July 9th, 2009
The New York Times interviews SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg regarding The Place of Women on the Court.
Dealing with Toddlers: When all you hear is "NO!"
Annals of Parenthood: Sleeping with the Baby. Reprint of an article on co-sleeping which appeared in The New Yorker in 2003.
Research indicates that people who speak different languages do indeed think differently and that even flukes of grammar can profoundly affect how we see the world.
The Faster Times. Explanation
Popular Mechanics: "Jay Leno has a lot of old cars with a lot of obsolete parts. When he needs to replace these parts, he skips the error-prone machinist and goes to his rapid prototyping 3D printer. Simply scan, print and repeat."
Religious Muslim and Jewish groups are protesting the forthcoming Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. Construction has unearthed the remains of hundreds of Muslims interred at a cemetery at the site.
An Amnesty International report into maternal mortality in Peru found that hundreds of poor, rural and indigenous pregnant women are dying because they are being denied the same health services as other women in the country.
Michael Jackson and Vitiligo
"Massachusetts, the first state in the nation to legalize gay marriage, has become the first to challenge the constitutionality of a federal law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman, saying Congress intruded into a matter that should be left to individual states."
Twittorati launched today. Similar in concept to Technorati.
Gizmodo: An Illustrated Guide to Every Stupid Cable You Need
Windows Internet Explorer 8: Nickelback Edition
Online Photoediting Websites: Aviary's Phoenix, BeFunky, Dumpr, Photofunia, Piknik.
ASPCA: Animal-Free Circuses
Dealing with Toddlers: When all you hear is "NO!"
Annals of Parenthood: Sleeping with the Baby. Reprint of an article on co-sleeping which appeared in The New Yorker in 2003.
Research indicates that people who speak different languages do indeed think differently and that even flukes of grammar can profoundly affect how we see the world.
The Faster Times. Explanation
Popular Mechanics: "Jay Leno has a lot of old cars with a lot of obsolete parts. When he needs to replace these parts, he skips the error-prone machinist and goes to his rapid prototyping 3D printer. Simply scan, print and repeat."
Religious Muslim and Jewish groups are protesting the forthcoming Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. Construction has unearthed the remains of hundreds of Muslims interred at a cemetery at the site.
An Amnesty International report into maternal mortality in Peru found that hundreds of poor, rural and indigenous pregnant women are dying because they are being denied the same health services as other women in the country.
Michael Jackson and Vitiligo
"Massachusetts, the first state in the nation to legalize gay marriage, has become the first to challenge the constitutionality of a federal law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman, saying Congress intruded into a matter that should be left to individual states."
Twittorati launched today. Similar in concept to Technorati.
Gizmodo: An Illustrated Guide to Every Stupid Cable You Need
Windows Internet Explorer 8: Nickelback Edition
Online Photoediting Websites: Aviary's Phoenix, BeFunky, Dumpr, Photofunia, Piknik.
ASPCA: Animal-Free Circuses
