February 2011
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“Too many conservatives think global warming can be dismissed as a socialist...”
– Is climate change the death-knell of liberalism?
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"Life's too short for the wrong job"
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Admit It: That Cookbook is for Your Coffee Table →
Cookbooks are hot sellers these days: Americans bought more than 60 million of them in 2010, a 9 percent increase over 2009. But how many people are using them to, you know, cook food? Kelly Alexander at The New Republic has her doubts about some of these glossy tomes, noting that Momofuku whiz-chef David Chang’s new cookbook sometimes leaves out crucial details and routinely aims way over the...
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“For most people, losing their job, their life savings, their pension, a portion...”
– America, it’s time to get paid.
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Ten Things to Do When You’re Feeling Hopeless →
Step one: Give up hope.
Find steps two through ten over here.
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Everybody Counts in the U.S. Census →
“The 23rd version of the U.S. census cost about $14.5 billion. Over the spring and summer of 2010, 635,000 employees (most of them temporary) counted more than 300 million Americans in 134 million housing units. They also reached about 8.3 million more in prisons, nursing homes, college dorms, and other group quarters, as well as in more than 60,000 shelters for the homeless, under bridge...
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“[T]here are about 30,000 kids’ apps in Apple’s App Store and about 27,000...”
– Who is watching the (iPhones of the) children, wonders GalleyCat.
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“… what, after all, is production? It is the conversion of the living to...”
– Derrick Jensen on the Economy of Death.
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It's the Unions, Jack →
Americans won’t lose much when labor unions disappear, right? Errm, let’s compare the U.S. to that dystopian wasteland across the Atlantic: Europe.
“The bottom two-thirds of America would be better off in Europe. I mean the people who have not had a raise (an hourly raise in real dollars) in maybe 40 years, and who do not even have a 401(k), nothing but Social Security, and...
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“In its romantic form, genius is irrational and beyond our control. In fact, true...”
– What Stefany Anne Goldberg uncovered when researching the history of diagnosing genius.
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Life Shouldn't Be a Pre-Existing Condition →
The walk from the front door of my house to the bus stop wasn’t a long one, but it was made treacherous by the need to cross a busy and poorly marked service road. I stood at the corner and waited for the walk sign to change, unwilling to take any chances. Unfortunately, the driver of the large white van that ran me down wasn’t so conscientious. Halfway through the crosswalk I saw him blow the...
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“I don’t know about you, but the Singularity is not the world I want for myself,...”
– Utne Reader founder Eric Utne on Singularity. Read more …
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Music Therapy for Parkinson's Patients →
We know that music is good for just about everything. It has been shown to be beneficial for pregnant moms and people with depression, and as an aid to studying and an enhancement to dining. Now we can add Parkinson’s patients to the list of beneficiaries.
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“The theory of positive deviance holds that in every setting there’s at least one...”
– In praise of positive deviance.
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Hurricane Katrina did a whole lot of damage, but... →
… Composite-wood products are now greener and healthier.
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“Call it the myth of national security—or, more accurately, national...”
– Ira Chernus, on how the power of myth keeps America mired in war.
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Cracking Down on Chinese Quacks →
Just as there is in the United States, there is a huge appetite in China for all manner of quackery and crackpots. Zhang Wuben, a Beijing nutritional therapist and author of a book called Cure the Diseases You Get from Eating by Eating, achieved wealth and celebrity by claiming that consuming mung beans in staggering quantities is a cure for a host of maladies. Zhang was a bit too successful, it...
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Living on the Edge (of the City) →
Humanity will continue to move toward city centers where the population, empowered by technological advances, will create societies in which everything necessary will be within everyone’s reach. Civilization is entering the utopian age of the megacity. Or maybe not.
Writing for Foreign Policy, Joel Kotkin suggests that cities may not be all they’re cracked up to be.
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“By September I was past the initial shock and grief that losing a job can bring,...”
– Betty Lynch Husted, on the value of treating both the employed and jobless with respect.
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An open question regarding documentaries . . .
Hey Tumblerverse! What are some of your favorite websites and/or publications for news about forthcoming and current documentaries?
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Poll: Gays and Lesbians are More Concerned About... →
Fifty-five percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender (LGBT) people care greatly about the environment, compared to just one-third of heterosexuals, according to a Harris online poll conducted in November and reported on the E2 Wire blog of The Hill. Why is the gay agenda such a green agenda?
