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I am not the Tsarnaevs
salon.com
4 mentions — 1 month ago
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Topics:ruslan tsarni,Tamerlan Tsarnaev,Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,Islam,muslim reaction to boston bombings,Boston Bombings,Chuck Woolery,white muslims, Life News When the news broke, snarky Twitter trolls – are there any other kind? – launched the rhetorical gauntlet of questions, those predictably designed to confirm a biased, flawed narrative that casts “Islam” as the quintessential ...
Boston Recap
Nicky Ocean on WordPress.com
11 mentions — 1 month ago
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This past week is likely to be one of the most memorably in American history. Two explosive devices detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday morning, killing three people (so far, some yet remain in critical condition) and wounding “More than 170” others.By the ...
The early evolution of dinosaurs
Green Tea and Velociraptors
3 mentions — 1 month ago
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Dinosaurs. What springs to mind when they’re mentioned? Colossal, towering sauropods? Packs of feisty feathered fiends? Or huge herds of hadrosaurs, chomping their way across the plains of long-lost worlds? Most, including myself, will automatically default to any one of these images when dinosaurs come up in conversation ...
“Cooked”: Michael Pollan takes kitchen duty
salon.com
3 mentions — 1 month ago
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Topics:What to Read,Nonfiction,Books,Editor's Picks,Must-Do,Cooking,Michael Pollan,Food, Entertainment News Much food writing is little more than a gaseous substance that collects around recipes and advice. I like to cook and make most of my own meals, but I have no patience for the touchstones of foodie literature, like M.F.K. Fisher,
"Going Extinct Is Genocide": Lakota Elders Tour to Raise Awareness About Struggle
truth-out.org
5 mentions — 1 month ago
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On Tuesday, April 9, Lakota elders, activists and nonindigenous supporters marched through the streets of Manhattan to the United Nations, where they attempted to present a petition to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Entitled the Official Lakota Oyate Complaint of Genocide Based on the 1948 Convention on the ...
All Your Tax-Free Internet Shopping Is About To End
businessinsider.com
2 mentions — 4 weeks ago
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WASHINGTON (AP) — States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that overwhelmingly passed a test vote in the Senate Monday.Under current law, states can only require stores to collect sales taxes if the store has a physical presence in the state. As a ...
Government to offer cheaper energy bills to communities that don't oppose fracking - Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk
1 mentions — 3 weeks ago
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As part of plans to push ahead with the controversial practice, where by shalegas is forced out of the ground by blasting water into rocks, the coalitionis considering a range of sweeteners for local communities.While the biggest incentive would be cheaper household energy bills,communities who agree to shale-gas ...
Mother Of Boston Bombing Suspects Suggests FBI Has Been Watching Her Son For Five Years
businessinsider.com
3 mentions — 1 month ago
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Zubeidat K. Tsarnaeva, the mother of Boston bombing suspects Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, suggested Friday that the FBI had been surveilling her older son for several years prior to Monday's attack. In an interview with Russia Today Friday, Tsarnaeva said that Tamerlan Tsarnaev got involved in "religious politics" ...
How a student took on eminent economists on debt issue - and won
Reuters
10 mentions — 1 month ago
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Thomas Herndon, a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's doctoral program in economics, spotted possible errors made by two eminent Harvard economists in an influential research paper, he called his girlfriend over for a second look.As they poured over the spreadsheets Herndon ...
9 questions about Chechnya and Dagestan you were too embarrassed to ask
washingtonpost.com
4 mentions — 1 month ago
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Although information is still emerging about their exact connections to Russian regions of Chechnya and Dagestan, early reporting suggests that Boston marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev may be of Chechen origin and may have grown up partially in Dagestan. The regions are sometimes described as ...
Displaced - By Joshua Foust
Foreign Policy
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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Early reports suggest that the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, are ethnically Chechen. Media reports suggest their family lived in Chechnya in the 1990s and later moved to neighboring Dagestan and then Kyrgyzstan. The Tsarnaevs moved to the United States about a decade ago,
A Chef’s Guide to Eating in Jerusalem
NYTimes.com
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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When the London-based chef and restaurateur Yotam Ottolenghi, who grew up in the Jewish west side of Jerusalem, crisscrossed his hometown to research a cookbook he was writing with his company’s head chef, Sami Tamimi, from the Arab east, he became a specialist in the city’s subtle culinary ...
