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There’s a reason churches are struggling to maintain membership This article originally appeared on AlterNet…. As we head into a new year, the guardians of traditional religion are ramping up efforts to keep their flocks—or, in crass economic terms, to retain market share. Some Christians have turned to soul searching while others have…
Background Like the Neapolitan neighborhood of Scampia where the mob openly runs the drugs trade, the Internet is rife with narcotics for sale. But there is one particular website that has far more to offer than what you could find in Scampia. It is a forum that is open 24/7, where thousands of drug…
By Rime El Jadidi LE SOIR/Worldcrunch –Analysis- RABAT – Recent estimates from the Moroccan High Commission For Planning (HCP) found the median age for marriage in Morocco was 31 for men and 27 for women. There are many reasons for this – more years spent studying, and the high cost of housing…
Kristin M. Jones Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution ‘If you poured water on each frame, it would become a novel,’ Gloria Steinem said with wonder during her introduction to a recent screening of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution (2010), at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. It seemed an apt description of…
New research reveals that we’re more focused and creative in the great outdoors By Kevin Charles Redmon, Have you been staring cow-eyed at a computer all morning? Fiddling with your iPhone in line at Starbucks? Checking Twitter and ESPN every four minutes on your tablet? Good. Here’s a little quiz. What one word…
Anonymous reflects on a “frantic and historic” year By Natasha Lennard (Credit: Reuters/Fredy Builes) Perhaps no tech story was bigger this year than the growth of the crusading hacker collective Anonymous. In a Best of 2012 package, Andrew…
Philosopher David Edmonds discusses the five books that have had the greatest influence on his work By Alec Ash, Applied ethics should interest all but the most philosophy shy, as it poses moral questions of everyday use. Applied ethics is the application of moral theory to the real world. I first read…
The new wave of Arab supermodels Hind Sahli joined her first modelling agency in 2008 Arab supermodels are making a name for themselves in the fashion industry, and are changing the way Arab women are perceived by the rest of the world. Hind Sahli is from Morocco, has been modelling for a couple of years…
Is Make-Up Sex ‘The Best Sex You’ll Ever Have’? (VIDEO) HuffPost Women associate editor Emma Gray’s recent post “15 Types Of Sex You Have In Your 20s” sparked a debate over what defines good sex and whether monogamy…
Chomsky on Civil Liberties, Obama and the Future Of Politics by STEVEN DUREL Linguistics professor Noam Chomsky has been America’s premier political dissident since the Vietnam War. As a vocal critic of US foreign policy, the self-described “libertarian socialist” has been beloved by generations of students and activists. In the wake…