Nov
9
Mormons Stole Our Rights: No Tax Exemption for Political Churches
Indeed.
Sign the petition, pass it on.
hannahlea
Aug
23
Rules Let Health Workers Deny Abortions
Well, I have to say, Obama just got my vote. I can’t believe that in this day and age, we are supporting health worker’s “rights” to deny women access to medicine and medical procedures, not to mention information about them. Words cannot describe my fury.
Aug
2
This is seriously blowing my mind. I think I’m in love.
Theo Jansen - Modern Day DaVinci (via kaos217)
Jul
20
“My view of Mr. Gore’s passionate engagement with some of the biggest issues of our time is that he is offering us the kind of vision and sense of urgency that has been so lacking in the presidential campaigns. But the tendency in a society that is skeptical, if not phobic, about anything progressive has been to dismiss his large ideas and wise counsel, as George H. W. Bush once did by deriding him as “ozone man.”
NYT op-ed: Yes We Can
Jul
13
Lessons in Love, by Way of Economics
I know, I know, but I’m a romantic, what do you want from me? I couldn’t resist posting this. It’s cute. (And probably harder advice to actually follow than one might think at first read).
Jul
11
“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating…and you finish off as an orgasm.”
Older news, but I still miss him. (via Jessie)
George Carlin (R.I.P.)
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(via jaundicedeye)
Jul
6
Owl from National Geographic.
Jun
30
“
A false statement from a noncredible source that is at first not believed can gain credibility during the months it takes to reprocess memories from short-term hippocampal storage to longer-term cortical storage. As the source is forgotten, the message and its implications gain strength. This could explain why, during the 2004 presidential campaign, it took some weeks for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against Senator John Kerry to have an effect on his standing in the polls.
Even if they do not understand the neuroscience behind source amnesia, campaign strategists can exploit it to spread misinformation. They know that if their message is initially memorable, its impression will persist long after it is debunked.
” The brain and memory storage will never cease to amaze me, especially in regards to the implications for propaganda and propaganda-esque spreading of information. From the NYT.
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