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Giant Corporations and Their Expendable Temps
It’s 4:18 a.m. and the strip mall is deserted. But tucked in back, next to a closed-down video store, an employment agency is already filling up. Rosa Ramirez walks in, as she has done nearly every morning for the past… Continue reading
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Mysteries of ‘obesity gene’ revealed
An obesity gene that affects one in every six people could be partially treated thanks to a new study that’s finally determined how it works. Researchers led by Rachel Batterham at University College London were looking into an obesity gene,… Continue reading
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Get the Most Out of the 60 Hours in Your Weekend
Weekends always seem to go quickly, but they’re longer than we think. There are 60 hours between that 6 p.m. Friday beer and that 6 a.m. Monday alarm clock. Even if you sleep for 24 of those hours, that leaves… Continue reading
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Royal Photographic Society exhibition winners
via Royal Photographic Society exhibition winners Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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Even Superheroes Have Humble Beginnings
This are is helping people remember how even our superheroes can come from the humblest beginnings and most tragic origins… Every story has a beginning. Our past shapes who we are and influences who we become. It’s true whether you’re… Continue reading
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Hunger Games, U.S.A. | Paul Krugman
…So House Republicans voted to maintain farm subsidies — at a higher level than either the Senate or the White House proposed — while completely eliminating food stamps from the bill. To fully appreciate what just went down, listen to… Continue reading
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The Allegory of the Cave
The Allegory of the Cave, also commonly known as Myth of the Cave, Metaphor of the Cave, The Cave Analogy, or the Parable of the Cave, is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic… Continue reading
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Why Hollywood Should Keep Destroying Cities – Sam Adams
In an essay posted Friday at The Dissolve, Tasha Robinson used Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim to counter the objections several critics have raised about the wanton destruction of this summer’s blockbusters: city blocks flattened, heads crushed, all without a drop of… Continue reading
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The Return of Larry Summers?
Summers was a key actor in the Clinton economic team that pushed for bigger and less regulated banks. He was there for the repeal of Glass-Steagall. He was also among those hectoring Brooksley Born, when the then head of the… Continue reading
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Rolling Space Clouds
Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Related articles Wired Space Photo of the Day: Hoag’s Object (wired.com) Moon Lava (willscienceforfood.com) Hubble telescope spots azure blue planet where it rains glass (fox6now.com) Hubble picks up giant space… Continue reading
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Open Access and Its Enemies, Redux
Originally posted on jbrittholbrook: I don’t have time to be doing this, but it’s important. Making time is a state of mind — as, claims Cameron Neylon, is ‘Open’: Being open as opposed to making open resources (or making resources… Continue reading
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Big-Food’s Impact on the South: A View from Brazil
Traditional long-established food systems and dietary patterns are being displaced in Brazil and in other countries in the South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) by ultra-processed products made by transnational food corporations (“Big Food” and “Big Snack”).This displacement increases… Continue reading
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[Harper’s Index] | August 2013
…Net amount contributed to Medicare by immigrants between 2002 and 2009 : $115,000,000,000 Net amount drawn out by native-born citizens over the same period : $28,000,000,000 Average amount a Water Valley, Mississippi, hospital bills Medicare for treating pneumonia with no complications : $4,552 Average amount… Continue reading
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Beautiful End of a Star’s Life
http://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/07/13/this-photo-shows-the-beautiful-end-of-a-stars-life/ Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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