Fascinating interactive graphic.
Supposing time and money are limitless,
what’s your research project?
In Class, Marines Learn Cultural Cost Of Conflict : NPR →
Breaking The Anthropologists’ Code?
Holmes-Eber’s mission puts her in a conflict of her own with some fellow anthropologists, who see collaborating with the military as a traitorous act. The issue makes her squirm. “It’s awkward,” she finally laughs.
Anthropologists used to work closely with the military during conflicts in the 20th century, she explains. But during the Vietnam era, some of that support had controversial results.
“Anthropology was used as intelligence, used to destroy certain villages and harm populations,” Holmes-Eber says. Horrified that their knowledge had hurt a culture, anthropologists set a do-no-harm standard. For many, that means not working with the military.
via heartbeatcity.
“Once a friend of mine—a woman, of course—said to me that since pain was only possible if you looked backward to the past or forward to the future she had eliminated the whole problem by living every moment by itself; every moment, she said, was filled with absolute silence. I have tried this, I will try anything, but I don’t understand how it works.”
— Alice Munro, “Tell Me Yes or No” (via heartbeatcity)
via beenthinking.
“Does happiness strain credibility? Is there something in the human spirit that distrusts its own appetites, its own yearning for healing and contentment? Can we not believe that two adults, in love, might resolve to make their own miracle?”
— In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O’Brien (via beenthinking)
via heartbeatcity.
“Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.”
—
Rebecca West
via heartbeat city
14 Rare Color Photos From the FSA-OWI | PDN Photo of the Day
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