February 2012
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I honestly love my college.
It’s difficult work, and I complain about stress (I’m still sick!) - but the faculty is amazing and I appreciate everything they do.
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“Do you think that highly processed “food” is produced with your health in mind...”
– Food for Thought: The Reluctant Raw Foodist (via thereluctantrawfoodist)
I have a rule. If I can’t pronounce it, if I don’t know what it is, then I’m not eating it. (Reading the labels of everything!)
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“One Planned Parenthood clinic does more in a day to prevent abortions than the...”
– Helen Philpot (via feminishblog)
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“I was writing with my heart, not my keyboard. I was writing what I felt should...”
– On today’s Fresh Air, Internet activist Wael Ghonim talks about how his Facebook page helped start Egypt’s revolution. (via nprfreshair)
Please listen to this! It’s beautiful and inspirational!
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“You can not measure an African success with a European ruler”
– Owen ’ Alik Shahadah (via stilleducatingmyself)
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Chinese Labor Practices Sour Apple Consumers →
Apple’s profit margins have widened in recent years to over 30 percent, while Foxconn’s have narrowed to around 1.5 percent.
To make any real change, Apple will eventually have to take a hit to its profitability. Rotating tasks among workers might help prevent repetitive motion injuries, for example, but it will rake up costs in training and logistics.
But Needleman says many...
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I told my professor about Mike Daisey speaking about Foxconn, Apple, and the laborers involved in producing Apple products and he featured the interview in class today.
It’s exciting to know that professors care about the same things I do. It’s even more exciting that professors actually listen to what I have to say.
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In my night class, I met someone who likes sad books as much as I do.
Here, I thought liking sad books was a rarity.
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I ordered gifts for my boyfriend, and the total came to 38 cents!
I had a $25 gift card and free shipping & handling, but still - it only cost me .38!!!
This excites me!
life-after-survival:
”A man once told the Buddha, ‘I want happiness’. The Buddha said remove the ‘I’ that’s ego, now remove the ‘want’ that’s desire, now all you are left with is, Happiness.”
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Uganda revives anti-gay bill but drops death... →
dynamicafrica:
A Ugandan MP has revived a controversial anti-gay bill but dropped the provision for the death penalty for certain homosexual acts.
A BBC correspondent says MPs laughed, clapped and cried out: “Our bill, our bill,” when its architect David Bahati reintroduced the draft legislation on Tuesday.
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill was shelved in 2011 after an international outcry.
It still...
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I have so much stress and aggravation this week.
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Californians anxiously await ruling on Prop. 8 →
shortformblog:
latimes:
The ruling on the gay marriage ban is expected in the next 30 minutes.
We’ll be keeping an eye on this.
“We are very hopeful that the 9th Circuit will rule in favor of fairness and equality, once and for all putting an end to Prop. 8’s exclusion of loving, committed couples from marriage,” John Lewis, legal director of Marriage Equality USA, said in a statement.
Rwanda: Country Reduces Poverty By 11.8 Percent →
dynamicafrica:
One million Rwandans have emerged out of poverty in the last five years, six times faster than the country has achieved between 2000 and 2006, a new survey of household living conditions in Rwanda indicates.
The survey, which represents the international benchmark for measuring poverty, will be released on Tuesday by the Rwandan Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning...
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Jurassic cricket's song recreated →
infoneer-pulse:
Night-time in the Jurassic forest was punctuated by the unmistakable sound of chirping bush crickets.
This is according to scientists who have reconstructed the song of a cricket that chirped 165 million years ago.
A remarkably complete fossil of the prehistoric insect enabled the team to see the structures in its wings that rubbed together to make the sound.
» via BBC
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UPDATE
mohandasgandhi:
mohandasgandhi:
The Syrian boy who had his jaw and lower face blown off (Use extreme caution when visiting that link. The video is VERY graphic.) appears to be alive. It’s unconfirmed at this point but it is believed that the bandaged boy in this video is the same boy (video shows moderately bloody bandages). His condition and prognosis is still unknown.
Scratch that. I just...
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thatistight:
This Must Be The Place - Talking...
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What's Happening in Russia Explained →
caraobrien:
Putin’s grip on Russia: Over the two-plus decades since the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Vladimir Putin has been in charge for more than half the time. Currently prime minister, he is running for president—again—in the March 4, 2012 elections. The ex-KGB officer served as the nation’s president from 2000 until 2008. After two four-year terms, Putin then stepped into the role of...
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