How Being Poor in America Shaped Every Part of My Life and Forced Me to Live on the Streets (Hard Times, USA)
Alternet
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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How Being Poor in America Shaped Every Part of My Life and Forced Me to Live on the Streets (Hard Times, USA)As a young lady, my mother dreamed of becoming a pianist. She showed enough promise at this that when her father lost a leg to diabetes and ...
US torture 'indisputable', CNN's humiliation, and Iran sanctions
guardian.co.uk
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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Two separate bipartisan reports with surprising pronouncements, and a cable news debacle, highlight similar themesAfghan villagers attend a protest against U.S. special forces, who they accuse of overseeing torture and killings in Wardak province. More than five hundred men marched through the capital of the Afghan province, Maidan ...
Why The Co-Founders Of Dating Site HowAboutWe Relocated To New York To Start Their Company
businessinsider.com
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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When high school teachers and best friends Aaron Schildkrout and Brian Schechter came up with the idea for a new dating site, they were not even living in the same city.Schechter was in Washington, DC, and Schildkrout in Boston, but they wanted start their company, HowAboutWe, in the ...
Head up high, feet on the ground: 16 onscreen drug trips that don’t go over the top
avclub.com
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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1. Louie’s wasted afternoon: Louie, “Dogpound” (2010)It isn’t easy to visually replicate the singular, internal experience of being high, which is why television and movies usually default to a handful of tropes: psychedelic imagery, weird camera angles and cuts, and often, overblown histrionics and hilariously off-base sequences like ...
The Everyday Sexism Project: a year of shouting back
The Guardian
4 mentions — 1 month ago
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A 14-year-old schoolgirl wrote: ' am constantly told I can’t be good at things because I’m a girl.' Photograph: Thomas Grass/Getty ImagesWhen I started the Everyday Sexism Project a year ago, I never imagined that by now it would have attracted some 25,000 entries and be about to ...
Patton Oswalt’s improvised Parks And Recreation filibuster will make you wish he was writing Star Wars: Episode VII
avclub.com
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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In the first of two (count ’em, two!) new Parks And Recreation episodes airing this Thursday, friend of The A.V. Club (and once and future Webby host) Patton Oswalt joins in the proud Pawnee tradition of disrupting progress by speaking a steady stream of nonsense. Specifically, nonsense pertaining ...
Organised crime worth $90bn year in East Asia
aljazeera.com
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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Organised crime gangs dealing in fake goods, drugs, human trafficking, and the illicit wildlife trade earn nearly $90bn annually in East Asia and the Pacific, a UN report reveals.In a report released on Tuesday, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said drug trafficking accounts for more ...
Wind Power Ascendant in 2013
Greentech Media
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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The wind industry appears to be getting its mojo back after the funk that preceded the Jan. 1 extension of the federal production tax credit (PTC). Broadwind Energy (BWEN), one of the leading U.S. turbine tower manufacturers, just announced a $14 million order for delivery in 2H 2013.
Stress relief: Battery-free wireless 'smart skin' sensors could provide remote monitoring of aging infrastructure
phys.org
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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Assistant professor Yang Wang from Georgia Tech’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering displays a strain-testing specimen mounted with a wireless antenna sensor. Credit: Gary Meek (Phys.org) —Major bridge failures in recent years have focused attention on the need to monitor America's highway bridges and other infrastructure. As ...
Japan's Rootless and Restless Workers
NYTimes.com
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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A dark suit jacket hangs by a shaded window, beneath a portrait of a smiling, well-dressed executive.The man is Akira Teranishi, a Japanese salaryman who killed himself 17 years ago, leaping from a building in Kyoto. It was Valentine’s Day.“I gave him chocolate,” his wife, Emiko, told the ...
The Postfeminist Mystique: Or, What Can We Learn from Betty Draper?
popmatters.com
3 mentions — 1 month ago
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AMC’s hit series Mad Men has been called both “bad for women” and “the most feminist show on television”. This dispute over the feminist value of Mad Men amplifies when you look particularly at the character of Betty Draper (now Betty Francis). On the surface, it seems problematic ...
