- Openbook – Connect and share whether you want to or not
- “They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks.”
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
- NotRacistBut.com: Is Facebook the New Face of Racism?
- …NotRacistBut blurs the names of racist offenders but not their profile pictures, proving that what you put online may rear its head. NotRacistBut.com uses openly available posts and comments from Facebook to paint a disillusioning picture of a not-so-postracial society, illustrating that the world of backdoor bigotry is not as private as it seems.
- Naomi Campbell: Chocolate Bar Ad Is Offensive | The Root
- British supermodel Naomi Campbell has rallied support in her beef with U.K. candy giant Cadbury after the company compared her to its Bliss chocolate bar in a new advertisement, the Independent reports.
Campbell reportedly plans to take action against Cadbury, a subsidiary of Kraft Foods, because the company initially refused to stop running the ad, which reads, "Move over Naomi, there's a new diva in town."
- U.S. Military, Citizen Disconnect Growing | Miller-McCune
- Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been making the rounds this spring with a message that echoes, in parts, the message our Jeff Shear recently presented in his recent three-part series on America’s era of persistent conflict. That message is that the professional American military — the all-volunteer force it’s been since 1973* — is less and less a cross-section of America as a whole.
- California’s High-Speed Rail Won’t Go Nowhere | Miller-McCune
- The idea behind starting in the Central Valley is to bring jobs to a hardscrabble part of California. It will also accomplish some work on an uncomplicated stretch before the lines have to run through dense neighborhoods like Palo Alto or Anaheim. That makes sense on the surface, but resistance even at this early stage is intense. A few writers and politicians have damned the Central Valley line as a “train to nowhere.”
European high-speed rail, of course, wasn’t built overnight
- ‘Just Do It!’ Culture Feeds Confirmation Bias | Miller-McCune
- While it’s encouraging to find this effect can be negated, few of us consciously affirm our values on a regular basis. But in our advertising-saturated, contemplation-phobic culture, we do get bombarded with advice to take action.
- Fixing the FCC, America’s Broken Regulator | Miller-McCune
- FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker announced earlier this month that she’s leaving the agency for a job as the senior vice president of government affairs for Comcast-NBC Universal. The decision wasn’t particularly surprising or even unusual. …
Baker’s timing, however, caused an uproar: In January, she voted to approve the merger of Comcast and NBC, creating the very company for which she’ll be lobbying later this summer.
- Taming the U.S. Government’s Secrecy Machine | Miller-McCune
- The plodding effort to bring a modicum of common sense to how the U.S. declassifies its documents has resisted most efforts to rev it up in the digital age.
- State Budget Cuts Hurting Quality of Research | Miller-McCune
- …a panel of educators said earlier this month at an American Association for the Advancement of Science conference.
While federal grants support 60 percent of university research, AAAS senior policy adviser Albert Teich said, America’s diverse and decentralized education system depends heavily on state funds as well.
- Rewarding Whistle-blowers For Greater Compliance | Miller-McCune
- In the wake of some spectacular instances of corporate evildoing, the SEC is wondering about offering serious cash to entice people who want to come forward.
- Energy Conservation Through the Lens of Faith | Miller-McCune
- Within the three monotheistic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, an effort grounded in a shared theology has spawned Interfaith Power and Light, a national organization that preaches energy conservation and sustainability from a religious perspective.
- The Tastiest Enemy: Eating Invasive Species | Miller-McCune
- The idea that if you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em has found new resonance in the battle against one particularly voracious invasive species, the lionfish.
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