Linkety-Linkety
I've got a lot of stuff stored up, but I'm not very focused today, so we'll see how much I actually get sorted to post.
BP Oil Spill: Daily Dead Wildlife Tally
BP disaster update: 40,000 barrels a day, kill the birds, and a Rolling Stone bombshell
Natural oil seeps: Not proof oil spill worries are overblown
Sea turtle clean-up
Efforts to Limit the Flow of Spill News
New policy for changing gender on US passport
Gallery: Digitizing the past and present at the Library of Congress
Kai and I spoke on the phone about her experiences on the Biggest Loser. From seeing her fellow contestants forced to workout with injuries against doctor’s orders, to the extreme dehydration prior to weigh-ins, to the resultant eating disorder that Kai still is working to heal, the story she told was nothing like the fantasy that the Biggest Loser seeks to promote.
US Border Patrol union rep: It's okay to shoot Mexican kids who throw stones
"Gays, lesbians, and bisexuals have poorer health than heterosexuals in
Massachusetts and bisexuals fare the worst, according to a federal
health survey offering one of the few windows into health differences
among the people who make up sexual orientation minorities."
From trendy central Stockholm to this village in the rugged forest south of the Arctic Circle, 85 percent of Swedish fathers take parental leave.
Steven Pinker: "Tech rots your brain" hysteria is stupid
Women scientists on the debate over women in science
Reprinted antique medical illustrations and film posters
World's oldest leather shoe
List of women-friendly mosques in England
Massey miner fired after he spoke to the press about safety
Iceland passes gay marriage law in unanimous vote
Creative Uses of Technology to Give Rural Women Access to Reproductive Health in Iowa -- we have a similar service in use at the Clinic in some departments; the employee walk-in clinic uses it, and it works well in my experience.
Just When You Thought American Apparel Couldn't Fail Any Harder...
More good stuff from Feministing
An article published in Advances in Nursing Science explores the lack of LGBT issues presented in nursing and allied health publications. Written by Michele Eliason, Suzanne Dibble, and Jeanne DeJoseph, the article found that only 0.16 percent of articles focused on LGBT health (8 of nearly 5,000 articles of nursing and allied health publications). The authors describe the impact of this silence in the article.
Healthcare Equality Index 2010 Finds Majority of U.S. Healthcare Facilities Not Fully Inclusive of LGBT People
Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench
Arizona's Next Immigration Target: Children of Illegals
Medical Marijuana Madness in Montana
Thoughts on VA and active duty care
Local (Cleveland) pet-related news
Tremont artist Jeffry Chiplis shot after ArtWalk
Fuel from sewage can be profitable: study
Signal Boost: call for help
Vatican to clamp down on liberal secular opinion -- Wow, that's priceless.
Several Good linkety posts from ajollypyruvate
OK, I'm more than halfway done, so I'm taking a break here. More later, or tomorrow.
BP Oil Spill: Daily Dead Wildlife Tally
BP disaster update: 40,000 barrels a day, kill the birds, and a Rolling Stone bombshell
Natural oil seeps: Not proof oil spill worries are overblown
Sea turtle clean-up
Efforts to Limit the Flow of Spill News
New policy for changing gender on US passport
Gallery: Digitizing the past and present at the Library of Congress
Kai and I spoke on the phone about her experiences on the Biggest Loser. From seeing her fellow contestants forced to workout with injuries against doctor’s orders, to the extreme dehydration prior to weigh-ins, to the resultant eating disorder that Kai still is working to heal, the story she told was nothing like the fantasy that the Biggest Loser seeks to promote.
US Border Patrol union rep: It's okay to shoot Mexican kids who throw stones
"Gays, lesbians, and bisexuals have poorer health than heterosexuals in
Massachusetts and bisexuals fare the worst, according to a federal
health survey offering one of the few windows into health differences
among the people who make up sexual orientation minorities."
From trendy central Stockholm to this village in the rugged forest south of the Arctic Circle, 85 percent of Swedish fathers take parental leave.
Steven Pinker: "Tech rots your brain" hysteria is stupid
Women scientists on the debate over women in science
Reprinted antique medical illustrations and film posters
World's oldest leather shoe
List of women-friendly mosques in England
Massey miner fired after he spoke to the press about safety
Iceland passes gay marriage law in unanimous vote
Creative Uses of Technology to Give Rural Women Access to Reproductive Health in Iowa -- we have a similar service in use at the Clinic in some departments; the employee walk-in clinic uses it, and it works well in my experience.
Just When You Thought American Apparel Couldn't Fail Any Harder...
More good stuff from Feministing
An article published in Advances in Nursing Science explores the lack of LGBT issues presented in nursing and allied health publications. Written by Michele Eliason, Suzanne Dibble, and Jeanne DeJoseph, the article found that only 0.16 percent of articles focused on LGBT health (8 of nearly 5,000 articles of nursing and allied health publications). The authors describe the impact of this silence in the article.
Healthcare Equality Index 2010 Finds Majority of U.S. Healthcare Facilities Not Fully Inclusive of LGBT People
Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench
Arizona's Next Immigration Target: Children of Illegals
Medical Marijuana Madness in Montana
Thoughts on VA and active duty care
Local (Cleveland) pet-related news
Tremont artist Jeffry Chiplis shot after ArtWalk
Fuel from sewage can be profitable: study
Signal Boost: call for help
Vatican to clamp down on liberal secular opinion -- Wow, that's priceless.
Several Good linkety posts from ajollypyruvate
OK, I'm more than halfway done, so I'm taking a break here. More later, or tomorrow.