Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Here’s one way to get the world’s attention: Live to become Europe’s oldest person and attribute your longevity to staying single. Well, staying single and eating raw eggs. Over the past week, the delightful story of Emma Morano, now 115 years and three months old, has gone viral. As The New York Times reported, Morano…
On a recent Tuesday morning, members of the DNA Cold Case task force in Cleveland, Ohio, gathered for their weekly meeting. The conference room filled with detectives, prosecutors, a crime analyst, several victim advocates—and one journalist. Rachel Dissell is a reporter for The Plain Dealer, one of two who first uncovered and wrote about neglected…
Stephanie Burns came up with the idea for Chic CEO, a free online platform for female entrepreneurs, in 2008, when she was getting her MBA. Many of her friends had lost jobs in the recession and were asking her for tips on how to start their own businesses. After hosting about 15 friends at…
On her first day shooting her first feature, Zoë Kravitz wasn’t allowed to work. Cast as a goth babysitter in the Catherine Zeta-Jones romcom No Reservations, the teenager couldn’t go on set until her designated guardian had signed in. But Lenny Kravitz was running late, and when he eventually arrived, the rock star caused such…
I woke up at 4am the morning after Thanksgiving in 2014. I had been staying the night at my friends Liz and Rob’s house after imbibing what can only be called a festive amount of alcohol. The couch, comfortable as it was when I settled in to sleep, was a nightmare to wake up in…
There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta-analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about…
Last September, hit recording artist Kesha filed a lawsuit against her mentor and producer Lukasz Gottwald (better known as Dr. Luke) in an effort to be released from her recording contract with his company. In her suit, the singer says the prolific hitmaker “sexually, physically, verbally and emotionally abused” her over the decade they’d worked…
A circuit court judge in Oregon’s Marion County is refusing to perform same-sex marriages, claiming doing so would violate his First Amendment rights. Judge Vance D. Day, who has served in Oregon’s Third Judicial District since 2011, has never married an LGBT couple, and has stopped performing marriages all together. Day says performing gay marriages…
Hupso Share Buttons – http://www.hupso.com/share/ Hupso Share Buttons You’ve seen them on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook — memes that divide black women up by respectable vs ratchet, heaping praise on the former and disgust on the latter. They dictate how black women should act and mercilessly shame those who don’t fit the mold, concluding…
Women: too hard to animate for Assassin’s Creed, but pretty easy to be horrible to With some of the building discussion about the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, which will, for the first time, allow you to play as a man and a woman (siblings, we’re told), it occurred to me that there wasn’t…