Five former Wyoming Premium Farms employees were each placed on six months’ probation after they were convicted on multiple counts of cruelty to animals. Original post on gazette.com Comments on reddit.com
Small Caucasus country is the first in the world to make chess mandatory in schools, aiming to build a better society. Original post on aljazeera.com Comments on reddit.com
Anti-censorship campaigners say the Icelandic government’s plan to ban pornography is ‘an affront to the basic principles of society’ Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
American Meteor Society – Member Area Original post on amsmeteors.org Comments on reddit.com
A survey in France published this week revealed 70 percent of the population believe there are too many foreigners living in the country and 74 percent believe Original post on thelocal.fr Comments on reddit.com
An unseen disadvantage: The focus on independence at American universities can undermine the academic performance of first-generation college students, Assistant Professor Nicole Stephens finds Original post on northwestern.edu Comments on reddit.com
Despite the noblest of intentions, America has become the world’s superpower of incarceration. What will it take to reform our bloated prison system? Original post on saturdayeveningpost.com Comments on reddit.com
Nick Cohen: Why is the church still such a force in our society when most of us disregard its clerics’ teachings? Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Say what you will about Donald Trump, the man sure has friends in high places. Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren has come to the defense of the real estate mogul, after an online petition to get the department store to “dump Trump” as its celebrity spokesman garnered more than 500,000 signatures, Buzzfeed reports. Original post on huffingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
A new study finds that most Americans prefer the distribution of wealth in socialist states. Original post on policymic.com Comments on reddit.com
Peter Diamandis has a perspective that’s too expansive for a single planet. He built his first companies—12 of them—as social and Original post on wired.com Comments on reddit.com
At 25, Farida Afridi relentlessly struggled for the rights of women and children. Original post on tribune.com Comments on reddit.com
There are few resistance figures in American history as noble as Crazy Horse. – 2012/07/02 Original post on truthdig.com Comments on reddit.com
by Paul Alan Levy Recently, Public Citizen was aligned with a lawyer named Charles Carreon, filing an amicus brief in support of his argument against allowing a publisher to pursue a a copyright-infringement lawsuit against his wife’s Oregon company in… Original post on pubcit.typepad.com Comments on reddit.com
[Re-posted from earlier today.] Last week, Entertainment Weekly ran a story on an emerging trend: gay people in public life who come out in a much more restrained and matter-of-fact way than in the past. In many ways, it’s a… Original post on thedailybeast.com Comments on reddit.com
Millions of workers have been disconnected from the work force. If they are not reconnected, the costs to them and to society will be grim. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress. – Herbert Marcuse Original post on truth-out.org Comments on reddit.com
Background: the previous entries in our coverage of Charles Carreon’s bizarre and contemptible behavior on behalf of his client, FunnyJunk, against The Oatmeal Original post on popehat.com Comments on reddit.com
Charles Carreon, the lawyer who sent a legal threat to The Oatmeal on behalf of FunnyJunk (FunnyJunk was upset that The Oatmeal had complained about the undisputed fact that its users routinely post Oatmeal comics to the site and threatened a libel suit unless they got $20,000 from The Oatmeal), has made good on his [...] Original post on boingboing.net Comments on reddit.com
T-DM1, an experimental drug, showed promise in clinical trials against HER2-positive breast cancer. Patients who took the drug were free of disease longer than patients who utilized a standard chemotherapy regimen. Original post on abcnews.go.com Comments on reddit.com
Just because you sleep later than your early rising friends doesn’t mean you sleep longer than they do; nor does it make you lazier. And yet, the association between the time of day that a person wakes up and how proactive or driven they are is just one example of the many preconceptions that society upholds regarding sleep and productivity. Original post on io9.com Comments on digg.com
Politics may have America divided, but markets do, too, especially in a society where everything is up for sale. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
‘It is a crime to not pay your interns’ Original post on theatlantic.com Comments on reddit.com
The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 13,338 Tuesday, its highest since December, 2007. The S&P 500 added 16 points. Wall Street will remember May 1 as a great day. But most of these gains are going to… Original post on robertreich.org Comments on digg.com
The most fervent advocates of religion in the modern world are also the most deeply inculcated with the mindset of command and obedience, which has dangerous consequences. Original post on alternet.org Comments on digg.com
A cashless society would be a bad thing because everything would be traceable and you wouldn’t buy things that were controversial, according to Peter Sunde, founder of the Pirate Bay and micropayment service Flattr Original post on wired.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
