Re-reading this for my Africa’s World War class this week.

Re-reading this for my Africa’s World War class this week.

Kent/Marburg MA in Peace and Conflict Studies

I’m looking at possible grad school programs outside of The New School. UPEACE was one that caught my eye (international law), but this is also worth considering.

esthet: A Kayapo boy with traditional body paint and piercing is seen at his home the day before the start of the “Expedicionarios da Saude” (Brazilian Health Expeditions), in the Kikretum community in Sao Felix, northern Brazil, April 21, 2011. (Reuters/Ricardo Moraes) (via All-Request Photos: Aurora Borealis, Blue Frogs, Spacewalks … - In Focus - The Atlantic) View high resolution

esthet:

A Kayapo boy with traditional body paint and piercing is seen at his home the day before the start of the “Expedicionarios da Saude” (Brazilian Health Expeditions), in the Kikretum community in Sao Felix, northern Brazil, April 21, 2011. (Reuters/Ricardo Moraes) (via All-Request Photos: Aurora Borealis, Blue Frogs, Spacewalks … - In Focus - The Atlantic)

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After 12 years of battling to stop Monsanto's genetically-engineered (GE) crops from contaminating the nation's organic farmland, the biggest retailers of "natural" and "organic" foods in the U.S., including Whole Foods Market (WFM), Organic Valley and Stonyfield Farm, have agreed to stop opposing mass commercialization of GE crops

(Source: climateadaptation)

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abbyjean: fuck it. (Et Musique Pour Tous)

abbyjean:

fuck it. (Et Musique Pour Tous)

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nomadandvagabond:

Shark Cage Diving in South Africa

I was busy being sea sick and not getting bit by a shark, so I failed to get photos, but these are screencaps from the DVD that was shot of our trip. We saw four Great White Sharks in total, and I was lucky enough to be in the first group down in the cage because we had the best viewing experience.

In the photos of the divers, I’m on the right in the first one, and the left (looking into the water) in the second one.

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University for Peace

I’m back from South Africa, and the semester has started so I have papers to write, classes to attend, and piles of reading to do already. But here’s a photo from my trip that I’m particularly fond of. View high resolution

I’m back from South Africa, and the semester has started so I have papers to write, classes to attend, and piles of reading to do already.

But here’s a photo from my trip that I’m particularly fond of.

mohandasgandhi: reuters: A change in policy: Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East. “Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said. Read more: Twitter to restrict user content in some countries Not cool. View high resolution

mohandasgandhi:

reuters:

A change in policy: Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.

“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said.

Read more: Twitter to restrict user content in some countries

Not cool.

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crookedindifference:

In Gabon, hippopotamuses surf the waves off the coast.

—From “Gabon’s Loango National Park: In the land of the surfing hippos,” August 2004, National Geographic magazine

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