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Ghost Bikes

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Urban Ways of Commemorating”When we make ghost bikes, we tap into the hurt of the world. Each person is part of the soul of their city. These stories can make headlines one day and are forgotten the next - we try to make the city remember. We choose to…

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May 17, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Commentary, Dreamscape, Urbanities | Comments Off 

An Ideology of Privatisation

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Happiness in a Society of Individuals”The predictions of the ‘end of ideology’ that were rife and widely accepted twenty to thirty years ago do not seem to have come true. What we are witnessing, rather, is a curious twist in the idea of ‘ideology’: in…

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May 11, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Commentary, Isms, Philosophy, Society | Comments Off 

Welcome to the Wetlands

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

From Superdome to Superlove”Few people know that New Orleans is the vagina of America. Few would suggest it. “It is fertile. It’s a delta. And everyone wants to party there,” explains Eve Ensler, activist, feminist icon - and the author of The Vagi…

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May 8, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Isms, Urbanities, Women | Comments Off 

Digital Monument

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

” The Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands is an Internet monument dedicated to preserving the memory of all the men, women and children who were persecuted as Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and did not surviv…

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May 4, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Life, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Crazy Survival Gear

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“The Cocoon is a short-term shelter made of durable insulating material that hangs off a tree (or any stable structure). In theory, getting the user off the ground seems safer, but it’s still pretty vulnerable. Sure, you wouldn’t be prey to wild animal…

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May 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Oddities | Comments Off 

Crazy Survival Gear

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“The Cocoon is a short-term shelter made of durable insulating material that hangs off a tree (or any stable structure). In theory, getting the user off the ground seems safer, but it’s still pretty vulnerable. Sure, you wouldn’t be prey to wild animal…

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May 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Oddities | Comments Off 

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is qui…

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April 30, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Language, Society | Comments Off 

It’s a Jungle Out There

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

JillFilopivic: One issue you tackle a lot is the feminist compromise — how far feminists can or should bend to a patriarchal system in order to just get through their lives, and where feminists should draw the line. The same arguments spring up in the…

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April 28, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Art, Books, Commentary, Isms, Quotes | Comments Off 


The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Multiple intelligences is an educational theory, first developed by Howard Gardner, that describes an array of different kinds of “intelligences” exhibited by human beings. Gardner suggests that each individual manifests varying levels of these differe…

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April 27, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Philosophy, Psychology, science | Comments Off 

Funky Butte Ranch

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“At age 36, Doug Fine decided “to see if a regular guy who enjoyed his comforts could maintain them with a reduced oil footprint.” And so he bought a parcel of land in southwestern New Mexico, dubbed it the Funky Butte Ranch and dug right into his gree…

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April 26, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Books | Comments Off 

Entering the K-Hole

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

K-Heads & K-Cramps”The K-hole has been described as an endless dimension to explore, and that’s exactly what it is. Space, time and language either have no meaning or become ridiculously distorted. It can seem as if you are travelling through time …

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April 24, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Commentary, Dreamscape, Urbanities | Comments Off 

To Go Green Is Glorious

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Outsourcing HarmI met Xiao Wei, the popstar whose message of love and green harmony inspired several of the 30-something activists I’d met, back when they were teenagers. Given his soft style and hippy lyrics, I expected him to rail against the consume…

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April 14, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Isms | Comments Off 

To Go Green Is Glorious

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Outsourcing HarmI met Xiao Wei, the popstar whose message of love and green harmony inspired several of the 30-something activists I’d met, back when they were teenagers. Given his soft style and hippy lyrics, I expected him to rail against the consume…

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April 14, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Isms | Comments Off 

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has unveiled his new cabinet, which for the first time includes more women than men.Nine of the ministers are women, and eight are men; when the prime minister is included, the cabinet is equally divi…

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April 12, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Isms, Oddities | Comments Off 

Birds & Buildings

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Visiting my mom’s office building as a child, I often found small birds with freshly broken necks in the hedges outside, lying compacted and still, like sleeping babies. One hundred million birds are killed each year in the United States by collisio…

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April 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Birds & Buildings

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Visiting my mom’s office building as a child, I often found small birds with freshly broken necks in the hedges outside, lying compacted and still, like sleeping babies. One hundred million birds are killed each year in the United States by collisio…

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April 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Urbanities | Comments Off 

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

The Revival of Philosophy”Once scoffed at as a luxury major, philosophy is being embraced at Rutgers and other universities by a new generation of college students who are drawing modern-day lessons from the age-old discipline as they try to make sense…

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April 6, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Philosophy | Comments Off 

It’s Not Fair!

