February 2012
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“There was a Sufi mystic who remained happy his whole life- no one had ever seen...”
– Osho, Emotional Wellness (via faith-in-humanity)
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Gardening On The Cheap →
homegrownfoodchallenge:
Growing your own food lowers your carbon footprint, but can be expensive to get started. Crops in Pots has some suggestions to make it easier on your wallet
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How can you be angry? You're a Buddhist! (via... →
In an interview with Time Magazine, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was asked, “Do you ever feel angry or outraged?” His Holiness laughed as he replied, “Oh, yes, of course. I’m a human being. Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.” While I enjoyed His Holiness’ initially confused expression, I also appreciated his...
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Mood-boosting Bacteria Found in Dirt →
askthegreenfairy:
Need another reason to get into gardening this year? Turns out a bacteria in dirt improves “emotional health, vitality, and general cognitive function.”
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“You are born of sex. Your every body cell is a sex cell, all your energy is sex...”
– Osho (via terramantra)
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Willie Nelson and 300,000 activists are suing... →
anticapitalist:
Monsanto may be a little jealous, as it has fallen from environmentalist enemy #1 to environmentalist enemy #2 as a result of the ongoing Keystone XL pipeline controversy. However, in all seriousness, Monsanto does some fucked up shit and is heavily opposed by greenies around the world. It was reported this week that Willie Nelson and and about 300,000 other activists have now...
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Black people serve 60% longer sentences than... →
jonathan-cunningham:
leftcollection:
“A new study by M. Marit Rehavi of the University of British Columbia and Sonja B. Starr of the University of Michigan Law School shows that Black Americans receive almost 60% long prison sentences than white Americans who committed the same crime.
The study covered 58,000 federal criminal cases and found that there was a significant difference between the...
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Immigration: An Indigenous Perspective
By Chris Mato Nunpa
On my truck I have a bumper sticker which says, “Immigration Causes Problems Just Ask An American Indian.” It makes for a good conversation piece. However, generally, no one, certainly, most U.S. Euro-Americans, asks our (Dakota People, Indigenous Peoples) opinion of anything, and certainly not about immigration. Our views are considered ...
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GlobalPost: The New York City Police Department is... →
fta: “nearly 700,000 New Yorkers were stopped and questioned by officers — a 14 percent jump from 2010 and the highest number since 2002, when the department started producing yearly tallies at the request of City Hall. … And of those stopped, 92 percent were men and 87 percent were either black or Hispanic; 9 percent were white.”
personally i always get stopped at these...
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The Plagiarist's Tale →
acapareda:
The author of “Assassin of Secrets” (Quentin Rowan) had a secret of his own.
Nearly every sentence was plagiarized from a different source. It would have been easier to write the book himself.
Via http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/poaij/nearly_every_sentence_was_plagiarized_from_a/
fascinating read!