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- Neuroscientist: Poetry Comes From Synesthesia, Tree-Climbing (Wired News)
A prominent neuroscientist told a crowd at the World Science Festival that the curious phenomenon of synesthesia -- in which some people "taste" colors or "hear" smells -- is simply a consequence of the aptitude humans evolved for abstraction.
- Marine uses poetry as release from pain of war - WJRT
After fighting in Vietnam and losing many of his buddies in combat, he has learned to release his anger and sadness through poetry. "That's why I write my poetry. It's the healing process, to rid myself of the ghosts that I have from that time in my ...
- Before Jack hits the road - The Statesman
Before Jack hits the roadThe Statesman, India - 12 hours agoAnnam Suresh chalks out a few handy tips for The monsoons bring visions of poetry and romance. And if you are a driver, you see nightmares of waterlogged ...
- Trails through time bind us together - Blue Springs Examiner
My name is Molly, and I’m a cultural anthropologist from California. Last month I inadvertently followed the Pony Express trail from my home in Placerville (about 40 miles east of Sacramento) to your fair city of Independence. One morning during my ...
- Why We Travel To India - Reading Little India
Why We Travel To IndiaReading Little India, PA - 2 hours agoNo amount of poetry can quite rescue us from that itch. We settle into this complacency, knowing that this world is too comfortable and what we left behind ...
- Revelation and reason beyond Ahmadiyah issue - Jakarta Post
Revelation and reason beyond Ahmadiyah issueJakarta Post, Indonesia - 3 hours agoIranian scholar Abdulkarim Soroush says that in our modern age we can understand revelation by using the metaphor of poetry. As one Muslim philosopher has ...
- Summer is for fun - Nashoba Publishing
Summer is for funNashoba Publishing, MA - 59 minutes agoTeens in fifth through twelfth grade are cautioned to X-PECT the UN-X-PECTED in this year's statewide teen summer reading program. ...
- Reading council talks comprehension, poetry - Ruston Daily Leader
Ruston Daily LeaderReading council talks comprehension, poetryRuston Daily Leader, la - 3 hours ago“The latest research shows every kid, from gifted on down the line, should be doing dual sensory reading at least 20 minutes a day uninterrupted. ...
- Website Review: Vagabondage Press Launches Online Literary Magazine The Battered Suitcase (Blogcritics.org)
Literary website that means what it says. On June 1, Vagabondage Press will publish the inaugural issue of The Battered Suitcase, an online "literary magazine that promotes intelligent and imaginative art and fiction." And so it does, if the preview copy available is any indication.Here's the important question, though: aren't there enough of these things - high art...
- WALL-E: Family space odyssey has wall-to-wall robotic fun (Daily Mail)
Pixar has created their most appealing charcter yet in WALL-E, who deserves to stand alongside Babe and ET as representatives of family film at its finest.
- Little time left to promote the tremendous talents of our talent - Owen Sound Sun Times
Little time left to promote the tremendous talents of our talentOwen Sound Sun Times, Canada - 1 hour agoWhen award-winning local poet Elizabeth Zetlin accepted the appointment as Owen Sound's first Poet Laureate, she said: "I want to promote poetry, ...
- Keeping faith with Dr. King: Tibetan monk studying nonviolence at URI - Providence Journal
Thupten Tendhar, above, is attending the Summer Institute run by the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Stephen Yang, of the institute, talks to a class about levels of conflict. The Providence Journal Steve ...
- Poetry Slam Among the Highlights at DeRenne Middle (WSAV Savannah)
As part of Thursday night’s portfolio showcase, some local middle schoolers try their hand at a poetry slam.
- World Refugee Day brings cultural events and a 'celebration of trades ... - Idaho Statesman
The celebration of World Refugee Day on Saturday at Boise Centre on The Grove will remind the community of the families who are now making their home in Idaho after leaving troubled spots around the world. Large numbers of refugees from Africa and ...
- THE GIFT THEATRE TO PRODUCE - Broadway World
THE GIFT THEATRE TO PRODUCEBroadway World, NY - 46 minutes agoVivian is a brilliant professor of English poetry, a renowned scholar, and a demanding teacher. But a painful experimental treatment for cancer will force ...
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