More often than not, abusers hide behind proclamations of love. But here is the key to seeing through their lies: Love is the ultimate form of acceptance and understanding. Do you feel 100% understood and accepted by a person? No? Then this person doesn’t love you. Try this test in your own life and you’ll have your answers.
“”There’s a suburban myth that women’s brains are inherently suited for multitasking; something men cannot understand.” Yes, I’ve heard this bizarre myth, and just like any other proclamation about the non-existent gendered brain, it is a mistake to uphold it.
Small but spectacular discoveries from the Victorian classroom.
Childhood obesity in the US is such an obvious and tragic problem that I don’t see why people need to produce endless screeds trying to convince themselves it isn’t true.
The Nation‘s Putinoids never rest in their attempts to promote their idol’s interests.
“West Virginia University is hiring a “Wikipedian-in-residence” to help close the online encyclopedia’s gender gap. The one-year position, to be filled this fall, will aim to increase the number of Wikipedia articles on West Virginia women and in the field of gender studies by 25 percent, the university said.” I believe it’s actually a great sign that few women are interested in the unpaid work of contributing to Wikipedia. Enough already with giving away our labor for free.
What’s in a prison meal? Photos.
Why did people wear powdered wigs? You’ll never guess the answer.
Very interesting revelations about the Tim Hunt scandal. That story was a lot more complex than we’d been led to believe.
How very pathetic: “ESPN has come under fire for awarding Caitlyn Jenner the prestigious Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs Wednesday night. But RadarOnline.com has learned, it wasn’t initially their idea! According to an insider, Jenner’s reps approached the network suggesting she receive the award — and offering PR plugs on her upcoming docuseries in return.” The whole thing has become simply shameless.
The war on our culture is raging on.
Sharing economy is fleecing economy.
By God people have sheltered lives: “The final season of Mad Men reminds us how exhausting the “high-quality cable drama” can be — how much pressure there is to watch, to have an opinion, to be up to date on the online dialogue.” Exhausting, pressure – all that about some silly TV show. I wonder what it must feel like to live a life where the only hardship is of this kind.
Worst cell phone case design ever.
The curious case of Professor Buchanan.
While the Russians are trumpeting their non-existent nano successes to the skies, Israeli researchers created a teeny-tiny nano Bible.
Karen Kelsky’s most stupid article. Just do the opposite of what she suggests here and you’ll be fine.
Fathers’ rights are in the toilet in this country.
[Spanish] Mediterranean cuisine is disappearing! And what a shame.
Michael Jackson’s brother is also a freak. Must run in the family.
Finally somebody is discussing the demands for trigger warnings from the Right.
Extreme bizarredom happens very often: ““Great” books, as defined by the Western canon, didn’t contain female protagonists I could admire. In fact, they barely contained female protagonists at all.” I have no idea how this strange creature managed not to find female protagonists in the Western canon. There is a hundred novels titled with a female name for every single one titled with a male name. How can one miss Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, Emma, Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa, Pamela, Effi Briest, Fortunata and Jacinta, Alice in Wonderland, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Rebecca, Moll Flanders, Little Dorritt, Daisy Miller, Mary Barton, Agnes Grey, La Regenta, Manon Lescaut, Thérèse Raquin, Eva Luna, Eugenie Grandet, Belinda, Evelina, Nana, and so on and on. And hey, these are just the titles that contain female names. Actual female protagonists are innumerably more because novels where there are only male characters are very limited in number. You may hate all of these characters – although that’s just weird but managing not to notice their existence and centrality to the Western canon is simply insane. And by the way, I’m really well-read.
U of Toronto slips towards anti-scientism and promotes courses by an anti-vaxxer.
As we there weren’t enough stinky, panting, dribbling dogs, scientists create a robotic one.
Inside Higher Ed defends pedophilia.
An abandoned space ship. Majestic and sad photos.
[Russian] An African-Ukrainian soldier is defending Ukraine from the Russian invaders.
Weirdos abound: people who want to reside in a livable city move from London. . . to Los Angeles! This is the height of freakdom.
Everything Wrong (Including Yes, Journalistically) With The HONY Gay Schoolboy Photo.
