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Mindfulness, monasticism, and women in Thai Buddhism
Katherine Scahill, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Music, has always been interested in the overlap of music and mindfulness. She grew up playing the violin, and, as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, first began exploring that intersection in compositions she created while studying with experimental composer Alvin Lucier. Meanwhile, another Wesleyan mentor, Jan Willis, a professor of religion, introduced her to the female monastic movement in Thai Buddhism.
A boulder-strewn village, screeching seabirds and sheep: Taking Portugal's roads less traveled
As we steered our rented hatchback up the narrow gravel road behind the walled city of Óbidos, we had the sinking feeling that Google Maps' idea of the best route to the popular tourist destination wasn't the standard way there, and certainly not the most direct. The dusty, tan path was wending past apple, pear and sour cherry orchards, which then transformed into vineyards, then back again to orchards as we climbed.
Taking Portugal’s roads less traveled
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Taking Portugal's roads less traveled
As we steered our rented hatchback up the narrow gravel road behind the walled city of Óbidos, we had the sinking feeling that Google Maps’ idea of the best route to the popular tourist destination wasn’t the standard way there, and certainly not the most direct. The dusty, tan path was wending past apple, pear and sour cherry orchards, which then transformed into vineyards, then back again to orchards as we climbed.
A boulder-strewn village, screeching seabirds and sheep: Taking Portugal’s roads less traveled
As we steered our rented hatchback up the narrow gravel road behind the walled city of Obidos, we had the sinking feeling that Google Maps’ idea of the best route to the popular tourist destination wasn’t the standard way there, and certainly not the most direct. The dusty, tan path was wending past apple, pear and sour cherry orchards, which then transformed into vineyards, then back again to orchards as we climbed.
Portugal's back roads
TRAVEL As we steered our rented hatchback up the narrow gravel road behind the walled city of Óbidos, we had the sinking feeling that Google Maps' idea of the best route to the popular tourist destination wasn't the standard way there, and certainly not the most direct. The dusty, tan path was wending past apple, pear and sour cherry orchards, which then transformed into vineyards, then back again to orchards as we climbed.
A boulder-strewn village, screeching seabirds and sheep: Taking Portugal’s roads less traveled
As we steered our rented hatchback up the narrow gravel road behind the walled city of Óbidos, we had the sinking feeling that Google Maps’ idea of the best route to the popular tourist destination wasn’t the standard way there, and certainly not the most direct. The dusty, tan path was wending past apple, pear and sour cherry orchards, which then transformed into vineyards, then back again to orchards as we climbed.
A boulder-strewn village, screeching seabirds and sheep: Taking Portugal’s roads less traveled
Published December 6, 2023 8:19 AM By KRISTEN DE GROOT Associated Press There’s a village built among massive boulders. Screeching seabirds. Lots of Roman ruins, sheep, old castles, beautiful coastlines, delicious cheeses and more. That’s what AP writer Kristen De Groot found when she and her husband decided to travel the back roads of Portugal this fall. They tried to avoid the usual tourist sites in favor of smaller cities and mountain villages.
A boulder-strewn village, screeching seabirds and sheep: Taking Portugal’s roads less traveled
As we steered our rented hatchback up the narrow gravel road behind the walled city of Óbidos, we had the sinking feeling that Google Maps’ idea of the best route to the popular tourist destination wasn’t the standard way there, and certainly not the most direct. The dusty, tan path was wending past apple, pear and sour cherry orchards, which then transformed into vineyards, then back again to orchards as we climbed.
A boulder-strewn village, screeching seabirds and sheep: Taking Portugal’s roads less traveled
NOTE: There's a village built among massive boulders. Screeching seabirds. Lots of Roman ruins, sheep, old castles, beautiful coastlines, delicious cheeses and more. That's what AP writer Kristen De Groot found when she and her husband decided to travel the back roads of Portugal this fall. They tried to avoid the usual tourist sites in favor of smaller cities and mountain villages.
Taking Portugal’s roads less traveled
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A boulder-strewn village, screeching seabirds and sheep: Taking Portugal’s roads less traveled
By KRISTEN DE GROOT Associated Press There’s a village built among massive boulders. Screeching seabirds. Lots of Roman ruins, sheep, old castles, beautiful coastlines, delicious cheeses and more. That’s what AP writer Kristen De Groot found when she and her husband decided to travel the back roads of Portugal this fall. They tried to avoid the usual tourist sites in favor of smaller cities and mountain villages.
