February 2012
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Climate change
is not a conspiracy theory. The more people I encounter in my life, the less hope I have.
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The Myth of 'Practice Makes Perfect' →
canisfamiliaris:
It’s not how much you practice but whether you’re quick to fix your errors that leads to mastery.
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There is no Political Solution to a Math Problem. →
by Dylan Ratigan and Eliot Spitzer.
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TYT: Media Watch - CNN's Erin Burnett →
Every time I catch her on, I cringe.
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theadventurousexplorer asked: And wait till you see what i made you, your going to shit yourself its that awesome. :d
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Wage War: Employers Stealing Millions from US... →
stfuconservatives:
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supersoygrrrl:
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supersoygrrrl:
stfuconservatives:
Breaking news: despite what Republicans and Libertarians would have you think, employers are more concerned about their bottom line than their employees.
-Jess
Posting this to facebook. I can’t wait to see what all the libertarians who argue with me about how abolishing the...
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A few things about Iran:
mohandasgandhi:
I’m really glad that this post is going around and received so many reblogs but there are a few things I would like to add because mainstream public commentary has proved to be largely useless.
The United States is not going to attack Iran in an offensive attack by itself. A conventional war with Iran featuring ground troops would be devastating even though Iran does not pose a...
shrinkwrecks asked: chocolate AND pineapple? together? i dont know about that.
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“Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I’d like to...”
– ELLEN DeGENERES, reacting to the group One Million Moms.
(via BuzzFeed)
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the Balfour Declaration. →
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 (dated 2 November 1917) was a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine...
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“True wisdom comes to us when we realize how little we know about life,...”
– Socrates (via observedintoexistence)
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I have a girlfriend.
It’s my Middle East Politics class, I think I’m in love. I’m stoked for my research paper on Saudi Arabia and the U.S, my simulation on Yemen, and just literally every page in our two textbooks is so interesting, revealing, and I’m learning so much. Word.
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What Romney could say to win. →
written by Sam Harris. This is so good.
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Bill Maher: Mike Daisey on Apple's human rights... →
Mike Daisey on Real Time with Bill Maher from Friday, Feb. 2nd, 2012. “China has labor laws too, we helped draft them, they’re almost the same as ours. It’s just that Apple, and the other companies, simply ignore them completely.” (Daisey) “He’s a hippie, he’s a Buddhist; I guess that shit really went out the window when it came to the profit line.”...
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“The firing of a single neuron is not enough to create the twitch of an eyelid in...”
– Rita Carter, Mapping the Mind
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Anderson Cooper with Syrian Activist Zaidoun on... →
mohandasgandhi:
musafeer:
thearabspringrevolutions:
The man starts crying claiming, “It’s too much.”
This is so horrible. This is so absolutely horrible. Oh my God.
This is really heartbreaking. Hearing the anguish in Zaidoun’s voice is… beyond words.
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“[The young black males are] shuttled into prisons, branded as criminals and...”
– In her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, legal scholar Michelle Alexander writes that many of the gains of the civil rights movement have been undermined by the mass incarceration of black Americans in the war on drugs. (via nprfreshair)
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“The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old...”
– Jacques-Yves Cousteau (via anoceanactivist) Reminds me of Brandon Boyd’s art project: We are an island.
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“Global backsliding in democracy has been evident for some time and strengthened...”
– Erosion of Democracy in Europe.
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“Free and fair elections and civil liberties are necessary conditions for...”
– Democracy Index 2011.
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Climate Scientists' editorial rebuttal published... →
climateadaptation:
A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal published an anti-climate change op-ed signed by 16 scientists. None of the authors are climate scientists, nor do peer review research in the field.
No matter, it got published anyway. And shortly after the piece was published, real climate scientists came out off the woodwork to condemn the WSJ and the so-called scientists that wrote...
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WatchStephen Colbert: The Word - American History X’d The Tennessee Tea Party demands that references to the Founding Fathers’ slave ownership and violence against Native Americans be removed from children’s textbooks. (If you go my actual tumblr, you can view the video. For some reason it’s messed on the dash. Help?)
January 2012
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Buying New Experiences, Not Things, Tied to... →
psychotherapy:
via Psych Central:
A new study suggests that those who spend money to do things are happier than those who spend their money on possessions.
In the study, investigators determined extraverts and people who are open to new experiences are more apt to spend more of their disposable income on experiences, such as concert tickets or a weekend away, rather than hitting the mall...
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“These (GOP) debates… they have jumped the shark. Because last night — I swear to...”
– BILL MAHER, Real Time (via inothernews)