March 2011
“The next fact that Minnesotans mostly know but that readers of the various March...”
– Eric Black digs into the half-truths that are circling about Tim Pawlenty. (via minnpost)
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The Crockpot: A Weekly Link-Digest from Utne
Last week, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) reintroduced a bill that would end funding for abstinence-only-before-marriage sex education.
Scientists have developed a fork that makes music when you eat off it. Called the EaTheremin, it emits a different tone depending on what kind of food you’re eating.
Could the newly invented “flipback” book—a lightweight...
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One x (Ten to the Third Power)
This is the 1,000th post on the Utne Reader tumblr. Thanks for reading, everyone!
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Have you read Think Quarterly, Google's new free...
Open publication - Free publishing - More data
If Think Quarterly is a free, niched magazine—but it’s bankrolled by one of the largest companies on Earth—is it still considered “alternative press”?
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“The global apparel industry is a global sweatshop, and that has to do with...”
– Robert J.S. Ross, a professor of sociology at Clark University and author of “Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops,” says poor conditions still exist for garment workers around the globe. From an interview by @GlobeMuther, The Boston Globe. (via boston)
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Watchradioksxsw:
Well, we got to meet Daptone soul-prophet Charles Bradley, and then he sang some songs in front of the capitol building in Austin. I mean, he sat on a CANNON practically YELLED the songs right AT the building. It was all very political, and awesome.
It was real, real windy when we recorded this on our little shotgun mic with the fuzzy windjammer, so there’s some noise at the...
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“It is our task to observe the earth’s environment, and it is the work of...”
– Considering the scope of the environmental destruction in Japan, and the ongoing drama with multiple nuclear meltdown crises, it’s striking to hear the poetic, prophetic phrasing that Motoyuki Sato, the general chair of the conference, used in previewing the event. Read more …
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“The televised sight of U.S. missiles streaking toward targets in Libya took me...”
– MinnPost’s Sharon Schmickle recounts her experience in Iraq — and digs into the eerily familiar questions swirling around Libya. (via minnpost)
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“If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national...”
– Do you know the real price of the ticket? Read more …
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“But here’s where the analogy falls apart: unlike a forgotten civilization, we...”
– Never forget where you came from. Never forget where you got yo’ name from or the game from. Gray Brechlin on the legacy of the Works Progress Administration and New Deal infrastructure projects. Read more …
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“But here’s the truth of it: you have to strain to fit this Middle Eastern moment...”
– Tom Engelhardt on all-American decline in the new world.
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Video: 3-D Printed Insects That Fly
While miniature helicopters already exist, without a flapping mechanism you can’t make aircraft as small as insects, Hod Lipson of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York told New Scientist. “As you get smaller and smaller the principles of helicopters don’t work, it just doesn’t scale,” he says. The same is true for fixed winged flight.
According to Discovery...
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“One of the bigger initiatives that the magazine had, and one of the things that...”
– Sam Utne on the salon movement, a community-centered idea popularized in part by Utne Reader.
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“American “air superiority” in any war the U.S. now fights is total. In fact,...”
– It’s easy to forget how complete U.S. air power actually is, so Tom Engelhardt lays out some of the facts. Read more …
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Video: 5 Classic Nuclear Power Propaganda Films →
motherjones:
Perhaps you don’t appreciate just how cute and harmless the power of the atom can be—at least when it’s in cartoon form. A few gems of propaganda aimed at calming nuke skeptics, from the Cold War to the present day.
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Awesome: An 83-year-old woman escaped the tsunami... →
Suddenly my leisurely morning ride into work doesn’t seem all that impressive …
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“Yet we hear—all the time—arguments defending dirty energy on economic grounds....”
– From Carl Safina’s The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World. Read more …
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Ann Coulter says radiation is 'good for you' →
theweekmagazine:
In a recent column, Coulter said new studies show that “at some level—much higher than the minimums set by the U.S. government—radiation is good for you,” and actually reduced the risk of cancer.
Even Bill O’Reilly was skeptical. “So by your account we should all be heading towards the nuclear reactor,” he said.
Full story here.
Ummmmm … .
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Incredible Edibles: The Mad Genius of 'Modernist... →
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The most instructive dish, however, was one of the failures, a slow-and-low chicken, cooked for several hours and served when its internal temperature had hit 149 degrees Fahrenheit. The problem was that, with all its juices still inside, it tasted far too chickeny. If you oven-roast chicken the regular way, you get used to the drying effect of the heat, and to the fact that some...
