Travel | Pier Marton

The Inner Prison: The Dhamma Brothers & Vipassana in Jail

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....

Peter Buffet: If I could hold you

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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Text and Drive? (txt n drv)

by Pier Marton | Feb 1, 2011 | Death, Doc, Eco, Future Tech, Health, Human Rights, Ideas, KeyFilm, Media, Now, Objects, Software, Spectacle, Time, Travel, Women

WHERE R – LOL – YEAH – WHERE U AT Thanks to A.A. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Where To Live: Compare Country to Country

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...

Moving Graphics Moving Content

by Pier Marton | Jan 21, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Eco, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Travel, Women

Here’s their pledge: 1) 100% of your donations (minus transaction costs) go directly to projects. 2) You decide and choose where to invest your donations and campaigns. 3) Complete transparency. To learn more: http://onedayswages.org Their FB Page:...

Hotel Terminus by Marcel Ophuls

by Pier Marton | Dec 29, 2010 | Antisemitism, Death, Doc, Ego, Film, France, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Juif, KeyFilm, Politics, Racism, Review, Shoah, Time, Travel, Wars, Women

Did you read this article in the NYTimes about the Nazis’ “Safe Haven” in the U.S.? Then you may want to read/see this below. My short review: One of the greatest films on the Holocaust (and beyond). Helps one understand how one conjugates “To Lie...