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Todd Goldman (of David & Goliath) = Art Thief! D:
Yep. Apparently he's copied/traced/stolen/etc. art from quite a few artists (and made money from it).
Please read about it here and here.
View this post on my blog
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On the Dehumanization of Sex Workers
This is a research brief that I wrote for school last semester.
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On the Dehumanization of Sex Workers
by Katie Armistead
Dehumanization is happening in the world today. An example of this is the dehumanization of sex workers.
âœWhoreâ is often used as a derogatory term; this is common knowledge. This seems just as dehumanizing to sex ( Read more... ) -
Anti-Birth Control Appointee Is a Bad Choice
Bush has just appointed a highly criticized, anti-contraception person to be the new cheif of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Here are some news clips that criticize this appointment:- "The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human ( Read more... )
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Abstinence Only Programs: Not just for teens anymore
"The federal government's "no sex without marriage" message isn't just for kids anymore.
Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant guidelines for 2007..."
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Amazing Fractals
TechRebublic:
"Witness the beauty and elegance of mathematics with 50 breathtaking fractals. Webshots member rajah created these Fractal Flames with Apophysis--a freeware Windows application with which you can design and render fractal flames. According to http://apophysis.wikispaces.com/ and http://www.flam3.com/, Fractal Flames were created by ( Read more... ) -
U.S. Detains AP Photographer
A photojournalist's job was already very dangerous, but now they also have to worry about being unreasonably detained by our military. Grrr.
"The U.S. military in Iraq has imprisoned an Associated Press photographer for five months, accusing him of being a security threat but never filing charges or permitting a public hearing."
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Learning by Doing
(I just posted this to the Academy Caritas blog, but I figured that I'd share it here too.)
An awesome article by Seed magazine (my current favorite magazine!) about learning by doing. Apparently that's how we learn best. When we learn by doing, we retain the information we've learned much better than if it's presented to us in an abstract way.
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