by Pier Marton | Feb 8, 2011 | Afri, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Now, Racism, Time, Travel, Wars, Women
To date, 430 inmates have gone through the Donaldson Vipassana meditation program, the only one of its kind in North America. There’s a waiting list for the quarterly sessions, and the state wants to expand the offering to its women’s prison. An NPR story....
by Pier Marton | Feb 4, 2011 | Art, Care, Ego, Film, France, KeyFilm, Women
A classic, with his wife Nadia Sibirskaïa, playing both a child and an adult. Displays graphic ways of letting the landscape affect the viewer and contains one of the most moving (silent) scene describing hunger. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email...
by Pier Marton | Feb 1, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Archi, Art, Asia, Cam, Care, Dance, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, France, Future Tech, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, iPhone, Mac, Magyar, Media, Middle-East, Music, Now, Objects, Politics, Racism, Roma, Sci/Nat, Software, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Travel, Video, Wars, Women
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by Pier Marton | Jan 30, 2011 | Care, Eco, Health, Ideas, Mystery, Now, Software
Something happens! How meditation changes the brain (in the NYTimes). The results suggest that participation in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is associated with changes in gray matter concentration in brain regions involved in learning and memory...
by Pier Marton | Jan 29, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Eco, France, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Magyar, Middle-East, Politics, Site, Travel, Women
IF IT WERE MY HOME.com US to France: If The United States were your home instead of France you would… consume 2 times more oil The United States consumes 2.6400 gallons of oil per day per capita while France consumes 1.3021 This entry is the total oil consumed...
by Pier Marton | Jan 27, 2011 | Afri, Care, Death, Doc, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Middle-East, Now, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Roma, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Time, Wars
Armenia, Argentina, Bosnia, Croatia, Rwanda… … There have been various attempts in recent years to humanize doctors by changing the medical curriculum, by exposing students and young doctors to great non-scientific novels, poetry and plays, by making...