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Published on Thursday, 25 June 2009 19:00 | 
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Three years ago the Israeli civil rights groups, B'Tselem, launched a new project. It gave video cameras to around 160 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Their remit was to record the human rights violations they experienced at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers. Now they no longer retaliate with a barrage of stones - they start filming. Vida Adamoli investigates
Project ‘Shooting Back’ is the brainchild of Oren Yakobovich, a B'Tselem activist and filmmaker, who served with the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank. He was appalled by what he saw. ‘I realised something was wrong with the narrative I knew,’ he says. ‘For Israelis there is a conspiracy of silence. Nobody wants to know what is happening there.’
Published on Tuesday, 09 June 2009 19:00 | | |
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The Buddha was a businessman. But don't take anyone's word for it - it's written in stone.
Of all the iconic scenes found in the earliest Buddhist art from India, none are more striking than the sculpted representation of a title deed involving one of Buddhism's most venerable monasteries: The transaction, involving 10 million gold coins, clearly shows that, far from being an ascetic, other-worldly religious tradition, Buddhism was, in fact, 'deeply entangled with money – and a very great deal of it at that,' according to Gregory Schopen, chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and an authority on ancient Indian Buddhism.
Published on Monday, 22 June 2009 19:00 | | |
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In this section we are going to look at the dual wave/particle nature of light and the famous double slit experiment. We are also going to look at how the fragmentary world view that created the mind/body split can be replaced by the holomovement.
Published on Monday, 22 June 2009 04:05 | |
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The prestigious First Prize goes to Ireland. Check out the runners-up...
Published on Friday, 19 June 2009 19:00 | |
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Have our digital-age minds reached maximum information processing capacity? Scientific research suggests that relentless mental multi-tasking and information overload are affecting our ability to feel compassion, empathy and altruism. John Naish investigates.
Published on Saturday, 20 June 2009 19:00 | | |
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When celebrities embrace a cause it often puts people’s backs up, writes Julia Stephenson.
Many of us prefer our celebs pretty, pointless and mute, and there are sneers and snarls when they use their fame to shine a spotlight on something more interesting than their fitness regimes. I was amused by Sharon Stone’s recent peace initiative (`I’d kiss just about anyone for peace in the Middle East’), at least she’s having a go and keeping a sense of humour. With our rulers discredited and too cowardly to put human rights before short term profit, no wonder there is a void so easily filled by actors, television chefs, pop stars and models.
Published on Friday, 19 June 2009 07:06 | |
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This charming depiction of a female torso is not what it appears. The image is actually composed of 32.000 Barbie dolls, representing the 32, 000 breast augmentations performed on American women and girls every month.
Chris Jordan is a Seattle-based photographic artist known for his large-scale portraits of America's mass consumption and waste. He creates work that translates the massive, difficult-to-imagine numbers into tangible form. Through his lens abstract and anesthetizing statistics are brought shockingly to life.