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Church urges 6-week break from social media: Could you handle it?
(Photo: Rosa Golijan / NBC News)
With that annual period of self-denial leading up to Easter, many try to decide what to surrender. The Russian Orthodox Church â which observes Easter about a month after Catholic and Protestant churches do this year â has a suggestion: Give up Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and all the social networks which offer a barrage of information each and every second.
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Facebook, Apple, Google moguls found massive award for research into âextending human lifeâ
A collection of tech industry titans, from competing companies, have joined forces to award a total $33 million in prize money for medical research to cure disease and extend human life. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are teaming up with Google cofounder Sergey Brin, 23andMe cofounder Anne Wojcicki (Brinâs wife), Apple Chairman Art Levinson, and Russian tech investor Yuri Milner to launch the new âBreakthrough Prize Foundation.âÂ
Bostonâs sandal-wearing cardinal attracts buzz as long shot for pope
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Vatican watchers say heâs a long shot, but Rome chatter hints Cardinal Sean OâMalley may be a possible contender to be the next pope.
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A picture says a thousand words. Write them.
Mission: Write a story, a description, a poem, a metaphor, a commentary, or a critique about this picture. Write something about this picture.
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This Thursday we celebrate International Mother Language Day.
Linguistic and cultural diversity represent universal values that strengthen the unity and cohesion of societies. UNESCOâs Director-General Irina Bokova will reinforce the importance of this core message and specifically highlight this yearâs theme of access to books and digital media in local languages.
Check out this image of peace in 100+ languages.
A fascinating article over at TED.com. It was eye-opening to learn more about the impact of language on our worldview. Iâve included one example below.
Navigation and Pormpuraawans In Pormpuraaw, an Australian Aboriginal community, you wouldnât refer to an object as on your âleftâ or âright,â but rather as ânortheastâ or âsouthwest,â writes Stanford psychology professor Lera Boroditsky (and an expert in linguistic-cultural connections) in the Wall Street Journal. About a third of the worldâs languages discuss space in these kinds of absolute terms rather than the relative ones we use in English, according to Boroditsky. âAs a result of this constant linguistic training,â she writes, âspeakers of such languages are remarkably good at staying oriented and keeping track of where they are, even in unfamiliar landscapes.â On a research trip to Australia, Boroditsky and her colleague found that Pormpuraawans, who speak Kuuk Thaayorre, not only knew instinctively in which direction they were facing, but also always arranged pictures in a temporal progression from east to west.
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U.S. military officials tell NBC News that two Russian bombers, capable of carrying nuclear cruise missiles, circled the U.S. island of Guam in the Western Pacific this week. U.S. Air Force F-15 jets scrambled from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam to intercept the bombers.
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Malala Yousafzai Announces Malala Fund to Support Girlsâ Access to Education (by vitalvoices)
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Considering Journalist Safety, Worldwide
Visiting the campaign site for the Committee to Protect Journalists is quite startling. There are maps, statistics, and there are the numbers of journalists killed recently, and as far back as 1992.Â
We spoke with them recently the state of journalist safety worldwide, and their new digital campaign: Speak Justice.Â
Hereâs what Maria Salazar-Ferro, the Coordinator of CPJâs Impunity Campaign, told us about violence and threats against journalists:
CPJ tracks a wide array of attacks on the press worldwide. Here are some numbers from several of our indicators.
-          In 2012, 57 journalists have been killed in direct retaliation for their work worldwide. With this background in mind, the countries with the worse records in targeted murders of journalists this year are Somalia with 12 journalists murdered in retaliation for their work; Pakistan with five, and Syria with three.
-          As of December 1, 2011, the countries with the highest number of jailed journalists were Iran, China, Eritrea, Burma, and Vietnam. We will be putting out new stats for 2012 next week.
-          The top countries for impunity in murders of journalistsâthat is where journalists are routinely killed for their work and their killers go free are: Iraq, Somalia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Colombia.
And hereâs Maria on what many killed journalists were covering, and who they were:
Of course each case is different, and trends vary between countries and regions. Most journalists who have been murdered covered one of five beats: corruption, politics, crime, armed conflict or human rightsâall issues of vital importance to everyday life, and to democracy. They covered these stories at a very local level, which made them more vulnerable. More than 10% were freelancers, which meant they had little institutional support. But most importantly, they received very little protection from authoritiesâthis is evident in the fact that in about 4/10 cases of murdered journalists there had been threats prior to the murder, which meant that the killing could have probably been prevented.
And on their main concern â impunity:
CPJ has found that impunity is a cycle in which journalists are killed, authorities are ineffectual, and for fear, the rest of the press corps self-censors. Speak Justice is looking to demand justice for murdered journalists from the grassroots up, and gain convictions in countries with high rates of impunity. In 2013, our advocacy will focus on the Philippines, Mexico, Russia and Pakistan.
The Speak Justice site will go live next week.
FJP:Â Weâve covered the violence against Mexican journalists a great deal, and those interested may want to look under our Mexico tag, and see this piece, as well as our interview with documentary filmmaker Bernard Ruiz.