The planet population is drowning in life’s routine. Children to raise, bills to pay, famine, wars, climate change, that tap needing to be fixed in your apartment! You have to wake up, wash your face and go to do SOMETHING: ·        Grab that book full of dust: “look” at the words – I know how lazy people read…  What do you see? How do you like the words in there? Think of using them in your reality, think of the story behind, what do you learn from it? ·        Scrub your feet and relax: Feet are the most neglected part of your…

On October 10, 2015, over 100 Turkish activists were killed by twin explosions at a peace rally in Ankara, the country’s capital. Three months later, 10 were killed in a popular tourist area in Istanbul. Then 28 in a military convoy. Then 37 in a public square. Then 4 in Istanbul. Then 11 in Istanbul. Then 45 in Istanbul. Since I started writing this article three days ago, further terror attacks have claimed22 in Bangladesh, over 250 in Iraq, and 4 in three separate bombings across Saudi Arabia. I could fill a textbook dissecting Turkey’s tumultuous past year of terrorist attacks, its longstanding conflict with…

 Jörg Haider (help·info) (German pronunciation: [ˈjœɐ̯k ˈhaɪdɐ]; 26 January 1950 – 11 October 2008)[2] was an Austrianpolitician. He was Governor of Carinthia on two occasions, the long-time leader of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and later Chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (Bündnis Zukunft Österreich, BZÖ), a breakaway party from the FPÖ.[3] Haider was a controversial figure within Austria and abroad. Several countries imposed mild diplomatic sanctions against his party's participation in government alongside Wolfgang Schüssel's Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), starting from 2000. Haider died in a car accident shortly after leading the BZÖ in the 2008 Austrian Parliamentary elections. Early life[edit] Parents[edit] Haider's parents had been early members of the Austrian Nazi Party (DNSAP,…

For generations, we believed the vastness and depths of the oceans left them beyond the capacity of humans to alter. In the last four decades, however, we’ve seen the fallacy of that thinking, as our actions have led to serious declines in ocean health. Last week a new WWF report — the Living Blue Planet Report — revealed that we have lost nearly half of the oceans’ wildlife in the last 40 years. Gone. In just one human generation, populations of marine fish, birds, mammals, and reptiles have declined by half. That is a staggering statistic. This shouldn’t be any surprise: we…

IT’S EASTER, and I’ve decided to make my hero Julia Child’s beef bourguignonne, the only recipe I make that my mother also made, the same classic dish that Julie Powell, as played by Amy Adams, ruined so spectacularly in Julie & Julia by falling asleep on the sofa and leaving it too long in the oven. Beef bourguignonne isn’t really a spring dish. Our corner supermarket doesn’t have small onions; it stocks them only for big winter holidays. I settle for frozen, feeling a flick of irritation because this is what my mother used. It’s the only Julia dish my mother made…