By Brett Davidson [April 2016] Sanya-sin (Ssin): Why do you sit on an elevated golden throne, Master? Why not sit down here on the floor with the rest of us? Guru-ji (G-ji): Surely you can guess the answer for yourself. Ssin: Is it because you want to feel superior to the rest of us? G-ji: No … I […]
By María D Gómez [April 2016] The internet is just great. Thanks to this tool we have been able to meet again after having lost touch for 25 years. Time does fly. It seems like yesterday when we met in college and went together to look for our very first apartment. I remember very well the fabulous […]
March 16, morning-time … ghosts of New York slipping and gliding in and out of cerebral cortex tissues before the Ultimate Sun appears retinal and gleaming in Tower Shinery of World Trade and Wall St. Environs. Out on sidewalk (9:00 a.m.) the sun smells like September Sea. 7:00 p.m., 10 hours later, in Julliard School at […]
Bhalotra, S., and Cochrane, T. (2011). ‘Where have all the Young Girls Gone? Identifying Sex Selection in India’, CMPO Working Paper No. 10/254. [online]. Accessed from: http://www.bris.ac.uk/cmpo/publications/papers/2010/wp254.pdf Accessed on October 15 2015. Chaudhury, S. (2013). Indian family planning posters from the 1950s. Accessed from:http://www.cuttingthechai.com/2013/03/6167/indian-family-planning-posters-from-the-1950s/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CuttingTheChai+%28Cutting+the+Chai%29# Center for Industrial & Economic Research (CIER) and Industrial Techno-Economic Services P. […]
Halloween, on October 31, is now a Hallmark celebration. A global event celebrated by people around the world as a fun-day with candy and costume. Hallowed Evening, or the evening before All Saints Day – All Souls day, a celebration of the dead and departed, has now become a global party, a globalized commodity with […]
Nearly 1.4 million girls were missing at birth in 2008. In India, half a million girls go missing at birth each year – more than the number of girls born annually in the UK . Missing girls at birth is a result of sex-selective abortions (SSA), which is the voluntary termination of pregnancy based on […]
Nearly 1.4 million girls were missing at birth in 2008. In India, half a million girls go missing at birth each year – more than the number of girls born annually in the UK . Missing girls at birth is a result of sex-selective abortions (SSA), which is the voluntary termination of pregnancy based on […]
Released in theaters two weeks apart in the summer of 2015, one movie, Tomorrowland, about positive attempts to make the planet’s real future better failed to attract audiences; while a second movie, Jurassic World, about dinosaurs trampling each other in an unrealistic future made the fastest billion dollars at the global box office in the […]
“If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.” ― Jonas Salk (1914 – 1995) Developed the inactivated polio vaccine in 1955 “Mercy, Mercy Me (The […]
Near-death, but happy A near-death experience (NDE) is a personal or subjective experience associated with what are called near-death episodes. In a near-death episode, a person has been declared clinically dead, is very near death, or is in a situation where death is impending, likely or expected. The situations where people have reported near […]