Intellectually Entertaining. Socially Relevant.
Sarah Kay has been performing poetry since the age of 14 and is the founder of Project V.O.I.C.E. (Vocal Outreach Into Creative Expression), teaching poetry and self-expression at schools across the U.S. What started out as a way to encourage her fellow high school students to do spoken word poetry with her, turned into a… [Continue Reading]
- via BBC News The American South has been quietly ravaged by HIV/Aids, even as the rest of the U.S. has made great advances in treatment and prevention. As Michael Maher reports, the conservative region’s reluctance to speak publicly about the epidemic has hampered its ability to fight it. About this time every year, the… [Continue Reading]
- via BBC News UK intelligence agency GCHQ has launched a code cracking competition to help attract new talent. The organisation has invited potential applicants to solve a visual code posted at an unbranded standalone website. The challenge will also be “seeded” to social media sites, blogs and forums. A spokesman said the campaign aimed… [Continue Reading]
My family enjoys teasing me about my active social calendar (personally I think they’re just jealous.) While I am out playing dominoes or at a film screening, they are all home sleeping. They tell me that I didn’t do any of these things when I was thirty. Well of course I didn’t do this when… [Continue Reading]
It is December 1, yet again, and that means one thing: World AIDS Day. The day when people across the world come together in the fight against HIV/AIDS, to support those who are living with HIV/AIDS and to remember and commemorate those who have lost the fight. Between 1981 and 2007 more than 25 million… [Continue Reading]
A deep recession has struck a nation, and in the rubble, one entire section of society is subjugated, dis-empowered and dehumanized. Right-wing nationalists establish a repressive government that forces close to 10 million individuals to live prostrate, in the shadows, afraid, accepting whatever life they can scrounge up. For many of the victims, mostly children… [Continue Reading]