我是毒药
A catchy tagline? In MY Tumblr?
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AUH THIS IS GORGEOUS. not drawn by me btw
there is little to no fan art of this movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnCJTv5Az4A
This is so awesome. > w < I really like these two.
Seriously wish I could watch this.
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CAP does a nice job responding to a much-touted “let them eat cell phones!” Heritage Foundation report, which argued that widespread ownership of consumer appliances meant America’s poor weren’t really struggling:
Indeed, the rising cost of paying for electricity for the very appliances that Heritage thinks are indicators of luxury are eating a bigger and bigger hole into the pockets of the poor. Today struggling families are spending at least 15 percent of their household budget to pay their electric bills, and the poorest of the poor shell out an even higher percentage of their income for this basic expense. Somehow Heritage manages to completely ignore the fact in America, the U.S. Department of Agriculture found in 2008 that half (50.3 percent) of poor households with children said there were days when they didn’t know how or if they could pay for their next meal.
And these families are paying an extraordinary share of their income for basic housing, too. While the average renter makes about $13.52 an hour, the national average wage needed to afford a fair market rent for a two-bedroom apartment is around $18.46 an hour. This problem is exacerbated for minimum wage working parents who earn just $7.25 an hour.
The fact that household conveniences can now be purchased with many fewer hours of work is a great mark of progress, but it also means that the ownership rates of refrigerators and cell phones are a poor standard by which to measure deprivation.
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For context, this is the last three years. So, you know, it’s not Black Thursday we’re looking at here or anything, just a manifestation of the chaos of the last couple of weeks.
CONTEXT Y’ALL
(my new blogging strategy is a) not blogging b) reblogging smart people c) adding loud noises as text; I’ll let you know how it goes for me.)
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That’s funny, I didn’t see this anonymous racist refer to himself as an atheist, but maybe you’ll see something I’m missing.
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Companies like 23andMe are trying to bring genetic profiling home to the individual customer, providing an analysis of your genetic variation and possible risk factors for only $99 and a cheek swab.
These tests are far from perfect, but they point to the dream of personalized medicine based around one person’s gene variants and unique risk factors. But a genomic database (the large libraries of information collected in order to make these comparisons) is only as good as the information that goes into it. And right now 23andMe is only 1.8% African American.
That means if you’re not white, your genetic results could be very skewed, and perhaps meaningless, just because they don’t have enough data to compare to.
Hmm… not sure how I feel about this…
Reblogging so people can help out. I’m white, so I can’t really provide genetic information for this. :P But maybe one of my followers can.
(Source: jtotheizzoe)
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Aimee Mullins first received worldwide media attention as an athlete. Born without fibulae in both legs, Aimee’s medical prognosis was discouraging; she was told she would never walk, and would likely spend the rest of her life using a wheelchair. In an attempt for an outside chance at independent mobility, doctors amputated both her legs below the knee on her first birthday. The decision paid off. By age two, she had learned to walk on prosthetic legs, and spent her childhood doing the usual athletic activities of her peers: swimming, biking, softball, soccer, and skiing, always alongside “able-bodies” kids.
Read more about Aimee Mullins.
Photographed by Howard Schatz.
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The sad truth behind London riot
As political and social protests grip the Middle East, are growing in Europe and a riot exploded in north London this weekend, here’s a sad truth, expressed by a Londoner when asked by a television reporter: Is rioting the correct way to express your discontent? “Yes,” said the young man. “You wouldn’t be talking to me now if we didn’t riot, would you?”
The TV reporter from Britain’s ITV had no response. So the young man pressed his advantage. “Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard, more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you know what? Not a word in the press. Last night a bit of rioting and looting and look around you.”
(Source: crowdsourced)
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Tonight on Fox News:
“Obama endangers life of young child, drives like a socialist.”
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Republicans are fiscally conservative.
/sarcasm
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