JUNE 29, 2018 No Country for Old Women by STEVE MARTINOT Two homeless people died in Berkeley during the month of June, 2018. Marcia Poole wrote an essay in the Berkeley Planet (6/15/18) on Ani, an 80 year old Buddhist nun who’s been homeless for the last five years. She’s sick, and in a wheel chair,…
Yohsuke and Kumiko Itoh, with their 5-year-old daughter, Fumi, at Mochida Farms. They say Fumi has begun eating vegetables since they began farming on the weekends.
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GOD IS NOT NEEDED FOR CREATION British physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking says no, arguing in his new book that there need not be a God behind the creation of the universe. The concept is explored in “The Grand Design,” excerpts of which were printed in the British newspaper The Times on Thursday. The book,…
STORY HIGHLIGHTS In many African nations natural resources have led to economic instability Resource wealth can lead to corruption, cronyism and violence Conflicts in DR Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone have been funded by diamonds Botswana and Ghana have largely avoided the “resource Many African countries are blessed with oil and mineral wealth that has…
Last year, we told you about a conceptual treehouse in Sweden that looked like a Robert Morris sculpture screwed onto a tree trunk — that or a scene from Predator. It’s the kind of quixotic idea you always hear about in the design world, but because of money or politics or sheer technical impossibility, it…
Notes from the Field Date: January 26, 2010 Reporting From: Panama City, Panama Simon`s been on the ground in Panama for a week, and thus far, the majority of his time has been spent investigating the sustainable community concept that he wrote me about several weeks ago. To refresh your memory, the idea is to…
Editor’s Comment: The writing below is now 15 years-old. But it is as true today, and will be into whatever future humanity has left, as it was when written. It isn’t a message about the futility of our existence, but about the stupidity of our devices and desires. It is meant to signal that we…