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Google Ideas Conference on Formers Extremists

by Pier Marton | Jun 29, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Asia, Care, Death, Eco, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Spectacle, Wars

Dublin 2011 And this YouTube channel. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Picture Perfect World

by Pier Marton | Jun 17, 2011 | Art, Asia, Death, Eco, Future Tech, Galleries, Humor, Objects, Racism, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Travel

After “Thames Town” near Shanghai, now Austria will be found in China. From Der Spiegel. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

JuBu: Jewish Buddhists

by Pier Marton | Jun 15, 2011 | Asia, Humor, Jewish

Let your mind be as a floating cloud. And sit up straight. You’ll never meet the Buddha with a posture like that. There is no escaping karma. In a previous life, you never called, you never wrote, you never visited. And whose fault was that? Wherever you go, there you...

Women for Peace: Code Pink

by Pier Marton | Jun 13, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Roma, Spectacle, Theater, Wars, Women

CODEPINK emerged out of a desperate desire by a group of American women to stop the Bush administration from invading Iraq. The name CODEPINK plays on the Bush Administration’s color-coded homeland security alerts — yellow, orange, red — that signal terrorist threats....

Why (Some) Women Should Govern

by Pier Marton | Jun 13, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Books, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Roma, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Wars, Women

From the NYTimes: Kathryn Pearson, an expert on Congress at the University of Minnesota: her studies of the House show women introduce more bills, participate more vigorously in key legislative debates. From the Harper Collins website for the book “Why Women Should...

Mubi for Cinephiles and Film Buffs

by Pier Marton | Jun 12, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Doc, Film, France, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Magyar, Media, Middle-East, Politics, Shoah, Site, Time, Wars, Women

The “online cinematheque” presents until December 11, Cannes’ La Semaine de la Critique offers a retrospective with many free features. Where you will NOT see the blockbusters but the richer, rarer treasures. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)...