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- A Person Can't Be 'Diverse'
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 02:25 PMDanny Moloshok / Reuters Ava DuVernay, the director of Selma, is one of the most visible and vocal advocates for diversity in the film industry. She does not, however, love being described quite that way.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What We're Following This Afternoon
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 01:55 PMProtests in France: Traffic in a number of French cities slowed to a crawl Tuesday as taxi drivers protested Uber and other “non-traditional” car services that they argue hold an unfair advantage against drivers who must pay for costly taxi licenses.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How 'Service With a Smile' Takes a Toll on Women
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 01:39 PMBobby Yip / Reuters Discussions of gender inequality in the workplace often focus on the more visible manifestations of the imbalances between men and women: wage inequality, the motherhood penalty, or the lack of paid leave.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Triumph of Soap-Box Comedy
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 01:24 PMWhitney Cummings performs during her new HBO special, I'm Your Girlfriend. HBO Whitney Cummings’s new HBO special, I’m Your Girlfriend, is very funny, except when it is not.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Watching Soccer While American, Cont'd
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 12:22 PMAs an addendum to Jim’s note, a reader this weekend flagged a classic clip from The Simpsons:
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hillary Clinton Goes Back to the Dunning School
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 11:05 AMLibrary of Congress Last night Hillary Clinton was asked what president inspired her the most. She offered up Abraham Lincoln, gave a boilerplate reason why, and then said this:
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - To Lions, Zebras Are Mostly Grey
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 10:50 AMFabian Bimmer / Flickr Comedy maestro Bill Bailey has a song about zebras, in which he casts their black and white stripes as a message of racial harmony.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Psychedelics as Therapy
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 09:02 AMWe had a piece last week from Sam Wong about therapists who want to revive the use of psychotropic drugs—LSD, psilocybin, MDMA—for the treatment of mental-health issues. The piece resonated with a lot of readers:
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Deportation Harms Kids’ Education
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 07:45 AMAlexa Narvaez, 9, along with other protesters, during a rally for deportees in downtown San Diego, California in 2014 Sandy Huffaker / Corbis For many, the New Year represents new beginnings, a chance to start fresh with a clean slate.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- My Major, Myself
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 07:14 AMSteven Senne / AP They say it doesn't matter what you major in during college. It might matter, however, if you want your personality to match your chosen field—lest you end up the lone nod-greeter in a marketing class full of exploding fistbumps.
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- The Global Cities Where Tech Venture Capital Is Concentrated
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 02:25 PMBeck Diefenbach / Reuters Once the province of U.S. tech hubs such as California’s Silicon Valley, venture capital has gone global.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A New and Stunning Way to See the Whole Earth
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 02:10 PMOne part of one frame from Glittering.Blue, capturing Indonesia, much of South Asia and mainland China, and Typhoon Sudelor JMA / Charlie Loyd The Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 sits 22,000 miles from Earth in orbit.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- People Thought Machine Guns Might Prevent Wars
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 01:08 PMA man poses with a machine gun aboard the U.S.S. Indiana, in 1895. Library of Congress Hiram Maxim didn’t set out to invent a killing machine. But a lifetime of tinkering and building eventually led Maxim, who called himself a “chronic inventor,” to design and build the world’s first portable and fully automatic gun.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Private Sector Is Now Providing Basic Services to Flint
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 12:53 PMRoger Schneider / AP A coalition of some of America’s biggest companies is organizing a trucklift for Flint, promising to deliver 6.5 million bottles of water to the city in order to provide clean drinking
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Autism in Love': Dating and Courtship on the Spectrum
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 11:36 AMA couple shares their experience.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why the Prevalence of Campus Sexual Assault Is So Hard to Quantify
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 11:05 AMEric Risberg / AP According to some statistics, sexual assault is virtually nonexistent at U.S. colleges and universities.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Protecting a Family from Teenaged Terrorism
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 09:48 AMI just learned the movie Natural Born Killers was inspired by two teenagers on a murder spree in 1950s Nebraska. This reader remembers it all too well: My earliest memory of guns was in the late 1950s, when Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Fugate, were terrorizing Nebraska.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Why the Oscars Had to Change
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 08:47 AMSteve McQueen celebrating the Oscar victory of '12 Years a Slave' in 2014. Lucy Nicholson / Reuters In 2014, Steve McQueen made history at the Oscars as the first black director of a Best Picture-winning movie, 12 Years a Slave.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Disappearance of a Distinctively Black Way to Mourn
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 07:30 AMA funeral procession in Monroe, Georgia, for George Dorsey and Dorothey Dorsey Malcolm, who were lynched in 1946 Bettmann / CORBIS As a child, Richard Ables played hide-and-seek with his brother among the caskets.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A Retroactive Break for Juvenile Offenders
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 06:13 AMOfficers stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington on January 22. Susan Walsh / AP The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in Montgomery v. Alabama that its ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders also applied retroactively, making more than 2,000 inmates nationwide eligible for resentencing or the possibility of eventual freedom.
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- India Celebrates Republic Day
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 02:25 PMBernat Armangue / AP Today India held its 67th Republic Day celebration, honoring the day in 1950, when it adopted its current constitution.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Shutting France Down Over Uber
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 02:10 PMJean-Paul Pelissier / Reuters Traffic in a number of French cities slowed to a crawl Tuesday as taxi drivers across the country protested against Uber and other “non-traditional” car services.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Arab Spring’s Aftermath, in 7 Minutes
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 01:08 PMAn Egyptian anti-government protester prays in Cairo's Tahrir Square, on January 31, 2011. Amr Dalsh / Reuters Demonstrations marking the anniversary of the Egyptian uprising were subdued on Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - It's Time to Rethink the Calorie
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 12:38 PMMario Anzuoni / Reuters “For me, a calorie is a unit of measurement that’s a real pain in the rear.” Bo Nash is 38. He lives in Arlington, Texas, where he’s a technology director for a textbook publisher.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Academics Want You to Read Their Work for Free
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 11:21 AMWavebreak Media Ltd. / Corbis Imagine you’ve spent the last few years writing a manuscript. You submit it to a publisher, and they make you an offer: They’ll print it, but once it’s published, they own your work.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Is Bernie Sanders Really Naive About Iran?
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 10:35 AMJim Young / Reuters In the final days before she and Bernie Sanders face the voters of Iowa, Hillary Clinton is leveling the same attack she leveled against Barack Obama.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Obama's Executive Actions on Solitary Confinement
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 10:19 AMPresident Obama tours the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma in July 2015. Kevin Lamarque / Reuters President Obama has issued executive actions to ban the use of solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in federal prisons across the country.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What We're Following This Morning
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 08:16 AMObama’s executive actions: The president announced a ban on solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in federal prisons in an op-ed that ran in the Tuesday edition of The Washington Post.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Will Today’s Kids Be Stumped by the Technology of the Future?
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 07:45 AMA young boy watches a virtual drive at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany. Ralph Orlowski / Reuters If it sticks to its current release cycle, Apple will proudly release iPhone 24 in the year 2050.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Is North Carolina's Strict Voter-ID Law Constitutional?
Tuesday - 01/26/2016 - 06:13 AMChris Keane / Reuters Lawyers and advocates were back in a courtroom in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Monday, for a second challenge to the state’s strict new voting laws. A group of plaintiffs, led by the NAACP and the Department of Justice, is seeking to overturn a new rule, which is set to take effect in March’s primaries, requiring voters to present a photo ID before voting.
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