Fun fact, this photograph is technically illegal. Any image of the Eiffel Tower lit up is under copyright. But copyrighting a national symbol is absolutely ridiculous.
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The Math Gender Gap: Nurture Trumps Nature!!
(via TIME) - Rural India might not seem a likely place to study the roots of gender differences in math performance. But a new study of two tribes living in the northeast of the country offers intriguing evidence that biology alone does not determine women’s math aptitude (or lack thereof, as former Harvard President Lawrence Summers once infamously suggested) and that culture has a lot to do with the differences between the genders.
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This is actually brilliant.
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8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
Have to disagree with a lot of this. 2, 3, and 5 have some backing. The entire premise that young people don’t care about wider issues is ridiculous, and this article cites absolutely no sources. For starters, voter turnout among people has been on the rise for years.
And the allegation that psychology is being used against people? ODD is not just “being defiant.” It’s unknown how many children have it, but a large percentage of children with ODD end up with conduct disorder, and the two are thought to be the same disorder.
The idea that TV is making young Americans quiescent? The report the article cites shows that people under 24 watch significantly less TV than older Americans.
Young adults being OK with surveillance? Are all of the Facebook privacy concerns nonexistant, or are they only of concern to the older population?
I’m a little torn about how to feel about 8, however. Although fundamentalist religion often tries to crush free thought and questioning authority, 44% of Tea Partyers are “born again” Christains, and they’re the closest thing we have to a populist movement going on right now, which is something that the article paints as something that is always good.
tl;dr don’t believe everything you read on the internet
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“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.”
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“A Glorious Dawn” — Carl Sagan (feat. Stephen Hawking)
a still more glorious dawn awaits
not a sunrise, but a galaxyrise
a morning filled with four hundred billion suns
the rising of the milky wayAaaah astronomy.
I remember this. It’s excellent.
Symphony of Science is always wonderful.
“That’s why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress, and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions.”
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), arguing against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, inadvertently making a pro-choice argument. (via stillexperience)
Oh my god, SO FUCKING PRICELESS.
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THE IRONYYYYYYYYY DDDD-:
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Just between you and your doctor, right, Mrs. Bachmann?
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