Farmer by Farmer, an Organic Transition [YES! Magazine - John Cavanagh] After decades of chemicals, farmers in the Philippines are seeing the benefits of organic farming. But what convinced them to make the switch in the first place? none Egyptian Workers Hold Key to Uprising, New Union Association Issues Call for General Strike [Firedoglake - [...]
How to Hack Your Brain [Lifehacker - Adam Dachis] psychology self-care Samba Filesharing for Android Shares Your SD Card Over Wi-Fi [Lifehacker - Whitson Gordon] smartphone Watch Out Netflix – Amazon About To Launch Video Streaming Service If the screenshots are to be believed, the service will enable users to either watch a movie for [...]
Notable Quotes: African American Women Writers [About.com Women's History - with quote collections from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lorraine Hansberry.] women Where Are the Women? Wikipedia Edition [Feminist Law Professors - Tony Infanti] sexism Protesters Are Awesome: Egyptian Students Are Now Protecting the Libraries [GOOD - Cord Jefferson] On Friday we told [...]
Few Californians Understand the State’s Tax System. Fact. – The Bay Citizen Proposition 13 has been tinkered with many times, mainly to expand it (by allowing low tax assessments to be passed on within a family, for example). There is growing sentiment that applying Proposition 13 to business property, and maintaining the crazy-quilt of money [...]
Squeezing The Wrong Demo— there’s just too many of them This is the baby boom and there is a huge number of them. You can ignore them and pretend that it doesn't matter that this huge group is rapidly going through their meager retirement savings, but unless you are prepared to kill them, they're going [...]
Then and Now: Staggering 20 Year Transformation of Lujiazui District, Shanghai We found these two startling photos of Lujiazui District in Shanghai, one taken in 1990 and the other in 2010, as showcased by Business Insider. As you can see, the transformation is almost hard to believe. Lujiazui is currently a famous financial district in [...]
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Posted 28 January 2011
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From The House GOP’s Plan to Redefine Rape | Mother Jones: Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law. …the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” a bill with 173 mostly Republican co-sponsors that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) [...]
Convergence Solves Problems That Don’t Fit In One Field – Science News …the emerging field of convergence…integrates engineering, the physical sciences and life sciences to solve problems in health care, energy and other sectors. …an integration of disciplines that will require changes to the peer review system, funding mechanisms, the structure of academic departments and [...]
GOP Puts Guy Who Thinks Federal Child Labor Laws Are Unconstitutional On Senate Judiciary Committee [Think Progress - Ian Millhiser] There’s three things Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) likes in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and “unconstitutional.” Indeed, Lee has recently claimed that federal child labor laws, FEMA, food stamps, the FDA, Medicaid, income assistance [...]
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Free Minimal, Swiss Design WordPress Themes [Smashing Magazine] …we release yet another freebie: an original set of four exclusive minimal, clean WordPress themes designed by Marios Lublinski… These themes will come handy for artists, graphic designers, illustrators and photographers who’d like to have a clean, minimal portfolio to showcase their work. The themes are simple [...]
On standardized post formats | Andrew Nacin The actual implementation of post formats is pretty dry. It’s a custom taxonomy, with a custom meta box — two things any theme or plugin could register and leverage on their own. It uses APIs which have largely existed since WordPress 2.5… With term names and such, we [...]
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Posted 27 January 2011
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Carnivorous Plants Eat Poop From Tiny Bats [Wired: Science] wtf_nature Birds Are Best at Holding Quantum Entanglement [Wired: Science - Lisa Grossman] European robins can maintain quantum entanglement in their eyes a full 20 microseconds longer than the best laboratory systems, say physicists investigating how birds may use quantum effects to “see” Earth’s magnetic field. [...]
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Liveblog: FCIC Report Release – “None of What Happened Was an Act of God” Phil Angelides has begun a press conference about the release of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report. You can watch the release here. You can find the report here… recession real_estate_crisis Whispering at Autocrats – By Tom Malinowski | Foreign Policy [...]
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Posted 27 January 2011
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More Americans Are For Expanding Than Repealing Health Care Reform [Alas, a blog - Ampersand] A new poll by Kaiser and Harvard shows the problem the Republicans have: the only thing as unpopular as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would be to repeal the Affordable Care Act. 28% of Americans want to expand the ACA; [...]
Seriously Mr. President, Pat-Downs Are No Joke [ACLU blog - Suzanne Ito] This morning, Raw Story wrote: "Obama’s TSA pat-downs joke infuriates ACLU." "Infuriates" might be a tad strong, but jokes aside, President Obama has the power to stop these shockingly intrusive invasions of privacy . We've received more than 1,000 complaints by travelers, many [...]
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Posted 26 January 2011
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Why I Teach: Lighting a Fire | Teaching Tolerance I assigned my students the task of writing a letter to the paper on how to "break the chain of violence." … Mazie finally took the chance and emailed her letter to the paper. The following day it was in print… Inspired, the other students sent [...]
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Five gears in reverse [Balloon Juice - DougJ DougJson] Justin Fox has an outstanding piece on the effect of income inequality on economic growth. The gist: too much income inequality hurts economic growth, but businesses have pushed for–and will continue to push for–policies that increase income inequality. Read the whole thing. [link] economics economic_justice The [...]
Wordless Wednesday – Reigning Queen [About.com Women's History] Queen Mary I of England women history art Wednesday Geek Woman: Barbara Burford, medical scientist, writer and diversity activist [Geek Feminism Blog] Barbara Burford (1944–2010) was a medical scientist; a writer of fiction, plays and poetry; and a lifelong diversity activist. …She went on to specialise in [...]
Sundance is Here and The World Discovers Women Can Direct [Women and Hollywood] It feels like "Groundhog Day." The most visible film festival in the US and one that showcases independent films and SURPRISE there are women making great films around town. sexism entertainment Your Inner Glass Ceiling? Do you know what I find incredibly [...]
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Acting Like Animals: Penguin Flash Mob! …a normal flash mob would just do something stupid, like a spontaneous pillow fight in the middle of a big public venue. And the flashmobguins would probably do the same thing… EXCEPT THEY ARE FREAKING PENGUINS SO IT WOULD BE LIKE A MILLION TIMES BETTER! cute_animals The original Battlestar [...]
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