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my deep appreciation for terrible places and what they can teach us
- Duke University: Society bloomed with gentler personalities, more feminine faces: Technology boom 50,000 years ago correlated with less testosterone.My first impression was of taupe, tan, plush, dark wood, and cream velveteen. The hotel seemed built with an eye for what someone imagined inoffensive luxury would look like. Everything that wasn't ( Read more... )
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still deeply enchanted by this tribe
WIRED has a really nice new piece (with photos and a video of some of the clock restoration!) on one of my favourite inspiring secret-art collectives, UX, the dreamy Parisian group that specializes in fantastical heritage restorations and interstitial spaces:
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save a life, pass it on
CLOIHOUSE: Save the Life of Kiana Firouz:
Kiana Firouz, 27 years old, is an outspoken Iranian LGBT rights activist, filmmaker, and actress. When clips of her video documentary work featuring the struggle and persecution of gays and lesbians in her country were acquired by Iranian intelligence, agents began to follow Firouz around Tehran, harassing ( Read more... ) -
Think globally, act locally
- A clear explanation as to why the pseudo-science "Body Mass Index" doesn't mean a thing.
- Targeted magnetic fields can make people more inclined to judge outcomes, not intentions.We all stand like angels, every one of us, wings folded against uncertain futures, a string of decisions defining our wake. We stand like angels as we live, individual, ( Read more... )
- A clear explanation as to why the pseudo-science "Body Mass Index" doesn't mean a thing.
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why I went brita and in part why I don't drink soda pop
- The Story of Bottled Water
- Fiji Water: The only brand of bottled water supported by a corrupt military dictatorship.
- World Water Day. (According to the UN, dirty water kills more people than violence.)
- Lewis Black talks sharp about bottled water.
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. (As recently discussed on the David Letterman show by Charles Moore: ( Read more... )
- The Story of Bottled Water
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give to the food bank instead
Want to get even with the Salvation Army
for discrimination in the name of charity?
Click here to find out how!
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a modern horror epic
video found via Kevin
Names Of the Dead:
Every year, more than 44,000 Americans die simply because have no health insurance ( Read more... ) -
Unbelievable, horrific behaviour. Washington state residents, go and vote Yes for human rights!
via Ellen Datlow:
A court case brought against Jackson Memorial Hospital in Florida for denying a dying woman's same sex partner and their children access to her in the hospital has found for the hospital.
Nicola Griffith urges us all to do something so that this outrage won't happen again, in her post Trembling with Rage.
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#iranelection
I tie our hair together in looping knots, gold twined with red and purple, my hair wrapped in his like set gemstones. We match our garnet earrings, I think, we match and are beautiful, here in this place, this tent of our tangled hair, in this moment where we've erased the entire world but ourselves ( Read more... ) -
In San Fran, no less.
As some of you aware, there's a initiative measure on the 2008 California General Election ballot titled Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry. It's called Proposition 8, and it's the most unfair and hate-filled bit of judicial intolerance I've heard of in awhile. As far as I can tell, it's another example of the last desperate gasp of ( Read more... )
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