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How the Braiding Seeds Fellowship Works to Uproot Racism in the Food System
This Petersburgh, New York, organization fights racial injustice in the food system. By Damon Orion Racism has been embedded in America’s...
Michael Laxer
Dec 13, 202411 min read
Prawn Canapes: China, 1979
Recipe by Yan Shuangxi, cook of the International Club, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Women of China Magazine, 1979. Ingredients:...
Michael Laxer
Dec 11, 20241 min read
Not as Simple as 1, 2, 3: Humanity Has a Surprisingly Diverse Understanding of Numbers
Language plays an important role in understanding the concept of numbers. Image via Jeuwre, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons By...
Michael Laxer
Dec 10, 20246 min read
The Commercial Fishing Industry Is Destroying Vital Marine Ecosystems
Fish are sentient beings subjected to cruelty to maximize profits for the multibillion-dollar industry. By Vicky Bond The unsustainable...
Michael Laxer
Dec 8, 202410 min read
The Carbon Soil Opportunity: Organic Farming Helps Counter Climate Change
Switching to organic products is an easy way to eat healthier and support the environment. Elina Mark, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia...
Michael Laxer
Dec 3, 20246 min read
The Hunter-Gatherer Guide to Keeping Society Equal
By Brenna R. Hassett There is a great deal of attention in modern societies to inequality and the social problems it causes. Often...
Michael Laxer
Nov 27, 20245 min read
Community Support Helps the Olympia, Washington Orca Book Cooperative Stay Afloat
When COVID-19 hit, U.S. bookshops were an endangered species. Olympia, Washington’s largest independent bookstore survived by embracing...
Michael Laxer
Nov 7, 20244 min read
Good Morning Revolution
Good-morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on. Say, listen, Revolution:...
Michael Laxer
Nov 3, 20242 min read
Mapping the Solidarity Economy
The worker-owned collective ChiCommons helps Chicago residents find local mutual aid-based organizations. The community owned Wild Onion...
Michael Laxer
Oct 13, 20244 min read
Recycling the Discarded
Greenfield, Massachusetts’s Compost Co-op gives ex-inmates a living wage through meaningful work. Image via video screenshot By Damon...
Michael Laxer
Sep 15, 20246 min read
Fish Cutlets at the Soviet Moskva Restaurant
From the Soviet Magazine Sputnik in 1982, a brief look at the Moskva Restaurant with a recipe for a house specialty: Fish Cutlets. From...
Michael Laxer
Aug 6, 20242 min read
Community in Motion
Bike co-ops uphold a tradition of self-empowerment through cycling. Vegasjon, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4....
Michael Laxer
Aug 3, 20246 min read
How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action
Harnessing the power of story may help us survive and thrive on a climate-altered planet. By Katherine Dolan Climate change is, by far,...
Michael Laxer
Jul 5, 20247 min read
Loss, Sacrifice and Victory -- Second World War Art of the Soviet Ukraine
Known as the Great Patriotic War in the USSR the Second World War left deep social scars and trauma that it took many years for the...
Michael Laxer
Jun 9, 20242 min read
The Children of Rafah
Passages from The Children of Rafah I The sun on a conqueror's bayonet was A naked corpse despised: Bleeding silence Over rancorous...
Michael Laxer
May 29, 20242 min read
Viktor Koretskii, Soviet poster artist b. May 18, 1909
Koretskii, (also sometimes translated as Koretsky), was an astonishingly prolific Soviet artist created some of the USSR's most iconic...
Michael Laxer
May 18, 20241 min read
Seven Pairs of the Clean and Seven Pairs of the Unclean
Seven Pairs of the Clean and Seven Pairs of the Unclean, Vladimir Mayakovsky Sketch, 1919 Famed Soviet poet, writer and artist Mayakovsky...
Michael Laxer
May 5, 20242 min read
What Does Play Tell Us About Human Evolution?
By Brenna R. Hassett Our species devotes a singular amount of time to an utterly unserious aspect of life: play. This begs the question:...
Michael Laxer
Apr 26, 20245 min read
Raising Hairless Primates
By Amy Pollick I remember the first time I observed my daughter pointing. We were at a neighborhood playgroup, a daily gathering of...
Michael Laxer
Apr 23, 20244 min read
Ban the Atomic Bomb!
Ban the Atomic Bomb, Painting, Hans Grundig GDR, 1954 Grundig (1901 - 1958) was a German artist who joined the Communist Party in 1926....
Michael Laxer
Apr 15, 20241 min read
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