February 2012
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“The “upper class,” as defined by the study, were more likely to break the law...”
– Wealthy More Likely To Lie, Cheat: Researchers (via nickbaumann)
Oh are we going to take candy from babies now? I love that.
(via turnabout)
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Watchpoptech:
Megan White Mukuria on making it
Am I normal? Am I special? Am I going to make it? These are questions teenagers struggle with around the globe. And for vulnerable girls in Kenya, the answer to the last question - if Social Innovation Fellow Megan White Mukuria has anything to do with it - is yes. Making it means making sure those girls receive an education. So White wondered, “If...
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brooklynmutt:
Splitting the atom, Massive Attack...
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“No one could blame American women here if they all suddenly decided to leave the...”
– John Oliver on American contraception debates, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake)
Barrett Garese: kenyatta: “…the world is currently... →
kenyatta:
“…the world is currently run by a generation whose upbringing has left them intellectually unable to be deal with modernity. This isn’t their fault. For someone to be in charge today, they’re more than likely to be in their 50s or 60s. Which means that when the Berlin Wall fell…
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Decision time for researchers of deadly bird flu →
(Reuters) - When 22 bird flu experts meet at the World Health Organization this week, they will be tasked with deciding just how far scientists should go in creating lethal mutant viruses in the name of research.
The hurriedly assembled meeting is designed to try to settle an unprecedented row over a call to ban publication of two scientific studies which detail how to mutate H5N1 bird flu...
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“Library sex began with high hopes. Long before the era of the public library,...”
– Avi Steinberg, The Paris Review. Checking Out.
A brief history of libraries, librarians and sex in which we learn that “again and again,” in contemporary library-porn lit, “the neglected love life of the librarian is a stand-in for the doomed state of the library generally.” (via...
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“Abu Suleiman was working methodically to wrap the body of a seven-year-old girl...”
– The Guardian’s Paul Wood in Homs, Syria (via pantslessprogressive)
not surprising that the biggest scholarship i...
bronwen:
turnabout:
headphonesnotrequired:
greenstate:
sea-parrot:
do i dare write a bullshit essay about freedom and personal liberties in order to pay for college?
i almost feel like it’s my responsibility to win this scholarship to take it away from some libertarian out there. i mean, the free market can provide their college funding, right?
This is honestly something I’ve...
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not surprising that the biggest scholarship i...
greenstate:
sea-parrot:
do i dare write a bullshit essay about freedom and personal liberties in order to pay for college?
i almost feel like it’s my responsibility to win this scholarship to take it away from some libertarian out there. i mean, the free market can provide their college funding, right?
This is honestly something I’ve seriously considered before.
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Mohandas Gandhi: Life For A 21-Year-Old In Homs,... →
newsweek:
This is happening:
Maras, 21, awoke yesterday morning at 6:00 a.m. to the sound of bombs falling on his neighborhood.
In his world, the Bab Amro neighborhood of Homs in central Syria, this was not the part of his day that shocked him most. This was how it had been for the…
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“The Way” // Fastball
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“I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and...”
– Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, an officer turned whistleblower who disputes the official narrative about Afghanistan. Read his full article at the Armed Forces Journal and the New York Times story about how he became a whistleblower. (via govtoversight)
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