December 2011
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Massive 1,100+ year old Maya site discovered in... →
marieyall:
blake500:
This. Is. Too. Cool:
“Archaeological zone 9UN367 at Track Rock Gap, near Georgia’s highest mountain, Brasstown Bald, is a half mile (800 m) square and rises 700 feet (213 m) in elevation up a steep mountainside. Visible are at least 154 stone masonry walls for agricultural terraces, plus evidence of a sophisticated irrigation system and ruins of several other stone...
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One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
Running into Things, Miller Williams
poetry365:
for twelve in their pickup trucks As lemmings run into the sea, old priests appear at the house of Thomas Aquinas an Thomas More to fix their faith and Hume opens the door. They ran that way before the sea was there. Because they couldn’t remember the bypass that cut across their roads and cut them down a dozen farmers have died coming to town. All they remembered was dust,...
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A thing that seems completely silly
Sometimes* internet snubs hurt me just as much as real life snubs. That seems like a dumb way to feel, but it’s the truth all the same.
*By “sometimes,” I mean “most all the time”
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“Colleges say they’re seeing more students on campus with psychiatric illnesses....”
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A Serious Illness or an Excuse?
An interesting article, though with a ridiculous title (I wouldn’t expect much else from WSJ).
(via world-shaker)
If I’m remembering correctly, depression (and presumably anxiety as those two just seem to go together) in the developed world (the U.S....
Facebook launches tool to report suicidal behavior →
We’ll see how well it works, but the idea seems like a good one. I wonder if more social networking and blogging sites will allow users to report others for suicidal behavior. Or is it all taking things a step too far? I suppose we shall see.
“We journalists are probably too bleary-eyed after a sleepless night to...”
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In an effort to stabilise the euro zone, France, Germany and 21 other countries have decided to draft their own treaty to impose more central control over national budgets. Britain and three others have decided to stay out. But whether the agreement does anything to stabilise the euro is moot....
“A police officer was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop in the...”
– The Virginian-Pilot, “Police Officer, 2nd Person Reported Killed at Virginia Tech.”
That last line… oh my God.
(via inothernews)
I wonder why this seem to keep happening at Virginia Tech (2-3 times in less than 5 years is quite a few times).
“This is safer than Tylenol, and yet we’re going to put extra barriers to keep...”
– Susan Wood, executive director of the Jacobs Center for Women’s Health at George Washington University, who in 2005 resigned her job as the top women’s-health official at the FDA, accusing the agency of refusing to allow emergency contraception because of political pressure by the Bush...
A thought...
I keep thinking about saying something about the increasing number of veg*nism posts that are popping up on Tumblr, but then I get nervous that I’m just going to make people angry. And in the end, my opinion on the subject doesn’t matter, so why push it?
But I still feel like writing it down, so read it if you want…or don’t.
Simply put, I think it’s enough for...
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures...”
– The Great Gatsby (via wilwheaton)
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“I doubt many people seriously believe that the programmers behind Siri are out...”
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Amanda Marcotte, on Siri (via greaterthanlapsed)
See also: Why all technology “for women” follows the “shrink it and pink it” strategy; because women are absolutely an afterthought in the tech world.
(via kataroo)
I’m so fucking glad I get to work with women at Microsoft.
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