January 2012
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“Our growth is generally dependent upon our ability to obtain new contracts to...”
– Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison operator in America, statement to stockholders, 2005. In other words: ending the Drug War and eliminating federal mandatory minimum sentences is bad for business.  Adam Gopnik notes that CCA “spends millions lobbying legislators.”...
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“Жизнь — загадка, которую надо уметь принять и не мучить себя постоянным...”
– Паоло Коэльо (via dmalyov)
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United States of America: Good news, guys, we took down Megaupload. Now everyone can rest easy!
Health Care System:
Hand-gun Violence:
Unemployment:
Public Education:
Gay Marriage:
Marijuana Legislation:
Middle East Conflict:
World Hunger:
Cancer Research:
Ron Weasley: You really need to sort out your priorities.
Jan 24th
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WatchWatch
dmalyov: “Они украли у нас страну” via Хабрахабр: Свершилось! Встречаем предвыборную цензуру в рунете. Появившееся два дня назад на YouTube видео с критикой Путина, очень быстро стало набирать популярность. Потом его удалили. По ссылке вы увидите: Материала НТВ в этом видео — 5 секунд из 3 с половиной минут. Остальное — Первый и другие каналы. Может быть, это одно из немногих видео, где...
Jan 22nd
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Голливуд умрёт
dmalyov: События последних месяцев наглядно показали, что Голливуд умирает. Они думают, что их убивает файлообмен, но на самом деле это естественный процесс, который идёт в результате технологической революции. Пока мы не знаем, как будет выглядеть индустрия развлечений через 20 лет, но ясно одно — Голливуд умрёт. И нужно сделать так, чтобы это произошло как можно быстрее. Это в интересах...
Jan 22nd
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What The Eyes Reveal: 10 Messages My Pupils are...
xxzulaxx: The dilation and constriction of the pupils reveals how hard we’re thinking, how excited or disgusted we are and more… ______________________________________________________ Our pupils, the black holes which let light into the eyes, don’t just help us see, they also signal what’s going on in our minds. Here are 10 pieces of psychological research which show how changes in pupil...
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“У Бога нет религии”
– Махатма Ганди (via dmalyov)
Jan 21st
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Bizarre Victorian fact of the day...
vicfangirlguide: When he was at Cambridge University Charles Darwin was a member of the ‘Glutton Club’. The club’s sole activity was eating animals not found in everyday cuisine - hawks and owls were regularly on the menu. On his scientific expeditions Darwin carried on this tradition eating a wide selection of exotic animals including armadillos, iguanas and giant tortoises.
Jan 20th
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“The long sentence is how we begin to free ourselves from the machine-like world...”
– Pico Iyer, in a pleasant Los Angeles Times article noted by Schmudde, defending his use of “…longer and longer sentences as a small protest against —and attempt to rescue any readers I might have from— the bombardment of the moment.” Iyer chooses two sorts of reduced expression as examples: bullet...
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