: boingboing.net Continue reading
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Atheists Used to Take the Idea of God Seriously. That’s Why They Mattered.
Nick Spencer begins his spirited history of atheism with a fairy tale. Once upon a time, people lived in ignorant superstition, offering sacrifices to monsters in the sky. Then some clever folks used special weapons called “science” and “reason” to… Continue reading
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How to Repurpose the First Amendment as Corporate Weapon
Originally—and up until fairly recently—the First Amendment was understood to be a shield protecting individual liberty. But the Roberts Court seems increasingly intent on turning the First Amendment into a weapon against the American people, not to mention basic fairness… Continue reading
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The Week in ‘Star Wars’: Fake Leaked Footage and Kevin Smith’s Millennium Falcon Freak-Out
A trio of things to get you excited about the new Star Wars movie including a fan video and Kevin Smith’s report from the setSource: www.yahoo.com Continue reading
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‘Arrest us all’: the 200 women who killed a rapist
When hundreds of women descended on Nagpur district court armed with knives, stones and chilli powder, within minutes the man who raped them lay dead. Raekha Prasad reports.Source: www.theguardian.comWhen the dominators are favored by the legal system, Justice May have… Continue reading
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Teachers must Care; Students must Attend
That is, mentors must be engaged with mentoring people, seeing the student as an Existenz, with all of the possibility that this entails. And learners must attend, being fully now/here wherever they are, focused on this happening with the mentor. It… Continue reading
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Researchers May Have Discovered The Consciousness On/Off Switch | IFLScience
Researchers from the George Washington University have managed to switch consciousness on and off in an epileptic woman by stimulating a single region of the brain with electrical impulses. While this is a single case study, it provides an exciting… Continue reading
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