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3Popular Science has celebrated the world-changing work of scientists, thinkers, and makers for more than 140 years. We’re always tickled to learn how many of these great…
#26in2013 Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg. Chock full of research, personal, encouraging, practical.
#26in2013 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Having only watched the first three films, now having a wonderful time reading them for the first time with my 8 yr old boys. Powerful, exciting, emotional, fun.
#26in2013 Why be happy when you could be normal? by Jeanette Winterson. Sad, complex, insightful, vulnerable, brave.
Julie P.: My experiences in tech: Death by 1000 paper cuts
472In Once Upon an Internship, I learned early that sometimes being a software engineer means death by 1000 cuts because you don’t have the power to make it stop. Even the tiniest little things add up to something big – sometimes it’s really death by 1000 paper cuts.
The cuts started early. I’m…
In which a brilliant feminist Senator – New York’s Kirsten Gillibrand – stands up against rape and schools a U. S. General on how to do his job.
As we know, thousands of rapes are reported in the military each year, manifold more go unreported, and a female soldier in a combat zone is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.
You can’t be what you can’t see
Originally posted on the MaRS blog:
Language and imagery are important. These two inputs impact…
This young artist is brilliant…and is surely going places…!
“Judgments”
I took this last year, but in retrospect, I think it’s my strongest piece from high school.Working on this project really made me examine my own opinions, preconceptions and prejudices about “slutty” women and women who choose to cover all of their skin alike. I used to assume that all women who wore Hijabs were being oppressed, slut-shame, and look down on and judge any woman who didn’t express her sexuality in a way that I found appropriate.
I’d like to think I’m more open now.
#26in2013 Gawd love ya @CaitlinMoran. Great way to start the year! How To Be A Woman #highlyrecommended
"The overwhelming majority of those children would have been saved with effective gun control. We know that this is so, because, in societies that have effective gun control, children rarely, rarely, rarely die of gunshots. Let’s worry tomorrow about the problem of Evil. Let’s worry more about making sure that when the Problem of Evil appears in a first-grade classroom, it is armed with a penknife.
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On gun violence and how to end it, the facts are all in, the evidence is clear, the truth there for all who care to know it—indeed, a global consensus is in place, which, in disbelief and now in disgust, the planet waits for us to us to join. Those who fight against gun control, actively or passively, with a shrug of helplessness, are dooming more kids to horrible deaths and more parents to unspeakable grief just as surely as are those who fight against pediatric medicine or childhood vaccination. It’s really, and inarguably, just as simple as that.
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The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik on the science of and the simple truth about gun control (via explore-blog)
Now all we need is the snow…
Mornings of perfection. (at Sans Dire)
Getting ahead with a little help from our friends
Originally posted on the MaRS blog on Wednesday, November 14, 2012.
Years ago, while…
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