Learn Blog

The goal of Learn Blog is to educate and enlighten its readers in hopes that at the end of the day, one could say "hey I learned something today."

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[vaspim3]

Special thanks to all the 10 year olds out there for making all those music lyric videos on Youtube

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But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian’s daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

Mark Twain (via vaspim3)

[fastcodesign]

It’s a bit like flashcards on steroids.”

How Spritz Redesigned Reading, Letting You Scan 1,000 Words A Minute

When we read, our eyes move across a page or a screen to digest the words. All of that eye movement slows us down, but a new technology called Spritz claims to have figured out a way to turn us into speed-readers. By flashing words onto a single point on a screen, much like watching TV, Spritz says it will double your reading speed.

More> Co.Design

(via fastcodesign)

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You cannot say that you like Pocahontas. The genocide of my people is turned into a cartoon musical with a singing raccoon.

Then shown to children around the world. Thus ensuring the next generation remains relatively indifferent to the past and present conditions of indigenous people.

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[wrench-wench]

As you can see, Paula Deen is a true victim of racism, not like George Stinney.

[dollywoodparkinglot]

If you ask a cis person why they hate trans people, you’ll get responses like “I don’t think they’re natural” or “they’re immoral and corrupting our children” or “they’re evil and should be killed”

If you ask a trans person why they hate cis people, you’ll get responses like “I’ve been attacked on the street 3 times this month” or “I can’t leave my house anymore” or “my friends were raped and murdered”

See how that works?

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[letterstomycountry]

*You’ve* never been arrested before?

L.A. Police officer speaking to a Black actor who pretended to break in to Jason Roberts’ car while Roberts filmed it.  Roberts, who is White, also filmed himself  breaking into the same car to demonstrate the difference in peoples’ reactions based on the race of the person attempting to break into the car.  Roberts tried to break into his own car for 30 minutes and nobody bothered him.  A police car even drove past at one point and did nothing. When the Black actor, Quentin Brunson, attempted to break into the car, the police were called and showed up within 2 minutes.

Related: Racial Profiling Bike Experiment

(via letterstomycountry)

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[universalequalityisinevitable]

Robert Sapolsky about his study of the Keekorok baboon troop from National Geographic’s Stress: Portrait of a Killer.

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[manhood]

No you were singled out as a misogynist because your lyrics look like this:

Punch a bitch in the nose til her whole face explodes There’s three things I hate Girls, women and bitches I’m that vicious to walk up and drop-kick midgets (…) Coming through the airport Sluggish, walking on crutches Hit a fucking pregnant bitch in her stomach with luggage

[elonjames]

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King said in an interview that this photograph was taken as he tried to explain to his daughter Yolanda why she could not go to Funtown, a whites-only amusement park in Atlanta. King claims to have been tongue-tied when speaking to her. “One of the most painful experiences I have ever faced was to see her tears when I told her Funtown was closed to colored children, for I realized the first dark cloud of inferiority had floated into her little mental sky.”

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does this even need a caption

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I assume a large portion of that positivity about lesbians is due to them being sexualized and to serve the sexual fantasy’s of straight men. Pretty sure that’s not even a positive.

[geth-metal-deactivated20140318]

Exactly. I’m assuming all of the “hits” for lesbians are porn. 

[gaywrites]

You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs, pulling her hair out by the roots? You’re the fourth guy taken in the NFL draft. You kill people while driving drunk? That guy’s welcome. Players caught in hotel rooms with illegal drugs and prostitutes? We know they’re welcome. Players accused of rape and pay the woman to go away? You lie to police, trying to cover up a murder? We’re comfortable with that. You love another man? Well, now you’ve gone too far!

Sports anchor Dale Hansen for ABC local affiliate WFAA in Dallas. Whoa.  (via gaywrites)