Becky Blab

A fascinating story on Blogher about using Facebook for fundraising:
3. How did you get the $50,000 from Western Union Foundation via Facebook? What was your strategy?
This was such a great victory for us. Until recently, all employees had been blocked from viewing social networking sites due to security concerns, so we were never even able [...]

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A talk show called ‘On the couch with Koel‘ featured Sadhguru as its main guest: watch the show here.
The advantage of the scientific age we live in is that every disease eventually finds a cure or at least a quack. Thus, the obvious emergence of the spiritual doctor brigade. My couch and I were lucky [...]

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Thanks mom for sending me this blog post by Suzanne Vega on her new song, “Daddy Is White.” You can listen to it, too.

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If you’re feeling great today, you may end up inadvertently spreading the joy to someone you don’t even know.

This network from 2000, colored for average mood, shows yellow as happy, blue as sad, and green as in-between.

New research shows that in a social network, happiness spreads among people up to three degrees removed from [...]

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I just saw the Mira Nair film ‘Salaam Bombay!’ Though it was made twenty years ago, it is still a poignant reminder of the challenges facing India.

For the Hindi speakers, this shows three clips from the film:

Some of the film’s proceeds went towards the founding of the Salaam Baalak Trust, which has since has helped [...]

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