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Hecklers mar Romney’s visit to inner-city charter school in Philadelphia - The Washington Post

every paragraph leads me to think: "what a tool." so glad he thinks that there's no correlation between class size and student performance. do not vote for Romney, for the sake of your children!

via maggie eighteen (of west philly):
Madaline G. Dunn, 78, who said she has lived here for 50 years and volunteers at the school, said she is “personally offended” that Romney would visit her neighborhood.
“It’s not appreciated here,” she said. “It is absolutely denigrating for him to come in here and speak his garbage.”
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter (D) addressed protesters and the media, quipping that Romney “suddenly somehow found West Philadelphia.”
“It’s nice that he decided this late in his [campaign] to see what a city like Philadelphia is about,” Nutter said. But, he added, “I don’t know that a one-day experience in the heart of West Philadelphia is enough to get you ready to run the United States of America.”
“You want to have an urban experience?” Nutter added. “You want to have a West Philly experience? Then come out here and talk to somebody in West Philly.”

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The Case of CeCe McDonald: Murder—or Self-Defense Against a Hate Crime? | Mother Jones

Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality: "People are being killed out there, and CeCe is being punished for not being killed."

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4 days ago by cluebucket

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You Can Use Chopsticks? And Other Remarks that Bother Some People.

"Mutantfrog Travelogue smartly pointed out that repetitive questions aren't only limited to nationality or race, but also profession. I'm sure doctors get asked the same questions over and over and over again. I always try to take the questions and remarks in good stride—sometimes there are jerks, because, well, there are jerks everywhere."

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5 days ago by cluebucket

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Immigration Law Reforms Make Gaijin Card Obsolete - Japan Real Time - WSJ

外国人登録制度、7月9日に廃止へ 60年の歴史に幕
hmmmmm... goodbye gaijin cards, hello gaijin-marked ID cards? weird last sentence, too, never heard about that...

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5 days ago by cluebucket

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SAVE THE NOON

greetings from Kanemoto of Club Noon:
今回の摘発を受けて現在の法律では「無許可営業」ということは免れないと痛感しました。そして、この摘発をもってClub DAWN～NOONの歴史は終わったと観念しました。
現在私は、起訴され保釈として釈放されています。これから公判される身なのですが、支援していただける弁護士団と共に、行き過ぎた捜査に対して戦う所存です。そして、NOONや私に関わった方々で、「SAVE THE NOON」という活動が起こっていると留置場の中で知らされたときは、驚きと共に大変元気づけられました。そこで、25年間クラブに関わってきた私としましては、風営法という整合性のとれていない法律がクラブを規制していることに対してどうしても納得ができませんので、留置場の中でこの法律の改正に務めることを決意しました。「SAVE THE NOON」の成功を心より願います。

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Instagram: rattatattat

やりすぎー！！！！って

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12 days ago by cluebucket

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Rookie » Letting Go

smoking & relapsing

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Karmin News, Video and Gossip - Gawker

state of the pop music: "Is the Insufferable Karmin Run Already Over?"

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The Failure of 'Failing Schools' Transcript - On The Media

"No Child Left Behind sets up a whole high stakes testing regime and holds schools to various standards, one of which enables politicians, school boards, etc., to declare schools “failing.” But the phrase has been made generic, and the term is, importantly, politicized. Politicians run on the basis of fixing the failing schools."

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The Real Reason They Still Play 'Mrs. Robinson' On The Radio

"Media has never been more consolidated. 6 media giants now control a staggering 90% of what we read, watch, or listen to."

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24 days ago by cluebucket

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Rookie » Why Can't I Be You

"Shelby Knox, feminist activist."

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Why this teacher decided to fight back - TES New Teachers

"My initial reaction was to contact Mr Gove and invite him to shadow me for a full week, at school and at home, working days and the weekend. This would demonstrate to him that teachers are already “working as long as is required to do the job”, not just the 32.5 hours he quoted. It would show him how far off the mark his 8 or 16 pupil class sizes really are. It would allow me to introduce him to children who, for a variety of reasons, simply are not capable of achieving five A* to Cs including English and maths. It would also allow me to show him that not being able to reach that level of formal education doesn’t mean those individuals can’t be of value to society.

