Category Archives: Viva!

World’s Hottest Peppers Produced by Caribbean Agriculture Institute | Repeating Islands

Currently, four main varieties are produced by CARDI and supplied through its distributor, Caribbean Chemicals and Agencies Ltd, to agro retail outlets from Belize in Central America; Cayman Islands and Jamaica in the North-Caribbean through the Windward and Leeward Islands; Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago in the Southern Caribbean; and Guyana and Suriname in the South American Continent under the CARDI Quality Seed and Cari Seed Brand.

via World’s Hottest Peppers Produced by Caribbean Agriculture Institute | Repeating Islands.

What your brain looks like on magic mushrooms – Telegraph

Brain on right connected by shroom power!

It might look the uninspired doodlings from a Spirograph session but, this is how connections in the brain look when it is intoxicated with magic mushrooms.

Researchers analysed MRI scans of 15 people who were injected with psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, and compared them to scans of their normal brain activity.

The result shows how areas of the brain which are not normally linked are suddenly connected.

The scientists say it might explain how psychedelic drugs produce their mind-altering effects and a heightened state of awareness.

Study co-author Giovanni Petri, a mathematician at Italy’s Institute for Scientific Interchange, said: ““In a normal brain, many things are happening. You don’t know what is going on, or what is responsible for that, so you try to perturb the state of consciousness a bit, and see what happens.”

via What your brain looks like on magic mushrooms – Telegraph.

Afghan Women’s Writing Project | The Breeze

I love the breeze that blows through my windows

Rousing me

Playing through my hair

It makes dry trees dance

Swirls wild dust

Gives spirit and life to flowers like me

If only I was that breeze

Carrying that tropical dew

I would fly everywhere

Every place, or even a few

But I am a prisoner in this land

Always tortured

I can’t be that softness

That free breeze

Escaping out my windows

I can’t bear it

This jail

I want to be as a sail

I want to fly as a pigeon

Not a sparrow in a cage

If only I was that breeze

Carrying that tropical dew

I would leave this painful life

This hell where I’ve been thrown

By Beheshta

via Afghan Women’s Writing Project | The Breeze.

Afghan Women’s Writing Project | A Buried Story

Buried under my rough jacket and my scarlet shirt,

Secured deep under flesh and bones,

My hidden heart is broken.

My hidden eyes, dark under my burqa, are crying.

The mouth that I hold shut is shouting.

The feet I walk on shiver and cringe.

My story is an endless deep pain without healing.

I try to speak…

The clouds begin to rain.

The mountains turn to ash.

My still self is hopeless.

Do you dare listen to this story?

It’s not a love story, but there is a girl who wants to be a lover.

It’s not a movie or a drama, but only the truth, my daily nightmare.

It’s not about grand presidential politics, but the poor, the insignificant,

The politics of the daily, of families, of women and children,

And yes, of men.

Let’s not forget the men.

It’s about a girl surviving, about me, but I am so many girls,

So many, just surviving.

No school, no right, no peace.

No guidance, no respect.

Just a puppet played and covered with black cloth.

Let me live!

Let me play!

Take my hand…

Take me to school, let me study.

Don’t you have a heart? Are you an animal?

You’re my father, please, don’t kill me.

Please, brother, don’t sell me.

But who will listen?

I am lost, I am hopeless…

I am this story.

My life story.

Can you hear me?

I’m still hoping.

By Aysha

via Afghan Women’s Writing Project | A Buried Story.

Femix Fest 4.0 – YouTube Serbia Feminism

Femix Fest 4.0 održan je 13-14.12.2013. u beogradskom BIGZ-u.

Sa linka http://www.femix.info/femixfm/femikseta/ je moguć besplatan download Femiksete, jedine godišnje domaće kompilacije muzičarki i bendova sa ženskim autorstvom, čije četvrto izdanje je tom prilikom promovisano.

via Femix Fest 4.0 – YouTube.