August 2011
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What's the point of listening to women and...
From Tiger Beatdown (much love for Tiger Beatdown):
Actually, at this point, I’m pretty confident that Professor Feminism is not Professor Understands Sarcasm, either, so I’ll spell it out: The point of listening to women and feminists is to listen to women and feminists. Because if you listen to them, you might start to understand certain basic points, such as: Women do not automatically ...
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Spibelt | Running Belts | Fitness & Travel Belt |... →
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What Should Your Step Count Goal Be?
What Should Your Step Count Goal Be?
Dr. Catrine Tudor-Locke recommends the following based on research: Classification of pedometer-determined physical activity in healthy adults: 1) Under 5000 steps/day may be used as a “sedentary lifestyle index” 2) 5,000-7,499 steps/day is typical of daily activity excluding sports/exercise and might be considered “low active.” 3)...
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“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he...”
– Leo Tolstoy - 1897
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Plastic bag lobbying group influences curriculum →
Under pressure from a lobbying group for the plastics industry, California school officials edited a new environmental curriculum to include positive messages about plastic shopping bags, interviews and documents show.
The rewritten textbooks and teacher’s guides coincided with a public relations and lobbying effort by the American Chemistry Council to fight proposed plastic bag bans...
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“I made a discovery about the immutable nature of books. You can get rid of all...”
– Jon Carroll
“The task of economics
Is to propagate a bluff:
That the poor have too much...”
– “ejh” on Crooked Timber - “‘Not even wrong’ is not praise”
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“WHEN SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAPPENS PEOPLE WAKE UP”
– Twitter / @jennyholzer 