"What good would such an offer have done, though? Mr Gove would surely have politely turned me down. My next thought was to keep a timesheet and send it to him."

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Writing With Caps Lock On All Day Makes You A Better Person « Thought Catalog

"However, when writing in caps, “took my tablets too early now i can’t sleep fml” goes from being slightly pathetic to “TOOK MY TABLETS TOO EARLY NOW I CAN’T SLEEP FML” — uncompromisingly psychotic and fearlessly manic."

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baxter sez: Some thoughts on "choice"

"Even though it's incredibly important that individuals have the right to make decisions about their lives, to suggest that "choice" is somehow the explanation of things that are wrong with the world, or to suggest that "choice" alone will solve the problems, is to significantly diminish complex lived experiences."

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Our “white people problems” problem: Why it’s time to stop using “white” as a pejorative | TV | For Our Consideration | The A.V. Club

"To some extent, this is mainly a personal beef. I get annoyed whenever anyone slaps a label on something and then presumes that the label itself says all that needs to be said. Whenever a critic or a potential audience member sniffs about “dad rock” or “chick lit” or “one for the fanboys,” it raises my hackles. If you’d rather not engage with what a piece of art actually is—as in, what it expresses and how well it expresses it—then fine. But don’t presume some kind of superiority because of that choice. One of the biggest fallacies in the way we talk about art is this idea that somehow personal taste equates to quality: That each of us miraculously only enjoys movies and music that are the best of their respective medium, and ergo, any movies and music we don’t enjoy must be terrible."

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27 days ago by cluebucket

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fourfour: Some kid!

"seven of Jason's best minutes, which are as cringey and hilarious as teenagehood itself"

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29 days ago by cluebucket

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Here Is Bruce Lee Beating Up Racist Writer John Derbyshire, Who Has Cancer

apart from the roundup/summary of Derbyshire dreadfulness, bookmarked for especially cogent comments re being Asian-American in America (not necessarily redundant):

Michael Cho:
"So Asian-Americans, when they do have legitimate issues of racism and discrimination that face them, get reactions of, 'Its not that bad, especially if you consider what has happened to African-Americans or Latinos.' And this argument is especially prevalent in Southern California. Or, because Asian-Americans are still a growing group with no solid definition, as in we have 5th generation Asian-American as well as people who immigrated 3 months ago, America still treats us as "the other," and is dismissive of our issues.
"And the reaction for a long time was, 'Keep your head down, study hard, make money and Americans will respect you.' But there are generations of Asian-Americans, who have read Ron Takaki, Maxine Hong-Kingston, Helen Zia, Carlos Bulosan, Frank Chin, Urvashi Viad, Frank Wu, David Henry Hwang, etc. who want a voice in American politics, and want to have a more active role for Asian-Americans politically and socially. The want you to remember the internment and Vincent Chin, they want you to know how fucked up it is when NBC Sports runs headlines like 'Michelle Kwan Beaten By American Lipinski.' When those voices are raised, people don't want to hear them. There are a lot of reasons for that. But because Asian-American issues have constantly be delegitimized, or marginalized by American society, or other communities of color, we are forced to elevate these incidents which affect our community..."

willwriteforfood:
"...But then, as you pointed out so well, that attitude also renders actual complaints about discrimination or bias illegitimate. Look at all the "don't be so sensitive" comments on Gawker's own stories about Jeremy Lin, as though Asians need to wait until some "real" racial incident to call out racist attitudes, while completely ignoring all the many instances of actual violence against Asians..."

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29 days ago by cluebucket

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Rookie » Clear Heart Full Eyes Can’t Lose

well!♡♡♡

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Rookie » Mod Eye Makeup in Like Five Minutes

I'll get this yet!

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xMOTHERx on Etsy

les papillons.

