December 2011
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How to Listen to Jazz
mills:
Music’s great virtue is its great curse: a listener needs to understand almost nothing of a song’s art, meaning, intent, or contexts to react powerfully to it. The universality of music’s effectiveness is peculiar: people of every conceivable sort have musical preferences they integrate into their sense of identity —they argue about these pseudo-tastes, fight about them, draw moral...
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“They say America is a free country. But we have laws…?”
– My 10 Year Old Brother.
It’s a proven fact that my family will 100% more political if I’m in the room.
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“Jasmeet doesn’t believe in God. She’s a communist.”
– My Dad
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“Women cannot be expected to struggle alone against the forces of discrimination...”
– Benazir Bhutto in a 1995 speech in Beijing at the World Conference of Women. This is a beautiful speech, go read all of it. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
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Neruda, I Have Some Questions Too
Can you still call it altruism, if you’re doing it make yourself better? Does “treat others the way you’d like to be treated,” apply if you’re a masochist? What’s more beautiful, the art or the people witnessing it? Can you platonically kiss someone on the lips, or is that just a sly form of cheating? If you take a different path, is the destination really the same? Does anyone who asks a...
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Mute and Motion
newtheoryoldlove:
There is a stampede and it is ruining the moment. Apprehension crawls into my stomach, and I feel that something strange is about to happen. A turbid aura surrounds these men and women who walk hand-in-hand with their children, rugged brown feet taking slow and careful steps, causing chaotic quakes on the carpet. In my state these motions apply a dull and slowly mounting...
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Installing US Military Dictatorship ... 30%...
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Anonymous asked: Merry Christmas Jasmeet. I wish you well. I hope you are with ones you love and care for you. Fedoraville.
Shakira was one year old when Nobel Peace Prize... →
stay-human:
mehreenkasana:
With two other burned little girls, she was put in a trash bin to die. A volunteer doctor with House of Charity discovered the three babies and attempted to save them. Two of the little girls died from their injuries, but Shakira, who is now four, lived to be disfigured.
CNN reports that Shakira arrived in Houston last week with her caretaker for a series of...
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High School Student Physically Puts Stop to Racist... →
socialismartnature:
Before every game, the girls’ basketball team at Kenmore East High School have a disturbing tradition. “The whole team before our game has a ritual of saying 1-2-3 and then the N word,” says Tyra Batts, the only African-American member of her Buffalo-area high school team. “It’s a tradition that’s been going on for years.” When Batts joined the team this year, with...
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“Is the truth depressing? Some may find it so. But I find it liberating, and...”
– Derek Parfit
Anonymous asked: Do you reeaaaally mean it when you tag your posts or just say "no one will love me"?
“Originally intended to help eliminate bias against various socio-economic...”
– Our Love-Hate Relationship With the SATs
Lol, yeah, because when you have someone going to a private school and paying $2000 for personal SAT tutoring, it’s definitely eliminating socio-economic group bias.
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newtheoryoldlove asked: Wait, but I thought Madhuri was that pale; though. She seemed like it in the last movies I remember of her?
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Reddit: Best free online learning centers
fyeahcarlsagan:
Schools and Universities:
University of Reddit with corresponding subreddit
MIT Lectures
Carnegie Mellon
Johns Hopkins
Tufts
Rice - Connexions
Utah State
Berkeley
Berkeley Part 2
Berkeley Part 3 (videos)
Stanford
Stanford Part 2 (videos)
Harvard
University of Sydney
University of Virginia
Stanford
Yale
Yale Part 2 (videos)
University of Washington CSE
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Sometimes I trip over shadows.
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Irony, Access and the Decline of Good Political...
politicalprof:
One of the remarkable things about watching media members interview politicians these days is just how bad the questions are. The journalist inevitably starts with a softball set up question that allows the candidate to offer some version of their stump speech for an answer. The journalist either follows up with a second softball on the same topic, or moves on. Notably, the more...
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Tout le monde a cherché quelque chose un jour, Mais tout le monde ne l’a pas trouvé, Mais tout le monde ne l’a pas trouvé
brunomarconi replied to your post: Tout le monde a cherché quelque chose un jour,…
J’aime beaucoup ça chanson de Carla Bruni :)
Como yo no sé nada de francés: AH! Estoy de acuerdo, la letra es absolutamente hermosa.
Was that grammatically correct? xD
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HIV+ man sprayed with Lysol at work
James White’s lawyers in Michigan call his case “the worst case of HIV discrimination they’ve ever seen.” It’s hard to believe how much James had to endure:
When James disclosed his HIV status to his boss at a Great Expressions Dental Center — where James worked as an office assistant — James’ boss told everyone in the office that James had...
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At least 82 people reported dead in Syria today →
theamericanbear:
charquaouia:
This is after at least 100 were reported killed yesterday. Syrian activists are reporting numbers in the 360s within the last two days alone.
Good thing they signed that peace deal with the Arab League. Wonder when that starts.
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“Did you ever walk through a room that’s packed with people, and feel so...”
– Jodi Picoult, Second Glance
clavicola:
Sometimes you just want to sit in the parking lot of a shopping complex with someone who will listen to you talk about silly little things and who’ll let you hold their hand and will smile, just smile, at you and sometimes that’s all you really need.
Anonymous asked: Is this thought-emancipation?
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I miss Shakespeare and I miss acting.
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It Is the Young Who Suffer, Die in America's Wars →
In Iraq, the youngest suffer the most: a third of American deaths have been under 21, and more than half of those were in the lowest ranks:
In a hilltop graveyard overlooking this Stillaguamish River village lies a young soldier killed in the infancy of the Iraq war.
Army Spc. Justin W. Hebert’s story is sad and sadly unremarkable, a tragedy bound up in the tale of a grinding war that took...
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itsneverwritteninstone replied to your post: bekaboo replied to your post: Okay, my complete…
dude its more like throw your laptop/ipod/etc in your room and run away to the nearest library. Thats what i’ve done. Find a library or a study area with no computers and boom you cant really get updated on news until you finish reading/studying
I’M GOING TO GO TRY THIS.