"The World Health Organization estimates that 80% of the world population lives in countries with limited or no access to opioid pain medicines, and that 5.5 million terminal cancer patients die each year without proper pain control. As in India, it is generally not financial constraints that prevent people from receiving these medicines, but ill-conceived drug regulations or irrational fears surrounding their use." LA Times
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"Imagine if you could say to a casual partner, “I love you. It’s no big deal. It doesn’t mean you’re The One, or even one of the ones. It doesn’t mean you have to love me back. It doesn’t mean we have to date, or marry, or even cuddle. It doesn’t mean we have to part ways dramatically in a flurry of tears and broken dishes. It doesn’t mean I’ll love you until I die, or that I’ll still love you next year, or tomorrow.”" Carsie Blanton
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If you want to understand why people in Ferguson rioted, read about the long history of racist abuse and violence that its citizens suffered at the hands of the police. The killing of Mike Brown was only the tip of the iceberg. Vox
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"Just as “Fight Club” showed that manliness and violence were imaginatively inseparable, “Gone Girl” raises the possibility that marriage and victimhood are inseparable, too... To be in a couple, in short, is to be in a power relationship. And in power relationships, there are always winners and losers." New Yorker
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“There has been a large long-term increase in the share of net income from housing for every country in the sample except Germany," Rognlie explains. "Meanwhile, the non-housing capital share shows no clear trend.” Bloomberg
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This guy attending elite universities in the US and Canada for years without paying any tuition fees. What a hero. (Too bad about his frankly creepy job now) Fast Company
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OK, so this probably won't be real for a long time, what with the difficulty of regenerating severed spinal nerves. But, supposing my body was riddled with metastatic cancer or something, I'd happily take a body transplant simply as a life support device. Sure, I'd only be able to move my head, but that's actually better than what Stephen Hawking has at the moment! Guardian
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"In a blind tasting, Laughlin’s guinea pigs found that copper and zinc were the sourest, while the spoon to end all spoons was, of course, made of gold. “Mango sorbet with a gold spoon is just heaven,” she sighs. “Mango never tasted so mangoey.” But too bad if you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth: in the blind tasting, it came out near the bottom." Guardian
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The sheer pettiness of life in the occupied territories: a newly built Palestinian town is denied connection the water network. Washington Post
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"I don’t know how many times I’ve been chattering along about something and accidentally make some careless, general statement about something, when whamo! I see that gleam in my philosopher’s eyes and I know the next thing out of his mouth is going to be something along the lines of, “So you think in all cases . . .” or “Do you really want to commit yourself to that?”" Philosiology
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"But because the job involves working with vulnerable kids and adults I'd have to have a full police check. The job would have been ideal for me, but I couldn't even say I was interested or I would have lost my own daughter. As she's classed as a vulnerable adult and I have a record for prostitution, they could have said my house wasn't a suitable environment for her." Vice
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Awesome work, SAPS, using stun grenades on peacefully protesting high school students. Groundup
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So many lols
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Remembering $pread magazine Animal Tits & Sass
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"Such cases always come up against athletes of the third world. I've never heard of an athlete facing a similar ban from the developed countries," Vice
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"In September last year, Xola, a SAMU (South African Municipal Workers Union) member who worked in the procurement department of the parastatal, BloemWater, and who had uncovered tender irregularities, was murdered. He was shot three times outside his girlfriend’s house in Bloemfontein’s Hillside Township shortly after handing a dossier detailing the fraud to the Hawks. No one has yet been arrested for his murder." Daily Maverick
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"Porn is not monolithic, and it’s not even a genre – it is a medium. Yes, a lot of porn is sexist and too much of it has historically been made by men for men, but claiming that all porn is sexist because you’ve only seen the worst of it is like saying that all TV is sexist because you’ve only ever watched Top Gear." Pandora Blake
(Some images NSFW)
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I wasn't even aware this was a distinction, but I'm definitely towards the latter.
""Many studies have found that there are two domains of extraversion based on self reports," Tara White, study co-author and professor at Brown University, told Mic. First there's the "go-getter," who's more assertive, persistent and achievement-driven, the kind of person always raising their hand in class. This is called "agentic extraversion." Then there's the "people person," who is friendly, emotionally warm and great with ice breakers, known as "affiliative extraversion."" MIC
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That awkward moment when an ex-director of Mossad (i.e. hardly a dove) calls out Netanyahu for creating an "apartheid state" Telesur
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Slavery existed in the US for as long as it did because it was highly profitable, and contributed massively to industrialisation in Britain and North America.