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Magical Deductions ⚡☂

"ok lets see if that thing with glasses chicks suddenly becoming super weird feminine when they whip off their glasses works"

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6 weeks ago by cluebucket

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Book review: ‘The Social Conquest of Earth,’ by Edward O. Wilson - The Washington Post

“Our ancestors were one of only two dozen or so animal lines ever to evolve eusociality, the next major level of biological organization above the organismic,” Wilson writes. “There, group members across two or more generations stay together, cooperate, care for the young, and divide labor in a way favoring reproduction of some individuals over that in others.”
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“A good first step for the liberation of humanity from the oppressive forms of tribalism would be to repudiate, respectfully, the claims of those in power who claim they speak for God, are a special representative of God, or have exclusive knowledge of God’s divine will,” he advises, and he includes in that group purveyors of “dogmatic political ideologies based on unchallengeable precepts, left and right.” Rounding out this view, he adds: “Their leaders may mean well. But humanity has suffered enough from grossly inaccurate history told by mistaken prophets.”

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Hilary Rosen was right. Ann Romney doesn’t speak for women in the workforce. - The Washington Post

"When Ann Romney’s husband, who faces a gender gap in some polls, uses her experience and insight as a megaphone for women’s concern over fewer paid jobs, he mistakenly assumes that all women are fungible. Which was, I take it, Rosen’s original point."

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Typewriter Artist Creates Prints One Line at a Time | WebUrbanist

via Kim

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$20 for 10 minutes

via Heather :)

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cleveland craigslist > jobs > tv/film/video/radio jobs
$20 for 10 minutes (home)
Date: 2012-04-06, 3:56PM EDT

I'm looking to listen to the masters on 1540 AM radio to see if it is ahead of the television broadcast. I will phone you and you can put the phone next to the radio.
"

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Culture Desk: Lena Dunham: Unwatchable in the Best Way : The New Yorker

bookin' this for the Moore factor

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7 weeks ago by cluebucket

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Humans are Humans are Humans | Cluster Mag

so many good thoughts. amazin' eighteen:
"Scavenging is basically always keeping your eyes peeled. If there’s something on the curb, it’s almost always worthwhile to check out. My friends and I have gotten so many ridiculous things for free this way. There’s a culture of free boxes around here, where folks just put stuff on the curb with a sign, and usually it’s all cleaned out come next day. There’s also a transient student population because West Philly is connected to several college campuses. The trash is plentiful, especially when the U Penn students move out in May. Good lord. We call that Penn Christmas. My housemate makes about $2,000 easy every year just from selling their old thrown-out textbooks.

"As for the stigma attached to re-use, that’s some bullshit rich people made up to control the non-affluent. Like back in feudal days when the starving peasants living on the king’s land couldn’t shoot a deer to eat because it already 'belonged' to the king. It really all goes back to power dynamics and maintaining control over the oppressed. Why can’t I eat the day-old dumpster food that is going to a landfill? It’s because it fucks up capitalist order and power dynamics. It’s about maintaining the made-up idea of scarcity so a few motherfuckers can stay in control.

"And let me just say that I am no crust punk. I listen to disco music and R&B and wear Mickey Mouse sweatshirts. It’s a shame that crust punks are the face of dumpstering, because I feel that a lot of people depend on the discarded world—they just don’t brag about it."

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9 weeks ago by cluebucket

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The Benefits of Bilingualism - NYTimes.com

"The key difference between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basic: a heightened ability to monitor the environment."
well... chyeah

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The Alienable Rights Of Women - The Rumpus.net

"Thank goodness women do not have short memories."

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9 weeks ago by cluebucket

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Tiger Beatdown › Show them how to resist: Connecting girls, inspiring futures

Talk about the value of difference and live through these values.
Cherish the non ambitious around you.
Value and nurture young anger.
Foster survival and self care strategies.
Lead by being an example.

"For many people, self care is the most radical act. In an environment that promotes that only certain lives are valuable and worthy, surviving and thriving are revolutionary."

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Tiger Beatdown › Guess What? Shaming People For Being Fat Doesn’t Magically Make Them Thin!

