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<br /> Sen. Joni Ernst did her best in her robotic SOTU response to let us know that she empathizes with folks facing hard times: You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry….
The measles outbreak that started at Disneyland in late December has been spreading; most recently, it’s hit Huntington Beach High School in Orange County, where 24 unvaccinated students have been told to stay home from school after an infected classmate exposed the school to the disease. Thanks a lot, paranoids who don’t want their precious…
Activist Emma Holten Fights Back Against Revenge Porn by Reclaiming Her Body In a Powerful Photo Series | Bustle.
Four years ago, intimate photographs of Danish journalist Emma Holten were posted on the web. Thousands viewed them and she still receives online harassment. The issues of revenge porn and hacked photos are part of a larger problem with our relationship to consent, she argues. So Holten decided to pose for and release a new…
The Ten Ways Your Life Will Change After You Publish Your First Book (Or So I’m Told) 1. You will look in the bathroom mirror on the morning of your book’s publication and see a face staring back; a real face, not the mass of flesh and flaws that had confronted you every morning before….
Aram Zucker-Scharff 24 mins · Edited · Running an experiment these last two weeks with my reading and Facebook sharing. First write-up will be in the next day or two, but here are some fun preview stats about those last two weeks: I read ~286 articles (I did not share them all). Total Facebook reach:…
“We’ve all done it,” begins one of the spicier dialogues in the new Netflix political thriller, “House of Cards.” Janine Skorsky, a veteran political reporter, is revealing to her young colleague, Zoe Barnes, how female journalists in Washington snag their scoops. “I used to suck, screw, and jerk anything that moved just to get a…
January 20, 2015, 7:02 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons Farm-to-table restaurant chain Dig Inn Seasonal Market has raised $15 million in its Series C round, bringing its total funding to $21.5 million since launching in 2011. The round was led by Wexford Capital, with other other participants including Monogram Capital…
The Associated Press reports that healthcare.gov–the flagship site of the Affordable Care Act, where millions of Americans have signed up to receive health care–is quietly sending personal health information to a number of third party websites. The information being sent includes one’s zip code, income level, smoking status, pregnancy status and more. An example of…
Most are nothing like their unethical onscreen counterparts. Photo: Photo Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon/© 2012 Knight Takes King Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved. A few months ago, I was sitting at a hotel in Huntington Beach, California, typing notes on my laptop, when two teenagers came up to me and started asking me questions. What…