With OVI and OVP Youth leaders At dinner wearing OV pin With Mika Almog and Lior Shlain Avi Cohen, the "godfather" of humor in the Israeli TV, learns about OV from Gil Shamy Paul Reiser, mad about Israel, israel21c By Nicky Blackburn April 20, 2009 It’s the voice that gets you first. His hit TV [...]
Sometimes when baby Romy is on my lap, I can’t tell if my phone is ringing or Romy is farting.
One of the best efforts I have seen at explaining the way we are consuming and living beyond sustainability in this world comes from The Global Footprint Network. At the Skoll World Forum a couple weeks ago, Mathis Wackernagel handed me a business-card sized brochure that very poignantly and clearly explains how consumption in the [...]
The holy grail for environmentally conscious manufacturers and consumers is truly bio-degradable effective packaging. While the biggest threat is in plastic bottles and packaging materials that overwhelm our landfills, even small wrappers add up. The challenge to manufacturers is that the very things that make wrappers good – impermeability, sealing out oxygen to prevent oxidation [...]
Here is a funny commercial:
This chilling link from Yad Vashem is worth viewing. It shows an actual photo album that details the process of dehumanization followed at the Auschwitz Extermination Camp. Organizational precision has never been so effectively deployed towards such methodic dehumanization.
Check out the below! A while back I blogged about a hilarious controversy pitting two churches against each other – on the question whether Dogs go to heaven. Each affirmed they did – or didn’t – in church signs. I actually thought these were real – and I guess a few commentators did also. Well, [...]
In reply to my post, Mapping Your Life’s Journey, I got a really interesting email from my friend Jonathan Harris, the cool artist whose work is as fascinating as this note: There is a centuries-old idea coming from the Hindu tradition, of "The Akashic Record", which is said to be metaphysical plane where all information [...]
Here is an article about a neat re-discovery of a "Miracle Fruit" that makes sour things sweet, and alters the taste buds to make things seem far sweeter. It could have applications for cancer patients to regain appetite, for dieting, or just for fun. Miracle fruit’ turns sour things sweet By Madison Park CNN http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/25/miracle.berries.weightloss/index.html?eref=rss_topstories [...]
Often in life I am sure you wonder if you had met a person before. Have our lives crossed paths before a more recent episode? When was the first time we met? Where we together in a particular place – whether at school, or at a conference, or talk, or during our childhoods? Could you [...]