Calling both scientists and citizen scientists
Joe Biden Wants Your Ideas On How To Cure Cancer | Popular Science
You mean, other than not giving companies a pass on causing it, right Joe?
Category: Media and Culture,
She Won a Seat in Iran’s Parliament, but Hard-Liners Had Other Plans –
Minoo Khaleghi easily won a seat in February’s election but was disqualified over claims she did not wear a head scarf on visits to Europe and China.
She Won a Seat in Iran’s Parliament, but Hard-Liners Had Other Plans – The New York Times
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Anti-Abortion Laws Don’t Reduce The Abortion Rate
Whatever your stance is on abortion, it turns out you should probably be against anti-abortion laws: New research shows that laws against abortion don’t decrease the abortion rate. That same research has identified a few things that do decrease the abortion rate; they’re just probably not the sorts of solutions you hear discussed at a pro-life meeting.
Anti-Abortion Laws Don’t Reduce The Abortion Rate, New Study Finds, And That’s Not All | Bustle
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This is how Donald Trump destroys Bernie Sanders: It’s as simple as a nickname – Salon.com
Stephen Colbert breaks it down: “I just hope that Bernie Sanders does not take this nickname lightly”
This is how Donald Trump destroys Bernie Sanders: It’s as simple as a nickname – Salon.com
<snicker>
It’s legal to make women wear heels to work—but then you should require the same of men — Quartz
Nicola Thorp, a temp reporting for her first day of work at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London, set off an online debate over high heels this week, after she said she was sent home for showing up to work in flat shoes instead of high heels.
“The supervisor told me that I would be sent home without pay unless I went to the shop and bought a pair of two to four-inch heels. …When I pointed out that my male colleague was allowed to work in flat shoes, and that I felt that I was being discriminated against, I was laughed at.”
It’s legal to make women wear heels to work—but then you should require the same of men — Quartz
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16 West Point Cadets in Raised-Fist Photo Won’t Be Punished – ABC News
“Will there ever be a time when black women can unapologetically show that they are strong proud and supportive of one another without their action being interpreted as an act of militant defiance?” Essence magazine editor-in-chief Vanessa De Luca asked in a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week.
Indeed, Caslen noted that other cadets have used clenched fists to show support for a team or pride at serving their country. So did he, along with hundreds of West Point staffers and graduates on the night before last year’s Army-Navy football game, he added.
16 West Point Cadets in Raised-Fist Photo Won’t Be Punished – ABC News
This is a non-story slipped into the national consciousness by trolls intent on fomenting racial misunderstandings and tensions.
AKB48 member’s ‘penance’ shows flaws in idol culture | The Japan Times
Idol fan culture, as well as the closely related anime and manga fan culture, is institutionally incapable of dealing with independence in young women. It seeks out and fetishizes weaknesses and vulnerabilities and calls it moé, it demands submissiveness, endless tearful displays of gratitude, a lack of confidence, and complete control over their sexual independence. AKB48 takes this a step further by allowing its (largely male) fans to sit in annual judgment, voting members up or down in the group’s hierarchy.
Minegishi …will submit to her training and re-education; she will prostrate herself before the fans and beg for their acceptance, which they will gracefully bestow once she is deemed to have done penance.
AKB48 member’s ‘penance’ shows flaws in idol culture | The Japan Times
yuck.
Woody Allen, and why no one gives a shit that he molested his own children
Despite Dylan Farrow’s damning allegations of sexual abuse, the director of Cannes’ opening film today remains beloved by stars, paid by Amazon and rarely interrogated by media as his son, Ronan Farrow, writes about the culture of acquiescence surrounding his father.
My Father, Woody Allen, and the Danger of Questions Unasked (Guest Column) – Hollywood Reporter
Sigh….
The Citadel will not allow an exception to the uniform to let a Muslim student wear her hijab
The uniform is traditional, and central to the ideals of the nearly 175-year-old public military college in South Carolina, so the fact that it was considering an exception to it for an accepted student set off shock waves among alumni. The idea pleased some in the close-knit corps, who felt it could be an important symbol of religious freedom and inclusiveness. But it upset others who felt it would clash with the mission and ideals of the Citadel, where loyalty, teamwork and uniformity are paramount.
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Flight delayed after passenger becomes suspicious of equation – BBC News
He told Associated Press that the crew should have run additional checks before delaying take-off.
He said: “Not seeking additional information after reports of ‘suspicious activity’ is going to create a lot of problems, especially as xenophobic attitudes may be emerging.”
Flight delayed after passenger becomes suspicious of equation – BBC News
Exactly.
Differential equation prompts economist’s removal from flight (+video)
A University of Pennsylvania professor’s American Airlines flight was returned to its gate, and he was questioned by security agents, after another passenger reported his working on differential equations as a suspicious activity.
Differential equation prompts economist’s removal from flight (+video) – CSMonitor.com
…Because Americans hate education. …And fear people who do not.
Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Throw Back Monday: Hillary Clinton Removed From Situation Room Photo By Der Tzitung, Hasidic Newspaper
A Brooklyn-based Hasidic newspaper removed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and another woman from the …photo, taken as the raid was occurring, famously shows Clinton in the center of the room, with her hand over her mouth. But the newspaper Der Tzitung,described by the Jewish Week as “ultra-Orthodox,” has a policy of never printing photos of women in its pages…
Hillary Clinton Removed From Situation Room Photo By Der Tzitung, Hasidic Newspaper (PHOTOS)
Then just don’t run the photo. If it was so terrible to see in the first place how can you ask your employees to spend time doctoring it? They can’t do it with their eyes closed…
Grrrrrrr.
