February 2010
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Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity... →
(CNN) — Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds.
Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also...
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Iran: End Persecution of Baha’is →
standwithfreeiran:
From Human Rights Watch, excerpt:
“The Iranian government seems to be using the post-election unrest as a cover for targeting the Baha’i community,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “These arrests are only the latest chapter in the government’s systematic persecution of the Baha’i.”
Unlike Iran’s Jewish, Christian, and...
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“Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.”
– Jincy Willett (The Writing Class)
(via iwannotowidigdo)
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Twitter users tell CNN anchors to STFU during... →
soupsoup:
New media now acting as director of old media
The Twitterati expresses displeasure with CNN talking heads during network’s televised health care coverage
And that is what I call a good use of technology.
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“Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that...”
– Atonement (via obliteratedheart)
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“I still love to love my friends, but I punctuate those moments with solitude.”
– Stephanie Klein (Straight up and Dirty)
(via iwannotowidigdo)
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“My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but...”
– Stephanie Klein (Straight up and Dirty)
(via iwannotowidigdo)
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If you have food in the fridge, clothes on your...
obliteratedheart:
jelsjiji:natileee:gwenmadlyn
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I don't like sleeping at night when there's a...
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dftbawkward:
blaidd-drwg:
1. I find it hard to sleep with just one….noise 2.
Gratuitous Dr Who reference of the day.
The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator →
artfortune:
As an advocate of the Big Mac Aesthetic, I feel that the disjunctive perturbation of this website endangers the devious simplicity of the substructure of critical thinking.
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Woman Witness to Kent State Shootings of May 1970
Part of CNN’s Intriguing People for February 24, 2010.
Laura Davis: On Tuesday, the National Register of Historic Places added the site of the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University in Ohio to its official list of places worthy of preservation.
Nearly 40 years ago, as students protested the Vietnam War and President Nixon’s incursion into Cambodia, members of the Ohio...
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TRIPPY SCIENCE DU JOUR: Apparently, what you smell... →
i-peach-feng-shui:
So, yes, in a sense you can taste music.
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Hello chocolatepuddles and aarthy!
Thanks for the Follows. Both your pages are really interesting.
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