Green Skull (Sherrie Levine)

“New paths for the Church and for the integral Ecology”

women do everything that the priest does, except consecration of the bread and wine. Why not allow them this mission as well?

Student makes history by writing thesis in the Incas’ language

Roxana Quispe Collantes received top marks from Lima’s San Marcos university, the oldest in the Americas, for her study on Peruvian and Latin American literature, which focused on poetry written in Quechua.

Scholars say it is the first time in the university’s 468-year history that a student has written and defended a thesis (answering questions from examiners) entirely in the native language – even though it is the most widely spoken indigenous tongue in South America, used by about 8 million people, half of them in Peru.

Yayoi Kusama with Pumpkin

16 People Have Been Sentenced To Death For The Murder of Nusrat Jahan Rafi

The 16 people sentenced Thursday included the madrasa's principal Siraj Ud Doula, two other teachers, some of Rafi's classmates, and local political leaders from Bangladesh's ruling Awami League party.

Note: more than justice is the world's liberation of a bunch of criminals. Should be applied everywhere.

Ablutions, 1972 (Judy Chicago, Suzanne Lacy, Sandra Orgel, Aviva Rahmani)

The Great Biomass Boondoggle

Much of the EU’s forest industry operates under strictures, with the result that, as demand for “energy wood” increased, so has harvesting in less regulated forests, especially in the southern US and Canada. There, the wood-pellet industry has grown exponentially, but it has also expanded in the less scrutinized corners of Europe, such as the boreal bog forests of Estonia and the ancient forests of the Carpathian Mountains in Slovakia, Ukraine, and Romania, home to the lynx, bears, and wolves of old European folktales. 

What is culture?

Sperm whales are matrilineal, which means that females stay with their mothers, forming groups called social units. These social units are comprised of one or two families and are stable over their entire lives. They travel together, socialize together, forage together and learn from each other. Beyond social units, sperm whale societies are also organized at a higher tier called vocal clans. Vocal clans include thousands of individuals and can be recognized acoustically.

Fascist Spain gives harsh sentences for Catalonia's politicians

"The art world is a cesspool of corruption"

In cold dark matter cosmology

dark matter halos merge under hierarchical growth that results in the merger of the halos’ baryonic counterparts 

“An anthropological rupture"

France’s national academy of medicine called the practice “an anthropological rupture,” using terminology straight out of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s theory of kinship, in which he posited that one of the central human bonds is that between a husband and wife.

A Middle East One Step Closer to Its “1914 Moment”

What is certain is that a series of aerial attacks on oil facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais, both in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province and operated by the state oil firm Aramco, shut off around 50 per cent of the kingdom’s oil production. Yemen’s Huthi movement, which has been locked in a war with Yemeni opponents and their Saudi-led backers since 2015, immediately claimed responsibility. The U.S. promptly dismissed Huthi claims as unfounded and pointed the finger at Tehran

Humanity as Homo Faber

Work thus creates a world distinct from anything given in nature, a world distinguished by its durability, its semi-permanence and relative independence from the individual actors and acts which call it into being. Humanity in this mode of its activity Arendt names homo faber; he/she is the builder of walls (both physical and cultural) which divide the human realm from that of nature and provide a stable context (a "common world") of spaces and institutions within which human life can unfold

The International Migration Report 2017

In 2017, two thirds of all international migrants were living in just twenty countries, and half of all international migrants were residing in just ten countries. The largest number of international migrants (49.8 million, or 19% of the global total) reside in the United States. Saudi Arabia, Germany and the Russian Federation host the second, third and fourth largest numbers of migrants worldwide (around 12 million each), followed by the United Kingdom (nearly 9 million).

Satellite images verify that large-scale demolitions have levelled almost half of Yarchen Gar

Following the removal, the 70 nuns were forced back to their native Jomda County, nearly 300 kilometers away. Furthermore, they were detained for two to three months and forced to undergo patriotic re-education. Patriotic re-education is a strategy enforced by the CCP that involves detainees being compelled to praise the People’s Republic of China and denounce Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

The Third Pole

Tibet, known as the Third Pole because it holds the third largest store of glacial freshwater, is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. Glacial melt from the plateau is disrupting water supplies, threatening sustainable livelihoods and putting more than one billion downstream peoples at risk. Since occupying Tibet, China's policies have brought region-wide famine, desertification on the grasslands, acute flooding from clear-cutting Tibet's forests, and environmental destruction through unregulated mining. China's solution is to build more dams, which will deny downstream users a stable supply of water. In turn, China blames Tibet's nomads, not its own policies, for threatening China's precious water resources.

China's "celebrations" on the PRC's 70th birthday can't hide the dark underbelly of its continued occupation of Tibet

the elevation of Xi Jinping and China’s 5th generation leaders in 2012 brought no positive changes in human rights, rather the reverse. During the past two years the Chinese government has been increasingly hostile towards human rights defenders, unleashing a harsh crackdown on civil society, especially in Tibet. In July 2015, these policies resulted in the prison death of prominent Tibetan buddhist leader, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, who had been persecuted and incarcerated for life on trumped up criminal charges

Jessye Norman: born September 15, 1945 – died September 30, 2019

Jessye Norman has died in New York at the age of 74. The soprano was proud of her African-American heritage, while admitting that racism in classical music, and in society in general, was still prevalent. ‘It’s one thing to have a set of laws,’ she said, ‘and quite another to change the hearts and minds of men. That takes longer.’