The Guardian: Teach primary school pupils about sex, say MPs • Put sex in its proper context, says letter signed by charities • Call to start teaching social and emotional aspects early Primary school children should have compulsory sex education… Read More ›
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Thursday Cheezburger
What can I say? I have a penchant for the innocent-looks LOLcat genre. Runner-up. Post your favourite LOL from the past week, and we will do our admin-magic to make them appear in-thread.
Whoydensday: hey, who turned out the lights?
THIS THREAD CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR SEASON 4 EPISODE SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY. PLEASE NO SPOILERS FOR FUTURE EPISODES ON THIS THREAD. Well, the spoiler warning simply had to be done properly for this one, didn’t it? Wait until next week,
No more funding for Queensland Mothers Milk Bank
Australia has only two milk banks, one in Perth and one on the Gold Coast. They do important work. The Queensland non-profit Mothers Milk Bank, based at John Flynn Private Hospital, has noted that premature and ill babies fed human… Read More ›
SF Sunday: reproduction
I’ve been thinking of various books I’ve read where a pivotal part of the Strange Land aspect of the narrative has been a style of reproduction that varies from the human norm – either technologically transformed human reproduction, or else… Read More ›
Otterday! And Weekend Open Thread
Today’s happy sea otter comes from sgrace on flickr. Please feel free to use this thread as an open thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get… Read More ›
Quick hit: Smoking ad history, from Lucky Strike to the Marlboro Man
The New England Journal of Medicine has a slideshow of 20th-century cigarette advertisements, with a commentary that reveals some of the marketing changes that took place as public awareness of the health damage from tobacco smoking grew. Allan Brandt Discusses… Read More ›
Thursday Cheezburger
Runnerup: Pocket Protector.
Question OTD: What makes for a blog that excites you?
I’ve totally nabbed this idea from this post at Feministing, although I’m putting a bit of extra spin on it, because I like a bit of analysis alongside my lists of links. For those of you who use feedreaders, which… Read More ›
Now this is what I call a netroots base
Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner Sean Tevis’ innovative method of raising internet fundraising in his venture to oust and replace his current State Representative (basically equivalent to one of… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 