Vishniac’s archive is being acquired by the International Center of Photography. The collection — which includes thousands of negatives taken during forays into Jewish communities in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Romania and Czechoslovakia, along with reams of correspondence and personal documents —But the center will not only be acquiring Vishniac’s entire life’s work; as the [...]
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The Uncovered World of Roman Vishniac
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, World Issues on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Seeing is not believing
Posted in Humanity on March 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Atheist convention. Coulter’s editorial. The danger of getting together with like-minded people to pat yourself on the back is that you start thinking you’ve got all the answers, and that everyone who disagrees with you is either mad, bad or both. Fundamentalism, in other words … What needs to emerge from this, and hasn’t as [...]
something really beautiful…
Posted in Humanity on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Minty Marrows A beautiful animation by Sam Yang (2008) music by Amiel Zwier
it is not possible to preclude genuine moral dilemmas
Posted in Humanity on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Worst Case: Choosing Who Survives in a Flu Epidemic By SHERI FINK, NEW YORK TIMES Published: October 24, 2009 New York state health officials recently laid out this wrenching scenario for a small group of medical professionals from New York-Presbyterian Hospital: A 32-year-old man with cystic fibrosis is rushed to the hospital with appendicitis in [...]
Hungry for Knowledge
Posted in Humanity on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Schools in South Africa are bursting with hopeful students, but the education system often fails those who most need it to escape poverty. Despite last year’s violent episode, students seem to feel genuine affection for their school and speak of their hunger for knowledge and their faith in education to bring a better life. Sometimes [...]
Perfect to a fault
Posted in Humanity on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was once natural to be shy or have a big nose; now these simple human traits are seen as flaws that need fixing. John Elder looks at the pursuit of perfection and the narrowing of what it means to be normal… from The Age WHEN Austin Powers first travelled into the future, he was [...]
Posted in Humanity on September 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is an embarrassment and an insult to human intelligence. It is now even more evident that Obama is actually the only hope for such a mindless mob. Watch this footage (click here). You’ll laugh. Then cry.
I bleive in God, but I spell it NATURE.
Posted in Humanity on September 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Image provided by NASA, released Sept. 9, 2009, taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope! (click here for images from The Age)
Michael Jackson (i loved you)
Posted in Humanity, tagged Life, worls on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first Australian baby born of an Indian surrogate mother.
Posted in Humanity on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Does it matter where babies come from? (See prior article “India’s surrogate mother industry” October 13, 2008) by Sharon Gray, March 16, 2009 Like most two-month-old babies, Luke sleeps a lot, waking only to blink at the world and feed. He does not yet know that according to the Australian High Commission in New Delhi, he [...]
Curator cracks the Dossi code
Posted in Humanity on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
National Gallery of Victoria researchers are now confidant that a mystery painting they’ve held for 43 years is a portrait of Lucrezia Borgia by Italian Renaissance painter Dosso Dossi (circa 1486-1542). Read article
Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy
Posted in Humanity on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say. “Talking with complete sentences there and also too talking in a way that ordinary Americans like Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder [...]
Goodbye Mama Africa
Posted in Ethics on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Miriam Makeba, 76, Singer and Activist, Dies (read more here) singing with Paul Simon
OBAMA: Young, handsome and “suntanned” OMG!
Posted in Ethics on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Mr. Berlusconi’s stupid joke is a further demonstration of the racism and intolerance that grow inside Italian population, helped by the embarrassing attitude of Italian politics.” Many Italians reacted with incredulity and outrage after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called the first African-American president-elect in United States history “young, handsome and suntanned.” Mr. Berlusconi made the [...]
’nuff said!
Posted in Ethics on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
la musica è finita: The end of the Australian National Academy of Music
Posted in Ethics on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The federal government announced that they will not be funding the Australian National Academy of Music in 2009. “Australia’s young elite music talent deserves the best possible training in order to flourish in what is a fiercely competitive field.” Alex Millier, Principal Bass Clarinet, West Australian Symphony Orchestra (read letter)
Dear Rosner…
Posted in Ethics on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“There’s a tune called ‘Yiddishe Momme’ – ‘Jewish Mother’. It’s a very popular tune of family life. The words are very touching words, [they] make [a] lot of people cry.” LEO ROSNER Musician Leo Rosner saved by Schindler dies at 90, Jewish News article here Tonight I opened last week’s Jewish News paper and saw [...]
UN’s first “Global Handwashing Day”
Posted in Ethics on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As part of the United Nation’s International Year of Sanitation, more than 120 million children across South Asia are to simultaneously wash their hands. The UN’s message is that sanitation routines such as hand washing with soap is one of the most effective ways of preventing diseases responsible for the deaths of million’s of children [...]
