March 2012
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“It’s not as if Britain would be alone in the world if we were to legalise gay...”
– Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London (2000-2008)
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UN estimates cocaine trafficking in West, Central... →
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. agency that fights drugs and crime estimated that cocaine trafficking is generating some $900 million annually in West and Central Africa as South American cartels use the shortest route to transport drugs to Europe.
Yuri Fedotov, the head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that in addition to an upsurge in cocaine...
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Biggest photo of the night sky ever →
it’s huge.
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texts between best friends:
Best Friend: I want you to shove your fist down my throat, please. Just to show me who's boss.
Me: Um, ok. Our safe word will be 'mmmmmfffmmmmphhhhnnnnn'
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12 Great Articles that Inspired Films →
tetw:
A Tetw reading list
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Marie Brenner - The Insider Death of an Innocent by Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild The Muse of Coyote Ugly Saloon by Elizabeth Gilbert - Coyote Ugly Racer X by Kenneth Li Rafael - The Fast and the Furious The Return of Superfly by Mark Jacobson - American Gangster Life’s Swell by Susan Orlean - Blue Crush A Farewell to Arms by John Carlin -...
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The position in favor of the construction of the... →
mohandasgandhi:
What are we doing? What a horrific and ridiculous concession from Obama.
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February 2012
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What If Earth's Magnetic Poles Flip? →
The end of the world as we know it could come in any number of ways, depending on who you ask. Some people believe global cataclysm will occur when Earth’s magnetic poles reverse. When north goes south, they say, the continents will lurch in one direction or the other, triggering massive earthquakes, rapid climate change and species extinctions.
The geologic record shows that hundreds of pole...
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“Sadly the propaganda campaign launched in the 1960s has taken root. The radical...”
– Republican presidential candidate RICK SANTORUM, writing in his 2005 book It Takes A Family, essentially saying that women have no role in the workplace.
They’re just good for heterosexual sex, making babies and cleaning up the house, right, Rick?
Amazingly, about half of half of the country is...
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“If an elementary school student has an excellent teacher even for a single year,...”
– Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a co-author of the study with Harvard Kennedy School’s John Friedman and Columbia Business School’s Jonah Rockoff. (Harvard Gazette)
AKA why teachers should be paid more and we should be working to retain the best and...
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“If I’m left without contraception, how can I plan my pregnancies? If I can’t...”
– The (Not) New War on Birth Control - we’re talking about it today. (via myplannedparenthood)
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