Archive for 2010
What I’ve Noticed
The rapists who don’t get caught are smart, misogynist predators, not confused young men. (via Michael Alan Miller) Teaching teenagers about healthy relationships reduces teen pregnancy. (via OPT) Unfortunately, about the only people who get a decent sex education in the US grow up on a farm. Obama gives the go-ahead for offshore drilling, reneging on […]
Pretty things
Mitchell at (the teeming void) created this remarkable data visualization bracelet. It combines a few things I love: data, climate, and lovely accessories. The outside edge represents a year of daily maximum and minimum temperatures and the “holes” represent the amount of rainfall every few weeks. Unfortunately, Mitchell hasn’t set up a shop on Etsy […]
Still drinking bottled water?
Drinking bottled water is not a good thing to do. It’s expensive and bad for the environment and people (especially the poor). Here’s a list from the NRDC’s Switchboard blogger Michelle Mehta of just a few bottled water statistics to convince you: It takes 3 liters of water to produce 1 liter of bottled water. […]
Proof
Her skin, saffron toasted in the sun, eyes darting like a gazelle. —That god who made her, how could he have left her alone? Was he blind? —This wonder is not the result of blindness: she is a woman, and a sinuous vine. The Buddha’s doctrine thus is proven: nothing in this world was created. […]
Berry Go Round #26
Welcome to the 26th edition of Berry Go Round! February was a botanical box of chocolates, but this month is the much anticipated herald of spring. So what if the crocuses are just beginning to peek above the soil on my mountain and it’s going to snow two days this week? This Berry Go Round […]
Coquette
I would love to see this movie.
How do you ascend?
From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Although it is clearly culturally conditioned, this kind of “ascent” seems an incontrovertible fact of life. However we choose to interpret it, people all over the world and in all phases of history have had this type of contemplative experience. Monotheists […]