Coffee grounds can be an excellent addition to a compost pile. The grounds are relatively rich in nitrogen, providing bacteria the energy they need to turn organic matter into compost. About 2 percent nitrogen by volume, used coffee grounds can… Continue reading

No institutional or nongovernmental organization keeps data about the number of victims of police-perpetrated sexual violence, but advocates say it happens more commonly than many realize.Source: www.truth-out.orgIn the 20 years that Smith’s rapist has been in prison, news accounts of… Continue reading

Geography and the Earth sciences, if they are to truly account for Earth, must study intimacy.  I would argue that intimacy has something to do with roundness….curves. What is needed is geography…Source: becomingintegral.com Continue reading

In the nineteen-thirties, what was a single girl to do when the best tables were behind closed doors?Source: www.newyorker.com Continue reading

Down the rabbit-hole, Moomin-style.As a lifelong lover of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, I was thrilled to discover one of its mosSource: www.brainpickings.org Continue reading

When I was a barista, I got it all the time. A customer walks in, marches up to the counter, assumes the demeanor of a connoisseur, and demands: dark roast.It was a dicey moment, because at Blue Bottle we do… Continue reading

One bright, shining light did come out of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby cases this morning: a 35-page dissent by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. You might find it depressing to be the position of seizing what hope… Continue reading

(Not including the five dudes who voted for it!)Source: medium.comActually the most backward thing about this is that Hobby Lobby claims to run its company “in a manner consistent with biblical principles.” Which means you’d best be getting yourselves to… Continue reading

With technological unemployment increasingly a factor in almost every profession and job, what will the future of work be like, and how can you succeed?Source: www.33rdsquare.com Continue reading

Fifty years ago, John Bell made metaphysics testable, but quantum scientists still dispute the implications.In 1964, Northern Irish physicist John Bell proved mathematically that certain quantum correlations, unlike all other correlations in the Universe, cannot arise from any local cause1. This… Continue reading

The myth of Proteus powerfully  displays the nature of Soul, exhibiting various archetypal faces. Drawn from the earliest Greek legends, Proteus appears as an old sea-god, Poseidon’s right-hand man, so to speak. He was said to be Poseidon’s shepherd of… Continue reading

Twenty years ago, there were about 3 million devices connected to the Internet. By the end of this decade, Gartner estimates that there will be 26 billion devices on the global network.This can only mean one thing: We’re living in the Internet of Things.With… Continue reading

There was a time when states of matter were simple: Solid, liquid, gas. Then came plasma, Bose -Einstein condensate, supercritical fluid and more. Now the list has grown by one more, with the unexpected discovery of a new state dubbed… Continue reading

Piketty protégé Gabriel Zucman explains how the world’s wealthiest are scamming governments for trillionsSource: www.salon.com Continue reading