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• Same-Sex Marriage Rally in Sydney, November 28th

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 136
  On November 28th, there will be rallies across Australia in support of same-sex marriage, and I’m organising a Hoyden contingent for the Sydney rally, which will take place at Town Hall, at 1pm. I’ve created a facebook event for Hoydenizens who want to attend as a group, and I imagine that after the rally ...
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• Close to sanity

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 134
  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy One of the points made in this clip is that people can, and do, recover from mental illness. That’s important to remember as you go through your daily life. It’s a lesson I’ve often forgotten, much to my shame, as it made me less ...
  6 hours ago

• Take a deep breath

  
  The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future — Authority: 607
  The following is a brief guest commentary by TheOilDrum reader "Prag" on coping with general limits to growth anxiety. If you have your own Campfire topics generally related to resource depletion, please email them to the editors. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never ...
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• Talal Asad and the Anthropology of Islam

  
  tabsir.net — Authority: 120
  Left to right, Jocelyne Cesari, Dan Varisco, Jens Kreinath, Nadia Fadil, Refika Sarionder at AAR in Montreal Last Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion I had the privilege of serving in a “responding” role on one of the first panels on the program. This was a session entitled “ ...
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• Russellville, Alabama School Prom Discrimination

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  Cynthia Stewart, a junior at Tharptown High School in northern Alabama, wanted to bring her girlfriend to prom. Rather than let her, the school announced that it would cancel prom for everyone. LINK TO ORIGINAL
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• New brain findings on dyslexic children

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 614
  The vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher amid the cacophony of the typical classroom thanks to a brain that automatically focuses on relevant, predictable and repeating auditory information, according to new research from Northwestern University. read more
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• The Awl Ironically Plays The Twitter Race Card, Goes Bust

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 803
  For those of you not ‘in the know,’ The Awl is a Gawker Alumni Blog/Pirate Ship run by former Gawkerers  Choire Sicha and Alex Balk.   For the most part, I like the site, and read it every day. In particular, I think that contributors  Natasha Vargas-Cooper and Abe Sauer should get medals for the ...
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• What do women like? Part XLVIII

  
  THE BEAT — Authority: 666
  Johanna comments on a particularly dopey “trick your woman into liking comics” article entitled Can women learn to enjoy comics? : Kate Dacey asks why the most recent of those “trick your woman into liking comics” (as she puts it) columns didn’t include any comics created by women or any manga. ...
  15 hours ago

• Sociological Deconstruction of (some) of the Disney Princesses

  
  Dog and Pony Show — Authority: 140
  This caught my eye this morning over at Neatorama because I have a young niece who is now in that “I love Disney Princesses” stage. Now nothing in this image is very original, it’s pretty much the same observations anyone with a brain would have made, but knowing our audience, I decided to share. Ah yes, ...
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• Chinese flock to "Cinderella" ball for monetary bliss

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) - Thousands of Chinese women are vying to attend a lavish ball in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, lured by the dream of a possible fairytale match with a millionaire. More than 7,000 women from all over the country are applying for one of just 40 tickets to attend Chinas version of ...
  19 hours ago

• Communities try to prevent pedestrian traffic deaths

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  Some communities are working to curtail sudden, puzzling increases in pedestrian traffic deaths while safety advocates urge states to spend more federal transportation dollars on sidewalks, crosswalks and safety programs for walkers and bicyclists. More than 76,000 Americans have been killed walking or crossing the ...
  19 hours ago

• China: 22-year-old girl pledges to marry whoever donates 150,000 to save her ill friend

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  In ancient China, it is common for a girl to sell herself for the burial of her father, today this girl pledges to marry the one who saves her classmate. Her classmate was suffering from severe brain inflammation in urgent need of 150,000 yuan. If a good-hearted man is willing to donate, she would repay with her body ...
  19 hours ago

• China: Dwarves found theme park commune to escape bullying

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  A community of dwarves has set up its own village to escape discrimination from normal sized people. Everyone in the mountain commune in Kunming, southern China, must be under 4ft 3 ins tall and they run their own police force and fire brigade from their 120 residents. Now the group has turned itself into a tourist ...
  19 hours ago

• US Mormons back gay rights laws as "fair and reasonable"

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  Salt Lake City legislation giving gays and lesbians protection from discrimination was supported by the Mormon Church, which traditionally rails against equal rights measures. Lawmakers voted last night to protect gays, lesbians and trans people from discrimination in employment and housing. LINK TO ORIGINAL
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• Foreign subtitles improve speech perception

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 614
  Do you speak English as a second language well, but still have trouble understanding movies with unfamiliar accents, such as Brad Pitts southern accent in Quentin Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds? In a new study, published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, Holger Mitterer (Max Planck Institute for ...
  21 hours ago

• Images of Organization: Gareth Morgan

  
  Make Money Myself — Authority: 140
  Editorial Reviews Review Professor Morgan, I only recently received a copy of Images of Organization (updated edition) as a desk copy to review for the I/O Psych class that I teach. I just started reading your book I am absolutely blown away by it. I cannot believe that I had missed this marvelous ...
  23 hours ago

• The Pick-Up Community

  
  Accumulate Profit Margin Invest Destroy — Authority: 103
  Before someone finally figured out that one could sell eBooks on the Internet, being a PUA was really a rather underground thing. It was like Japanese tentacle porn on the Usenet. Limited exposure to a few obscure discussion boards and websites (like for example fastseduction.com), but a very dedicated and passionate ...
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  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  
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• Amid this recession, even the burglars are out of work

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 793
  Filed under: Economy , People Conventional wisdom has it that as the economy sours, crime picks up. Faced with job losses and few other opportunities, it might be expected that an increasing number of people would turn to illegal acts, such as burglary, to make a living. Except that its not happening -- not in ...
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• New UAB study sheds light on brains response to distress, unexpected events

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 614
  In a new study, psychologists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are able to see in detail for the first time how various regions of the human brain respond when people experience an unexpected or traumatic event. The study could lead to the creation of biological measures that could identify people with ...
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