Archive for June, 2007

Broadsheet: Single women eat babies!- Salon.com

Friday, June 29th, 2007

There are 185,000 more single women than single men in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. (Apparently, there’s also an overabundance of single men on the West Coast, making the whole country seem like a gym at a sixth-grade dance.)

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Death-wish granny | Salon Life

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

My 87-year-old grandmother wants to die. And no one will let her.

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Broadsheet: When covering up blocks the sun - Salon.com

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

A study from the June 2007 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, written about here by Reuters, found that dressing conservatively can cause deficiencies in vitamin D.

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Machinist: Why MySpace is for freaks and Facebook is for preps - Salon

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Tech researcher danah boyd has conducted a fascinating study of MySpace and Facebook that nicely explains the chief cultural differences between the two uber-popular young people’s social networks.

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Broadsheet: Happy birthday, Title IX - Salon.com

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

It’s a little hard to believe that as of this month, the statute has been leveling the playing field by banning sex discrimination in federally funded education programs for three and a half decades.

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American goodwill, in shackles | Salon.com

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Winning the war on terrorism depends on winning the war of ideas, perhaps even more so than during the Cold War.

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