December 2011
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10 Happy Accidents from the Annals of Drug... →
Think Progress: 11 Quotes From 2011 →
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1. “There’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.” — Warren Buffett
2. “Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.” — Hillary Clinton
3. “Today, we are all Troy Anthony Davis. Tonight, a little piece of all of us will die.” — Rep. John…
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Injustice in Murder Cases - NYTimes.com →
In most American counties, some indigent criminal defendants are represented by a public defender, and others by a private court-appointed lawyer. A new RAND study focusing on Philadelphia exposes a vast difference in how clients fare depending on the kind of lawyer they are assigned.
The startling findings show that merely providing an indigent defendant a lawyer, as the Constitution...
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While the median net worth of members of Congress... →
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“At many stages in the advance of humanity, this conflict between the men who...”
– Teddy Roosevelt
“Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of...”
– John F. Kennedy
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“I never viewed money as being “my money” I always saw it as “The money.” It’s a...”
– Louis C.K. on splitting four ways the $1 million proceeds from the online sale of his Beacon Theater show: Paying for production costs, rewarding his staff with bonuses, keeping $220,000 for himself and his fam and giving the remaining $280,000 to nonprofits (including the awesome charity: water).
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Inside Capitol, Investor Access Yields Rich Tips |... →
When Senate Democrats finally brokered a compromise over the proposed health-care law, a group of hedge funds were let in on the deal, learning details hours before a public announcement on Dec. 8, 2009.
The news was potentially worth millions of dollars to the investors, though none would publicly divulge how they used the information. They belong to a select group who pay for early, firsthand...
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Here are the young men | Claire Felicie →
The series “Here are the young men”(The Netherlands – Afghanistan, 2009-2010) show photos of Dutch marines deployed to Afghanistan. These marines are young boys, full of excitement and expectations who are being sent to a war zone. There they are confronted with pain, sadness and death. Will something appear on their faces of these experiences? To find an answer to this question Claire Felicie...
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Riddle me this
House Republicans vow to vote down the payroll tax cut extension which benefits working Americans, yet refuse to increase taxes or close tax loops holes for the wealthiest Americans.
For whom is the House working? Probably not you and definitely not me.
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Best Maps of 2011 →
To inspire another year of mapping, and in no particular order, here is the Spatial Analysis “Best of 2011″. The maps here have been popular, engaged users, innovated, and raised the bar for cartographic standards.
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Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s longtime dictator who allowed his people to starve while building a vast military, has died of heart failure.
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A Pill That Stops Stress In Your Brain Before You... →
Researchers from Tufts claim to have pinpointed the way that stress hormones hit specific receptors in your brain — and they’ve even been able to block them. This could lead to the next great psychopharmaceutical breakthrough.
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Another Godless Goddess: Tell the Trught About... →
The latest attack on the “godless public schools” – a staple of Republican primaries past – is a new ad in Iowa by Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign proclaiming there’s “something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military, but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.”
Advocating for “school prayer” is, of course, is a poll-tested winner for politicians...
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Money Is Not Important: Did you know? →
moneyisnotimportant:
During the 1950s and early 60s, the highest tax bracket was over 90%. Granted, this was a marginal rate, meaning that not all of someone’s income was taxed at this rate.
This was an effort to discourage mindless greed, and it was thought that this would ultimately benefit the economy. The theory…
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“Chief executive pay has roared back after two years of stagnation and decline....”
– Revealed: huge increase in executive pay for America’s top bosses (via pantslessprogressive)
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“No words, no ceremony can provide full tribute for the sacrifices that have...”
– - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
U.S. Officially Ends Iraq War
(via nationaljournal)
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Yelping with Cormac: Urban Outfitters →
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Union Square - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
And they come there in great numbers shuffling into that mausoleum that was built for them like some monument to the slow death of their world and among those tokens and talismans of that faded empire they forage like scavengers their faces frozen in a rictus of worldweary their...
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Air & Space - SCITECH Many Earths out There?... →
Virtually all of the alien planet candidates discovered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope may turn out to be the real deal, a new study suggests.
Researchers announced Monday, Dec. 5, that Kepler has detected 2,326 potential alien worlds in its first 16 months of operation, including 48 in their stars’ habitable zones — that just-right range of distances that could allow liquid...
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When an adult took standardized tests forced on... →
“I can’t escape the conclusion that decisions about the [state test] in particular and standardized tests in general are being made by individuals who lack perspective and aren’t really accountable.”
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Best photos of the year 2011 | Reuters →
A compilation of 100 great photos taken in 2011.
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Feds Link Water Contamination to Fracking for the... →
In a first, federal environment officials today scientifically linked underground water pollution with hydraulic fracturing, concluding that contaminants found in central Wyoming were likely caused by the gas drilling process.
The findings by the Environmental Protection Agency come partway through a separate national study by the agency to determine whether fracking presents a risk to water...
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17-Year-Old Girl Creates Nanoparticle That Kills... →
missdeejers:
Holy Shit. Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled Drug Releasing Multifunctional Nanosystem for the Treatment of Cancer Stem Cells
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