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It’s horrible

Terrifying.

It’s the worst of us.

It represents the worst of us.

It’s happening now

It’s real

 

We have this tendency to error…

«Many of NASA’s consulting sociologists and anthropologists to Brookings (like Dr. Margaret Meade, whom I had the privilege of actually working with in later years, at New York’s Hayden Planetarium) had been warning NASA, even as Brookings was being researched and assembled, of “the enormous potential for social instability” if the existence of bona fide extraterrestrials—or even their ruins—was officially revealed in the socially repressive and heavily religious environment of the late 1950s

dixit

«As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there…He wasn’t there again today, I wish, I wish he’d go away.»

Food waste

Jonathan Bloom is writing a book on wasted food in America. Read his latest findings here.

Gaza

«We are almost dead. We have no money, nothing.»

Social constructions and representations

Study: Kids Think Eyeglasses Make Other Kids Look Smart.

«Children between the ages of 6 and 10 who were surveyed for the study also thought that kids wearing glasses looked more honest than children who don’t wear glasses.
Otherwise, the survey suggested that children don’t tend to judge the attractiveness of their peers who wear glasses when asked about their appearance, potential as a playmate or likely athletic abilities.
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twilight zone ii

This city looked kind of nice today, and not the usual cross between Royston Vasey and Basin City.

twilight zone

I swear I passed by Marx near Nowhere Alley.

dixit

«Eventually, hellfire and damnation works its way into the discussion though.»