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A blog about how people understand, interpret, and evaluate information.

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Would.

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letgive:

LetGive is inviting you to take place in our first annual LetGive “Hack For Good” contest—the first time (well, to our knowledge!) that developers can build an app or game in support of a charity of your choice. The contest will take place during the month of September, with a kick-off event...

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transitive-propertiesss:

Real women do not have curves. Real women do not look like just one thing.

Real women have curves, and not. They are tall, and not. They are brown-skinned, and olive-skinned, and not. They have small breasts, and big ones, and no breasts whatsoever.

Real women...

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nom-chompsky:

coooooool

Are there gif t-shirts yet? 

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I’ve had librarians say to me, “People in my school don’t agree with homosexuality, so it’s difficult to have your book on the shelves.” Here’s the thing: Being gay is not an issue, it is an identity. It is not something that you can agree or disagree with. It is a fact, and must be defended and represented as a fact. To use another part of my identity as an example: if someone said to me, “I’m sorry, but we can’t carry that book because it’s so Jewish and some people in my school don’t agree with Jewish culture,” I would protest until I reached my last gasp. Prohibiting gay books is just as abhorrent… Discrimination is not a legitimate point of view. Silencing books silences the readers who need them most. And silencing these readers can have dire, tragic consequences. Never forget who these readers are. They are just as curious and anxious about life as any other teenager.

David Levithan - Supporting Gay Teen Literature (via cake-light)

SERIOUSLY!  I’m sick of LGBTQ culture being treated as just some political issue.  Queer people aren’t just a handful of people who want to get married, okay?  We’re real, and we’re fucking important, and we need to be represented accurately and positively in the media and on the book shelf, especially in schools, where kids are still discovering who they are and maybe they feel really alone and they need a book they can relate to …

(via riotisnotquiet)

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it says a lot about the age of internet

that i’m already tired of hearing about a story (weiner press conference) before a lot of people have even heard about it for the first time

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Totally.

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almondlace:

Good mornin’.

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Education spending per child in twelve different countries compared to literacy and test score rates.

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iamwhoiamandidontgiveadamn:

bebinn:

A person’s a person, except when they’re not

There’s a pretty big difference; it matters a lot!

An embryo, blastocyst, zygote or fetus

Don’t give politicians the right to mistreat us

They can’t hear, they can’t feel, they can’t think,...

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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Richard P. Feynman (via libraryland)

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The eating habits of liberals v. Conservatives.

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With the new Nook coming out in a few weeks, the stats and my e-reader is better than your e-reader flame wars have begun. Honestly, I will always love my kindle (early gen 1), but I also just made a connection at the Barnes and Noble development department. And «might» start developing fire then in the near future. A librarian coding apps and dynamic e-books for an e-reader? How could I pass that up? Besides 150 hours of battery life with constant use is super impressive.

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