May 2012
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“For the marketer, the freelancer and the entrepreneur, the challenge is to level...”
– —Seth Godin, from his blog entry “Dancing on the edge of finished”
~Krista Tippett, host
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WatchWendell Berry Says ‘It All Turns on Affection’
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
There are few people in the U.S. more beloved than Wendell E. Berry. The poet and essayist, farmer and conservationist delivered the prestigious 41st Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts nearly a month ago — and it’s been bombarding my social...
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In The Sixth Month (A Poem About Pregnancy and...
by Sarah McKinstry-Brown, guest contributor
Your inner ear has fully formed. You can hear now. I’ve heard of mothers playing their unborn babies Bach and Mozart because classical music makes the brain’s spatial connections arc towards one another like the fingertips of Adam and God in the Sistine.
I’ve played no such music for you, and maybe, some day, when the boy you pine for is majoring in...
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Counting the Omer in the Modern Day
by Susan Leem, associate producer
Photo by Kwan C./Flickr, cc by-nc-nd 2.0
“From the day after the day of rest — that is, from the day you bring the sheaf for waving — you are to count seven full weeks, until the day after the seventh week; you are to count fifty days; and then you are to present a new grain offering to Adonai.” —Leviticus 23:15-16
The same evening that 40,000...
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“The preference for symmetry was the product of non-differential conditioning.”
– Photo by Mark Round/Flickr, cc by-nc-nd 2.0
Researchers at the University of Ottawa discovered that bumblebees don’t have a natural preference for symmetry in nature. In the journal Learning and Motivation, the Canadian scientists’ found that once bees learn to distinguish bilateral...
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When a Jain Marries a Bengali: An Indian Love...
by Benjamin Gottlieb, guest contributor
Ashok Jain, his wife Neena, and family at their home in New Delhi. (Photo by Benjamin Gottlieb)
On the day of his wedding, Ashok Jain’s parents beat him mercilessly after he told them he married a Hindu woman.
“They didn’t accept my marriage,” said Mr. Jain, whose family practices Jainism, an ancient Indian religion that emphasizes non-violence. “They...
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