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‘Community’: Alison Brie, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs & Megan Ganz Roundtable - The Daily Beast
Community’s female stars—and one of its writers—sit down for a roundtable discussion about being a woman in comedy, the show’s legacy, slut shaming, and more. Tears are shed!
articles  tv  community  feminism  comedy  entertainment 
12 weeks ago by SwissMisstery
Do Conservatives Understand How the Female Body Works? The Myth Fueling the Right-Wing Freak-Out Over Birth Control | Gender | AlterNet
The Republicans' chosen narrative about Obama's contraceptive coverage betrays a total lack of understanding of the most basic realities of human reproduction.
articles  politics  health  women  contraception  republitards 
february 2012 by SwissMisstery
The Book of Jobs | Joseph Stiglitz | Politics | Vanity Fair
Forget monetary policy. Re-examining the cause of the Great Depression—the revolution in agriculture that threw millions out of work—the author argues that the U.S. is now facing and must manage a similar shift in the “real” economy, from industry to service, or risk a tragic replay of 80 years ago.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz Illustration by Stephen Doyle
articles  economics  politics  history 
december 2011 by SwissMisstery
Wall Street Isn't Winning It's Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
And we hate the rich? Come on. Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners. But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning – they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more.
articles  finance  politics  ows  economics 
december 2011 by SwissMisstery
A Reporter at Large: Secrets of the Deep : The New Yorker
The dispute over what may be the biggest sunken treasure ever found.
articles  *toread 
october 2011 by SwissMisstery
I work for a large multinational tech company, I regularly hire woman for 65% to 75% of what males make. I am sick of it, here is why it happens, and how you can avoid it. : TwoXChromosomes
"The reason they don't keep up, from where I sit, is simple. Often, a woman will enter the salary negotiation phase and I'll tell them a number will be sent to them in a couple days. Usually we start around $45k for an entry level position. 50% to 60% of the women I interview simply take this offer. It's insane, I already know I can get authorization for more if you simply refuse. Inversely, almost 90% of the men I interview immediately ask for more upon getting the offer."
howto  money  women  articles  employment 
june 2011 by SwissMisstery
The 10 Most Important Things They Didn't Teach You In School | Cracked.com
By the time you're 30, you'll be hit with the crushing truth of just how much the grownups didn't teach you when you were in school. And, while liberals and conservatives haggle over whether public schools need more funding or more lessons on the Ten Commandments, we think all can agree there are some very basic, useful things that our children really, really should know.
articles  humor  education  advice 
july 2010 by SwissMisstery
The Best Question to Ever Be Asked on Questionland! | Slog | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
"In Die Hard, do you think if Hans Gruber had fired his gun while falling he could've struck Holly or John?"
diehard  humor  articles 
may 2010 by SwissMisstery
6 Life Saving Techniques From the Movies (That Can Kill You) | Cracked.com
We expect a certain level of medical farfetchery on television, like how Dr. House manages to keep the medical board from taking his license and setting it on fire. But this lack of realism doesn't really hurt anything other than our intelligence, unlike these Hollywood medical myths, which could hurt you to death:
articles  health  humor  tv 
january 2010 by SwissMisstery
And we shall call this “Moff’s Law” | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
Of all the varieties of irritating comment out there, the absolute most annoying has to be “Why can’t you just watch the movie for what it is??? Why can’t you just enjoy it? Why do you have to analyze it???”
media  fandom  articles  meta  movies  art  criticism 
december 2009 by SwissMisstery
Scientific American: The New Genetics of Mental Illness
Life's experiences add molecular switches to the genes that control our brain activity, affecting how susceptible we are to depression, anxiety and drug addiction
articles  health:depression 
august 2009 by SwissMisstery
Motorhead Messiah - Fuel Efficient Cars - Biodiesel - Hybrids
Johnathan Goodwin can get 100 mpg out of a Lincoln Continental, cut emissions by 80%, and double the horsepower. Does the car business have the guts to follow him?
articles  environment  cars  science 
november 2007 by SwissMisstery

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