Staff Picks: Sites that Spark Creativity Nearly A Third Of Netflix Users Are Considering Canceling Their Service | SocialTimes.com • by Megan O’Neill 24 Fabulous One Page Web Layouts | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch Create An Animated Bar Graph With HTML, CSS And jQuery – Smashing Coding Epistemic Utility Arguments for [...]
Pro-slavery propaganda from the 1800s USA | Feministe • by Clarisse Thorn …in the early 1800s, pro-slavery authors reacted to the anti-slavery classic Uncle Tom’s Cabin by writing their own pro-slavery propaganda. I guess that makes sense. What’s really cool is that you can go ahead and read one of those pro-slavery books, in all [...]
jointure: Dictionary.com Word of the Day jointure: property given to a woman upon marriage, to be owned by her after her husband’s death. > patriarchy Gabon | About.com African History Gabon, the last of the four territories which had formed French Equatorial Africa, achieved independence on 17 August 1960 with Gabriel Léon M’Ba as president. [...]
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Posted 17 August 2011
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Feminist Philosophy of Biology | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy * by Carla Fehr Practitioners of feminist philosophy of biology use gender as an analytic category to conduct philosophical investigations of the biological sciences. >feminism Renata Salecl: How Limitless Choice Limits Social Change | Brain Pickings Jewish bodies found in Medieval well | ABlogAboutHistory.com • by [...]
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Posted 26 June 2011
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languagehat.com: WORDS OF 1916. Having posted on the first two installments of Dave Wilton’s “word of the year” series (words of 1911, words of 1912), I hadn’t been planning to continue, but his latest post, on words first attested in 1916, contains one so dear to my heart I can’t resist: proto-Indo-European… Renata Salecl: How [...]
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Posted 24 June 2011
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Believing in Free Will Gives You More Power to Take Action | Lifehacker • by Adam Dachis It's kind of a paradox: having free will depends on whether or not you believe you have it. According to a recent study published in Psychological Science, when you deny the existence of free will you're actually hindering [...]
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Posted 31 May 2011
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BREAKING: Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin Makes History By Signing Into Law Single Payer Health Care | Think Progress • by Zaid Jilani The legislation would make Vermont the first state in the nation to, as Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) said, make health care “a right and not a privilege.” Now that the law is signed, [...]
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Posted 26 May 2011
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On Polanski and Other Gods and Monsters – "But whatever comes next, I’m going to remember this Polanski episode as a crucible for my feeble romanticism about what artists do. I think I’ve forgotten that my love of a work involves leaps of faith for me, but not necessarily for its creator. Because you know [...]