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

The Helsinki Complaints ChoirFinnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen collected the pet peeves and angst-ridden pleas of people in Helsinki and then composed this choral work around the list of complaints. Music composed by Esko G…

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April 6, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Dreamscape, Music, Oddities, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Double Standards and Inclusive Democracy

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“In my whole political life I have never seen a male candidate whose clothes and hair are discussed” President Michelle Bachelet said yesterday in London. “There is a machismo, and a sexism, and it is not just in Latin America … If a woman talks hard…

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April 5, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Commentary, Isms, Society | Comments Off 

Tea Total

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Green tea can help beat superbugs according to Egyptian scientists speaking March, 31, 2008 at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting.The pharmacy researchers have shown that drinking green tea helps the action of important antibiotics i…

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April 1, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Health, science | Comments Off 

Tea Total

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Green tea can help beat superbugs according to Egyptian scientists speaking March, 31, 2008 at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting.The pharmacy researchers have shown that drinking green tea helps the action of important antibiotics i…

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April 1, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Health, science | Comments Off 

Beggars Can Be Orators

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Whose was this extraordinary idea? Tony Wright’s–the 47-year-old manager of Ron Eager House. “If,” he said, “you’re a rough sleeper, to get benefit they make you go through hoops because you have no address. You’re ten minutes late, you don’t get it….

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March 31, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Language, Life, Philosophy, Urbanities | Comments Off 


Cult Awaits End In Cave

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Fresh talks are under way to persuade 28 doomsday cult members in Russia to end a five-month cave siege after seven sect women came to the surface. The women were allowed to leave with cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov after he was brought to the scene to n…

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March 29, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Oddities, Society | Comments Off 

Dolphin Rescues Whales

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

A dolphin has come to the rescue of two whales which had become stranded on a beach in New Zealand.The pygmy sperm whales had repeatedly beached, and both they and the humans were tired and set to give up (..).But then the dolphin appeared, communicate…

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March 12, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Oddities | Comments Off 


A Call to Dissent: Nullify!

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“State and federal prisons are packed with victims of the drug conflict. A new report by the Pew Center shows that 1 of every 100 adults in the U.S. — and 1 in 15 black men over 18 — is currently incarcerated. That’s the world’s highest rate of imp…

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March 8, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Commentary, Isms, Society, Urbanities | Comments Off 

I Hope So

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Quakers hold a strong sense of spiritual egalitarianism, including a belief in the spiritual equality of the sexes. From the beginning both women and men were granted equal authority to speak in meetings for worship. Margaret Fell was as vocal and li…

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March 8, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Society | Comments Off 

More Power To You

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“[Condoleeza] Rice, speaking at a conference on women’s rights, joined an international appeal for a fairer political role for women, especially in addressing the urgent problems of the day — climate change, terrorism, religious fundamentalism and im…

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March 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Isms, Society, Women | Comments Off 

Diversity Creates Wealth

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“This month, Norway set a new global record. It now has, at 40%, the highest proportion of female non-executive directors in the world, an achievement engineered by the introduction of a compulsory quota. Two years ago, after several years of voluntary…

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March 6, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Isms, Society | Comments Off 

Unplugged: Secular Sabbath

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“On my first weekend last fall, I eagerly shut it all down on Friday night, then went to bed to read. (I chose Saturday because my rules include no television, and I had to watch the Giants on Sunday). I woke up nervous, eager for my laptop. That forbi…

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March 4, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Life, Style, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Mission Wolf

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“By 1986 it became apparent that there were more wolves living in small cages across the United States than there were wild wolves. When we discovered that many captive wolves and wolf dogs were dead before the age of three d…

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March 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Life | Comments Off 

Organic Loves You

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“The largest study to date to examine the nutrient content of organic food has found that it is generally more nutritious than conventionally grown produce. The four-year study led by Professor Carlo Leifert of Newcastle University is known as the Qual…

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February 28, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Health | Comments Off 

Study For Metamorphosis

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Jeremy Bailenson and Nick Yee of Stanford University had this and other classic studies in mind when they started wondering about the effect of being able to alter one’s appearance. They weren’t going to study wardrobe choices, however. Their quarry i…

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February 25, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Dreamscape, Life, Psychology | Comments Off 


Don’t Pop My Bubble

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

It’s Not About Britney”“It is not going to be called the ‘Britney Spears Law,’ I am not going to give her credit for that because it is not about Britney Spears, it’s about the paparazzi violating everybody else’s rights, freedoms and privile…

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February 23, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Commentary, Isms, Society, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Gun Karma

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Berlin - The German parliament approved tighter gun-control laws on Friday in a move designed to stop the spread of violent crime. The new legislation bans the carrying of replica firearms and so- called airsoft guns as well as certain types of knives….

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February 22, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Isms, Society | Comments Off 

How Not To Be A Jerk

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“I’ve learned that competition breeds assholes, so it’s essential to try not to foster an overly competitive workplace. Many organizations constantly rate and rank people, giving the spoils to a few stars and treating the rest as second- and third-clas…

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February 20, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Commentary, Psychology, Society | Comments Off 

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