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I remember about 7 years ago when one of my friends first said to me “why bother recycling? It’s not going to fix anything.” I was flabbergasted. What do you mean? I’ve been told for most of my life to recycle. That was our main activity as members of the Environment Club in high school…

This past Saturday morning I woke up but hadn’t really woken up yet, so I went to the website www.Hulu.com (a perfectly legal site) to catch up on some of the episodes of The Office that I’ve missed (GOD I love that show). There was an advertisement for the season premiere of a show called…

A few weeks back I posted a quote from Mark Twain that I found provocative. This week, an exploration of a quote I came across a few years ago: I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.—Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662), Pensées, no. 72…

I was scrolling through the psychology news in my Google Reader last night and came across a study finding that “some people are as giddy as teenagers in love, even after two decades of marriage.”  Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine compared the brain activity of people who claimed to be in love for just…

By now the world has heard about Black Wednesday: the largest number of layoffs in book publishing announced in a single day, with Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt cutting hundreds of jobs, and the Doubleday group being cut up and divided among other houses within RH. It’s never a good week to be…

The Saturday before Thanksgiving Hardcore Dharma gathered under the tutelage of the lovely, sore-footed Jessica to discuss two sets of triplicates in Buddhist teachings: the three dharma seals and the three doors of liberation. The Three Dharma Seals (according to Thich Nhat Hanh’s Book, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching”) are impermanence, non-self and Nirvana. …

Plastic bags are a hot topic of discussion this week. The Wonkster column in the Gotham Gazette reports that Gov. Patterson has until Dec. 12th to sign or veto New York State’s plastic bag recycling bill (which undermines the stronger NYC bill – see previous post about that here). And this is NY1 coverage of…

Every day I take the M15 Limited bus up 1st Avenue to work. I like this bus. It stops just a couple blocks away from my apartment, and drops me off only a few steps from the school I work at. I’ve timed it exactly right so that if I leave my apartment no later…

There was a passage in Julia May Jonas’s recent post that brought to mind a book I like called Buddhist Practice on Western Ground: Reconciling Eastern Ideals and Western Psychology, by a psychologist and longtime practitioner of Buddhism named Harvey Aronson. TF writes: I love writing plays and prose but a statement about “who I…
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