A boulder-strewn village, screeching seabirds and sheep: Taking Portugal’s roads less traveled
As we steered our rented hatchback up the narrow gravel road behind the walled city of Óbidos, we had the sinking feeling that Google Maps’ idea of the best route to the popular tourist destination wasn’t the standard way there, and certainly not the most direct. The dusty, tan path was wending past apple, pear and sour cherry orchards, which then transformed into vineyards, then back again to orchards as we climbed.
A boulder-strewn village, screeching seabirds and sheep: Taking Portugal’s roads less traveled
KRISTEN DE GROOT, Associated Press Nov. 29, 2023 This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of23Glasses of Vinho Verde and local olives appear at sunset outside an old windmill-turned-Airbnb in the hills above Lourinhã, Portugal on Sept. 12, 2023, (Kristen de Groot via AP)Kristen de Groot/APShow MoreShow Less 2of23A home in the village of Monsanto, Portugal is situated around massive boulders in Monsanto, Portugal on Sept. 18, 2023.
Low-cost online interventions may encourage young voters, study shows
Young citizens across the globe vote at relatively low rates, which contributes to political parties' de-prioritizing issues that matter to youth, from climate change to well-paying jobs. A new study by political scientist Guy Grossman of the School of Arts & Sciences and co-authors looks at the effects of low-cost online interventions in encouraging young Moroccans to turn out and cast an informed vote in the 2021 elections.
Three things to know about the debt ceiling fight
Eyes are on Capitol Hill as negotiations continue between the White House and Republicans to resolve the debt ceiling standoff. If no spending agreement is reached, the United States could default on its outstanding loans as early as June 1. If that were to happen, then what? Penn Today asked Harold L. Cole to give a general overview of what happens after the deadline passes.
COVID-19 and anti-Asian hate
For her senior honors thesis, recent graduate Tiffany Tieu chose to look close to home to study anti-Asian racism in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In collaboration with fellow psychology major Hope Cho, Tieu conducted research on the topic surveying her peers, University students at Penn.
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Americans and Russians Should Be Friends—Even if Their Countries Aren’t
A modern history of ancient trees, through the lens of climate change Original
Humans have a long history of venerating ancient trees.
Broad bipartisan support for abortion exceptions Original
As next month's midterms loom ever larger, both Democrats and Republicans are weighing how the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will affect voter turnout. Will it bring out issue-only voters? What will it mean for voter enthusiasm among women and for mobilization overall? A new survey of about 22,000 adults released Monday shows 80% of Americans say abortion will be important to their vote on Nov. 8.
The legacy of Shinzo Abe
The murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by a gunman who fired a homemade weapon during a campaign stop shocked Japan, which has some of the world’s strictest gun laws. Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister before stepping down in 2020, died at a hospital. He was 67. Penn Today spoke to Frederick R.
Past plagues, current pandemics, and public hygiene messaging
History Ph.D. Candidate Sarah Xia Yu’s research looks at public health and hygiene in Republican China. Credit: Eric Sucar, University of Pennsylvania As the COVID-19 pandemic was starting its sweep across the globe in February 2020, history Ph.D. candidate Sarah Yu was set to return to Penn after spending six months traveling around Asia doing research for her dissertation on public hygiene in China.
The 'hijab effect': Feminist backlash to Muslim immigrants in Germany
Why do some Europeans discriminate against Muslim immigrants, and how can these instances of prejudice be reduced? Political scientist Nicholas Sambanis has spent the last few years looking into this question by conducting innovative studies at train stations across Germany involving willing participants, unknowing bystanders and, most recently, bags of lemons.
Hate crimes against Asians in Italy more frequent in areas with high unemployment
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Early into the coronavirus pandemic as anti-Asian violence began to rise in the United States and in Europe, political scientist Guy Grossman, Penn Development Research Initiative postdoctoral fellow Stephanie Zonszein, and Gemma Dipoppa, who earned her Ph.D. at Penn and is now a postdoc at Stanford University, wanted to look at what triggered these waves of hate crimes. Was it fear of infection, scapegoating, or something else?
