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American Jails Are Becoming Last-Resort Psychiatric Wards. The Result Is Brutality.
As correctional facilities in the U.S. struggle to address a long-term surge in inmates with mental health issues, a New York Times exposé on the city’s Rikers Island jail demonstrates in brutal and specific detail what happens when corrections officers… Continue reading
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Full Show: Is the Supreme Court Out of Order? | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com
Following several high-profile, controversial decisions, Bill speaks to NY Times columnist Linda Greenhouse and Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick about the agenda of the Roberts court.Source: billmoyers.comIt’s hard for anybody looking at the Roberts SCOTUS objectively to come away not thinking that… Continue reading
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How To Supercharge Your Coffee To Give You Even More Energy In The Morning
The old world tradition of adding butter to coffee has recently re-emerged as a performance enhancer embraced by the likes of Bulletproof Executive founder Dave Asprey and holistic health guru Andrew Weil.Weil asserts that the often demonized saturated fat poses… Continue reading
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Social Media Publishing is dead (as we know it)
Earlier this month, Facebook dropped a bombshell by not only acknowledging that Facebook pages’ organic reach was declining but also by telling us we shouldn’t expect them to recover. Facebook’s VP of Product for Facebook Ads, Brian Boland, went on… Continue reading
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Blackest is the new black: Scientists have developed a material so dark that you can’t see it…
Puritans, Goths, avant-garde artists, hell-raising poets and fashion icon Coco Chanel all saw something special in it. Now black, that most enigmatic of colours, has become even darker and more mysterious.Source: www.independent.co.uk Continue reading
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Henry A. Giroux | Thinking Dangerously in an Age of Political Betrayal
At a time when anti-intellectualism runs rampant throughout popular culture and politics, it seems imperative to remember how important critical thought can be as a resource and critical tool.Source: www.truth-out.org”Thinking has become dangerous in the United States.” Continue reading
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Why A Texas City May Ban Fracking
Denton, Texas, is considering a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and a new study links this process of energy extraction with earthquakes. NPR’s Arun Rath considers the risks with science writer Abrahm Lustgarten.Source: www.npr.org Continue reading
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Literary Review – John Gray on Michael Oakeshott
Review of a new edited edition of Michael Oakshott’s Notebooks. Source: www.literaryreview.co.uk Continue reading
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Fossil industry is the subprime danger of this cycle – Telegraph
The cumulative blitz on energy exploration and production over the past six years has been $5.4 trillion, yet little has come of itSource: www.telegraph.co.uk Continue reading
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