"On the surface, encouraging people of all ages to eat more fresh food and exercise in safe and enjoyable ways if possible seems like generally sound advice. It would be better if it came with a side of actually enabling those activities, like addressing huge disparities in the food system and providing children with safe places to get outdoors and move around. This information, however, is usually delivered alone, and in this heavyhanded shaming format, one which primarily sets up fat people as targets of bullying and abuse; visitors to ‘Habit Heroes’ would learn that fat is your own fault and that fat people are bad, rather than learning more about the complex social, dietary, genetic, and other factors involved in weight. They would also learn that it’s acceptable to target fat people for commentary and ‘advice’ because it would be ‘for their own good.’ And they wouldn’t learn about the difficulties involved in accessing fresh food and exercise."

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Are too a feminist.

"Next time you benefit from the F-word you should remember it’s not an insult, it’s a badge of pride."

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How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp | World news | The Guardian

• This is an edited extract from Escape From Camp 14, by Blaine Harden.

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Annotations - Triple Canopy

AP: "I would like to think that by mimicking that act we’re imbuing with meaning something that was constructed almost explicitly to deny or obscure the relation between word and thing—an empty shell people can feel OK about throwing money at, and one with infinitely greater aesthetic value than 'Dyncorp.'"

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Nobel Winner Gbowee: Where Are the Angry American Women? - The Daily Beast

via Anna: "Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee drew cheers at the Women in the World summit Friday morning, telling the crowd, “It’s time for women to stop being politely angry.”

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RT @_theinspiration: Best haircut

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"El Librotraficante" Tony Diaz Defies Ethnic Studies Book Ban with Caravan to Arizona

JUAN GONZALEZ: On Monday, El Libro-Traficante is set to launch a small caravan to bring carloads of ethnic studies books into Arizona that were banned by public school officials in Tucson after the city suspended its acclaimed Mexican American Studies program due to a state ban on the teaching of ethnic studies. The banned books include Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years, edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson; Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire; Occupied America: A History of Chicanos by Rodolfo Acuña_; and Chicano: The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement by F. Arturo Rosales.
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TONY DIAZ: Evidently, he wanted to replace Mexican-American studies with a real, live class on doublespeak, because that’s all doublespeak. Huppenthal knows that Americans would not tolerate a direct ban on literature. So he has actually taken oppression and updated it. At the end of the day, yes, there is actually a law, America, in Arizona, to prohibit courses in high schools. Let that sink in.

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▶ Jonathan Richman Reads A Poem For MOJO by MOJOmagazine

"I'm just LEARNING guitar. I'm just LEARNING to sing."

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Rookie » Bad Romance

1. Learn the Term "Gaslight"
2. Don't Blame Yourself
3. Do Not Ride the Escalator
4. You Have No Power Over Me

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What Kind of Country | This American Life

people who can't stop thinking about spending but can't see what they are spending on

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Playing House, Cutting Ties, and Being Alone | The Hairpin

NS!

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Text Messages From a Ghost | The Hairpin

via Claire

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Culture Desk: In Defense of Liz Lemon : The New Yorker

developing

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february 2012 by cluebucket

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Creative 'Linguistics' behind the latest NBA phenomenon - The China Post

"...the English pun becomes “Lin Lai Feng” (林來瘋), with Lin substituting the close sounding “Ren” (人, people) from the Taiwanese idiom “人來瘋” (the three characters literally mean people, come and insane, respectively). The turn of phase originally refers to people who become excited or showy in front of others. Here it pretty much means what Linsanity means."

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february 2012 by cluebucket

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"Where Are the Women?": Lawmakers Walk Out on Contraception Rule Hearing After Female Witness Barred

"I thank you for playing the ... clip of Congressmen Issa explaining that I was not an appropriate witness. I can’t think whose voices would be more appropriate than the women who are affected by this policy."

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february 2012 by cluebucket

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croydon municipal: 30 years on: Felt's Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty

"Suicidally, he chose to capitalise on this good fortune with an album of instrumentals called Let The Snakes Crinkle Their Heads To Death. 'I remember taking the album artwork to Creation, really confidently, and Bobby Gillespie (of Primal Scream) was there. He said "You're not really going to call it that are you?" I said yeah, it's a great title. He said "Crinkle? What the hell's crinkle?" I realised I'd made the worst mistake. It was the worst title in the world.'"

