March 2012
56 posts
“We are now living in a time in which the first generation in history that never...”
– Study finds link to socially aggressive narcissism (via nevver)
fuckyeahreading!: National Reading Month Continued →
kwiqapps:
March 2012, the National Reading Month, is almost over. Reading should not stop, ever!
On my to work this morning, I was listening to Michael Krasny’s Forum on KQED Public Radio. It is a panel discussion on high school drop out /push out problem in America. One data point struck…
“We’ve arranged a global civilization in which the most crucial elements —...”
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (via philphys)
Watchsocialuprooting:
Jeremy Scahill: Why is President Obama Keeping Yemeni Journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye in Prison?
The Obama administration is facing scrutiny for its role in the imprisonment of a Yemeni journalist who exposed how the United States was behind a 2009 bombing in Yemen that killed 14 women and 21 children. In January 2011, a Yemeni state security court gave the journalist,...
First Neutrino Message Sent Through Rock; Could... →
npr:
“Researchers from the University of Rochester and North Carolina State University have for the first time sent a message using a beam of neutrinos — nearly massless particles that travel at almost the speed of light,” U of R reports.
And they pushed the message — which simply spelled out the world “Neutrino” — through “240 meters of stone” (787 feet).
What if we could shoot a message...
Watchthedailywhat:
TV Show Promo of the Day: Straight from Nickelodeon’s upfront to your eyeballs, it’s a brand new supertrailer for the network’s hotly anticipated Avatar sequel, which is now being called simply The Legend of Korra.
But wait, there’s more: After much back-and-forth, the official, for-real-this-time premiere date of episode 1 has been revealed: Saturday, April 14th @ 11 AM ET.
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A Momentary Flow: 33rd Square | Woolly Mammoth To... →
wildcat2030:
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future A Siberian woolly mammoth preserved in permafrost could walk the Earth again after 10,000 years, after Russian academics signed a deal with a controversial Korean scientist to clone the animal. Hwang Woo-Suk of South Korea’s Sooam Biotech…
“The UN special rapporteur on torture has formally accused the US government of...”
– The Guardian, “Bradley Manning’s Treatment Was Cruel and Inhuman, U.N. Torture Chief Rules” (via inothernews)
“”From Sachs to Kristof to Invisible Children to TED, the fastest growing...”
– Teju Cole (via thinksquad)
“India, the second-largest producer of cotton, instituted the ban with immediate...”
– China protests at India cotton export ban - CNN.com
This is going to get worse before it gets better. (via thecallus)
Indigenous in Ecuador march against copper mining... →
solitaryforager:
from Deep Green Resistance News Service
“Columbus was a wétiko. He was mentally ill or insane, the carrier of a terribly...”
– Jack D. Forbes, “Columbus and Other Cannibals” (via cuntymint)
The Atlantic: Why It's Cheaper to Go to Harvard... →
theatlantic:
If you are the child of a middle class family in California, it is probably cheaper for you to attend college at Harvard than at a nearby public university.
You read correctly. Cheaper.
The Bay Area News Group recently crunched the numbers using a family of four making $130,000 a year. Between…
