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June 2013

June 17, 2013
Steven Anderson, instructional technologist for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in Winston-Salem, NC,offers 10 good tips for...
June 12, 2013
My colleague, Frances Coffey, tweeted this sad story about menstruating women in Nepal.  In western...
June 09, 2013
Lesley Hazleton: On reading the Koran Maz Jobrani: Did you hear the one about the...
June 08, 2013
Awesome talk about Hindu myths and myths in general.  Absolutely worth viewing in class when...
June 07, 2013
Excellent short clip, from AlJazeera, about the origins of the demonstrations in Turkey (just less...
June 07, 2013
Sean Junkins, in this Google hangout web cast from Edudemic, reviews four I-Pad apps that...
June 07, 2013
Here is a short two minute review of the origins of Sufi whirling dervishes. Sufism...
June 07, 2013
For the first time ever, 27 Tibetan Buddhist nuns will sit for exams that will...
June 06, 2013
              Two horrific tragedies--the Boston Marathon bombings and the...
June 06, 2013
Saw this on the Huffington Post. You can also see a slide show on Muslim...
June 04, 2013
The Parsis have one of the most unusual funeral rituals of all religions.  Parsis are...
June 03, 2013
Bob Thurman: We Can all be Buddhas Matthieu Ricard: The habits of happiness Joan Halifax:...
June 01, 2013
Lisa Bu explains how books transformed her life--in The Correspondence in the Family of Fou...
June 01, 2013
Twitter took on a new role yesterday as street clashes rocked Istanbul. It replaced the...
June 01, 2013
  In 2001, the Taliban blew up two huge 6th century Buddhas that were built...

May 2013

May 31, 2013
The more Muslims use the internet, the more they say that Muslims and Christians have...
May 31, 2013
Nuclear war can create a crisis of faith. The discovery of missiles in Cuba in...
May 31, 2013
Here are the top three posts for May. Book of Mormon: Party Bus Edition World...
May 28, 2013
Ken Halla posted a short video on Google Hangouts on the World history blog,  but...
May 27, 2013
Couples in Ankara, Turkey locked lips this weekend in a subway to protest "moral rules"...
May 26, 2013
More trouble for Myanmar Muslims. Authorities in the western state of Rakhine in Myanmar imposed...
May 26, 2013
The map above shows the locations of mosque attacks in England since the murder of...
May 24, 2013
Students and faculty at Pennsylvania’s Villanova University created these awesome virtual 3D tours. There are...
May 22, 2013
Often viewed as gypsies, the roughly 12 million Roma are probably the most oppressed and...
May 21, 2013
Muslims, especially in Europe and Asia, are facing  more violence and tougher restrictions on dress, according to...
May 21, 2013
The Wesak festival is the most sacred Buddhist ceremony held every year in a hidden...
May 19, 2013
Haroon Moghul's Ted Talk about the early development of Islam and American history is both...
May 18, 2013
Washington Post Reporter, Michelle Boorstein, profiles Buddhist meditation guru, Tara Brach, in this Washington Post...
May 17, 2013
Does economic freedom indicate a greater tolerance for race? This is the question that two...
May 16, 2013
Maz Jobrani is an Iranian-American comic and one of the founding members of the Axis...
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