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"Hope remains only in the most difficult task of all: to reconsider everything from the ground up, so as to shape a living society inside a dying society." Albert Camus Feb 23

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http://www.stoa.org/diotima/

Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World

Call for Collaborators to The On-line Companion to The Worlds of Roman Women
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/state_of_the_planet/ (Click on thumbnail to view graph) Source: CO 2 : UNEP Vital Climate Change Graphics, February, 2005; HEAT: Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research; POVERTY: World Bank Source: Greenpeace

State of the Planet

http://www.rootstrikers.org/ted_promo?splash=1

Rootstrikers

Only the people can force lasting change on this broken system. And that change begins with understanding: The people must recognize that corruption is not just one among many important problems. Corruption is the root problem that makes solving the others so difficult.
http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/thankyou.htm How to express your thanks in numerous different languages, and how to reply when someone thanks you. In some cultures, particularly English-speaking ones, people tend to say thank you more than in other cultures.

Translations of thanks / thank you in many languages

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"Thank you" in many languages

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An idyllic setting in an alpine meadow of the Albion basin in the Wasatch Mountains.

Celebrating Wildflowers - Ethics and Native Plants

http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/ethics/index.shtml

12 Inspiring Urban Image Galleries | 500+ Pictures

12 Inspiring Urban Image Galleries | 500+ Pictures http://weburbanist.com/galleries/
http://www.improbable.com/magazine/

Research

The Magazine: Annals of Improbable Research Annals of Improbable Research (also known as AIR ) is the magazine about research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK. Six new issues every year.
This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners

List of Ig Nobel Prize winners

List of Nobel laureates

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates Nobel laureates receive a gold medal together with a diploma and (as of 2012) 8 million SEK (roughly US$1.2 million, €0.93 million).

Open Society Justice Initiative

Open Society Voices March 21, 2013 | by Adam Bodnar | Poland’s failure to cooperate with the European Court of Human Rights over a secret CIA prison is jeopardizing its wider commitment to human rights.

Team | Liquid Democracy e.V.

What does the Liquid Democracy Association stand for?

Direct Democracy, 2.0

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Polymath Renaissance

Movers and Shakers

Economy

Forensics

War - Good for Whom?

Modern Culture

Seven Generations

Being Human

Ecohabitat

Ethnobotany

Societal Gumbo

New Politika

New Ethics

Neo Eco Ethica

100th Meme Keys

New Artsy