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This picture shows floating lanterns known as khom loi at Loi Karathong, a festival celebrated annually throughout Thailand. This festival can be traced back to 1863 and the tradition of the floating lanterns were originally adapted by Buddhists in Thailand as a ceremony to honor the original Buddha, Siddhartha Guatama. Apart from venerating the Buddha […]

Behind KONY 2012 tour: meet Team NorCal (you guessed it, Northern California)

From Madison, Alabama, Liberty Middle School’s broadcasting team created this video to look at what makes us original – as citizens, as students, as male or female, as young or old…as human. Powerful, touching, humbling. Watch it. -Krista

Since the LRA has been known to make its presence known in South Sudan, we like to keep tabs on the happenings (and you should too).  And since South Sudan is a new(ish) country, we want it to succeed (and you should too).  There have been recent retaliatory attacks between ethnic groups in the region which has displaced […]

Liberty Middle School’s broadcasting team created a remarkable peek into the lives of their students, and what it means to be an individual. So touching – get your kleenex. -KM

You’ve probably seen the acronym SOPA (and its equally unattractive sibling, PIPA) around the social web.  This Stop Online Piracy Act, written with the intent of more vigorously protecting copyright on the internet, mainly serves the giant music and entertainment companies that want to come down harder on file sharing and the theft of copyrighted […]

You’ve probably seen the acronym SOPA (and its equally unattractive sibling, PIPA) around the social web.  This Stop Online Piracy Act, written with the intent of more vigorously protecting copyright on the internet, mainly serves the giant music and entertainment companies that want to come down harder on file sharing and the theft of copyrighted […]

Invisible Children is not famous for writing sports-themed blog posts, but since I am the new staff writer (and I have the administrator password to the blog), I am going to give our sports-loving followers something to chew on. Plus, since this blog highlights staff culture and interests, and football interests me, I’m going to […]

LRA Crisis Tracker ad entered into TED’s Ads Worth Spreading challenge. Watch. Vote. Spread.

Cormac McCarthy wrote All the Pretty Horses in 1993. I confess: I judged by the title that this wasn’t a book that I’d be particularly interested in. I was wrong. It’s set in the border regions of Texas and Mexico during the late 1940s. Here’s the thing about Cormac McCarthy’s writing style. First, he doesn’t […]