Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Life is a strange game. You think you have things figured out, everything in its pretty little place, when suddenly the earth quakes and shatters. In the fallout, you desperately cling to what you know. Me? I snake my arms around music and hold on for dear life. A few weeks ago some dear friends…
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — Cat lovers and animal activists showed up at the Santa Clara County courthouse Monday for an accused cat killer’s hearing. San Jose resident Robert Farmer, 24, is charged with animal cruelty and other crimes related to stealing and hurting or killing cats. VIDEO: Man accused of kidnapping, killing cats in…
The Black Lives Matter Movement has popularized a statistic released a few years ago in a report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. The report found that a Black person is killed every 28 hours by a law enforcement officer or vigilante. A new study released by the Violence Policy Center provides another alarming statistic: Once…
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START “MORE FROM” QZ END “MORE FROM” QZ All-male speaker lineups are so commonplace that there’s at least one Tumblr blog dedicated to mocking them. The endless stream of them can leave one overwhelmed and perhaps even convinced that they’re inevitable. More From Quartz Enter the mathematician Greg Martin, who has devised a statistical…
Claim: The Coen brothers have announced plans to begin filming a Big Lebowski sequel in January 2015. FALSE Example: [Collected via e-mail, October 2014] Are they really making The Big Lebowski 2? Origins: On 10 September 2014, the National Report web site published an article positing that…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Popular cloud hosting service DigitalOcean just added a very interesting feature today — floating IPs. So you may ask what is that and why do I need that? It’s better than sliced bread, and let me tell you why. Many developers are using these trendy cloud hosting services, such as DigitalOcean,…
Sex on Campus Why sex that’s consensual can still be bad. And why we’re not talking about it. Last winter, Reina Gattuso was a Harvard senior majoring in literature and gender studies and writing a biweekly column for the college newspaper, the Crimson. She covered a variety of subjects, among them her sexuality (she identifies…
High fees are eroding the retirement savings of millions of Americans, but employers who shop around can often find much better options for their employees’ 401(k) plans. Annette Elizabeth Allen/NPR hide caption itoggle caption Annette Elizabeth Allen/NPR High fees are eroding the retirement savings of millions of Americans, but employers who shop around…
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, We just got more evidence that the middle class in America is dying. According to brand new numbers that were just released by the Social Security Administration, 51 percent of all workers in the United States make less than $30,000 a year. Let…