Category Archives: General

Originally posted on Touching Your Community.com:
By visitvalencia.com Every March Valencia gets ready to welcome the spring. The streets fill up with joy and the hustle and bustle of the Fallas festival, the upmost expression of the merger of…

Originally posted on the digital gypsy:
One of the first things that made me fall in love with Barcelona when I lived there ten years ago was the street art. Now, a decade later, there is still an abundance of…

Originally posted on Perspectives in Anthropology:
Self-Imposed Discrimination in Brazil When I arrived in Brazil seven years ago as an American anthropologist seeking to discover if Brazil would be a good place to do research for a book, I had…

Originally posted on we hunted the mammoth:
ScarJo as Lucy: Apparently, if you’re really really smart, you can grow another hand So the other night I watched Lucy, a highly entertaining movie with an incredibly silly premise: Scarlett Johansson develops…

Originally posted on digger666:
via Gaza Rebuild Effort Could Take 100 Years: Oxfam | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community. Friday, February 27, 2015 by Common Dreams ‘Only an end to the blockade of Gaza will…

Originally posted on DESERTIFICATION:
Photo credit: Google To save the rainforest, let the locals take control by Fred Pearce Global intervention in tropical forests to combat climate change could sideline their most effective guardians SATELLITE images of the Amazon rainforest…

Originally posted on Uncommontater:
? ? ? ? ? This week’s big news in Manchester is that the devolution of direct responsibility for significant areas public spending to the city-region will now be augmented by the devolution of the entire…

Originally posted on Scientiflix:
How we think complex cells evolved Imagine you swallowed a small bird and suddenly gained the ability to fly … or you ate a cobra and were able to spit poisonous venom! Well, throughout the history…

Originally posted on Through the Shattered Lens:
“I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I’ve been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the ’70s” — Leonard Nimoy Today, the world was…