Culture

Notre Dame of Gaza: Our Mosques and Churches are Also Burning | Ramzy Baroud By Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 21, 2019 As the 300-foot spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris tragically came tumbling down on live television, my thoughts ventured to Nuseirat Refugee Camp, my childhood home in the Gaza Strip. Then, also on television, I watched as a small bulldozer hopelessly clawed through the rubble of my neighborhood mosque. I grew up around that ...

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Present at the Death | John Michael Greer

May 1, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Well, the penny finally dropped. I’m not sure why it took me this long to realize that the collective tantrum that’s seized America’s mass media, intelligentsia, and pr ...

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After The Shouting, The Silence | John Michael Greer

Donna TrumpApril 17, 2019 (EcoSophia) -- Over the months just past, not counting January’s break, we’ve explored the crisis of our age from various angles, moving in from the discordant jangle of out ...

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Adrift In An Airship | John Michael Greer

April 3, 2019 (EcoSophia) -- The collective confusions we’ve been exploring since I returned from January’s break form a tangled web, and no one loose end leads straight to the heart of it. It so hap ...

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On My Visit to New Zealand: Can Christchurch Heal Our Collective Wounds? | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust March 25, 2019 I visited the city of Christchurch on May 23, 2018, as part of a larger speaking tour in New Zealand that also took me to Auckland, Wel ...

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An Astrological Interlude: Aries Ingress 2019 | John Michael Greer

March 20, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Today is the northern hemisphere’s spring equinox, when the Sun crosses the celestial equator to bring summer to the end of the planet with polar bears and winter to ...

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Physicists reverse time using quantum computer | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT March 13, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology teamed up with colleagues from the United States and Switzerland and returned th ...

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Three ways studying organic chemistry changes the brain | Abby Simmons,

The region of left hippocampus in red shows decreased mean diffusivity (MD) after learning. The following hippocampal subregions are shown: Cornu Ammonis (CA) in blue; dentate gyrus in green, and sub ...

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The Worlds We Live In | John Michael Greer

Photo: kraftrecipes.comMarch 6, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’m sure many of my readers noticed that last month’s posts were talking about the same thing from two different angles. The first of those pos ...

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Scientists expose hidden risks of diarrhoeal disease | University of East Anglia

Cryptosporidium muris. Credit: public domain image March 4, 2019 (MedicalXpress) -- A rapidly evolving new subspecies of the cryptosporidium parasite -- a leading cause of diarrhoeal disease in child ...

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Chirality yields colossal photocurrent | Boston College

The Weyl semimetal Tantalum Arsenide has a colossal bulk photovoltaic effect - an intrinsic, or non-linear, generation of current from light more than ten times larger than ever previously achieved, ...

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