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The Stonewall Riots happened between June 28-July 3, 1969.
Led by Black and Brown trans women, the riots were a catalyst for change and are the reason why we celebrate Pride. We’ve come a long way but we still have more work to do against transphobia and racial injustice.
Keep fighting.
Twitter roasts movie character clichés.
HEY THERE, Y'ALL!
As we move into 2019 and presidential hopefuls start their campaigns, remember:
- DO NOT FORM POLITICAL OPINIONS BASED ON INFOGRAPHICS. Read source material. If a journalist is legitimate, they will not pass off their statements as fact without proof.
- DO NOT TAKE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS AS TRUTH. Not even when they are made by someone you trust.
- DO NOT TRUST ANY SOURCE UNLESS IT IS CORRABORATED BY MULTIPLE OTHER CREDIBLE SOURCES.
There are already bots posting propaganda, actively targeting leftists, encouraging us not to vote in various ways.
Do not let them win.
This political system is heinously broken, but consider what evil still has to gain from silencing you before you allow yourself to be silenced.
Your friendly neighborhood librarian is here to remind you to vet your sources
Don’t reblog anything without sources, or with tabloids listed as the source. Learn to recognize foreign tabloid names. Google the names of journalists. Don’t trust twitter screenshots.
Always check to see if the info is CRAAP or not.
(Every slide of this presentation has the poop emoji on it, btw)
Here’s our breakdown of games featured at this year’s E3 press conferences by gender. Once again, over three times as many games focus on male characters as on female characters. Read our blog post explaining what these numbers mean and what they don’t: https://wp.me/p7K8cI-bCm
Watching a bunch of kids repeating prayers only looks cute if you agree with that religion. To everyone else, it’s sinister.
A bunch of great educational-ish iPad apps for kids
In this post about Minecraft yesterday, I wrote in a footnote about educational-ish1 apps on my iPad:
On my iPad, I have a screen full of educational apps that the kids can work with pretty much anytime they want without asking.
I posted a screenshot of that page on Twitter, and I wanted to follow up with some App Store links as well as some links to other apps that people tweeted back at me. (Note: my kids are 6 and 8, so YMMV.)
Minecraft Pocket Edition - Duh. It doesn’t do quite as much as the full versions available on other platforms, but they’re improving and adding stuff all the time and the touchscreen experience is great.
The Tinybop Collection - Beautiful, fun apps. The kids most often work with The Everything Machine and Simple Machines.
Mate in 1 - A game that challenges you to find the checkmate using just one move. Ollie takes chess after school once a week, so I downloaded this for when he wants some extra practice during the week. See also Mate in 2.
Monument Valley - This is a straight-up game, but it’s so well-made (I love the soundtrack) and the logic puzzles are genuinely challenging that I’m happy to let them work with this one. Ollie has made it all the way through while Minna is still on level 9. Gonna get the Forgotten Shores IAP too.
The Numberlys - This one has ceased to be educational for my kids, but it’s great for the younger set.
Crazy Gears - 99 levels of mechanical puzzles involving gears.
Hopscotch - Use an intuitive drag-and-drop interface to build games. It includes many video tutorials for learning how everything works.
And here are a few recommendations from others that I am eager to try out:
Quick Math Pack - Four math apps, including multiplication, fractions, and telling time. See also Prodigy Math Game, The Counting Kingdom, the DragonBox apps.
Barefoot World Atlas - An annotated world atlas. This looks great…downloading now.
Epic! - A eBook library for kids 12 and under with 10,000 titles. A couple of very strong recommendations from people for this.
Brain It On - Draw shapes to solve challenging physics puzzles. See also LiquidSketch.
Endless Reader - For beginning readers. The same company, Originator Inc., has many other apps as well.
Professor Astro Cat’s Solar System - Learn about the solar system with a cat and mouse as tour guides.
Deep Green - Top-notch chess game.
Lots of good stuff there…I’ve downloaded a few already. I really really wish the App Store had a try-before-you buy policy. I have no idea which of these apps the kids will actually like/play and it would be nice not to have to spend $50 to find out. Anyway, thanks to everyone who shared their favorites. Let me know if I’ve missed anything great!
As you might have guessed from reading this here web site, I tend to have an expansive definition of what is educational. Hence, “educational-ish” to adjust people’s expectations.↩
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Sanders has built his political career on decrying a rigged economy. NPR found audio dating back to 1976 that is nearly indistinguishable from 2015 when it comes to this message.
Happiness doesn't help you live longer
Over the years, there’s been a growing consensus that suggests being happy is correlated with living a long life. Well, you can wipe that smile off your face because a massive study published in The Lancent makes it clear that no such correlation exists. So what about all those studies suggesting that stress and joylessness hastened death’s arrival? According the new study’s co-author:
In our view, the previous studies haven’t been well done. All that’s going on is ill health actually was causing unhappiness and stress.
In other words, your unhappiness is going to last longer than you thought.
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I can't even fathom where we will be in another 50 years it could be better or it could be the stone ages again.
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Books dealing with…
Depression:
Cut by Patricia McCormickÂ
Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Path
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Bipolar:
72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
Find You in the Dark by A. Meredith Walters
A Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma
The Museum of Intangible Things by Wendy Wunder
Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves
Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh
Anxiety:
Don’t Touch by Rachel M. Wilson
The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart
The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti
I Don’t Want To Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz
Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets Evan Roskos
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
OCD:
Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern
Total Constant Order by Crissa-Jean Chappell
OCD Love Story by Corey Ann Haydu
OCD, the Dude, and Me by Lauren Roedy Vaughn
Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready
Mr. Monk Goes To The Firehouse by Lee Goldberg
Schizophrenia:
Life is But a Dream by Brian James
Lowboy by John Way
Crazy by Han Nolan
Freaks Like Us by Susan Vaught
Cameron and the Girls by Edward Averett
Schizo by Nic Sheff
Eating Disorders:
Butter by Erin Jade Lange
Perfect by Natasha Friend
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Purge by Sarah Darer Littman
Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Unwell by Leslie Lipton
Addiction:
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Clean by Amy Read
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson
Exit Here by Jason Myers
Stoner & Spaz by Ronald Koertge
Male Engineering Student Perfectly Explains Why Female Classmates Aren’t His Equals
Ability? Absolutely. Opportunity? Nope.
'In the end, the 30 million word gap is a window into the parent-child relationship.'
Parent talk in the first three years of life is the power propelling our brains to develop to their optimum potentials. The process is so simple and hidden that you aren’t even aware it’s happening. But in those first three years, when 85 percent of our physical brain growth occurs, parent talk is the brain’s essential nutrition. At no other time in life will brain growth be as robust or influential.
What happens, then, when the language is not there?
