June 2012
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“I’ve seen a ton on the Facebooks about ‘thanking veterans for their service’. As...”
– An anti-capitalist veteran
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“The truth is no one ever suffers from a protein deficiency – and certainly no...”
– David Wolfe
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“We didn’t raise the Statue of Liberty with its back to the world. We raised it...”
– President Obama, “A Nation of Laws and a Nation of Immigrants” (via barackobama)
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“Am I arguing that girls and women shouldn’t be held responsible for their...”
– Emily Maguire, Princesses & Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity.
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“You watch the people feed tons and tons of grain to the animals, then they kill...”
– Charles Manson
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“I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.”
– Jon Stewart (via her0inchic)
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How Our Minds Can Reprogram Our Genes
‘Fifty years before the publication of Darwin’s The Origin Of Species, frenchman Jean Baptiste Lamarque postulated that living beings must have an innate perception of their environment in order to evolve, and that they evolve in response to changes in their surroundings. His idea was that genetic mutations are definitely not random. There is an...
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anti-propaganda:
Health Basics: What is Aspartame?
‘Over a billion people consume aspartame in their foods and beverages across the world, believing it to be a safe ingredient, but what they probably don’t know is that aspartame currently accounts for over 75% of all side effects complaints received by the FDA’s Adverse Reaction Monitoring System (ARMS) for the past 4 years....
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“Prison as a deterrent does not work. If it did, America would be the safest...”
– The Economist
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Scientists predict humans will be extinct within... →
Eminent Australian scientist Professor Frank Fenner, who helped to wipe out smallpox, predicts humans will probably be extinct within 100 years, because of overpopulation, environmental destruction and climate change.
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“You don’t fight fire with fire, you fight fire with water…....”
– Fred Hampton
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Decompiculture: The Most Effective Form of Birth... →
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gynologues:
From NYTimes.com:
Intrauterine devices, under-the-skin implants and Depo-Provera injections — the long-acting reversible contraceptives — are much more effective in preventing pregnancy than the transdermal patch, the vaginal ring or the birth control pill, a new study…
I’m good at remembering things. Phone alarms are the savior of remembering to take birth...
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“If we teach women that there are only certain ways they may acceptably behave,...”
– Harriet J on Another post about rape
Shattering truth.
(via reconnect-restore-rewild)
this post is…giving me life.
(via bad-dominicana)
Women who are taught that refusing to flirt back results in an immediately hostile environment will continue to unwillingly and unhappily flirt with somebody...
Food security: What crops will feed the world if... →
Yams. Lots and lots and lots of yams.
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“Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed...”
– The New York Times’ Annie Murphy Paul explores the neuroscience of your brain on fiction and how narratives offer a way to engage the brain’s capacity to map other people’s intentions, known in psychology as “theory of mind.” 