Becky Blab

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Buy happiness through “Eat, Pray, Love” baubles

April 13th, 2010 · View Comments

“We relate to the theme of a woman’s journey for self-fulfillment and happiness,” says founder of Dogeared, the company with the magical touch for marketing the fundamentals of life (and the new product line designed for the upcoming release of Eat, Pray, Love the movie).

I can’t say I’m surprised, but is anyone else out there [...]

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Tags: activism · economic development · environment · feminism · human development · media

Spirituality for everyone

January 8th, 2009 · View Comments

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Tags: media

On race in music

December 6th, 2008 · View Comments

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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Tags: culture · media

If you’re happy and you know it–update your status!

December 6th, 2008 · View Comments

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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Film Friday (on Monday): Chitti Hatia

September 1st, 2008 · View Comments

I wanted to discuss another documentary film I recently saw called ‘Chitti Hatia’ or White Shops. It was a brief (one hour) but moving film about a man’s search for his grandfather’s home in what is now Pakistan. About humanity and humility, simplicity and forgiveness. From the film’s blog:
Chitti Hatia, the story of Bittoo Sondhi, [...]

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Tags: GOI · human development · media · politics

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