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Participation in a Cultural Activity May Reduce Prejudice
Researchers find that social connections spark interest in another culture and engaging in behaviors associated with that culture may reduce implicit bias. According to new research by Stanford psychologists, people's attitudes toward another racial or ethnic group...
Marketing Mindfulness
By DAVID HOCHMAN What is the sound of one hand texting? As Soren Gordhamer patiently quieted a packed Wisdom 2.0 event in San Francisco in September for a guided meditation, a few in the communal meeting space known as the Hub couldn’t resist thumbing another message...
Marina Abramovic: Entertaining Us To Death
For Her Next Piece, a Performance Artist Will Build an Institute By SARAH LYALL In the name of art, she has hung naked on a wall and carved into her own stomach with a razor. She has masturbated in a museum; scrubbed at a pile of bloody, maggoty bones in a fetid...
Unwilling To Share Political Power
blog post written by Victoria Lin The following Gen Y report comes to you from the Women's Forum. This blog is written by Victoria Lin, iL2L Global Ambassador from China. As a young woman from China, where the government positions and the strongest CEO positions are...
‘Perilous’ Cleanup at Fukushima’s Reactor 4
Regulators with Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority gave the final OK Wednesday for the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to begin to remove the 1300 spent fuel rods from the badly damaged Unit 4 pool, thus initiating a decommissioning...
How Not To Raise A Rapist
By Van Badham The Guardian.com We know the kind of circumstances that create a rapist – so let's set about eradicating them instead of blaming rape victims for drinking There's been a lot of talk about raped women in the Australian media recently. Mia Freedman kicked...
Take Back Halloween
If you are last minute on your costume ideas. . . . This is so great for young girls and boys who may want to also dress like some of these kick-ass female heroines, goddesses and MORE..... Not sure the glamour girl costume ideas challenge the status quo. . . but...
Republicans Planned Shutdown Last July
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning New York Times October 5, 2013 By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and MIKE McINTIRE WASHINGTON — Shortly after President Obama started his second term, a loose-knit coalition of conservative activists led by former Attorney General...
Hours Teachers Work: Eye-Opening Graphic
Interesting that the AFL-CIO union putting this graphic together chose a plump male to represent teachers when some 76% of all public school teachers are female.... Hmmmm From upworthy. . . When you look at the time teachers actually spend working, you can see that...