10 reasons state lotteries ruin the economy
salon.com
4 mentions — 1 month ago
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Topics:AlterNet,State Lotteries,American Revolution,U.S. Economy,West Virgnia,Utah,Hawaii, Business News, Politics News State lotteries amount to a hidden tax on the poor. They eat up about 9 percent of take-home incomes from households making less than $13,000 a year. They siphon $50 billion a year away from local businesses—besides stores where ...
Justin Bieber Hopes Anne Frank 'Would Have Been a Belieber'
jezebel.com
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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Bet you did Nazi this coming! Publicists/the fates diced and soaked locally-sourced ingredients for a gazpacho of Internet greatness when Justin Bieber stopped by Amsterdam's Anne Frank House on his European tour. He wrote in the museum guestbook:“Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a ...
Magic trick transforms conservatives into liberals
Nature News & Comment
5 mentions — 1 month ago
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When US presidential candidate Mitt Romney said last year that he was not even going to try to reach 47% of the US electorate, and that he would focus on the 5–10% thought to be floating voters, he was articulating a commonly held opinion: that most voters are ...
Watch the Thrilling Moment Uruguay Passed Marriage Equality: VIDEO |News | Towleroad
Towleroad
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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Last night the nation of Uruguay became the 12th in the world to pass marriage equality. Here's the moment it happened. It will give you chills (the good kind)!Posted Apr. 11,2013 at 1:06 PM EST by Andy Towle in Gay Marriage, News, Uruguay | Permalinkif this give me ...
South Sudan Women Seek Jonglei Peacemaking Role
voanews.com
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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"If something happens, we'll say, ‘Huh? Where are the women of this village? Why did your sons come and attack these places?’”
Genetics: A gene of rare effect
Nature News & Comment
4 mentions — 1 month ago
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A mutation that gives people rock-bottom cholesterol levels has led geneticists to what could be the next blockbuster heart drug.When Sharlayne Tracy showed up at the clinical suite in the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas last January, the bandage wrapped around her left wrist ...
Why I’m breaking the cycle of violence in Afghanistan
Women Under Siege Project
3 mentions — 1 month ago
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I never realized how devastating our culture was for women until my brother-in-law tortured my sister. Growing up in Afghanistan, I had already watched my father beat my mother—but that was seen as just another part of daily life. Then the cycle of violence continued when I myself ...
What Margaret Thatcher Taught Hillary Clinton
Businessweek
4 mentions — 1 month ago
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A little-known fact about Margaret Thatcher, who died today: Hillary Clinton modeled herself after the former British prime minister when she ran for the White House in 2008. In a private campaign memo written in late 2006 that was later leaked to me, Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn,
Margaret Thatcher to Sarah Palin: don't bother dropping by
guardian.co.uk
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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Allies of former prime minister regard darling of Tea Party movement as a frivolous figure unworthy of an audienceMargaret Thatcher will attend the unveiling of a statue to Ronald Reagan but is not planning to meet Sarah Palin. Photograph: Barry Thumma/APSarah Palin wants to show to the Republican ...
Israel may be operating in Syria
globalpost.com
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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While the Israeli forces may be operating in a non-military capacity, it would be the first time they have been known to set foot in Syria since the 1970s.GOLAN HEIGHTS — Israeli military personnel are operating in non-combat capacity in an area across Israel's border with Syria, GlobalPost ...
N. Korea Propaganda Video: Dogs Attack Effigy Of South's Defense Minister
TPM LiveWire
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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North Korea has released another bizarre propaganda video. The video, released over the weekend, shows German shepherds biting at a dummy of South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-Jin. Soldiers in the video also shoot at an image of the South Korean official, as the New York Daily News ...
Researching While Black: Why Conflict Research Needs More African Americans (Maybe)
Political Violence @ a Glance on WordPress.com
3 mentions — 1 month ago
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I had just flown into Rwanda around 2001/2 when someone came up to me and asked if I was from the United States. I was wearing a Yankees cap — which I thought might have given me away, though I had seen several already — but what had ...
Hot List: Day 93 of the Legislature - The Texas Observer
The Texas Observer
2 mentions — 1 month ago
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Nothing brings out the furor at the Capitol like a debate over abortion. And we may see plenty of it this afternoon when the House State Affairs Committee will hear two major abortion bills. The most controversial one is Republican Jodie Laubenberg’s “fetal pain” bill, HB 2364, which ...