NüVoices Podcast: April Zhu on reporting from Nairobi
April Zhu is a freelance journalist and writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on gender, urban inequality, and China-Kenya relations. In this episode, NüVoices board member Cindy Gao…
The Progressive Racism of the Ivy League
https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/the-progressive-racism-of-the-ivy-league/ If the definition of racism is deliberate discrimination based on race, color or national origin, Yale University appears to be a textbook case of “systemic racism.” And, so, the…
The Artist Confronting China’s One-Child Past
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006047/the-artist-confronting-chinas-one-child-past In 2011, Zhou Wenjing discovered her mother was forcibly sterilized soon after her birth. Ever since, the young artist has been exploring how China’s birth-control policies have affected the…
Mindfulness and Social Identity
by Varun Gauri These days, fights about social identity are coming to the boil. Could mindfulness practice lower the temperature of those disputes? I want to suggest that it could.…
Time, Memory, and Altruism in Camus’s ‘The Plague’
by Anitra Pavlico As we wait for life in this era to regain a sense of normalcy and rationality, we take refuge in other eras. There is a severe shortage…
COLORS / CYAN
Lyn Hejinian at Cabinet: Cyan (pronounced SIGH-ann) is the color that emanates from a calm sea not far offshore on a clear day as the blue of the sky is…
A Beatboxing Buddhist Monk Creates Music for Meditation
http://www.openculture.com/2020/07/a-beatboxing-buddhist-monk-creates-music-for-meditation.html Most of us assume Japanese Buddhist monks to be silent types. In their personal lives they may well be, but if they want to go viral, they’ve got to…
STUDY: Heavy Social Media Use Linked To Callous And Cruel Personalities…
A fascinating study of 472 university students tracked their usage on two top platforms for 18-to-24-year olds: Snapchat (2.64 hours per day) and Facebook (2.28 hours per day). Researchers found…
The Pendulum Swings Again: the Desecration of Hagia Sophia
The Turkish President should have consulted the prophecies of St. Paisius of the Holy Mountain rather than whatever kitaps he was reading before embarking on his risky provocation. In plain…