Warner Bros. crackdown puts Dark Mark over Potter festivals
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Warner Bros. is cracking down on local Harry Potter fan festivals around the country, saying it’s necessary to halt unauthorized commercial activity. Fans, however, liken the move to Dementors sucking the joy out of homegrown fun, while festival directors say they’ll transfigure the events into generic celebrations of magic. “It’s almost as if Warner Bros.
COVID, politics and voting by mail
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The topic of mail-in voting has been top news lately, with Democrats touting its benefits early in the pandemic while some Republicans, President Trump in particular, insisted that the method is rife with fraud, a claim with no evidence to support it. Then came the report of recent cost-cutting measures by the U.S. Postal Service, just as record numbers of voters are expected to send their ballots via mail.
Q&A: Cholera vs. flu: Philadelphia's historical epidemic successes and failures
The map depicts the spread of cholera in Pennsylvania and other eastern states in 1832. Credit: New York Academy of Medicine By now, most Americans have heard the cautionary tale of Philadelphia's decision to hold a huge patriotic parade with nearly 100,000 spectators in the fall of 1918, a super-spreader event blamed for the city's overwhelming outbreak of flu in the following days. Within 72 hours of the parade, all hospital beds in the city were full.
Q&A: The unique recession amidst a global pandemic
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The U.S. economy officially entered a recession in February as the viral pandemic started its sweep across the nation. Francis Diebold and Jesús Fernández-Villaverde share why this one is unprecedented, and what to expect in the coming months. The U.S. economy officially entered a recession in February as the viral pandemic started its sweep across the nation.
Do political beliefs affect social distancing?
Lockdown protestors. CC-by-2.0 Becker1999 from Grove City, OH Experts say voluntary physical distancing in the United States was essential to slowing the spread of COVID-19 in the early days and weeks of the pandemic, even before such measures were mandatory. A group of researchers across four schools at Penn was interested in learning whether people's political beliefs influenced their decisions to stay home during that time.
Expert: Expect the fight against COVID-19 to last 'about 18 months'
This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow)—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient, emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab. Credit: NIAID-RML The United States should be prepared to battle the new coronavirus for about 18 months, and any effort to reopen the country before cases have substantially dropped will likely bring about a resurgence, according to Ezekiel J. Emanuel.
The Great Depression, the New Deal, and how disasters change politics
Edna Hershman paints a mural in the 1930s as part of a Works Progress Administration Program. Credit: Sol Horn/Archives of American Art The coronavirus pandemic has the United States facing a social and economic crisis with businesses shutting down, financial markets tumbling, and millions of Americans losing their jobs. The downturn has some economists wondering if the U.S. will face another depression, and even the president has compared the $2.2 trillion bailout package to the New Deal.
Demographic shifts, voter fears, and presidential voting
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Did Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign benefit from voters' fears of immigrants in communities experiencing greater demographic change? New research shows the answer is "no," a finding that contradicts the conventional wisdom and which surprised even the political scientists who conducted the study. Instead, those communities actually moved more toward the pro-immigration Democratic candidate.
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918's deadly flu
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — On Sept. 28, 1918, in the waning days of World War I, over 200,000 people gathered along Broad Street in Philadelphia for a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort. Among the patriotic throngs cheering for troops and floats was an invisible threat, which would be more dangerous to soldiers and civilians than any foreign enemy: the influenza virus. Officials went ahead with the parade despite the discouragement of the city health department about the ever-spreading virus.
From parade to pandemic
PHILADELPHIA — On Sept. 28, 1918, in the waning days of World War I, over 200,000 people gathered along Broad Street in Philadelphia for a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort. Among the patriotic throngs cheering for troops and floats was an invisible threat, which would be more dangerous to soldiers and civilians than any foreign enemy: the influenza virus. Officials went ahead with the parade despite the discouragement of the city health department about the ever-spreading virus.
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918's deadly flu
PHILADELPHIA — On Sept. 28, 1918, in the waning days of World War I, over 200,000 people gathered along Broad Street in Philadelphia for a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort. Among the patriotic throngs cheering for troops and floats was an invisible threat, which would be more dangerous to soldiers and civilians than any foreign enemy: the influenza virus. Officials went ahead with the parade despite the discouragement of the city health department about the ever-spreading virus.
