March 2011
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Spreading Fat Stigma Around the Globe -... →
Dr. Brewis said she fully expected high levels of fat stigma to show up in the “Anglosphere” countries, including the United States, England and New Zealand, as well as in body-conscious Argentina. But what she did not expect was how strongly people in the rest of the testing sites expressed negative attitudes about weight. The results, Dr. Brewis said, suggest a surprisingly rapid...
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“I was happy to see that Newt Gingrich has staked out a position on the war, a...”
– Rand Paul (via jeffmiller)
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NPR Fresh Air: Public Media Peabody Recipients... →
newshour:
nprfreshair:
Almost every link goes to the full performance. Enjoy!
Radiolab (their tumblr)
Great Performances: Macbeth (PBS)
Sherlock: A Study in Pink (David Bianculli review)
Lucia’s Letter (WGCU)
LennonNYC (Cynthia Lennon on Fresh Air)
Trafficked: A Youth Radio Investigation
Congratulations all! ^TG
There’s a lot of public media on the recipients’...
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KCET-TV said to be in talks to sell studio to... →
publicmedia:
Financially strapped KCET-TV is in talks to sell its landmark Sunset Boulevard studio to the Church of Scientology, according to people who know about the pending deal. The Los Angeles television station, which is struggling to rebuild viewership after its recent split from PBS, plans to move its operations to a smaller location, real estate brokers said. Station officials have been...
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“my point is that the sorts of people you are charged to fight represent a grave,...”
– Dear Wonder Woman: YOU Will Get Arrested If You Fight Crime In That Top : Monkey See : NPR
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California library to stop carrying books. →
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The Daily Beast: Europe's Looming Refugee Crisis →
The immigrant population on the island [of Lampedusa] has now reached 6,200—that’s 1,200 more than the resident population. On Sunday, local fishermen anchored their boats to block the harbor as listing boats turned to head toward Sicily. Lampedusa’s 850-bed detention center is far over its capacity and many of the island’s hotels have been sequestered by police to house women and children....
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“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to...”
– Anne Lamott (via my QotD calendar)
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“They’re fucking gross, man. Look, I love beautiful girls too. I think everyone...”
– Amy Poehler on American Apparel (via mollylambert)
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Watch“If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.” — Ai WeiWei
Y’all, I think I have a new hero.
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“It’s likely that the feelings of some residents of Cleveland, Texas are a...”
– —William Jelani Cobb dissects the national reaction to the gang rape of a young girl in Texas, and explains what it means about our society in “Cleveland, Texas and Gender Jim Crow.” (via thenationmagazine)
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Think Globally, Destroy Locally: Environmentalism... →
Out there, in the Mojave’s industrial context, where lots of things are happening on the scale of the global economy, having 250 or 2,500 acres of mirrors making steam to turn a turbine is not that weird. Nature-loving city people don’t go to the human areas of the Mojave for a reason: That country is big, mechanical, and fast. It is the opposite of what people wander into the...
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Somewhat related to my last post
Since I cut the cord a year ago, my TV-watching time has gone way down. I still have appointment shows, but there are far less of them than there used to be (I used to watch at least 8 hours a week).
Current shows I try to watch live:
Chuck
Frontline
The Good Wife
Modern Family
Cougar Town (currently on hiatus)
Parks and Recreation
Fringe
Current shows I watch online (when I remember):
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New Whit Stillman Movie Picked Up by Sony Pictures... →
I don’t care what this movie is about or who is in it — I will be seeing it!
P.S. I just added his past three movies to my Netflix queue so I can rewatch them. I haven’t seen a Stillman movie since the early aughts.
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A Texas billionaire. The "King of Superfund... →
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Report: BP Managers May Face Manslaughter Over... →
theatlantic:
BP managers presiding over 2010’s devastating gulf oil spill may not be getting off as scot-free as the public once perceived.
According to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources, federal prosecutors are considering charging BP managers with involuntary manslaughter or seaman’s manslaughter charges (a “more serious penalty of up to 10 years”) for sacrificing safety for speed...
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Two and a Half Men and the rise and fall of the... →
Overall I agree with this piece*, but I disagree with her view of Flight of the Conchords. Humiliation, yes. Mutual dislike? Nope.
*More Parks and Recreation love!
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“There is precedent for such women being ignored as attention focuses on packs of...”
– Washington’s Lady Journos Have Been Here All Along
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If you care about journalism, this is your morning... →
motherjones:
Really.
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“For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We’d been waiting to...”
– Elizabeth McCracken, “An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination”
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Laura Jacobs: Dancing the Body Electric →
ladyjournos:
A look back at New York’s 1970s dance boom City Journal || Winter 2011
After reading this essay, I went and watched all of Paul Taylor’s “Esplanade” on YouTube.
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Thoughts on "MI-5"
I don’t think I’ve watched another TV show where so many regular characters are killed off.
(I’m on series 4)
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