Existing laws in North Carolina make it easy to manipulate someone into being purged from voter rolls, a trick Republicans recently used to keep thousands—mostly black Democrats—from voting. / Slate You may have heard that if the popular vote gets within two percent, Trump has a much more reasonable
More cops in schools, more kids in jail Thanks to increased funds from Obama’s Justice Department (that he later regretted), there are increasing amounts of police officers in public schools—often disguised behind the benign term “school resource officers”—resulting in an even easier access point for the school-
In America, there are between 45,000 and 50,000 "DeafBlind" people. A group of them have invented a new language—"Pro-tactile ASL"—that doesn't use sight or sound for communication.
“For radical general semanticists the overcoming of racism, sexism and other ‘traditional’ attitudes can only occur by way of working through the past; and in order to do this we need to embrace some of the the most radically modern of scientific discoveries.” Some linguists believe teaching general semantics to
A neuroscientist teaches you tricks to try on a plane that prove how humans can do more than see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.
In this video we were surprised by three things. One: humans "highline" without actually connecting their highline to things other than humans. Two: "the world's longest human-anchored highline" (76 meters) is a category with competition. Three: people can be "Professional Highliners."
“ISIS commanders can discover, in real time, where the Iraqis are advancing; they can watch their mortars landing, and recalibrate them to be more accurate next time. Why incur all this risk, unless the live streams aren’t a minor feature of the battle, but somehow the whole point?” Live
Hyperemployment doesn’t come with better benefits Keynes thought we’d replace work with recreation; tech critic Ian Bogost says we’ve replaced recreation with work. He calls digital labor “hyperemployment,” and says even if it’s not strictly unpaid, we agree to it only because our contributions are recast
In the last decade, 40 states have cut the budgets of their environmental departments, with four—Illinois, New Mexico, Georgia, and North Carolina—slashing 30 percent or more. ↩︎ posted Nov. 1, 2016 Air pollution affects different American populations differently—and guess who’s safest? The air quality in most of
The W.H.O. knows that the Syrian government is cutting off blood donations from reaching rebel-held areas, but they refuse to hold back donations entirely, even helping Syrian government hospitals obtain supplies that sanctions are supposed to keep them from buying. / foxnews.com Due to President Obama’s
