Typical Haitian chairs, made with palm frond and wood.
Tomorrow, my second book about Haiti, Farewell, Fred Voodoo, is being published, and I wanted to think about the ways in which old Haiti — the Haiti I first knew years ago — is changing, and what that means.
The first thing I ever…
A great essay explaining, in part, why trying to really help can be so damn hard….
— Mark Cuban, one of the world’s richest men, argues that billionaires should be taxed more.
![Fun fact: Trouvelot, the illustrator behind this (and other, similarly stunning images) is also the fool responsible for introducing the gypsy moth to America. He wanted to spin his own silk (probably, I think, to polish telescope lenses).
Astronomy hero, ecology demon.
Partial eclipse of the moon. Observed October 24, 1874. (1881-1882) (via NYPL Digital Gallery)
[via reblololo]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lolsk0Lylf1qzn4kzo1_1280.jpg)
Fun fact: Trouvelot, the illustrator behind this (and other, similarly stunning images) is also the fool responsible for introducing the gypsy moth to America. He wanted to spin his own silk (probably, I think, to polish telescope lenses).
Astronomy hero, ecology demon.
Partial eclipse of the moon. Observed October 24, 1874. (1881-1882)
(via NYPL Digital Gallery)
[via reblololo]
(via keepyourpebbles)
The story, “Why Don’t You Dance?”, is one I’ve used in writing classes as a way to talk about dialogue and character… and the importance of things unsaid.
Will Ferrell??
And from the top review on imdb: And yet he does very little, and the rest of the cast follow his lead: they just inhabit these characters and let the writing do its job.
It’s even been written up in the New York Times.
How profoundly strange.
Every PG-13 King’s Speech Ticket Purchased Is A Request For Hollywood To Make Movies Worse
Whether you can stomach curse words or not, one thing cannot be denied: Censoring this movie will not make it better. It will absolutely make it worse.
"— “Help save The King’s Speech by refusing to see it,” an article that actually makes me feel good about staying home and catching things on DVD all the time. Even if the things win Oscars.
![Walgreens To Sell Their Own Brand Of Beer
At 3 bucks a six-pack.
Product name previously pitched for:
Discount tires
Wholesale food division
Family-friendly string instruments
Store-brand semi-formal shoes
Sports bras and bodybuilding equipment
[image via nebraska-admiral, quoting themattsmith]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfox3wZlZo1qz8yuno1_250.jpg)
Walgreens To Sell Their Own Brand Of Beer
At 3 bucks a six-pack.
Product name previously pitched for:
[image via nebraska-admiral, quoting themattsmith]
Two-thirds of Dutch parents allow their 15-to-17-year-old children to sleep with their partners in their homes, according to a 2003 survey cited by the Salon post.
But rather than resulting in crazed teen orgies and high rates of teen pregnancy, abortion or transmission of STDs, the Dutch have far lower rates of these problems than the U.S. For example, the teen pregnancy rate in the Netherlands is just 12 pregnancies per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19. In the staid U.S., there are 72 pregnancies per 1,000 girls the same age. The Dutch teen abortion rate is 20% lower than that in the U.S. And the rate of HIV infection in America is three times higher than in The Netherlands.
"— Reality is stubbornly counter-intuitive.
Not fond of the use of “natural” here. Nor, really, the stalking part, either. UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
The natural parents of adopted children are increasingly using Facebook and other social networking sites to track down their offspring, flouting the usual controls and safeguards.
Adoption agencies are reporting huge numbers of calls from “deeply distressed” adoptive parents whose children have been contacted out of the blue.
Jonathan Pearce, chief executive of Adoption UK, said it was having to deal with the consequences of this “intrusive and unplanned communication”, and warned that it was becoming more difficult to guarantee confidentiality to adoptive parents and their children.
» via The Guardian
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