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Published on Tuesday, 23 December 2008 19:00 | | 
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Bit by bit, around the world, the tide of peace is rising. It's bubbling up into popular culture everywhere. Here are three links for the holiday season. Enjoy - and Happy Winterval!
Published on Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:00 | | |
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More than 400 universities and colleges worldwide now offer
undergraduate or graduate degrees in peace studies, as well as individual courses and
certificates. Dana Macucci investigates
Los Alamos, New Mexico:The Bradbury Science Museum in this drab high-desert town studded with old army barracks houses life-size replicas of Little Boy and Fat Man, chilling reminders of the human capacity for unspeakable violence. The cutely named atomic bombs, which were invented here, were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945.
Less than 100 miles away, or 160 kilometers, in Montezuma, New Mexico, lies United World College of the American West (UWC-USA), a two-year pre-university residential school offering an international baccalaureate diploma, with a special emphasis on peace studies and conflict resolution.
Published on Tuesday, 02 December 2008 19:00 | | |
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Journalist, author and practising Buddhist Mariane Pearl came to international attention when her husband, Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl, was kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants
in Pakistan in 2002. She was five months pregnant at the time.
Currently based in Paris, Mariane Pearl reports on women working for social change as well as culture, science, immigration, and politics.
Published on Tuesday, 25 November 2008 19:00 | | |
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OK, OK - it's just a series of vegetable puns but it makes a point
First, plant three rows of Peas
Peas of
mind, peas of heart, peas of soul...
Published on Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:00 | | |
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What do you get when you cross Victor Hugo with the US presidential election? Time for change? Or maybe a revolution...
Published on Tuesday, 21 October 2008 19:00 | | |
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We Think explores how the web is changing our world, creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate, ideas and information.
Ideas take life when they are shared, says Charles Leadbeater. That is why the web is such a potent platform for creativity and innovation.
It's also at the heart of why the web should be good for: democracy, by giving more people a voice and the ability to organise themselves; freedom, by giving more people the opportunity to be creative and equality, by allowing knowledge to be set free.
Published on Tuesday, 07 October 2008 19:00 | | |
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Did you know that commercial banks around the world create money from thin air? This entertaining animated video explains how the conjuring trick is done - and how it can lead to the Crash we're all now experiencing...