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“And I said, R.J., which is my older son, get up, son. And right when I said get...”
– Reginald Eppes, a survivor of the deadly tornado that has already claimed nearly 300 lives, tells NPR how his oldest son was pulled from their home by the tornado.  His son survived and found his way back home with minimal injuries. Read full segment (via centerforinvestigativereporting)
Apr 29th
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This clip does a good job of getting my hopes up... →
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Apr 28th
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“The two big news stories this week have been: A) A young couple being exalted...”
– Jay’s Other Stuff.    
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Apr 27th
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Steven Moffat makes sexist comments, I am... →
nerdshares: “Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male.” — Time Lad...
Apr 27th
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New Census Figures Show Women Better Educated Than... →
cheatsheet: Yet still get paid less.
Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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Just took my computer in to Happy Mac because of the stuck memory cards I couldn’t budge and they got them out, switched their slots, the computer chimed on and now it works again.  Unlike the $90 or more I expected to have to spend, they just took a $5 tip from me. Although I’m still confused as to why my computer was beeping at me if it works now, I’m not unhappy. This...
Apr 26th
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Jante Law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Watching a Swedish documentary on Robyn which just introduced me to this term: The Jante Law (Danish and Norwegian: Janteloven; Swedish: Jantelagen; Finnish: Janten laki; Faroese:Jantulógin) is a pattern of group behaviour towards individuals within Scandinavian communities, which negatively portrays and criticizes individual success and achievement as unworthy and inappropriate. It seems people...
Apr 25th
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NY case underscores Wi-Fi privacy dangers - Yahoo!... →
This kind of thing is exactly why I password-protect my router.
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Pork tapeworm, grody. →
joshsternberg: “You actually have cases of people being diagnosed with brain tumors only to find out what they actually have is a tapeworm living in their brain,” she says. “And what really astonished me is that tapeworms, in the brain, are the leading cause of epilepsy worldwide.” - Amy Stewart, talking about the pork tapeworm in a discussion with NPR about her new book, Wicked Bugs. If there...
Apr 25th
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April 25: C.P. Cavafy’s “The Mirror in the... →
The Mirror in the Entrance, C. P. Cavafy  In the entrance hallway of that sumptuous home there was an enormous mirror, very old; acquired at least eighty years ago. A strikingly beautiful boy, a tailor’s assistant, (on Sunday afternoons, an amateur athlete), was standing with a package. He handed it to one of the household, who then went back inside to fetch a receipt. The tailor’s assistant...
Apr 25th
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My fun birthday week
Plans for this week include: Tonight - Mumford & Sons ACL taping (thanks to my pal who got me on the list) Tomorrow night - birthday dinner with friends Wednesday night - Flogging Molly at Stubbs (my friend had a free ticket) Thursday night - Party at Paramount Theatre where the summer film schedule will be announced Exciting!
Apr 25th
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“There’s a certain voyeurism in this kind of coverage — a sense that...”
– Getting Away with Murder on Long Island
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“A new study looking at 100 top-grossing movies from 2008 finds that women speak...”
– ONTD via Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism (via thepoliticalpartygirl)
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“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via azspot)
Apr 22nd
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The Apple Fell Far from the Tree by Kwame Anthony... →
The British documentary maker Peter Firstbrook stepped into one of these large patrilineal clans when he arrived in Kenya, in late November 2008, to scout materials for a film about the president-elect’s Kenyan background. As he got to know the relatives of the new leader of the free world, they told him who they were in the way that was most natural to them: by connecting themselves backward in...
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“As inevitable as his arrest was, it is equally galling. As the essayist Zha...”
– China Misunderstood: Did We Contribute to Ai Weiwei’s Arrest? by Ian Johnson | NYRBlog | The New York Review of Books
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Guest DJ: Simone Dinnerstein : Deceptive Cadence :... →
Dinnerstein admits to playing Bach close to her own personality: “inward-looking, meditative and rhythmically free.” She says the way people play music is a lot like they are themselves as people. “I tend to be introspective,” she says. “I tend to like music that is sensitive, slow and I like stuff that’s kind of dreamy.”
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