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U.S. Accused of Using Drones to Target Rescue Workers and Funerals in Pakistan

CHRIS WOODS: Even CIA agrees that it’s killed at least 50, and perhaps as high as 60, civilians. Their figures and ours are very different, and I think that’s based on how they interpreted "civilian." But nevertheless, CIA agrees that they’ve killed 50 to 60 civilians. There’s not been an investigation into a single one of those civilian deaths, and there’s not been a cent of compensation ever paid to anyone who’s been killed accidentally in Pakistan. And that’s a problem. When you have a covert intelligence agency running a military campaign, your accountability effectively collapses. And I think it’s worrying.

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february 2012 by cluebucket

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Wislawa Szymborska, a Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, dies at 88 - The Washington Post

ヴィスワヴァ

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february 2012 by cluebucket

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Rookie » Ask a Grown Man

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february 2012 by cluebucket

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Watch Stephen Colbert’s Defense of Planned Parenthood - Gawker

sneaked watching this vid in before leaving work. stifling giggles in the cubicle

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february 2012 by cluebucket

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DE(B)LO(G)CATED, SNEAK PEEK AT THE NEW DELOCATED OPENING SEQUENCE

I LOVE I LOVE I LOVE J.GLASE

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february 2012 by cluebucket

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Rhizome | Sexts from Patricia Lockwood

'I teach an African Grey Parrot to sext. He sexts at the level of a two-year-old -- "mama, mama, mama"'

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january 2012 by cluebucket

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Cognitive scientists develop new take on old problem: why human language has so many words with multiple meanings

"In a new theory, they claim that ambiguity actually makes language more efficient, by allowing for the reuse of short, efficient sounds that listeners can easily disambiguate with the help of context... Building on observation and previous studies, they posited that words with fewer syllables, high frequency and the simplest pronunciations should have the most meanings."

the comments are also interesting to consider, though I kinda resent the patronizing "Gentlemen" opening, I mean screw that

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january 2012 by cluebucket

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Terrible, ungrateful children on Twitpic

RT @beatonna: Terrible, ungrateful children

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january 2012 by cluebucket

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Continuing Education: The Documentary Essay

"The personal essay blends journalism and memoir. It looks beyond the author's life but doesn't lose sight of it. As a form, it's big enough to including war reporting and small enough to analyze daily habits. This course is for students interested in magazine essay writing, for those who wish to tell their own story through fieldwork and to learn techniques to grip readers to the final word. This discussion-based course will walk students through each stage of the creative practice: reading and analyzing exciting examples of genre; finding a topic with a personal angle; conducting research and outlining a story; fine-tuning ideas and editing for structure, with an eye toward publication. By the end, students will have written essays that resound for them personally while appealing to a larger audience. (8 hours)"

...wish I could take this course ;(

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january 2012 by cluebucket

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News for TV Majors: 2 Broke Girls at TCA

"the ultra-awkward 2 Broke Girls panel at [Television Critics' Association], where showrunner Michael Patrick King did not take kindly to critics' questions related to the show's jokes about race."

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january 2012 by cluebucket

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Chinese: What is the Chinese Language? | The Economist

good comments. so many!

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january 2012 by cluebucket

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How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? - NYTimes.com

"Colbert too is on the side of corporate personhood. 'Just because someone was born in a lawyer’s office and is incorporeal doesn’t mean he should have no rights,' he likes to say."
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"[Colbert] bounds across the set to a table in front of a fireplace with the Latin motto “Videri quam esse” (“To seem to be, rather than to be”)"
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"Correction: January 4, 2012: An earlier version of this article misspelled part of the title of a segment of 'The Daily Show' that featured Colbert. It was 'Even Stevphen,' not 'Stephven.'"

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january 2012 by cluebucket

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Project Areas - Triple Canopy

Research Work, Immaterial Literature, Internet as Material, Thinking Through Images, New Media Reporting, New Programming,

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december 2011 by cluebucket

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SHAKEDOWN (2012)

wanna see. "Shakedown, the club, emerged from a post-RIOTS, post-OJ, post-integration but still very racially divided Los Angeles. In this divided city Shakedown is an independent, all black and all female cash economy."

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november 2011 by cluebucket

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