FACT: The number of students who have to go into debt to get a bachelor’s...
FACT: The number of students who have to go into debt to get a bachelor’s degree has risen from 45% in 1993 to 94% today.: fishingboatproceeds: The next debt crisis.
View Articlemotherjones: Bayer’s neonicotinoid pesticides, which now coat...
motherjones: Bayer’s neonicotinoid pesticides, which now coat upwards of 90 percent of US corn seeds and seeds of increasing portions of other major crops like soy, have emerged as a likely trigger for...
View Article"One way that psychologists have found to test whether something is seen as...
“One way that psychologists have found to test whether something is seen as an object is by turning it upside down. Pictures of people present a recognition problem when they’re turned upside down, but...
View Article"We’ll probably never know how many women inventors there were. That’s...
“We’ll probably never know how many women inventors there were. That’s because in the early years of the United States, a woman could not get a patent in her own name. A patent is considered a kind of...
View Article"The importance of learning to code isn’t so that everyone will write code,...
“The importance of learning to code isn’t so that everyone will write code, and bury the world under billions of lines of badly conceived Python, Java, and Ruby. The importance of code is that it’s a...
View Article"I have spoken to countless lawyers and they have yet to discover any cases...
“I have spoken to countless lawyers and they have yet to discover any cases in Florida where an African American was able to successfully use the “Stand Your Ground Law” defense in a hearing.” Another...
View ArticlePaid maternity leave
Paid maternity leave : other-stuff: Afghanistan 90 days Algeria 14 weeks Angola 90 days Argentina 90 days Australia 0 weeks Austria 16 weeks Bahamas, The 8 weeks Bahrain 45 days Bangladesh 12 weeks...
View ArticleFirst thing I see on facebook this morning...
Quit Trashing Obama’s Accomplishments!!!! He has done so so muchI have listed them below just in case you were not aware.First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was...
View ArticleMembers Of New GOP Women’s Caucus Voted Against Equality For Women
abaldwin360: The 24 Republican Congresswomen in the U.S. House announced yesterday that they have joined to form the Women’s Policy Committee, a caucus aimed at “raising the profile of GOP women in...
View Article"Fat people in America are reduced to nothing but fatness. A fat person has a...
“Fat people in America are reduced to nothing but fatness. A fat person has a health problem of any kind? It’s because they’re fat. A fat person is single? Well, duh. Fat. They deserve it. A fat person...
View Article"But on Thursday, the Drudge Report prominently featured a blog post about a...
“But on Thursday, the Drudge Report prominently featured a blog post about a 1991 literary agency pamphlet advertising Obama as “born in Kenya.” On Friday afternoon, the story is still close to the top...
View Article"Most girls are stupid"
"Most girls are stupid": queenofthenorthx: In last week’s Game of Thrones, Arya told Tywin Lannister that “most girls are stupid.” When we heard that line, were we supposed to think, “This is why Arya...
View ArticleJust an FYI...
For some epic tumblr love/bodies-of-all-shapes acceptance, check the #swimsuitsforbagel tag today. :)
View Articlepantslessprogressive: Awesome: Trent Franks, the Arizona...
pantslessprogressive: Awesome: Trent Franks, the Arizona Republican who proposed a 20-week abortion ban in Washington, DC and then barred DC’s pro-choice female delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton from...
View ArticleThere Is Actually One Golden Rule To Prevent Sexual Assault
There Is Actually One Golden Rule To Prevent Sexual Assault
View ArticleYou mean one where a black person not only ISN’T...
You mean one where a black person not only ISN’T considered a fraction of a human being, but can even run for the office of the president and win?
View Article"That stimulus he put in place, it didn’t help private sector jobs, it helped...
“That stimulus he put in place, it didn’t help private sector jobs, it helped preserve government jobs, and the one place we should have cut back was on government jobs. We have a 145,000 more...
View Articleiheartlibrarys: “Mothers looking for employment are less likely to be hired,...
iheartlibrarys: “Mothers looking for employment are less likely to be hired, are offered lower salaries and are perceived as being less committed to a job than fathers or women without children,...
View ArticleWhite privilege
cabell:karnythia:cabell:thestoutorialist:ethiopianbutamerican: Forty-six million white adults today can trace the origins of their family wealth to the Homestead Act of 1862. This bill gave away...
View Article19-year-old girl in Egypt invents a spacecraft propulsion device | News |...
19-year-old girl in Egypt invents a spacecraft propulsion device | News | HumanIPO: greaterthanlapsed: A 19-year-old Egyptian university student called Aisha Mustafa has invented a propulsion device...
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