William Morris, the influential nineteenth century British designer, artist, writer, craftsman and political activist, generated ideas in regard to the connection between labor and the production o…Source: attentiveequations.comWould not art be more profound and meaningful if there was no economic value or… Continue reading

Tianna Gaines-Turner has been struggling to feed her family for years. She testified before Congress this week.Source: billmoyers.com Continue reading

Source: www.levity.com“The opposites and their symbols are so common in the texts that it is superfluous to cite evidence from the sources. On the other hand, in view of the ambiguity of the alchemists’ language, which is “tam ethice quam… Continue reading

If you meet Oliver Harris someday, tip your fedora. The co-mastermind along with Ian McFadyen behind 2009’s Naked Lunch @50: Anniversary Essays and commemorative conference in Paris, Harris has com…Source: bigother.com Continue reading

College graduates are sorting themselves into cities increasingly out of reach of everyone else.Source: www.washingtonpost.comI don’t know what I think about this. Not the phenomenon, but the article which teeters between “this is a social problem” and “It’s great to… Continue reading

Between 800 and 200 BCE, a remarkable series of sages, mystics, and thinkers gave rise to the transcendental traditions that are known today as “world religions.” In 1949, the German philosopher Ka…Source: genealogyreligion.net Continue reading

Do you ever go on such an epic internet rant you just feel you’ve run out of words with which to hammer your enemies? Do you want to up your game without resorting to the tired tropes of excretion and… Continue reading

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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