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“ Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that had changed their abortion laws before Roe [to make abortion legal] are not going to change back. So we have a policy that affects only poor women, and it can never be otherwise, and I don’t know why this hasn’t been said more often. ” Interview with Justice Ginsburg pre-Sotomayor confirmation, where she talks about women in law, in the workforce, and in society.

Tue Aug 4

“In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and guesses a few birthdays. How does he do it? He’ll tell you.” One day, I’ll take the time to learn these algorithms. One day!

Sun Jul 12

Top 10 Scientific Music Videos | Wired Science

Fri Jul 3

New Border Fear: Violence by a Rogue Militia

NYTimes 6/26/2009. Minutemen enter an Arizona home looking for money and drugs to fund their cause. They shoot a father and his 10-year-old daughter.

Thu Jul 2

“ So many decades ago, it was words appearing letter by letter on a small computer screen, and we stared at it with wonder. ” Jon Carroll has Twitter now. Sees tweets apprering like “a ham radio tuned to 1,000 stations simultaneously.” Is nostalgic.

Fri Jun 12

America's poor donate more, in percentage terms, than higher-income groups do, surveys of charitable giving show.

What’s more, their generosity declines less in hard times than the generosity of richer givers does.

Thu Jun 4

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Wed Jun 3

Short LOLfilm about cars and dinosaurs and drifting into other dimensions.

Fri Mar 27

Search the 1828 Edition of Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language

COMPUTER, n. One who computes; a reckoner; a calculator.

Tue Feb 24

AmericanRhetoric.com

This website archives famous speeches and makes them available for free to the public. All those famous speeches you’ve only heard bits and pieces of? Find them here, and finish hearing them.

Sun Feb 15

“ Ironically, then, the belief in a just world may take the place of a genuine commitment to justice. For some people, it is simply easier to assume that forces beyond their control mete out justice. When that occurs, the result may be the abdication of personal responsibility, acquiescence in the face of suffering and misfortune, and indifference towards injustice. ” Essay explaining the social psychology concept called The Just World Theory.

Fri Jan 16

Waking up superbugs may destroy their drug resistance

1/16/2009. New Scientist. “The protein that enables some bacteria to become dormant and avoid the effects of antibiotics has been identified – sleep may no longer be an escape option.”