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Jul 13 2010 - 2:29pm
Annie Leonard, a 45-year-old environmental activist, is taking a new tack on how she spreads her message of ecological responsibility, reports The New York Times. She discovered cartoons.
Reports the Times:
""We environmentalists are a whiny, wonky bunch," Leonard says. "We bombard people with facts. But who wants to join a movement where people just scold you? We have to make it inspiring. We...
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Jul 13 2010 - 2:17pm
Reality television has exploded these last two decades since a group of strangers moved in together in New York to launch MTV's "The Real World." And we've seen it all--the cameras have followed the lives of truckers, wealthy, spoiled young adults in Laguna Beach, Calif., fierce competitions in exotic locales, high seas hijinks in the name of whales...
We've seen it all. Well,...
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Jul 9 2010 - 7:38am
The Supreme Court has clarified their ruling on the constitutionality of gun control laws. The ruling strikes down numerous city and state bans on handguns, though it does leave the door open for carefully worded legislation that restricts gun ownership. In 2008, the Supreme Court struck down a law banning handguns in Washington D.C. – and McDonald v. Chicago clarifies that ruling.
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Jul 8 2010 - 5:52pm
"How grim? Well, after the United States limped through five months of anemic “recovery,” last Friday brought news that our economy actually shed jobs in June, thanks to the expiration of more than 200,000 Census positions. It’s now been 30 months since the beginning of the recession, and it looks as if it could take another 30 or so to regain the level of employment we enjoyed in the autumn of...
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Jun 22 2010 - 4:49pm
New blood donors wanted from the young healthy adult population, according to an editorial in the medical journal The Lancet.
"This year, [the World Health Organization] has chosen to focus on young donors, with the slogan “New blood for the world”. The aim is to motivate young people to give blood for free, and to encourage their peers to do the same. By recruiting a new generation of those in...
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Jun 22 2010 - 2:20pm
Okay, maybe most of us are on the young side to be hearing the word "overqualified" during an interview, but this Boston Globe article is interesting nonetheless.
In this tight job market, applicants are playing down many of their greatest accomplishments (examples include removing two Fulbright Scholarships and a master's degree) to up their chances for finding a job and to...
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Jun 9 2010 - 3:43pm
Is embedding links in text too much of a distraction to the reader? Salon's Laura Miller is straying from online conventional wisdom and including her link sources at the end of her piece. It's today's version of the endnote vs. footnote debate. What do you think? Are we hyper-linking?
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May 27 2010 - 4:29pm
"Today, Fogg's ideas that once seemed like science fiction are in widespread use. Anyone can develop a smart phone application designed to influence behavior, and users can choose from a wide array of options to help them do everything from lose weight to sleep better. There are also text-based programs. But Fogg himself isn't in the business of selling iPhone apps; instead, he wants to help...
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May 21 2010 - 9:22pm
Every day more and more Americans are growing skeptical of the climate change doomsday claims and plans to ration energy through cap-and-trade type proposals. Despite this, many environmentalists still claim that far-reaching government intervention is needed to achieve greater energy efficiency and lower greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the threat of global warming. Although there has been no...
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