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Continue reading“Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear.” Read it all, please. http://ow.ly/69OKL
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OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.
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Continue readingAuthors confess to books they’d kick out of the canon Slate Magazine http://ow.ly/64NpJ
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Here we report 18 cases of adoption, a highly costly behavior, of orphaned youngsters by group members in Taï forest chimpanzees. Half of the adoptions were done by males and remarkably only one of these proved to be the father. Such adoptions by adults can last for years and thus imply extensive care towards the […]
Continue readingproduction or content? http://ow.ly/5WRvG
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new study shows how voter reactions differ according to which form of past tense is used! http://ow.ly/5WP76
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This photo speaks for itself.
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Continue readingvia guardian.co.uk
By turns gripping and charming: photos around the world in one day. Click on the link above.
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Continue reading[Jane] Levikow was in the gallery with her partner when she noticed a young lesbian couple in heated conversation with a security guard. “They were holding hands,” Levikow said, “and he told them they couldn’t hold hands in the museum.” via sfgate.com The irony? The featured exhibit was the “evolving public personae, lifestyle, and relationships,” […]
Continue readingGood summary of the marketing and financial decisions that led to Boarder’s bankruptcy http://ow.ly/5Jds3
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And despite conventional advice to eat less fat, weight loss was greatest among people who ate more yogurt and nuts, including peanut butter, over each four-year period. via nytimes.com An extensive study of over 100,000 men and women over 20 years has had some interesting results about weight gain in midlife. Reducing the fat in […]
Continue readingSightings near Lake Ontario, much more exciting than Justin! http://ow.ly/5Hn3Z
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Fascinating research, babies prefer Picasso over Monet http://ow.ly/5GrsT
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Villagers and environmentalists in the Aegean province of Denizli have successfully prevented the felling of an 800-year-old oak tree standing in the way of road construction by having it declared a “monumental tree.
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Continue readingOne might consider handwriting as a technology — a way to make letters — and conclude that the way of making them is of little moment. But handwriting is bound up with a host of associations and connotations that propel it beyond simply a fine-motor skill. We connect it to personal identity (handwriting signals something […]
Continue readingSupportive long-term relationships = less susceptibility to pain for women study http://ow.ly/5y32E
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