TATANKA At a minimum, Creed is the nostalgic soundtrack to childhood car rides when you still listened to the radio or the background noise to an awkward family dinner at Applebee’s. When you were young, if you had any thoughts about Creed at all, it was likely that they were corny. They were overly earnest, vaguely … Read moreHear Me Out: Creed Are Finally Cool
DUBAI — Climate justice leaders from organizations representing impacted frontline communities will be sending a delegation to the 2023 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 28th session of the Conference of Parties, commonly referred to as the UNFCCC COP28. The frontline delegation calls upon world leaders to pass and adhere to binding agreements, … Read moreNorth American Frontline Groups To Take a Stand at COP28
Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning. The great Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue on beginnings – wonderful read. source
(Morr Music) It’s always a cause for celebration when new music from Spirit Fest hits the streets. Formed by members of Tenniscoats (Saya and Ueno Takashi) and The Notwist (Markus Acher), Bear In Town, is the follow-up to the group’s finest moment: 2020’s Mirage, Mirage. Ironically, Bear In Town’s melancholy predecessor benefitted from its early … Read moreMusic Review: Bear In Town – Spirit Fest
Dubai, UAE — The outcomes of the UNFCCC 28th Conference of Parties has left Indigenous Peoples and frontline communities across the world sitting in disappointment as world leaders put forward watered-down climate commitments and text that continue to compromise our future. The biggest takeaway from this year’s climate summit is the grotesque depth of greed … Read moreClimate Criminals Put Profits over Humanity at COP28
The concept of propaganda has a great deal of power to fascinate. So does the very word propaganda, which to most of us today sounds faintly exotic, as if it referred mainly to phenomena from distant places and times. But in truth, can any one of us here in the twenty-first century go a day … Read more51 Propaganda Techniques Explained in 11 Minutes: From Cognitive Dissonance to Appeal to Fear
“Einstein is a classic example of a highly creative and highly gifted individual that did not do well in traditional school environments.” That is a quote in a research paper by Kyung Hee Kim, PhD, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at The College of William and Mary. KH Kim thinks “the cause of the underachievement of … Read moreAre Gifted Underachievers More Creative?
“Will you forgive me?” asks community leader Sean Goode. He proposes that the promise of forgiveness before wrongdoing — what he calls “unapologetic grace” — can empower people to share their truths and create space to bridge our differences.source
The importance of human connections was only reinforced by the devastating circumstances preceding the completion of Little Rope. In autumn 2022, Tucker was contacted by the US embassy in Italy trying to get in touch with her bandmate, having been listed as Brownstein’s emergency contact on an old passport form. Tucker passed on the new … Read moreSleater-Kinney: “When I think about a figure like Sinead O’Connor, I don’t see a lot of people taking the career and financial risks that she did”
“Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularitywe once were?” A stunning poem inspired by Stephen Hawking, who would have been 82 today. source