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918's deadly flu
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — On Sept. 28, 1918, in the waning days of World War I, over 200,000 people gathered along Broad Street in Philadelphia for a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort. Among the patriotic throngs cheering for troops and floats was an invisible threat, which would be more dangerous to soldiers and civilians than any foreign enemy: the influenza virus. Officials went ahead with the parade despite the discouragement of the city health department about the ever-spreading virus.
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918's deadly flu
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — On Sept. 28, 1918, in the waning days of World War I, over 200,000 people gathered along Broad Street in Philadelphia for a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort. Among the patriotic throngs cheering for troops and floats was an invisible threat, which would be more dangerous to soldiers and civilians than any foreign enemy: the influenza virus. Officials went ahead with the parade despite the discouragement of the city health department about the ever-spreading virus.
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918′s deadly flu
PHILADELPHIA — On Sept. 28, 1918, in the waning days of World War I, more than 200,000 people gathered along Broad Street in Philadelphia for a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort. Among the patriotic throngs cheering for troops and floats was an invisible threat, which would be more dangerous to soldiers and civilians than any foreign enemy: the influenza virus. Officials went ahead with the parade despite the discouragement of the city health department about the ever-spreading virus.
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918's deadly flu
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — On Sept. 28, 1918, in the waning days of World War I, over 200,000 people gathered along Broad Street in Philadelphia for a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort. Among the patriotic throngs cheering for troops and floats was an invisible threat, which would be more dangerous to soldiers and civilians than any foreign enemy: the influenza virus. Officials went ahead with the parade despite the discouragement of the city health department about the ever-spreading virus.
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918's deadly flu
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — On Sept. 28, 1918, in the waning days of World War I, over 200,000 people gathered along Broad Street in Philadelphia for a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort. Among the patriotic throngs cheering for troops and floats was an invisible threat, which would be more dangerous to soldiers and civilians than any foreign enemy: the influenza virus. Officials went ahead with the parade despite the discouragement of the city health department about the ever-spreading virus.
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918's deadly flu
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — On Sept. 28, 1918, in the waning days of World War I, over 200,000 people gathered along Broad Street in Philadelphia for a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort. Among the patriotic throngs cheering for troops and floats was an invisible threat, which would be more dangerous to soldiers and civilians than any foreign enemy: the influenza virus. Officials went ahead with the parade despite the discouragement of the city health department about the ever-spreading virus.
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918's deadly flu
1 of 6 In this Sept. 28, 1918 photo provide by the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command the Naval Aircraft Factory float moves south on Broad Street escorted by Sailors during the a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort, in Philadelphia. The Mutter Museum will present a parade on Saturday Sept. 28, featuring about 500 members of the public, four illuminated floats and an original piece of music as a sort of moving memorial to the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. 1 of 6 In this Sept.
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918’s deadly flu
PHILADELPHIA — On Sept. 28, 1918, in the waning days of the First World War, more than 200,000 people gathered along Broad Street in Philadelphia for a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort. Among the patriotic throngs cheering for troops and floats was an invisible threat, which would be more dangerous to soldiers and civilians than any foreign enemy: the influenza virus.
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918's deadly flu
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — On Sept. 28, 1918, in the waning days of World War I, over 200,000 people gathered along Broad Street in Philadelphia for a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort. Among the patriotic throngs cheering for troops and floats was an invisible threat, which would be more dangerous to soldiers and civilians than any foreign enemy: the influenza virus. Officials went ahead with the parade despite the discouragement of the city health department about the ever-spreading virus.
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918’s deadly flu
PHILADELPHIA — On Sept. 28, 1918, in the waning days of the First World War, more than 200,000 people gathered along Broad Street in Philadelphia for a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort. Among the patriotic throngs cheering for troops and floats was an invisible threat, which would be more dangerous to soldiers and civilians than any foreign enemy: the influenza virus.
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918’s deadly flu
PHILADELPHIA — On Sept. 28, 1918, in the waning days of the First World War, more than 200,000 people gathered along Broad Street in Philadelphia for a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort. Among the patriotic throngs cheering for troops and floats was an invisible threat, which would be more dangerous to soldiers and civilians than any foreign enemy: the influenza virus.
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