When the Rev. Anthony Thompson got home from church on June 17, he was glad he’d arrived before his wife. Myra had asked him to pick up groceries, and he’d forgotten. He ran back out.
Source: Church shooting victim’s husband driven to fight future gun deaths – Post and Courier
Move over, cockroaches: The real champions of surviving the worst of conditions are microscopic tardigrades. An animal that had been frozen for 30 years has been revived by scientists — and it then successfully reproduced.→
Source: Frozen Animal Brought Back to Life After 30 Years : Discovery News
Chinese scientists have discovered that the Tarim basin actually has an enormous supply of water — 10 times the amount in all five of North America’s Great Lakes combined, in fact. The problem is that the water in a gigantic aquifer that they describe as an underground ocean. It’s too salty for the region’s impoverished residents to use, but it apparently plays a role in helping to slow climate change.
Source: Giant, Mysterious Body of Water Found Under China Desert : Discovery News
The restaurant was once named Africa, as if embracing an entire continent, when in fact the focus was on the cooking of the western coast, mainly Senegal.
Source: Africa Kine in Harlem Returns to Its Humble Roots – The New York Times
One Dennis Lennox, a former drain commissioner in Cheboygan, Mich., disseminated a column claiming that “the lion’s share of responsibility rests with the city,” and that Flint City Council authorized a switch to the toxic river water. In fact, they never did, and in any event, had all the power taken from them under the emergency manager rule. Worst of all was a hate-filled rant by a former suburban Republican legislator, Chuck Moss, who bizarrely attempted to blame “UAW Democrats” in an “African-American political stronghold” for everything wrong with the city.
Source: Disgraceful blame game – Toledo Blade
A photographer explores the tension between landscape and culture.
The images also reflect the geomorphic tension between nature and culture. Nature’s shapes are evolutionary, stochastic, curvaceous, involuted. Humans, though, cannot resist imposing their Euclidean ideals. In Maisel’s work, the irregular outlines of olive orchards contrast with the fearful orthogonality of their internal grids, each tree identifiable by row and column, like an entry in a giant spreadsheet. Agricultural fields follow the meandering contours of the land, but there is human purpose in the boustrophedonic turns of the furrows—left to right, right to left.
Source: David Maisel’s Geometric Geographies – The New Yorker
Reagan would be considered a flaming liberal by the standards of the modern Republican party! pic.twitter.com/utmMu2s4BW
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) January 29, 2016
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7yrs after @Lilly_Ledbetter #FairPay Act, the fight for #equalpay continues. Let's #TalkPay b/c #EqualPayCantWait pic.twitter.com/af13EIKXEl
— Rep. Patrick Murphy (@RepMurphyFL) January 29, 2016
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"We’ve still got to make sure women aren’t penalized or held back in the workplace simply for starting a family. " —@POTUS #WomenSucceed
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 29, 2016
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What does the #wagegap mean for #AfricanAmerican women? A devastating loss of, on ave., $21K+ each year: https://t.co/USDYVEmJCg #EqualPay
— National Partnership (@NPWF) January 29, 2016
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How do we ensure the fight for #equalpay is inclusive of ALL women? https://t.co/qzBdcY0oa0
— JWI (@JewishWomenIntl) January 29, 2016
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"The gap is even wider for women of color." —@POTUS on why it's time for #EqualPay for women pic.twitter.com/UYsHl50kzM
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 29, 2016
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