If you follow me on Twitter, you may have already seen these. Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader or via twitter (please consider following some of the bloggers/tweeters). What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
- Mother Jones ?
@MotherJones - Female CEOs are paid 70 cents for every dollar male CEOs make: http://bit.ly/JhuhjZ - Linkfest! RT
@tansyrr: Friday Links is the Queen of Llamias http://bit.ly/J4vaPiWishing I was in the UK so I could see this show: “Rediscovering my inner pirate” http://bit.ly/IKVuzO - Moved on from comics myself, but
#nostalgiagrok this: Chicks Dig Comics (and they write about it and make me happy) http://bit.ly/J0M1zl - JeffSharlet ?
@JeffSharlet - You can’t “agree to disagree” w/ Naomi Schaefer Riley’s attack on black studies because she brags she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. - Context links for above:
- Holly Pervocracy reads Cosmo so you don’t have to. Thank Gough. “Cosmocking: May ’12!” http://bit.ly/L0IK7T
- Me too. “In Lara Bingle vs the MSM, I am on Team Lara” http://bit.ly/IKxJYJ
- Jay Rosen ?
@jayrosen_nyu -My impressions: Google (all services) is getting slower. Search is getting dumber. Google policies are getting less open and more coercive. - Platter full o’facts re this weekend’s perigee full moon
#notasupermoon#astronomy “Overstated in orbit” http://bit.ly/Iq8e9o via@theage - A study in
#wtfweretheythinking “marketing” | Racialicious: Half-Baked: Popchips And Ashton Kutcher’s Brownface Fiasco http://bit.ly/IKdVVe - Snarky recaps for the win! The Hathor Legacy: “Reaction: Game of Thrones (2×02)” http://bit.ly/J3SqNk
- Maria Popova ?
@brainpicker -The Storytelling Animal – the science of how we came to live and breathe stories http://j.mp/JrPR37 - Ed Yong ?
@edyong209 -Physics tells us that the Hulk either captures 100% of the sun’s energy when he transforms or has the density of cork http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/the-physics-of-the-hulks-jump/ - Evgeny Morozov ?
@evgenymorozov Fake -Fake Skype Encryption Tool Targeted at Syrian Activists Promises Security, Delivers Spyware http://flpbd.it/FtBXY - Greg Jericho ?
@GrogsGamut -Crikey reports over 300 families have already applied to house asylum seekers. http://bit.ly/Kdi58F - from A Bee of a Certain Age by Deborah: “Chanting the script from Rome” http://bit.ly/Kwbukl
- Lisa Bloom ?
@LisaBloom- In family films, there’s one female character for every three males. This includes cartoon and animal films. Are we in the 21st century? - David Brin
@io9: The Need to Restore Optimism to Science Fiction http://on.io9.com/pmdh
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Great to see the responses to the terrible article about African American Studies.
That article was a truly appalling effort, wasn’t it? I was so heartened to see those robust responses.