December 2011
2 posts
October 2011
1 post
The world can feed itself without ruining the... →
samclifford:
mohandasgandhi:
Recent global population growth estimates (10 billion by 2100, anyone?) plus slowing annual increases in agricultural yields have a lot of analysts worried that many of those new people will suffer from chronic hunger – and that much of the land that hasn’t been converted to agriculture will be plowed under to grow crops.
But a new study in the journal Nature...
July 2011
3 posts
June 2011
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March 2011
8 posts
February 2011
1 post
December 2010
8 posts
“Chances are, if your government is telling you not to read something, you should...”
– Al Jazeera on Wikileaks, Hip-Hop, Global Honesty and Cultural Decline (via shakespeareandcobooks)
Grandmas Are Awesome →
sleepydumpling:
A couple of delightful Grandmas discover the fun they can have with the distort feature in PhotoBooth. Has put a smile on my dial!
“I had always loved Modernist literature, although I was conflicted about the...”
– My Reading Life by Claudia Gonson | NYRBlog | The New York Review of Books (via housingworksbookstore)
Facks that are troo.
(via theunscientificmethod)
My conversations about modern literature usually go, “if I overlook the fact that the author comes off as a raging douchebag…”
(via baseln)
November 2010
17 posts
“Katy Perry also recorded the song ‘Ur So Gay’. It sounds homophobic, but she’s...”
– Simon Amstell on Never Mind The Buzzcocks (via themarriageofadeadblogsing)
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“In a way it is even humiliating to watch coal-miners working. It raises in you a...”
– from George Orwell’s essay Down The Mine, 1937 (via kathleenjoy)
“Lately I feel like somebody made a big mess and I’ve got my mop and I’m mopping...”
– Barack Obama
(sometimes this just needs to be posted).
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“And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is...”
– The missing portion of Tina Fey’s acceptance speech, which was snipped by PBS from the broadcast of the Mark Twain Prize ceremony. (via willowphoto)
October 2010
14 posts
“When you are around young people who have ambition and taste, and who long to...”
– via The Awl (via somethingchanged)
A good reminder to be compassionate to hipsters, even when they otherwise make me want to slap them
The Social Network Movie You Won’t See →
I haven’t read The Accidental Billionaires on which the movie was supposedly based, but peruse the first five chapters of David Kirkpatrick’s The Facebook Effect and this narrative of unmitigated misogyny falls apart. FaceMash included hot or not lists for both sexes, not just women; and though it offended women’s groups on campus, Zuckerberg mended fences with the Association of Harvard Black...