New Perplexed series book
Professor Robert Stockman has a new book out: The Baha’i Faith: A Guide For The Perplexed. It’s part of Bloomsbury’s Guides for the Perplexed series and comes out December 27.
“I am much more than a number…”
From CBS affiliate WKBT.
Human Rights Cover
Any recommendations for the cover of my forthcoming book Human Rights in an Advancing Civilization?
Playing with numbers
Want to figure out where to move? Where to start a business? The best place to launch your nefarious conspiracy? Here are four websites that let you interact easily with vast amounts of data. All four are basically related to jobs and the American economy, but they also have a lot to say about demographics, […]
Ice Cream + Robots
Last month I wrote about things that start off seeming awesome, and then end up being even more awesome. If I had known then that I was going to be at Sweet Freeze last week, I would have held off to include that as the prime example. Sweet Freeze is ice cream (frozen custard, actually) […]
Baltimore Art Festival
This weekend we went to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor Art Festival. It was a diverse showing, with a range of media and styles. The talent was also exceptionally high across the board. We left with a print from Kevin Liang.
Defending education in Iran
The Iranian government has tried various ways to keep Baha’is from getting educated since the 1979 Revolution. Denied access to universities, the Iranian Baha’is started an “open university” in people’s homes, the Baha’i Institute of Higher Education, or BIHE. Last weekend, on May 21, authorities raided about 30 homes in four cities and made 14 […]
Conservation in Costa Rica
As a teenager in Belize, eco-tourism was all around me. Even so, Costa Rica impressed me with its dedication to preserving its natural resources. When we went zip-lining, rafting, and horseback riding, our groups shared the same waiver forms, so that we could jointly sign away our right to sue without consuming multiple sheets of […]
Silva’s “Item #318”
Last week in San Jose we met the Nicaraguan/Costa Rican primitive artist Marina Silva, whose work I’d previously admired, and purchased her “Item #318,” shown here.
March on San Jose
On May Day marchers took to the streets of San Jose, Costa Rica to celebrate International Workers’ Day in traditional Latin American fashion, by protesting. Many people marched on behalf of unions or in support of human rights. By far the biggest single theme was support for Costa Rica’s social security system. A sample of […]