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David Albahari’s novel Leeches explores antisemitism, mathematics, and Kabbalah – New York NY

April 28, 2011

Leeches by David Albahari New York Journal of Books Today Boston and New York publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt releases Serbian-Canadian writer David Albahari‘s novel Leeches. Albahari is the author of 11 novels and 9 collections of short stories. His previous novel Götz and Meyer, which is about the Shoah, won the ALTA Translation Award and […]

Wetlands and waterways, Milford and Derby, CT Apr 17, 2011 – a set on Flickr

April 21, 2011

View the photographs on flickr.com Between visiting Shosh’s family in CT before Pesach and 1st seder with my family in NY we spent a couple of nights at Hyatt Place (a 3 star hotel that we got for a 1 star price thanks to Priceline) in Milford, CT with day trips to Derby and West […]

The Unleashed Mind: Why Creative People Are Eccentric

April 16, 2011

via scientificamerican.com …a combination of lower cognitive inhibition and higher IQ is associated with higher scores on a variety of creativity measures.

Human Rights Petition: Call for the Release of Ai WeiWei

April 13, 2011

On April 3, internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained at the Beijing airport while en route to Hong Kong, and his papers and computers were seized from his studio compound. We members of the international arts community express our concern for Ai’s freedom and disappointment in China’s reluctance to live up to […]

Petition to End the Faroe Islands’ Whale & Dolphin Slaughter | Sign the Petition | Animals Australia Unleashed

April 9, 2011

via unleashed.org.au End the Whale & Dolphin Kill!: Every summer in the Faroe Islands, hundreds of pilot whales and dolphins are killed mercilessly. Sign the petition to help put an end to this bloody slaughter! http://www.unleashed.org.au/take_action/petitions/stop-the-faroe-islands-whal…