February 2012
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Israel to destroy Palestinian solar panels →
Electricity from solar panels and wind turbines has revolutionized life in rural Palestinian herding communities: Machines, instead of hands, churn goat milk into butter, refrigerators store food that used to spoil and children no longer have to hurry to get their homework done before dark.
But the German-funded project, initiated by Israeli volunteers, is now in danger. Israeli authorities...
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For the record, it’s weird to see your mother’s fourth husband change his Facebook relationship status to “Single.”
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If an elementary school student has an excellent teacher even for a single year,...
– Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a co-author of the study with Harvard Kennedy School’s John Friedman and Columbia Business School’s Jonah Rockoff. (Harvard Gazette)
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I just want to drown in Neruda and Adele and hot chocolate.
I don’t want to write about the effects of neoliberal policies on British social fabric.
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wellalright:
who would i even be without the internet. what kind of personality would i have.
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I just watched Bill Cunningham New York and it was beautiful. The kind of documentary that makes you fall in love with the subject. I doubted it at first, too. I love films that take me by surprise.
Lately, it seems my general attitude would be best friends with sour milk.
One of the faculty in my program put on a lovely sorta-peña with great food, some funky poetry, and a neuva canción band...
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when god lets my body be
From each brave eye shall sprout a tree
fruit that...
– E. E. Cummings
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I realize I’m in a state right now, but Intellectual Valentine’s Day makes me want to sob with joy for all the other philosophy-reading assholes in the world.
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