By Sean Graham Co-operative Agriculture | RSS.com Catharine Wilson joins me to talk about the history of co-operative work bees in rural Canada. Communal events to complete big projects in short amount of time, work bees are representative of rural Canadian culture and are the subject of Catharine’s new book Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and […]
Co-operative Agriculture – What’s Old is News
Author: Isadore Nabi
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Violent Encounters: Franco-Spanish Aggression in the Early Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
By Cindy Ermus The following is largely an excerpt from Chapter 5 of my new book, The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press, February 2023). which explores how the Plague of Provence (1720-22) unfolded in the European overseas colonies, paying special attention to the port […]
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Keynes and the left
“The theories of John Maynard Keynes provide the sound intellectual framework for the views which trade unionists had always instinctively held and known to be right” (TUC, 1968, p. 85) The ideas and theories of John Maynard Keynes still dominate the economic views and policy proposals of the leaders of the labour movement in […]
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Feeling Depressed? Performing Acts of Kindness May Help
Source:Ohio State University People suffering from symptoms of depression or anxiety may help heal themselves by doing good deeds for others, new research shows. The study found that performing acts of kindness led to improvements not seen in two other therapeutic techniques used to treat depression or anxiety. Most importantly, the acts of kindness technique […]
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Widespread death and destruction plays second fiddle to Western foreign policy in Syria
The US and Europe not lifting sanctions shows that they value political gain over human life.
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THE GERMAN ECONOMY FOLLOWING THE INVASION OF THE UKRAINE, together with the growing US budgetary deficit and problems with the UK strike wave.
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Special relativity and Middle-Earth
This post is an unofficial sequel to one of my first blog posts from 2007, which was entitled “Quantum mechanics and Tomb Raider“. One of the oldest and most famous allegories is Plato’s allegory of the cave. This allegory centers around a group of people chained to a wall in a cave that cannot see […]
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What is Minkowski’s Representation Theorem?
Minkowski’s representation theorem is a fundamental result on how polyhedra can be represented. Preliminary definitions In , a polyhedron is a set which can be described as , where and . is an extreme point of a polyhedron if there do not exist such that . is a ray of a polyhedron if is non-zero […]
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Low to Moderate Stress Is Good for You
Source:University of Georgia The holidays are a stressful time for many, but that may not be a bad thing when it comes to your brain functioning, according to new research from the Youth Development Institute at the University of Georgia. The study found that low to moderate levels of stress improve working memory, the short-term information people […]
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Top 10 of 2022
2022 was a big year for Age of Revolutions. To wrap up the year, we thought we would draw your attention to the top 10 most read pieces published in 2022, as well as the top 10 most revisited pieces published from 2015 to 2021. Both lists are below. Top 10 Most Read Pieces Published […]
Top 10 of 2022