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  • 1 in 10 teens using study drugs, but parents arent paying attention


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    As high schoolers prepare for final exams, teens nationwide may be tempted to use a "study drug" ­- a prescription stimulant or amphetamine -- to gain an academic edge. But a new University of Michigan poll shows only one in 100 parents of teens 13-17 years old believes that their teen has used a study drug. read ...
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  • Cyberbullying Indicators: What Digital Behavior Reveals?


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    Cyberbullying teens have been making headlines and people are now scampering to understand just what they should do to control the situation before it gets out of hand. Parents and educators have a vital role to play in terms of prevention. However, many a times a teen that don’t speak up shows no ...
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  • David’s Bookclub: The Warmth of Other Suns


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    The achievement of Isabel Wilkersons amazing The Warmth of Other Suns is to transmute sociology into memoir. Go here to see the original: David’s Bookclub: The Warmth of Other Suns
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  • [round-up] Monday feminist round-up (20th May 2013)


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    All else this week, then. - Think Progress updates on US college campuses which are starting to combat high rates of rape, and rape culture, on campus . It’s not so many, alas. - Bitch has got an interesting piece on women-only comedy spaces . - sianandcrookedrib discusses the shaming of single mothers on ...
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  • Intervention symposium – ‘Explosive geographies’


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    On April 15, 2013, two bombs targeting the Boston Marathon exploded on Boylston St, killing three and initiating the United State’s most visible domestic security operation of the decade. Two days later, a fertilizer plant located in the town of West, Texas exploded spectacularly, killing 14 and levelling a ...
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  • [link] Teenage pregnancies won’t be stopped by shaming young mothers


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    On commentisfree : Teenage pregnancy. The term still sends terror shooting through my veins, even now, seven years clear of my teens. It hung over me like a sceptre, whispering: “Whatever you do, don’t get yourself pregnant.” It was the worst thing. The end of everything. This idea, that teenage pregnancy ...
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  • Why Can’t Millennials Find Jobs?


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    Half of hiring managers say wearing attire ill-suited for an interview was one of the biggest mistakes they saw. Others include lack of eye contact (33%), checking phone or texting (30%), fidgeting (26%) and bad posture (22%). Other interview horror stories? Nearly half of hiring managers (44%) said showing up late or ...
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  • a non-sexual view of marriage


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    Robin Phillips argues against Premise 1:Gay ‘Marriage’ Hinges on a Non-Sexual View of MarriageI begin with the point that same-sex ‘marriage’ hinges on a non-sexual view of marriage. In contrast to the traditional view of marriage, which we can call ‘the conjugal view’, same-sex ‘marriage’ depends for ...
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  • [quote] Why You Shouldn’t Tell That Random Girl On The Street That She’s Hot


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    Précis: you think it’s a compliment, we think it’s threatening, intrusive, demeaning, humiliating, and enforcing of everything that’s wrong with patriarchal culture – that our bodies are not our own. “ Here’s the thing. Men in our culture have been socialized to believe that their opinions on ...
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  • [image] Brave’s Merida Gets a Disney Make-Over


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    Click on the image for larger. In 2006, The Walt Disney Company bought the computer-animated feature film powerhouse Pixar.  This makes the lead of their most recent movie, Brave (2012), not just a princess, but a Disney Princess. Merida is having a royal coronation at the Magic Kingdom this morning . For her ...
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  • Interview with László Lovász


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    On November 28, 2011, Avi Wigderson interviewed László Lovász . A total of 27 short videos can be watched at the Simons Foundation website. I particularly liked the discussion on the LLL algorithm , and also on semidefinite relaxations. __________ Related: The social construction of Hungarian genius ...
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  • [image] Not just a girl…


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    These images are fantastic. The whole idea is fantastic. “ [...] so let’s set aside the Barbie Dolls and the Disney Princesses for just a moment, and let’s show our girls the REAL women they can be. [ Rest , jaimemoorephotography.] Tagged: discrimination , equality , feminism , sexism , sociology ...
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  • "Crunchy Cons took a pretty hard line against suburban living..."


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    Rod Dreher, reconsiders suburbia .  "Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots" is the name of a book he wrote, back in 2006. As the italics indicate, the quote above refers to what he said in his book, not what the people he labeled "crunchy" did — at least not directly. In ...
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  • Drone Policy in Yemen


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    For anyone in the NYC region, I will be giving a talk at the COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SEMINAR on KNOWLEDGE, TECHNOLOGY, and SOCIAL SYSTEMS on Wednesday, May 15, 7 pm (at Columbia University’s Faculty House). The title of the talk is: “Drone Strikes in the War on Terror: The Case of Post-Arab-Spring Yemen.” Unmanned ...
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  • IQ, Race, Immigration


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    Heritage Foundation has stepped in it again, with a "report" on immigration reform [see Krugmans post ]. It has led to one good thing, though: we get to revisit the topic of what IQ is and what it is not. Two links: James Heckman (1995): Lessons from the Bell Curve [ pdf ]. Dana Goldstein: Attention Jason ...
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  • Why Pay More? by Peter Singer - (conspicuous consumption)


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    When Radosław Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, went to Ukraine for talks last month, his Ukrainian counterparts reportedly laughed at him because he was wearing a Japanese quartz watch that cost only $165. A Ukrainian newspaper reported on the preferences of Ukr …
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  • Gray Matter: Too Much Helicopter Parenting


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  • "I’ll give you the most logical conclusion kids are ditching Facebook—one that none of the articles I..."


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    “ I’ll give you the most logical conclusion kids are ditching Facebook—one that none of the articles I read on the Great Teenage Facebook Exodus mentioned. And the evidence that supports the theory is right there in the Piper Jaffray survey. But first let’s define Facebook. What is Facebook to most people ...
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  • Markets erode moral values


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    Many people express objections against child labor, exploitation of the workforce or meat production involving cruelty against animals. At the same time, however, people ignore their own moral standards when acting as market participants, searching for the cheapest electronics, fashion or food. Thus, markets reduce ...
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  • How To Make Yourself A Popular Tweeter


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    What does and does not attract followers on Twitter Twitter has a pretty bad reputation caused by a lot of people twittering about their personal issues. But is that really what Twitter is about? Researchers just discovered that this typical Twitter behavior actually decreases your followers. Time for a do’s ...
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