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- to give youth and adults the concrete tools they need to make schools safer for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students right now.
- Paul Krugman on Inspiration for a Liberal Economist | FiveBooks | The Browser
- …nobody has all the answers. What we know is what we have evidence for. We do the best we can, but anybody who claims to be able to deduce or have revelation about The Truth – with both Ts capitalised – is wrong. It doesn’t work that way. The only reasonable way to approach life is with an attitude of humane scepticism. I felt that a great weight had been lifted from my shoulders when I read that book.
- Church Fight! – STFU, Conservatives
- “This is literally a ‘church signs’ debate, being played out in a Southern US town, between Our Lady of Martyrs Catholic Church, and Cumberland Presbyterian, a fundamentalist church. From top to bottom shows you the response and counter-response over time. The Catholics are displaying a much better sense of humor! You get the impression that the Presbyterians are actually taking this seriously and are getting a bit upset…”
- Gender Across Borders » Blog Archive » Male birth control with no side effects? Thank you, India.
- This might be premature, but I’m about ready to kiss Sujoy Guha’s feet.
This 70-year-old Indian scientist has developed a form of male birth control that is non-hormonal, 100 percent effective and has no side effects. The procedure, called RISUG (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance), involves injecting a positively charged, non-toxic polymer into the vas deferens that renders passing sperm useless. If the male decides he wants to reproduce, a second injection dissolves the polymer. Easy.
It’s like a vasectomy, but without the side effects, and it’s completely reversible. It lasts at least seven years and early research participants have been using it for 20 years.
- Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Create Social Change — Interview with Tina Rosenberg
- …forming this really cool, hip, positive movement that allowed people to think of themselves as daring and heroic instead of passive victims. I decided that I needed to write a book looking at how this strategy can be employed in other ways. …
The purpose of a social cure is not to inform
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