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by La Tartine Gourmande
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8:44pm
15 reviews
cooking, travel, italy, food, images
http://www.latartinegourmande.com/
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the images on this food and travel blog
are as refreshing as a cool breeze on a sultry day.
Just delicious.
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Israel, Injustice, and Philip Glass’s Call to Arms | Jewcy.com
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8:44pm
1 review
fine-arts, music, israel, palestine, philip-glass
http://www.jewcy.com/post/israel_south_africa_and_philip_glass_s_call_arms
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image shows puppets from new york times story on opera. Used with thanks.
Israel, Palestine, Injustice : A Philip Glass Opera
"At the same time as Satyagraha evoked this pride in the possibilities of a prophetic tradition, it evoked in me a feeling of shame. It's impossible to watch hordes of second-class citizens standing up for their rights against an occupying regime and not think of Israel and Palestine. To be sure, the opera never draws that connection -- it is explicit in linking Gandhi and King, and some of the new production's imagery suggests Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, but nowhere does it reference the Israel/Arab conflict. Yet to my eyes and ears, the parallels were unavoidable.
This is not because the Palestinians are in the same position as the Indians (or black Africans) in South Africa, or that Israel is a colonial power. They are not. But the contours of popular struggle against a better-armed adversary are unmistakable."
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http://www.ferket.com/jvlt/images/teahupoo_1.jpg
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7:27pm
31 reviews
surfing
http://www.ferket.com/jvlt/images/teahupoo_1.jpg
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my belly lurches
and my brain seizes up
at the sight of this wild wave.
thanks rb
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Your Brain on Ethics -- Miller 2008 (508): 1 -- ScienceNOW
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6:34pm
1 review
cognitive-science, ethics, neuroscience, brain-ethics
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/508/1
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blue brain via chouxette with thanks.
Your Brain on Ethics
Say you have a load of donated food to deliver to an orphanage in Uganda. But due to circumstances beyond your control, you're forced to make a hard choice: give some of the children enough meals to stave off hunger for several days and let the rest go hungry, or evenly distribute a smaller amount of food so that each child feels full for just a few hours. A study published online today in Science is one of the first to investigate how the brain wrestles with such morally charged tradeoffs.
Be Fair
When people try to equitably distribute charitable donations,
activity in the putamen (left)
may reflect what's best for the greater good,
whereas the insula (right)
tracks inequities between individuals.
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StumbleUpon - sararuless web site reviews and blog
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May 9, 9:59pm
25 reviews
stumblers
http://sararules.stumbleupon.com/
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lovely stumbler, gorgeous images. Thanks sara.
image via sara from herewith thanks.
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May 9, 9:50pm
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Cleaning the Drapes, from
Bringing War Home
by Martha Rosler
Hooded Captives, by Martha Rosler
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Chinas Three Gorges Dam: An Environmental Catastrophe?: Scientific American
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May 9, 6:01pm
4 reviews
ecology, environment, science, china, dam
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=chinas-three-gorges-dam-disaster
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image of the incredibly fabulous gorge
as it appeared before completion of the Dam,
in Hubei province, China.
Definitely another great Chinese tragedy.
For over three decades the Chinese government dismissed warnings from scientists and environmentalists that its Three Gorges Dam--the world's largest--had the potential of becoming one of China's biggest environmental nightmares. But last fall, denial suddenly gave way to reluctant acceptance that the naysayers were right.
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Jonathan Jones: Klimts dazzling demons | Art &Architecture | guardian.co.uk Art…
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May 9, 5:27pm
1 review
art-history, painting, vienna, klimt, ww2
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2278238,00.html
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Britain's first comprehensive exhibition of the work of Gustav Klimt
features many of his typically opulent portraits, and highlights
Klimt's position as the founder and leader of the Viennese Sezession,
a progressive group of artists and artisans.
some wonderful images at the link, plus a great vienna war story.
art, war, poetry
Klimt holding one of his cats in front of his Vienna studio.
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May 9, 4:31am
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Love Song
My father is dying, and my mother
has never been so in love. It's not
over death she's swooning;
it's the sweetness that has softened
him. She lotions and socks his feet, shaves
his cheeks so he's fresh for their evening
date in the dusk-quilted bed, the oxygen
tank murmuring in the background.
As she fine-tunes the tubes in his nostrils,
she smooths his wisps, sighs, "Oh, sweetheart."
~ Julie King ~
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StumbleUpon - Ingas web site reviews and blog
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May 9, 4:26am
216 reviews
stumblers, poetry, essay, self-deception
http://inga.stumbleupon.com/
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On today's visit to Inge's great pages,
I particularly enjoyed , as well as the above image,
the gentle art of self deception
and the wallace stevens essay on the relationship between poetry and painting.
Thanks Inge.
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