"Many enslaved cotton pickers in the late 1850s had peaked at well over 200 pounds per day," Baptist notes. "In the 1930s, after a half-century of massive scientific experimentation, all to make the cotton boll more pickable, the great-grandchildren of the enslaved often picked only 100 to 120 pounds per day." Huff Post
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This is completely shameful, but remember that it exists in a context where people of colour are utterly economically marginalised. I don't think we should be more shocked by this than we are by the underlying fact that the circumstances of many citizens of Worcester are such that they are willing to suffer this indignity in order to compete for poorly paid jobs as gardeners and domestic workers. IOL
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"Imagine if you could say to a casual partner, “I love you. It’s no big deal. It doesn’t mean you’re The One, or even one of the ones. It doesn’t mean you have to love me back. It doesn’t mean we have to date, or marry, or even cuddle. It doesn’t mean we have to part ways dramatically in a flurry of tears and broken dishes. It doesn’t mean I’ll love you until I die, or that I’ll still love you next year, or tomorrow.”" Carsie Blanton
>>><<<
If you want to understand why people in Ferguson rioted, read about the long history of racist abuse and violence that its citizens suffered at the hands of the police. The killing of Mike Brown was only the tip of the iceberg. Vox
>>><<<
"Just as “Fight Club” showed that manliness and violence were imaginatively inseparable, “Gone Girl” raises the possibility that marriage and victimhood are inseparable, too... To be in a couple, in short, is to be in a power relationship. And in power relationships, there are always winners and losers." New Yorker
>>><<<
“There has been a large long-term increase in the share of net income from housing for every country in the sample except Germany," Rognlie explains. "Meanwhile, the non-housing capital share shows no clear trend.” Bloomberg
>>><<<
This guy attending elite universities in the US and Canada for years without paying any tuition fees. What a hero. (Too bad about his frankly creepy job now) Fast Company
>>><<<
OK, so this probably won't be real for a long time, what with the difficulty of regenerating severed spinal nerves. But, supposing my body was riddled with metastatic cancer or something, I'd happily take a body transplant simply as a life support device. Sure, I'd only be able to move my head, but that's actually better than what Stephen Hawking has at the moment! Guardian
>>><<<
"In a blind tasting, Laughlin’s guinea pigs found that copper and zinc were the sourest, while the spoon to end all spoons was, of course, made of gold. “Mango sorbet with a gold spoon is just heaven,” she sighs. “Mango never tasted so mangoey.” But too bad if you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth: in the blind tasting, it came out near the bottom." Guardian
>>><<<
The sheer pettiness of life in the occupied territories: a newly built Palestinian town is denied connection the water network. Washington Post
>>><<<
"I don’t know how many times I’ve been chattering along about something and accidentally make some careless, general statement about something, when whamo! I see that gleam in my philosopher’s eyes and I know the next thing out of his mouth is going to be something along the lines of, “So you think in all cases . . .” or “Do you really want to commit yourself to that?”" Philosiology
>>><<<
"But because the job involves working with vulnerable kids and adults I'd have to have a full police check. The job would have been ideal for me, but I couldn't even say I was interested or I would have lost my own daughter. As she's classed as a vulnerable adult and I have a record for prostitution, they could have said my house wasn't a suitable environment for her." Vice
>>><<<
Awesome work, SAPS, using stun grenades on peacefully protesting high school students. Groundup
>>><<<
So many lols
>>><<<
Remembering $pread magazine Animal Tits & Sass
>>><<<
"Such cases always come up against athletes of the third world. I've never heard of an athlete facing a similar ban from the developed countries," Vice
>>><<<
"In September last year, Xola, a SAMU (South African Municipal Workers Union) member who worked in the procurement department of the parastatal, BloemWater, and who had uncovered tender irregularities, was murdered. He was shot three times outside his girlfriend’s house in Bloemfontein’s Hillside Township shortly after handing a dossier detailing the fraud to the Hawks. No one has yet been arrested for his murder." Daily Maverick
>>><<<
"Porn is not monolithic, and it’s not even a genre – it is a medium. Yes, a lot of porn is sexist and too much of it has historically been made by men for men, but claiming that all porn is sexist because you’ve only seen the worst of it is like saying that all TV is sexist because you’ve only ever watched Top Gear." Pandora Blake
(Some images NSFW)
>>><<<
I wasn't even aware this was a distinction, but I'm definitely towards the latter.
""Many studies have found that there are two domains of extraversion based on self reports," Tara White, study co-author and professor at Brown University, told Mic. First there's the "go-getter," who's more assertive, persistent and achievement-driven, the kind of person always raising their hand in class. This is called "agentic extraversion." Then there's the "people person," who is friendly, emotionally warm and great with ice breakers, known as "affiliative extraversion."" MIC
>>><<<
That awkward moment when an ex-director of Mossad (i.e. hardly a dove) calls out Netanyahu for creating an "apartheid state" Telesur
>>><<<
Slavery existed in the US for as long as it did because it was highly profitable, and contributed massively to industrialisation in Britain and North America.
"Many enslaved cotton pickers in the late 1850s had peaked at well over 200 pounds per day," Baptist notes. "In the 1930s, after a half-century of massive scientific experimentation, all to make the cotton boll more pickable, the great-grandchildren of the enslaved often picked only 100 to 120 pounds per day." Huff Post
>>><<<
This is completely shameful, but remember that it exists in a context where people of colour are utterly economically marginalised. I don't think we should be more shocked by this than we are by the underlying fact that the circumstances of many citizens of Worcester are such that they are willing to suffer this indignity in order to compete for poorly paid jobs as gardeners and domestic workers. IOL
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