Did you know: TITLE IX protects against gender discrimination beyond athletics.
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May 23, 2013
Social Networking and the National Movement to “Know Your IX” » Sociological Images
May 22, 2013
Is Your State Bird a Stupid State Bird? What It Should Be Instead.
Seven cardinals but no hawks? Come on!
May 15, 2013
Forcing Your Old Abercrombie and Fitch Clothes on Homeless People is a Bad Idea
Using homeless people to make a joke? Ugh.
May 15, 2013
Developers Destroy 2300 Year Old Mayan Pyramid To Use The Stone For a ROAD.
BELIZE CITY (AP) â A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday.
May 11, 2013
May 1, 2013
Michael Pollan is a sexist pig; excerpt from "Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity"
“Femivores” have made DIY domesticity cool. But critics who blame feminism for obesity and fast food have it wrong
Yet, due to the pervasive romanticization of the preindustrial family farm, today only 60 percent of Americans say they believe they’ve benefited from modern food technologies (including pasteurizing, fermenting, drying, freezing, fortification, and canning). Of the 60 percent who believe there are benefits to modern food technology, only 30 percent say modern technologies have increased food safety. In reality, we’ve all benefited vastly from these technologies, and many of us would actually be dead without them.
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The food movement, with its insistence on how fun and fulfilling and morally correct cooking is, seems to have trouble imagining why women might not have wanted to spend all their time in front of the stove. Since scratch cooking today is largely a hobby or a personal choice of the middle class, many of us wish we could spend more time in the kitchen. […] It’s easy to forget, in the face of today’s foodie culture, that cooking is not fun when it’s mandatory.
February 16, 2013
Chocolate is mostly genetically modified corn + soy.
Big corporations have taken over all US processed food and sue small farmers for existing.
(Source: miredingravity)
January 30, 2013
Domestic Cats are the #1 Killer of Wildlife
If you’re worried about human impact on the environment, keep your cat inside.
December 26, 2012
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[Sell-by dates] have very little to do with food safety. If you’re worried whether food is still OK to eat, just smell it.
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This is all organized and carried out by food companies; there’s no federal law that requires dates on any food except for infant formula, although some states do require sell-by dates on milk or meat.
Still, these dates don’t really tell you anything about whether food is safe.
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December 26, 2012
"There’s a strong desire to standardise education in the United States, to make it one-size-fits-all, to promote a single unified theory of educational experience and methodology, and it just doesn’t work. Different student needs are not a bad thing, something to be punished, something to medicate students for in order to force them to conform. They’re just needs, and they need to be identified and addressed rather than shoved under the table and ignored. In a school system truly focused on improving opportunities for students and addressing educational disparities, we wouldn’t be glomming students in large, amorphous groups and then being surprised when many of them don’t perform well."
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December 14, 2012
"Having different “justice systems” for citizens based on their status, wealth, power and prestige is exactly what the US founders argued most strenuously had to be avoided (even as they themselves maintained exactly such a system). But here we have in undeniable clarity not merely proof of exactly how this system functions, but also the rotted and fundamentally corrupt precept on which it’s based: that some actors are simply too important and too powerful to punish criminally. As the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz warned in 2010, exempting the largest banks from criminal prosecution has meant that lawlessness and “venality” is now “at a higher level” in the US even than that which prevailed in the pervasively corrupt and lawless privatizing era in Russia."
— HSBC, too big to jail, is the new poster child for US two-tiered justice system | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk (via brute-reason)
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December 14, 2012
"[F]or the first time since the Great Depression, the social mobility of Americans is moving in reverse. In every decade from the 1970s on, fewer people have been able to move up the income ladder than in the previous 10 years. Now Americans in their thirties earn 12% less on average than their parents’ generation at the same age. Danes, Norwegians, Finns, Canadians, Swedes, Germans, and the French now all enjoy higher rates of upward mobility than Americans. Remarkably, 42% of American men raised in the bottom one-fifth income cohort remain there for life, as compared to 25% in Denmark and 30% in notoriously class-stratified Great Britain."
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December 14, 2012
Did you know professional sports teams blackmail cities for billions of taxpayer dollars?
According to Harvard professor Judith Grant Long and economist Andrew Zimbalist, the average public contribution to the total capital and operating cost per sports stadium from 2000 to 2006 was between $249 and $280 million. A fantastic interactive map at Deadspin estimates that the total cost to the public of the 78 pro stadiums built or renovated between 1991 and 2004 was nearly $16 billion. That’s enough to build three Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Or fund, in today’s dollars, 15 Saturn V moon rocket launches — three more than the number of launches in the entire Apollo/Skylab program. It’s also more than what Chrysler received in the Great Recession-triggered auto industry bailout ($10.5 billion), and bigger than the 2010 GDP of 84 different nations. How does this happen? Simple. Team owners ask for public handouts and threaten to move elsewhere unless they get them, pitting cities against in each other in corporate welfare bidding wars — wars rooted in the various publicly granted antitrust exemptions that effectively allow sports leagues to control and maintain a limited supply of teams to be leveraged against widespread demand.
December 14, 2012
Department of Justice officials insist the HSBC (giant bank) is too powerful and important to subject to the rule of law.
[W]e are constantly told that immunizing those with the greatest power is not for their good, but for our good, for our collective good: because it’s better for all of us if society is free of the disruptions that come from trying to punish the most powerful, if we’re free of the deprivations that we would collectively experience if we lose their extraordinary value and contributions by prosecuting them.
December 14, 2012
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