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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Neil Degrasse Tyson, in an AMA on reddit, responding to a young man who asked how to find motivation in life. (via fishingboatproceeds)
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Woman: Can I have birth control?
Government: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Government: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Government: No.
Woman: My boyfriend isn't excited about sex anymore, because I lost my figure due to pregnancy. Will you pay for his erectile dysfunction pills?
Government: Yes.
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What does science fiction tell us about the future... →
“Today’s science fiction urges us to ask similar questions about governments that force women and men to rear children that they don’t want, cannot afford, and who require work that the adults around them simply cannot perform. What kind of world are we creating when humans cannot prevent unwanted children from beng born? More to the point, we have to ask what those children...
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solitaryforager:
A New Dark Age
Most scientists, on achieving high office, keep their public remarks to the bland and reassuring. Last week Nina Fedoroff, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), broke ranks in a spectacular manner.
She confessed that she was now “scared to death” by the anti-science movement that was spreading, uncontrolled, across the...
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Text Messages From a Ghost | The Hairpin →
November 7th hey are you using that tree outside The one by the door? yeah that one, are you using it, like do you need it for anything I guess not… okay, cool ,thank you, thats great Is everything okay? oh yeah i was just thinking of taking a vacation Is that how ghosts take vacations? Sorry if that’s a stupid question no not stupid at all yeah i mean, if you live in a phone sometimes it...
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Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown So Much... →
I am sorry our culture has treated women so poorly for so long that suffering abuse to receive celebrity attention seems like a fair and reasonable trade. We have failed you, utterly.
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“We are protected from so much pain. For example: graves.
The earth’s roots and...”
– For Example, A Flower by Arkaye Kierulf (via leda-swanson)
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“When it comes, you’ll be dreaming
that you don’t need to breathe;
that...”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from “I’m Working on the World” in Poems New and Collected, trans. S. Baranczak and C. Cavanagh (via proustitute)
January 2012
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