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Again, I don’t get the airbnb hate. What is Airbnb supposed to do, provide free conferences for its hosts that have 100% authority on when they rent their house out and what kind of services they offer? Hosts are not even close to being employees, at least uber drivers are not as clear. Will they make a profit on this conference? Sure, why is that bad? Maybe they can offer some real tips on how hosts can boost their revenue. If not, a sucker is born every minute and its on the hosts not to buy the snake oil (I bet its not snake oil though). Viva capitalism.
I just don’t get it – if uber drivers want to get compensated like a normal driver – they are free to do so. Talk to them though, most love it because of the flexible hours. Likewise if airbnb hosts want to set up their own website to advertise a room in their house – they can! Airbnb is a great way for people with extra space and time on their hands to make a good deal of extra money.
For context, airbnb is wildly profitable for the hosts – so profitable, it’s caused a surge in real estate prices from huge developers buying out apartment buildings to rent with airbnb in NYC. That’s a tax loophole and obviously a problem, but it’s NOT a problem for the hosts needless to say!
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The reason why people hate Airbnb and Uber is that their entire business model consists of socializing the costs of running business. Since they don’t recognize their employees as employees, the costs they refuse to pay for employing them will be paid by you and me, i. e. taxpayers. And many people feel annoyed that we have to shoulder yet another set of costs just so that the owner of Airbnb can make another billion. On which he’ll pay a lower tax rate that I make on my earnings, by the way.
People are tired of giving handouts to billionaires. And Uber / Airbnb are yet another such recipient of handouts..
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Tom Slee has done a lot of data-driven research on AirBnB. It seems the range of outcomes for AirBnB hosts has some “power law” characteristics. Given the choice of talking points in your comment, you probably are thinking “feature, not bug.” But the point is that the most profitable hosts are neither amateurs nor newcomers to the accommodations game. And are astonishingly large-volume operators. The least profitable are almost certainly operating at a loss, as they probably include a lot of business-naive and even accounting-naive people who may be spending the gross revenues as if it’s income. I know, fool, money, parted, yadda yadda.
Perhaps instead of debating whether these business practices are fair (which depends a lot on what yardstick is used) can we at least agree that the homespun “kindness of strangers” or “borrowing from neighbors” narrative is emphatically not representative of what’s going on?
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The “kindness of strangers” and “this is sharing work” narratives are making me want to barf.
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Thank you for sharing the news from the shearing economy. Thank you also for the link on minimum floors for universal education. What’s really exorbitantly costly is ignorance.
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It’s not that childhood obesity doesn’t exist or isn’t a problem. The BMI scale is hugely flawed. It doesn’t differentiate between muscle mass and fat, which means that a skinny person can be categorized as overweight or obese just because they happen to have more muscle mass than the test formula accounts for. It’s also problematic for children from diverse ethnic backgrounds, since people in different geographical areas may have different typical height-to-weight ratios. And for teenagers it can be problematic because someone whose body develops earlier than those of their peers are more likely to be classified as overweight (particularly girls) depending on their age. Addressing the problem of childhood obesity needs to start with addressing the flaws in the system we use to measure it.
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\ The curious case of Professor Buchanan.
I followed a link from that article and read
This Professor Was Fired for Saying ‘Fuck No’ in Class
The misuse of sexual-harassment policies by pusillanimous college administrators is creating a campus panic.
http://www.thenation.com/article/this-professor-was-fired-for-saying-fuck-no-in-class/
You said Laura Kipnis was wrongly worried, but what is told about her and David Levinson’s cases tells me she was right.
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I didn’t say she was wrongly worried. She was put through a lot of inconvenience for no reason whatsoever. My syllabi are all sanitized as much as possible to avoid angering the oversensitive. I simply don’t care enough to battle students for their own good.
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Have you read the article? The case of Levinson simply made me angry – threaten and get a good grade. 😦
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I don’t like the article a whole lot. This is so not about administrators. At my university, students are not supported by the administrators in their censoring attempts but that doesn’t make them desist.
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\ We could decide that a postsecondary degree is as much a right as a high school diploma.
Academic degrees in Israel increase 500% since 1990
Central Bureau of Statistics report shows number of graduates has increased most in academic colleges; percentage of women awarded undergraduate and masters degrees higher than that of men; almost a tenth of graduates during the 2013/14 school year were Arabs.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4681486,00.html
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Of course, any country that wants to preserve a degree of relevance in the world of technological revolution will have to do this.
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