May 2011
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Center for Investigative Reporting: Climate change... →
centerforinvestigativereporting: Apocalyptic images of global climate change include drought, rising sea levels, suffocating coral reefs and emaciated, drowning polar bears. But a new study points to some of the more immediate and mundane side effects of global warming: runny noses, itchy eyes and persistent coughs. … ICK.
May 25th
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Accusing the accuser || The Daily →
So why are we so interested in what a victim did, or what she looks like, or what her sexual history is? None of that makes her more or less likely to be assaulted. The scary truth is that women are raped because they had the bad luck of being stuck in a room with a rapist.
May 25th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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“What happened to Maria Halpin next was a cruel injustice straight out of a...”
– Grover Cleveland’s Sex Scandal: The Most Despicable in American Political History - The Daily Beast
May 25th
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The Case—Please Hear Me Out—Against the Em Dash →
aesalazar: According to the Associated Press Stylebook—Slate’s bible for all things punctuation- and grammar-related—there are two main prose uses—the abrupt change and the series within a phrase—for the em dash. The guide does not explicitly say that writers can use the dash in lieu of properly crafting sentences, or instead of a comma or a parenthetical or a colon—and yet in practical...
May 25th
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May 25th
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WikiSecrets - Video | FRONTLINE | PBS →
Watching this right now.
May 25th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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“Disney had never marketed its characters separately from a film’s release,...”
– Peggy Orenstein on Disney Princesses, from her book Cinderella Ate My Daughter, which I am currently reading.
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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Get ready to see your favorite PBS shows... →
yuck. But I notice this is already happening on video.pbs.org.
May 23rd
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First Listen: My Morning Jacket, 'Circuital' : NPR →
Will be listening to this after I finish the First Listen of Death Cab for Cutie’s album.
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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French Feminists Protest Reactions to the... →
theatlantic: With much of France bristling at America’s treatment of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the county’s feminists are pushing back. Three women’s pressure groups rallied in Paris Sunday publishing a 6,000-signature petition lambasting Strauss-Kahn’s reflexive apologists in the aftermath of his rape allegations. “We do not know what happened in New York Saturday May 14, but...
May 23rd
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