Lewinsky: ‘The shame sticks to you like tar’
When the Guardian began researching the online harassment of its own writers, they discovered something bleak: of the 10 contributors who receive the most abuse in the comment threads, eight are women – five white, three non-white – and the other two are black men. Overall, women Guardian writers get more abuse than men, regardless of what they write about, but especially when they write about rape and feminism. I noticed something similar during my two years interviewing publicly shamed people. When a man is shamed, it’s usually, “I’m going to get you fired.” When a woman is shamed it’s, “I’m going to rape you and get you fired.”
…Lewinsky’s outlook on her scandal has been doggedly non-ideological from the start. “I’m endlessly fascinated by how people derive meaning in life,” she says, “the chasm between how idealised people pretend life is and how complex we really are.” She’s written that she thought it was stupid and wrong in the 1990s when most people blamed her for the affair with President Clinton, but also stupid and wrong in the 2010s when people got more enlightened and started retrospectively blaming him.
Monica Lewinsky: ‘The shame sticks to you like tar’ | Technology | The Guardian
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West Point is investigating whether 16 female cadets broke military rules by taking this photo
West Point is investigating a photograph showing 16 female cadets posing with their fists raised outside a US Military Academy barracks, the Army Times reports.
West Point is investigating whether 16 female cadets broke military rules by taking this photo
Unless West Point also investigates every time a group of white cadets get together to make sure it isn’t a fucking lynch-mob then they need to drop this racist shit right the fuck now.
Conservatives unapologetic over tactics as Khan becomes London’s first Muslim mayor
Sadiq Khan of Britain’s opposition Labour Party was sworn in as Mayor of London on Saturday, becoming the first Muslim to head a major European capital after an election campaign marked by the ruling Conservatives’ efforts to link him to extremism.
Conservatives unapologetic over tactics as Khan becomes London’s first Muslim mayor | Reuters
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What pundits keep getting wrong about Donald Trump and the working class.
The truth is that it’s inaccurate to talk about Trump’s “working-class appeal.” What Trump has, instead, is a message tailored to a conservative portion of white workers. These voters aren’t the struggling whites of Appalachia or the old Rust Belt, in part because those workers don’t vote, and there’s no evidence Trump has turned them out. Instead, Trump is winning those whites with middle-class incomes. Given his strength in unionized areas like the Northeast, some are blue collar and culturally working class. But many others are not. Many others are what we would simply call Republicans.
What pundits keep getting wrong about Donald Trump and the working class.
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Does Elsa need a prince or princess? Or nobody?
Twitter has sparked a ‘Frozen’-frenzy this week, with fans asking Disney to give Elsa a happily-ever-after in the film’s sequel. But fans differ on whom, if anybody, Elsa should love.
…”Even in Brave, the film still centered largely around a marriage story line – the idea that Merida was trying to escape a betrothal she didn’t want,” Megan Zander writes for the parenting blog SheKnows. “Elsa was different. Her story line marked the first time that Disney told a story about a female character that had no mention of romance or marriage…. At the conclusion of the film, Elsa was happy in her own right. Regardless of her sexuality, she was content on her own, and that’s something kids could benefit from seeing, which is why she should stay as she is, a fierce, self-sufficient, single woman.”
Does Elsa need a prince or princess? Or nobody? – CSMonitor.com
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Obama commutes sentences of 58 non-violent drug convicts
“It just doesn’t make sense to require a non-violent drug offender to serve 20 years, or in some cases, life, in prison,” Obama said in a blog post.
Many of the convicts had been serving time for crack cocaine. Crack users have for years faced far steeper penalties than users of powder cocaine, even though the two substances are molecularly similar. Critics have said the disparity has unfairly hurt poor African-American communities.
Obama has pushed to reform the U.S. criminal justice system to reduce the number of people serving long sentences for such crimes, and it is one of the few issues for which the Democratic president has received support from Republican lawmakers.
Obama commutes sentences of 58 non-violent drug convicts | Reuters
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Within 24 Hours of Being Presumptive Nominee, Trump Flips on Minimum Wage
In the past, Donald Trump has said that the American wages are too high and repeatedly expressed the concern that raising the minimum wage would undermine American competitiveness in the global economy. As the New York Times noted, the billionaire showman told Wolf Blitzer on CNN Wednesday that he’s “open to doing something with” the minimum wage.
Within 24 Hours of Being Presumptive Nominee, Donald Trump Flips on Minimum Wage
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If Hillary Clinton were a man…
Being a woman hasn’t given Hillary Clinton an edge, as Donald Trump suggests. In fact, Clinton has had to struggle to get where she is, Patti Solis Doyle says.
If Hillary Clinton were a man – CNN.com
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Punished after rape report at Brigham Young University
Multiple young women claim they received backlash, instead of support, after reporting sexual violence to the Mormon-run school.
Punished after rape report at Brigham Young University – CNN.com
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Our Country is Indeed Made Up of Americans of Many Different Races, Religions, and National Origins. It’s What Makes Us so Damn Awesome.
I’ll just put this right here. OK? Super.
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Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski are bringing 7 suitcases to the Kentucky Derby
You can’t ever be over-prepared.
Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski are bringing 7 suitcases to the Kentucky Derby | For The Win
Love me some J&T
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