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

Coffee has become the subject of thousands of surveys in the past few years. Known as a simple stimulant it also has many other properties. Here are some of the most interesting statistics we could put together for proponents of… Continue reading

Business has defeated everything in its path. Its last enemies are the oldest: it is still defied by the ancient Gods of blood revenge, territorial tr…Source: symbolreader.netAs a society, we may be conditioned by the historical root of the word… Continue reading

Psychedelic drugs alter consciousness is a profound and novel way that increases the breadth and fluency of cognition. However, until recently, we were unable to offer an explanation for how the brain was altered to account for these effects.Source: www.iflscience.com Continue reading

Religious groups can object to a regulation, but can they also determine whether it presents an undue burden on them?Source: www.forbes.comIf anything shows the growing incompetence of the Roberts’ court, it must be the overly broad language and too predictable… Continue reading

Edward Snowden has done a lot of damage to the National Security Agency by disclosing dozens of its most sensitive internet surveillance programs—but there may be a lot more to come from someone following in his footsteps. German public broadcaster Das Erste revealed yesterday the… Continue reading

The US beer business is booming, thanks to a growing number of craft beer bars. And they’re helping sell a lot of drinks packaged in barrels or kegs. Those beer shipments jumped 88% to $2.4 billion from 2007 to 2012, almost three times… Continue reading

Change the world with just one click.Source: www.buzzfeed.comIn the majority of cases, doing some good for others actually only takes a bit of your time. Nobody is too busy. Be the change you want to see in the world. If… Continue reading

Find the recipe for Coffee-Rubbed Cheeseburgers with Texas Barbecue Sauce and other ground beef recipes at Epicurious.comSource: www.epicurious.com Continue reading

Source: www.jamesbeard.orgFor the perfect summer meal, start with impeccable ingredients and just add fire. Continue reading