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“It’s possible to end this – in our lifetime. What we need are not slogans about...”
– Austin Post-Bulletin highlight on 3rd year volunteer Michael Toso http://postbulletin.com/news/stories/display.php?id=1494209 (via stompoutmalaria)
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
– Charles Bukowski (via christylamont)
Republican math:
think-progress:
think-progress:
Affordable: $1 TRILLION per year in tax cuts for the rich
Unaffordable: $6 BILLION per year to help millions of students
And more math-ish thinking:
Affordable: 1 year of tax cuts for 3,340 multimillion dollar estates
Unaffordable: 10 years’ worth of school lunch for 280,000 low-income kids
“In a study appropriately titled ‘Very Happy People,’ researchers sought out the...”
– How To Be Happy. Get some help from these 7 essential books on the art and science of happiness, then share those with a few friends over a good dinner. (via explore-blog)
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NPR Music: The 13 Most Useless College Majors (As... →
cheatsheet:
newsweek:
1. Fine Arts
2. Drama and Theatre Arts
3. Film, Video, and Photographic Arts
4. Commercial Art and Graphic Design
5. Architecture
6. Philosophy and Religious Studies
7. English Literature and Language
8. Journalism
9. Anthropology and…
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Oberlin College Multicultural Resource Center:... →
c-a-r-s-l-a:
by Peggy McIntosh
“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group.”
Through work to bring materials from women’s studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men’s unwillingness to…
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“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of...”
– Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via under—the—willow) 