In preparation for a postdoc position I’ll be applying for, I’ve been reading up on public health, and came across this article, by S. Leonard Syme, which honestly portrays a lifetime of learning in interventions to improve community health: “Social Determinants of Health: The Community as an Empowered Partner” The messages here mirror the ones [...]
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who was an advisor of one of my advisors, and therefore in a way my academic grandfather or great-uncle or something, was arrested in his own home for disorderly conduct. The details have been described in a number of places, and I won’t belabor them, but it looks like this: Dr. [...]
Dear ones, I’m writing to call your attention to the two new pages on our blog. To the right, you’ll see links to them. The first, “Life, Death, and the End of the World” is a collection of Baha’i quotes I quickly compiled for an interfaith panel where each of seven religious representatives were given [...]
This video is a delightful exploration of how the face of our society is changing, as people break down the racial barriers and love each other! Check it out: Something Other Than . The last minute (of the 7:16) will make you fall in love too.
I’m going to Ireland in a week! Can anyone offer me advice on what to do while I’m there? (I’ll be there a week and a half, mostly in Dublin but would like to find ways to get out to the countryside.) Thanks!
There’s a lot of buzz in Iran over Zahra Rahnavard, the wife of the presidential hopeful Mousavi who is going up against Ahmadinejad in June. A recent article by Ali Akbar Dareini of the Associated Press offers the following description of her: She brings a rare mix: the liberal cry to fire up reformers, paired [...]
Here is the scene: I’m at the bus stop. My computer bag is slung over my shoulder, and my book bag is in my hand. All of a sudden I realize there’s water trickling out of my book bag, due to an unruly water bottle. So I take everything out, and put most of the [...]
Dear ones, Lev and I have been asked to help facilitate the annual Green Acre Race Unity day (I almost wrote Racy Unity – yikes! that’s something else entirely!) this year on June 6 at the bucolic campus in Eliot, Maine. I’m pulling together some ideas now, and this blog entry serves two purposes: 1. [...]
Dec. 26, 1975 – March 27, 1999 From Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “In Memoriam A.H.H.” I sometimes hold it half a sin/ To put in words the grief I feel;/ For words, like Nature, half reveal/ And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain,/ A use in measured language lies;/ [...]
Brent Poirier has a new blog about the Baha’i Covenant. Check it out! Super informative