January 2012
10 posts
WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
…my bed at the moment
“Sex panther..60% of the time, it works everytime.”
—Anchor man
Newsweek: What Makes a Vibrator Holy? →
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The evangelical Christian from California’s central valley had never had an orgasm alone nor with her husband of 25 years.
“I didn’t know I wasn’t having one,” the 59-year-old mother of two told The Daily Beast. Yet after chatting with some church girlfriends, she learned what she was missing….
How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? →
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A suburban dad. A fictional television blowhard. And now a political money launderer. How one funny guy became three.
Charles McGrath | New York Times Magazine | Jan 2012
Are smart people ugly? The Explainer's 2011 Question of the Year. - Slate Magazine →
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npr:
The idea that an ugly face might hide a subtle mind has attracted scientific inquiries for many years. At first, scientists wanted to know whether it was possible to read someone’s intelligence from the shape of his face. In 1918, a researcher in Ohio showed a dozen photographic portraits of well-dressed children to a group of physicians and teachers, and asked the adults to rank the kids from smartest to dumbest. A couple of years later, a Pittsburgh psychologist ran a similar experiment using headshots of 69 employees from a department store. In both studies, seemingly naive guesses were compared to actual test scores, and turned out to be accurate more often than not.
“The list of controversies grows weekly: Organizers of a conference last week on women’s health and Jewish law barred women from speaking from the podium, leading at least eight speakers to cancel; ultra-Orthodox men spit on an 8-year-old girl whom they deemed immodestly dressed; the chief rabbi of the air force resigned his post because the army declined to excuse ultra-Orthodox soldiers from attending events where female singers perform; protesters depicted the Jerusalem police commander as Hitler on posters because he instructed public bus lines with mixed-sex seating to drive through ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods; vandals blacked out women’s faces on Jerusalem billboards.”
—Israelis Facing a Seismic Rift Over Role of Women- NY Times
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Mexico: Indigenous people allegedly commit suicide to avoid starvation
The Raramuri live in Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara, near Chihuahua city. Hundreds are said to be facing starvation. (Photo: flickr Lon&Queta)By MANUEL RUEDA
Channel: Latin American AffairsUpdate: After we published this article, union leader Ramon Gardea has clarified claims about indigenous suicide in the region specifying that there were no acts of mass suicide, but still sustaining that 50 indigenous people committed suicide in the Sierra Tarahumara in separate incidents throughout 2011. However our research also raises some doubts about these claims, which are addressed in our most recent post on indigenous suicides.
