August 2011
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: Ai Weiwei: Beijing is a scam being perpetrated... →
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“Beijing is two cities. One is of power and of money. People don’t care who their neighbors are; they don’t trust you. The other city is one of desperation. I see people on public buses, and I see their eyes, and I see they hold no hope. [Beijing’s workers] come from very poor…
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Over 160 Arrested in Ongoing Civil Disobedience... →
Fifty-two environmental activists were arrested Monday in front of the White House as part of an ongoing protest calling on the Obama administration to reject a permit for the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline project, which would deliver Canada tar sands oil to refineries in Texas, and rather focus on developing clean energy. An estimated 2,000 people have signed up to hold sit-ins and commit...
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Mental Health Disorders Prevalent Among Youth... →
approachingsignificance:
According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO) published in Lancet, mental health disorders account for nearly half of the disease burden in the world’s adolescents and young adults.
Here are some of the highlights:
Young people aged 10 to 24 years equal 27% of the world’s population. This age group is important in public health interventions because...
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(LINK) 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough... →
lucifelle:
Aidan Dwyer took a hike through the trees last winter and took notice of patterns in the mangle of branches. His studies into how they branch in very specific ways lead him to a central guiding formula, the Fibonacci sequence. Take a number, add it to the number before it in a sequence like 1+1=2 then 2+1=3 then 3+2=5, 8, 13, 21 and so on a very specific pattern emerges. Turns out...
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3 Reasons Why the Tar Sands Pipeline Has to Be... →
cultureofresistance:
Here’s three reasons why the pipeline is truly idiotic and why I’m willing to get arrested to stop it.
First, in case you’ve missed the headlines, we’re staring straight into the face of a climate crisis. So far this year we’ve already hit records for heat waves, wildfires, tornadoes and floods. Extreme weather events like these are exactly what a recent study by the...
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“The weirdest thing happened today … when my homie [redacted] was trying to...”
– Facebook status update of 17-year-old Jared Michael Cano, posted four days before he was arrested on suspicion of plotting to bomb the Tampa high school that expelled him.
[slashdot.]
(via thedailywhat)
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NY TIMES: Another oil company, another leak into... →
zeitgeistmovement:
Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you’ll finally stop running. At which you’ll finally fight back. Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We will be eight people fighting whom others will join. And then more people. And...
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