'Generation F*cked' How England became the worst place to grow up in the developed world: http://t.co/XHPwKV3 (new @Adbusters)

To have had a blue-collar job before becoming a politician in this country is still so rare and incredible that it is enough to be a defining feature for ever

"Their analysis, published Sept. 30 in Science, found several characteristics linked to group performance — and none involved individual intelligence. What mattered instead was the social sensitivity of individual members, the proportion of women (who tend to be more sensitive) in each group, and a balanced participation of conversation."

RT @dbarefoot: Amazing visualizations of ethnicity in American cities.
"I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, and Orange is Hispanic, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000."

A brilliant little scene about gay men, straight men and words - from one of the most brilliant comics around, Louis CK. In all this, there is a lovely American sanity - not too much defensiveness, a whole lot of candor, and a deep well of friendship

The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels & the Business of AIDS– a must-read for the socially-conscious global citizen

RT @fivethirtyeight: [new article] Divorce Rates Higher in States With Gay Marriage Bans http://bit.ly/5Nvedv

Ta-Nehisi Coates, "A Thought On Gay Marriage In Maine" http://bit.ly/SB9Jy

Great post from ArsTechnica:
100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words

While the general public only has an 8 percent occurrence of traumatic brain injury, which most commonly occurs due to car accidents, physical assaults or falling, that number was 53 percent for the homeless participants. Furthermore, they found that 70 percent of those with traumatic brain injury had the injury before they were homeless.

interesting experiment

Think again, suggests Nattavudh Powdthavee – you’re experiencing a focusing illusion

The crash of 2008 continues to reverberate loudly nationwide—destroying jobs, bankrupting businesses, and displacing homeowners. But already, it has damaged some places much more severely than others. On the other side of the crisis, America’s economic landscape will look very different than it does today. What fate will the coming years hold for New York, Charlotte, Detroit, Las Vegas? Will the suburbs be ineffably changed? Which cities and regions can come back strong? And which will never come back at all?

For years the District of Columbia has provided public access to city operational data through the Internet. Now the District provides citizens with the access to 274 datasets from multiple agencies, a catalyst ensuring agencies operate as more responsive, better performing organizations. Use the data catalog below to subscribe to a live data feed in Atom format and access data in XML, Text/CSV, KML or ESRI Shapefile formats. Please note that by accessing the data catalog and feeds, you agree to our Terms of Use. Please read before accessing the data. All data visualizations on maps should be considered approximate. The visualizations provided by this application include only records that can be mapped.

Texas leads the nation in spending for abstinence-only programs. It also has one of the highest teen birthrates in the country. Those two sentences together sound like the basis for a logic question on the SAT, but a really easy one.

Serious networked governance paper from Joe Trippi, David Weinberger, Britt Blaser

Because they may have different symptoms than boys do, some girls with Asperger's syndrome don't get diagnosed.

My doctor may be tired, preoccupied or not that interested in me as a person; but I should still expect him or her to treat me with the kind of attentiveness and respect I recently received from a “genius” at the local Apple store.

Former US President Jimmy Carter has said the crisis in Zimbabwe is "far worse" than he had imagined....The country's basic structure was "broken down", he said, pointing to the cholera epidemic that has swept Zimbabwe, killing at least 300 people and affecting some 6,000.

When this man said the world’s economy was heading for disaster, he was scorned. Now traders, economists, even Nasa, are clamouring to hear him speak

Prostitution laws mean-spirited, penalize women

You'll do more to reduce the greenhouse gas impact of your diet by taking the ground beef out of your cart.

micro-loans, ebay..

on The Atlantic articles - "I’m just going to move right along and add about six more fuck-yous to the Atlantic for its searing coverage of women in the past few years."

interesting article on a black transgender man

In one common experiment, the “Goldberg paradigm,” people are asked to evaluate a particular article or speech, supposedly by a man. Others are asked to evaluate the identical presentation, but from a woman. Typically, in countries all over the world,

“The reason healthier diets are beyond the reach of many people is that such diets cost more."