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In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx — and shows how minority neighborhood suffer most from flawed urban policy. Link to this post!

Meditation is only one of the many qualities that is emphasized. It’s a very important one because we have to understand our mind, and we can only understand our mind by looking at it. But to be a well-balanced practitioner and reach our aim of being a totally integrated and realized being, we must develop [...]

On June 13, 2009, Robert Sapolsky, world renowned professor of neurology, neurological sciences, neurosurgery and biological sciences gave the class day lecture in association with commencement weekend 2009. Having been selected to talk by the Stanford University graduating class, Sapolsky spoke about the uniqueness of humans in relation to the rest of the animal world. [...]

Knowledge is generally confused with information. Because people are looking for information or experience, not knowledge, they do not find knowledge. You cannot avoid giving knowledge to one fitted for it. You cannot give knowledge to the unfit; that is impossible. You can, if you have it, and if he or she is capable, fit [...]

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Somali women are the basis on which Somali society continues to thrive and exist.  They take care of the household chores, they work, they raise children, they keep the family together, and they regularly send money to the extended families back home in Somalia.  Despite Somali women being extremely busy, they are emerging as the [...]