January 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Cat Power (79) The Cars (39) Murray Gold & BBC National Orchestra of Wales (21) The Cast Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer (21) Pulp (13) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 28th
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More soldiers died from suicide than combat in... →
utnereader: The folks over at Good have a tendency to turn us on to bad news, including this: “For the second year in a row, more American soldiers—both enlisted men and women and veterans—committed suicide than were killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Excluding accidents and illness, 462 soldiers died in combat, while 468 committed suicide. A difference of six isn’t vast by any...
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senator virgina lyons presents anti-corporate... →
In Vermont, state senator Virginia Lyons earlier today presented an anti-corporate personhood resolution for passage in the Vermont legislature. The resolution, the first of its kind, proposes “an amendment to the United States Constitution … which provides that corporations are not persons under the laws of the United States.”…The language in the Lyons resolution is...
Jan 23rd
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“To test their hypothesis, Evans and Schamberg analyzed the results of their...”
– Chronically elevated physiological stress is a plausible model for how poverty could get into the brain and eventually interfere with achievement,” wrote Cornell University child-development researchers Gary Evans and Michelle Schamberg in a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the...
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“At Harvard, they bred genetically manipulated mice that lacked an enzyme called...”
– harvard scientists reverse the ageing process in mice
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“For the scientists aboard the WeatherBird II, the recasting of the Deepwater...”
– naomi klein, “hunting the ocean for BP’s missing millions of barrels of oil”
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“The principle of numbness comes into play with electric technology, as with any...”
– Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media (via pieto)
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industrial agriculture companies want a total... →
In both the case of the Chesapeake Bay watershed’s vast chicken factories and that of GM alfalfa, industrial agriculture is admitting that it needs to trash its neighbors and the surrounding landscape to thrive. It wants us to believe that there are no alternatives if we want to feed ourselves plentifully. That’s a hollow claim.
Jan 13th
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28 Die in Factory Fire Making Clothes for the Gap... →
highsee:padaviya: Whether you go more highscale at Banana Republic or casual at Old Navy, all these store chains (and Piperlime and Athleta) are owned by Gap, Inc., which just doesn’t seem to care much about the lives of its workers. The Hammem factory also provides clothes to other recognizable brands in America, such as H&M, Walmart, Sears, JC Penny, and Target, though Gap is the...
Jan 13th
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“Cables describe U.S. diplomats pressuring the Vatican in 2008 to reverse its...”
– brandon keim’s article on some of the information gleaned from wikileaks
Jan 13th