Retail Websites Admit They Sort Of Encourage Drunk-Buying – The Consumerist The Happiness Project: Making New Year’s Resolutions? Ask Yourself 6 Questions. Isadora Duncan …brought modern dance to the world, living with personal tragedy from childhood to the loss of her two children to her dramatic death. Read more about and from this woman who [...]
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Learn Code The Hard Way — Books And Courses To Learn To Code This is a mini-book that teaches you Unix or Windows command line skills. Unlike the “Learn The Hard Way” series, this crash course is designed to get you mostly capable in a few hours to a few days. It has little explanation [...]
One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom Information Diet | Dear Internet: It’s No Longer OK to Not Know How Congress Works If Congress is complaining that they don’t know about something that you care about, the right answer isn’t to tell them to go get educated. The right answer is to [...]
Study: 77 Percent of Latina Retail Workers Earn Less Than $10/hr – COLORLINES A new study by the Retail Action Project and the City University of New York released data that shows a dramatic gender gap in wages in the retail industry — one in which black and Latina women are hit the hardest. The [...]
Watch this African Bullfrog exact sweet, sweet revenge on its goading owners tags: video IBM Explains How Mind-Reading Machines Will Change Our Lives In five years, we’ll simply be able to think something, and a computer will respond. [And that's when we'll discover that most people don't think clearly enough to execute most tasks. On [...]
Reading Shakespeare in Pyongyang – By Abraham M. Denmark | Foreign Policy The prospect of Kim Jong Il’s death has loomed over Asia ever since he suffered a major stroke in 2008. And yet we have still managed to be surprised: Official word of the Dear Leader’s demise has inserted a profound sense of uncertainty [...]
Meet Gordon, the World’s First Flash Supercomputer | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com Supercomputers aren’t what they used to be. The Chinese are building a supercomputer with their own microprocessors, shunning American chip giants Intel and AMD. The Spanish are building one with cellphone chips. And this week, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) officially plugged [...]
This orphaned baby bat is the cutest thing you’ll see all day tags: cute_animals U.S. News – EPA: ‘Fracking’ likely polluted town’s water A controversial method of drilling for oil and natural gas appears to be the cause of groundwater pollution in a central Wyoming town, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday. NYT: Used [...]
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An Ode to a ‘Poor Black Kid’ I Never Knew: How Forbes Gets Poverty Wrong – News – GOOD …one day things got scary enough that [the teacher], accompanied by a police officer, felt it necessary to escort the student home to speak with his parents. When they got to his apartment about a mile [...]
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Gingrich’s Tax Plan: Give $760,000 to Every Millionaire in America | Firedoglake • David Dayen Newt Gingrich actually released his tax plan months ago, when he languished in the polls. …Nobody had any interest in actually scoring Gingrich’s plan until he surged in the polls. But now, the Tax Policy Center has taken a look. [...]
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Why do people defend unjust, inept, and corrupt systems? Reviewing laboratory and cross-national studies, the paper illuminates four situations that foster system justification: system threat, system dependence, system inescapability, and low personal control. … Says Kay: “If you want to understand how to get social change to happen, you need to understand the conditions that [...]
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My first Thanksgiving with white people – Eatocracy – CNN.com Blogs It was a real eye-opening experience for me in that up to this point, I thought we had pretty much navigated across the sea of cultural differences between us. I taught him how to play spades, he taught me gin rummy, it was all [...]