-
Temple Grandin: Animals Are Not Things
Animals Are Not Things A View on Animal Welfare Based on Neurological Complexity Dr. Temple Grandin Associate Professor Colorado State University Dept. of Animal Sciences Fort Collins, CO 80523-1171 Paper presented at a discussion on whether or not animals should be property, with Marc Hauser, Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University, 2002. Since I am autistic I do not understand purely abstract concepts that are based only in language. To understand a word I have to make a picture...
September, 6 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
-
Captain Jack Rescues Captain Jack
via youtube.com Another rescue...
September, 4 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
-
Barbara Ehrenreich: Bait and Switch
via fora.tv In this talk given at Books Inc., author Barbara Ehrenreich discusses her book Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream which examines the difficulty of middle-aged professionals trying to get white-collar jobs in corporate America. In her bestselling 2001 book Nickel and Dimed she went undercover to expose the hardships of the working poor. In Bait and Switch she goes undercover in the corporate world to explore white-collar unemployment. In this talk Ehrenreich uses her characteristic...
August, 24 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
-
-
15 Signs The U.S. Housing Market Is Headed For Complete And Total Collapse
The U.S. housing market is dying. You will only hear hints of this on the mainstream news and from the politicians in Washington D.C., but as statistic after statistic continues to roll in, the reality of what is happening is becoming very difficult to deny. Up until the end of April, the giant tax credit that the U.S. government was bribing home buyers with helped stabilize the real estate market, but now that the tax credit has expired the decline of the U.S. housing market has resumed. Mortgage defaults continue...
August, 20 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
-
-
The Catorialist: All About the Stylin' Kitty
via thecatorialist.blogspot.com You've heard of The Sartorialist... now behold The Catorialist.
August, 14 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
-
Are We Wired For Monogamy?
Are We Wired For Monogamy? A challenge to the idea that marriage and fidelity are "normal." BY CHRISTOPHER RYAN AND CACILDA JETHÁ For centuries, theorists have claimed that married, monogamous couples are the natural unit of human society, a claim that doesn't explain why everyone — from politicians to preachers — has so much trouble staying faithful. The following excerpt, from the book Dan Savage called "the single most important book about human sexuality since Alfred Kinsey," makes a different argument...
August, 10 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
"God forbid the people who have bad luck, or even neutral luck, because even the luckiest, the most beautiful and brilliant, what have they got? A minuscule, meaningless life span in the grand scheme of things." -- Woody Allen
