Some questionable language in this article, including a truly WTF title, but nevertheless an interesting brief history of the sex trade in Johannesburg. City Press
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"Assume $90 trillion is likely to be spent on infrastructure anyway over the next 15 years, and it would take only an additional $4 trillion to rapidly scale up climate-friendly alternatives. The biggest issue is, at current rates, an additional $9 trillion would be spent in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry over the same time span—a gross misallocation of funds if we’re serious about tackling global warming." Slate
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“it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” Slate
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"It’s weird that no one worries about the implications of hitting children on a body part that is culturally and biologically sexual. After all, the spankings I so “repulsively” enjoy are physically identical to the spankings that 81 percent of American parents and hundreds of U.S. school districts inflict or condone." Slate
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"Studies report that doubling the number of cyclists results in a one-third reduction in the number of car-bike collisions." Vancourier
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When the Bolshevik's captured the Tsar's Winter Palace during the 1917 revolution, citizens access to the Palace wine cellars resulted in such civil disorder that the new authorities felt the need to impose martial law. Cracked
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There'll be many more people in the world by the end of the century. Lots of challenges, lots of opportunities.
"A ground-breaking analysis released on Thursday shows there is a 70% chance that the number of people on the planet will rise continuously from 7bn today to 11bn in 2100." Guardian
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Yet another drive for nuclear power in South Africa, just as small-scale renewable generation is starting to become more economical. smh Amabhungane
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"to say Sex Work is not Sex Trafficking is to reify the current trafficking narrative, accepting that it refers to something real and bad that must be fought against... It throws under the bus all migrants, documented or not, who don’t much like selling sex and don’t call themselves sex workers but don’t want to be saved or deported." Laura Augustin
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An argument for the social function of science fiction.
"Good SF supplies a plausible, fully thought-out picture of an alternate reality in which some sort of compelling innovation has taken place. A good SF universe has a coherence and internal logic that makes sense to scientists and engineers." WPI
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You still base your life around what your invisible friend tells you to do, so maybe let's not start throwing stones...
"I have a PhD in Islamic studies from Oxford University, unlike my opponents who went to some donkey college in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia." BBC
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Most news outlets LOVE portraying cyclists as dangerous maniacs. Case in point, this London newspaper has seen fit to report on a traffic incident that happened in New York. Not only that, they've seen fit to publish a picture of the cyclist, even though he hasn't been charged with anything. I'm sure they were partly prompted in this decision by the fact that he is black and wears his hair in dreads. They way they've reported it sets out to imply that he is at fault without any factual basis: "It was unclear whether or not he had ignored a red traffic light." They also make much of the fact that he was not in the cycle lane, despite the fact that this is perfectly legal. Metro (via donotlink)
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"Assume $90 trillion is likely to be spent on infrastructure anyway over the next 15 years, and it would take only an additional $4 trillion to rapidly scale up climate-friendly alternatives. The biggest issue is, at current rates, an additional $9 trillion would be spent in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry over the same time span—a gross misallocation of funds if we’re serious about tackling global warming." Slate
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“it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” Slate
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"It’s weird that no one worries about the implications of hitting children on a body part that is culturally and biologically sexual. After all, the spankings I so “repulsively” enjoy are physically identical to the spankings that 81 percent of American parents and hundreds of U.S. school districts inflict or condone." Slate
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"Studies report that doubling the number of cyclists results in a one-third reduction in the number of car-bike collisions." Vancourier
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When the Bolshevik's captured the Tsar's Winter Palace during the 1917 revolution, citizens access to the Palace wine cellars resulted in such civil disorder that the new authorities felt the need to impose martial law. Cracked
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There'll be many more people in the world by the end of the century. Lots of challenges, lots of opportunities.
"A ground-breaking analysis released on Thursday shows there is a 70% chance that the number of people on the planet will rise continuously from 7bn today to 11bn in 2100." Guardian
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Yet another drive for nuclear power in South Africa, just as small-scale renewable generation is starting to become more economical. smh Amabhungane
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"to say Sex Work is not Sex Trafficking is to reify the current trafficking narrative, accepting that it refers to something real and bad that must be fought against... It throws under the bus all migrants, documented or not, who don’t much like selling sex and don’t call themselves sex workers but don’t want to be saved or deported." Laura Augustin
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An argument for the social function of science fiction.
"Good SF supplies a plausible, fully thought-out picture of an alternate reality in which some sort of compelling innovation has taken place. A good SF universe has a coherence and internal logic that makes sense to scientists and engineers." WPI
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You still base your life around what your invisible friend tells you to do, so maybe let's not start throwing stones...
"I have a PhD in Islamic studies from Oxford University, unlike my opponents who went to some donkey college in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia." BBC
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Most news outlets LOVE portraying cyclists as dangerous maniacs. Case in point, this London newspaper has seen fit to report on a traffic incident that happened in New York. Not only that, they've seen fit to publish a picture of the cyclist, even though he hasn't been charged with anything. I'm sure they were partly prompted in this decision by the fact that he is black and wears his hair in dreads. They way they've reported it sets out to imply that he is at fault without any factual basis: "It was unclear whether or not he had ignored a red traffic light." They also make much of the fact that he was not in the cycle lane, despite the fact that this is perfectly legal. Metro (via donotlink)
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This is what happens when you try to make fair and scientifically objective decisions on the basis of something - gender - that is neither fair nor scientific. MIC
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Wowzers, did you know that "Not being a willing sexual partner with your spouse" is a form of infidelity? FamilyShare
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"There is by now evidence from a variety of laboratories around the world using a variety of methodological techniques leading to the virtually inescapable conclusion that the cognitive-motivational styles of leftists and rightists are quite different. This research consistently finds that conservatism is positively associated with heightened epistemic concerns for order, structure, closure, certainty, consistency, simplicity, and familiarity, as well as existential concerns such as perceptions of danger, sensitivity to threat, and death anxiety." Mother Jones
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Wowzers, videos of people doing ordinary things from the perspective of an MRI scanner. Youtube
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"strikingly, 75 percent of Ebola victims are women, people who do much of the care work throughout Africa and the rest of the world." Slate
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""It's an aspect of my feminism," she says. "We spend so much time taking care of ourselves in ways that men don't, because of the beauty standards that society has for women... it's a total inequality. That's one small reason why I say; 'fine, essentially, y'all set this up, therefore you are going to pay for it!'."
Who? "The men, obviously," she smiles. And how are they going to pay for it? "In cash. I take their money. Of all the people who are living and working in this capitalist patriarchy, sex workers are winning. We have good strategy. People say it cheapens the experience," she laughs. "No, it doesn't, it makes it more expensive." Independent
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