February 2012
8 posts
“Education was historically considered a great equalizer in American society,...”
– The New York Times, “Education Gap Grows Between the Rich and Poor” (via inothernews)
Watchsomuchfunithurts:
nbaoffseason:
Will Ferrell announces the Hornets starting 5.
“At center, 6’10, from Connecticut, where he majored in Econ but he minored in Love… EMEKA OKAFOR!”
Perfect.
"Whereas MTV used to use music and the image of... →
maura:
So nice to have Kate Richardson’s byline in a publication that I oversee again, and atop a piece that gets right to the heart of why being “into music” and liking music are not really the same thing.
PS: JOBROMANCES FOREVER
January 2012
16 posts
“Because of Edison’s patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially...”
– from The Pirate Bay’s press release regarding SOPA and PIPA (via monkeyknifefight)
“If you tell kids that they can get a book with sex in it for free, that might be...”
– That’s the thesis behind Uprise Books, a nonprofit that is sending low-income students all the good books that have been banned or challenged to promote teen literacy, fight censorship, and halt the cycle of poverty.
Read on: How To Get Kids To Read? Give Them Banned Books
(via fastcompany)
sugashane:
Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) - “Niggas in...
December 2011
11 posts
“It was no surprise, since we all knew he was ill,”
– Kim Jong Il - L.A. NOW - latimes.com (via trudymade)
“But the conflict also reveals something profound about the way the issues...”
– Chris Paul: The Occupier and the Occupied by Dave Zirin [The Nation]
(via thenoobyorker)
“The league office declined to make the trade for basketball reasons.”
– NBA spokesman Tim Frank on the nixed trade deal that would have sent Lamar Odom to the New Orleans Hornets, Pau Gasol to the Houston Rockets and Chris Paul to the Lakers.
The league office declined to make the trade for basketball reasons. For basketball reasons. For basketball reasons. If you say...
November 2011
28 posts
Beyoncé Songs Re-Imagined as Undergraduate Theses... →
npr:
Baby Boy: The Sociocultural Effects of Prolonged Male Adolescence
Check on It: The Gendered Dynamics of Male Spectatorship in Urban Public Spaces
There’s more….
