Linkety-Linkety (random stuff I missed with the last ones)
Three Bay Area amateur softball players are suing a national gay sports association for alleged discrimination after officials questioned their sexuality and disqualified them following a 2008 championship game. -- You want to see biphobia from the gay community? This is it, in spades. What utter bullshit. If anyone tried to have a "vote" about the validity of my orientation I'd probably go flat-out postal on their asses.
Health reform was heralded as a way to stop health insurers from charging women higher premiums. But loopholes still allow "gender rating," and Lisa M. Codispoti, senior counsel of the National Women's Law Center, says women's groups will have to fight them.
Obama's health care and student loan victories overshadowed the collapse of another key domestic priority: helping more students graduate from college. Because of a last-minute-and maddeningly illogical-political development, the Obama administration allowed negotiators of the reconciliation bill to strip out a smart, progressive package of reforms that could have helped millions of low- and moderate-income students earn college degrees.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: the Niqab Debate and Ableism
Scientists mine YouTube to study effects of Salvia divinorum
Making the connections: Sexual Violence in Native Communities
Not Oprah's Book Club: DIY U
Anya Kamenetz, staff writer for Fast Company, believes that the bridge between Obama's vision and the present reality is open content and online learning. In her new book, DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, she argues that huge demand and high cost of higher education, coupled with technological and information innovations, are leading to a total paradigm shift in who learns and how we do it.
Health reform was heralded as a way to stop health insurers from charging women higher premiums. But loopholes still allow "gender rating," and Lisa M. Codispoti, senior counsel of the National Women's Law Center, says women's groups will have to fight them.
Obama's health care and student loan victories overshadowed the collapse of another key domestic priority: helping more students graduate from college. Because of a last-minute-and maddeningly illogical-political development, the Obama administration allowed negotiators of the reconciliation bill to strip out a smart, progressive package of reforms that could have helped millions of low- and moderate-income students earn college degrees.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: the Niqab Debate and Ableism
Scientists mine YouTube to study effects of Salvia divinorum
Making the connections: Sexual Violence in Native Communities
Not Oprah's Book Club: DIY U
Anya Kamenetz, staff writer for Fast Company, believes that the bridge between Obama's vision and the present reality is open content and online learning. In her new book, DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, she argues that huge demand and high cost of higher education, coupled with technological and information innovations, are leading to a total paradigm shift in who learns and how we do it.