#Animals
Owls are so hot right now http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/science/long-cloaked-in-mystery-owls-start-coming-into-full-view.html?pagewanted=all
#Comedy
Louis CK and modern comedy http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/02/louis-ck-our-gogol.html
#Education
Indonesia has one of the worst education systems in the world www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2013/02/201321965257154992.html
Some Christian homeschoolers want to study evolution, don't believe Adam rode dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/03/old-earth-young-minds-evangelical-homeschoolers-embrace-evolution/273844/
#Feminism
Political commentator Zerlina Maxwell recently went on Sean Hannity's show to promote educating boys and men about consent and rape culture. Since then she has received death and rape threats from men and women who don't believe there is a need for educating men about stopping rape. Two pieces: a response to harassment on xoJane, and Maxwell's points on education on Ebony
Margo St. James was a seventies pioneer in protecting the rights of sex workers and providing health care services to them. Her thoughts on minority criminalzation and feminism after forty years http://bitchmagazine.org/article/forty-years-in-the-hustle-sex-work-margo-st-james-interview-activism-coyote
#Film
Has the Hollywood machine squashed inventive storytelling in modern film? Short answer- yes http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/107212/has-hollywood-murdered-the-movies
#Health
Buying drugs on the internet: http://nplusonemag.com/i-m-waiting-for-my-ups-man
The pharmaceutical/insurance/medical complex is exploiting all of us www.healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/print
#In France
Gerard Depardieu, French icon, is changing citizenship to escape new super taxes http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/02/25/130225fa_fact_collins?currentPage=all
#Language
How language affects our concept of time and saving: http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/saving-for-a-rainy-day-keith-chen-on-language-that-forecasts-weather-and-behavior/
#Literature
Academic texts need to be as well written as entertainment pieces http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/02/15/on_writing_well
An account of a symposium on the works of Allen Ginsberg http://www.litkicks.com/Topics/NaropaReport.html
Making me very excited to read more George Saunders http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/george-saunders-just-wrote-the-best-book-youll-read-this-year.html?pagewanted=all
A new collection of fairy tales shows male characters getting the same kind of torments Sleeping Beauty and Snow White found themselves in http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/03/long-lost-fairy-tales.html
A hundred years of women writing about their feelings and being told they're frivolous http://therumpus.net/2013/03/the-ghost-of-mary-maclane
Two of Renata Adler's books are back in publication http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/03/welcome-back-renata-adler.html
Italian author Francesco Pacifico writing about sex, purity, and Catholicism in his new novel http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/03/12/underwear-life-an-interview-with-francesco-pacifico/
#Music
Nina Simone's activism through music http://www.good.is/posts/remembering-nina-simone-as-a-siren-and-powerful-civil-rights-activist
All Hail Queen Beyonce http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/02/her-highness.html
#National
Is Marco Rubio the answer for Republicans? http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/02/19/marco_rubio_not_ready_for_prime_time_republican_foreign_policy?page=full
About the (lack of) training a member of the Foreign Service receives: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/02/19/sink_or_swim_state_department_training?page=full
Ways Obama wants to model after Germany: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/president-obama-wants-america-to-be-like-germany-what-does-that-really-mean/273318/
#Photography
A woman documents scenes of spousal abuse and then is reamed in a misreported article: http://www.salon.com/2013/03/01/dont_blame_the_victim_or_the_photographer/
#Religion
The Pope's butler did it! http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201303/spy-in-the-house-of-lords-march-2013?printable=true
#Technology
Its possible that a big part of the Republican loss in the presidential campaign was due to out of date or totally absent social networking and tech base http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/magazine/can-the-republicans-be-saved-from-obsolescence.html
After reading this article, I had a nightmare about a teenage boy watching me through my webcam http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/rat-breeders-meet-the-men-who-spy-on-women-through-their-webcams/
Bring on the modified chicken blobs! http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/dont-be-afraid-of-genetic-modification.html?_r=0
#Television
After mainlining two seasons of Homeland, I assuredly agree with this http://www.salon.com/2012/12/15/tvs_most_islamophobic_show/
Are all the heroines of modern TV crazy? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/magazine/tvs-new-wave-of-women-smart-strong-borderline-insane.html and my response: http://sailorbaby.tumblr.com/post/45241524615/semi-serious-thoughts-on-television-response-to
#Travel
A skeptical trip to Disney World in the seventies: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1971/01/02/1971_01_02_052_TNY_CARDS_000299445?currentPage=all
#War on Terror
An early piece from The Atlantic about preemptive arrests and thought crime http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/10/prophetic-justice/305234/?single_page=true
On NDAA and domestic terrorism: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/02/201321710236780782.html
The CIA wrongly captured and tortured a man as a terror suspect http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/dec/13/cia-tortured-sodomised-terror-suspect
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