October 2010
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SBS Insight: The Sceptics →
This probably isn’t for everyone, but I’m totally fascinated watching the late climate scientist Stephen Schneider take on an audience of 50 global warming skeptics on Australian TV.
(via Skeptical Science)
September 2010
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“—their Objections are not directed against any part of the constitution, but...”
– Rufus King, to James Madison
(via MNPublius)
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Anger as a Private Company Takes Over Libraries →
“There’s this American flag, apple pie thing about libraries,” said Frank A. Pezzanite, the outsourcing company’s chief executive. He has pledged to save $1 million a year in Santa Clarita, mainly by cutting overhead and replacing unionized employees. “Somehow they have been put in the category of a sacred organization.”
That, to me, is about the right category for public libraries.
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The Girl Effect: The Clock is Ticking →
swirlspice:
Great storytelling. Do watch the whole animation. It’s about 3 minutes. And then click around the website. It’s all about the change you can affect by helping even one young girl out of poverty. (via @calinative)
Yes.
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Jason DeRusha is right. In my Target post I should have written something like “Guess what company’s executives, employees’ families, and PAC make up the largest organizational donor bloc to Michele Bachmann’s campaign?” I think I was just in too big a hurry to get to the “conservative industry” gag.
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Inspired by tonight’s Stephen Vitiello...
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“The nonprofit charity she founded, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media,...”
– Scott James, via equalitymyth
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“The craft of reporting as it is practiced in the United States doesn’t...”
– Terry McDermott, author of Perfect Soldiers
(via Jay Carlson)
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AmieStreet.com is shutting down, and I have a week to use up my store credit. Anyone want to recommend some music?
If you’re in the same boat, I dig Minneapolis jazz-cover supergroup
The New Standards, minimalist composer Steve “Don’t call me a minimalist!” Reich, and reinvented folk-pop songstress Mandy Moore. Also, apparently my 2003 EP TK has been downgraded from 45...
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“Climate change is exposing reindeer hunting gear used by the Vikings’...”
– Alister Doyle (Reuters), via ClimateSignals
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WatchKyle McDonald, “Floating Los Angeles” (via mnoriginal)
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9/11
If you can spare some time or money, this is a good day to do something to help people live together better. Here are a few small ideas I had:
Learn about how people live in a place you’ve never been. Tell your friends what you’ve learned.
Attend a service for a religion that isn’t yours. (Tomorrow could also be a good day for this.)
Volunteer.
If you hear people speaking...
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““He doesn’t know much about dolphins anyway,” he said,...”
– Jeffrey Goldberg meets Castro
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“Obama was a test case. If an outsider like him, if a constitutional scholar like...”
– Andrew Sullivan, “The Untamed Prince” (via minneapolista)
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“…what the 90 percent statistic really means is that women, if they want...”
– Gender Pay Gap Underestimates Economic Inequality by Joan Williams (via equalitymyth)
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WatchIsao Hashimoto, “Global nuclear tests, 1945-1998” (via eyeteeth)
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Today I opened up Sunday’s paper and read that:
People are trying to kill AB 32, California’s landmark legislative attempt to do something about global warming.
Flood victims in Pakistan still have no aid, and they’re desperate and angry. And “the anger itself is hampering relief efforts, with the Red Cross twice halting distributions after being confronted by mobs of people upset...
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MinnPost - Pawlenty signs executive order to... →
He can do that?
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