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Download audio (free) of delightful conversation between Robert Thurman and Pico Iyer, moderated by Mark Gonnerman, at Stanford. They discuss the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, education, life on the road and things that contribute to happiness and well being.

Envoys of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, are going to China for talks with officials, the Dalai Lama’s office says.

Love eating bitter gourd/ bitter melon in Bhutan and China… Looking forward to studying this beautiful reference to all things bitter melon and figuring out what to do with it at home.

Olivia Judson asks what’s it like living on a cloud? There’s some wild microbial life going on there. Living conditions, nutritional information and lots of good questions.

SSBX is partnering with MIT to bring a FabLAB (Fabrication Laboratory) to the South Bronx. FabLAB is an international project started at MIT Center for Bits and Atoms , aiming to bring digital fabrication, to ordinary folks for solving community problems. (Thanks and congratulations, Paris!)