Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta-analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about…
Hupso Share Buttons – http://www.hupso.com/share/ Hupso Share Buttons You’ve seen them on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook — memes that divide black women up by respectable vs ratchet, heaping praise on the former and disgust on the latter. They dictate how black women should act and mercilessly shame those who don’t fit the mold, concluding…
Miley Cyrus was going to have all eyes on her no matter what she wore to the MTV Video Music Awards. But her get-up for Sunday night’s 2015 VMAs, which she’s hosting, involved a ponytail full of blonde dreadlocks. Source: laurencox/Twitter Source: Giphy And from the back…Source: Getty Images Unsurprisingly, not everyone was a fan — including the many…
‘Bring a map of New Orleans.’’ That was all that Alden J. McDonald Jr., president and chief executive of Liberty Bank and Trust Company, said when I first asked to meet him. It was the summer of 2005, less than two weeks after the city’s flood-protection system failed to keep out the storm surge created…
Darren Rovell, a commemorative gift plate from the American Enterprise Institute that somehow talks and writes and uses social media, went there just now on Twitter, and it’s a sight to behold—a service to the nation, in its way. While a market fundamentalist with a neuron or two firing would probably avoid expressions of active…
George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin who was last seen hawking paintings of the Confederate battle flag that praised the Second Amendment, took to Twitter in the wake of yesterday’s shootings of Alison Parker and Adam Ward to condemn the “Black [piece of shit]” who murdered them and the “Ignorant Baboon” in the White…
Real estate tycoon Donald Trump flashes the thumbs-up sign as he arrives onstage for the start of the prime-time Republican presidential debate in Cleveland Aug. 6, 2015. MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Donald Trump offered a bold, new idea to curb the arrival of undocumented immigrants to the United States: Strike down part of…
Marissa Johnson, left, and Mara Jacqueline Willaford—co-founders of the Seattle chapter of Black Lives Matter—take over the microphone at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, far right, on Aug. 8, 2015 in downtown Seattle.Photo by Elaine Thompson/AP Photo Let’s look at the Bernie Sanders plan for a fairer economy. Crafted in his…
Last week I was on my way to visit Medium’s headquarters in San Francisco to discuss a project that I’m working on, mainly focused around police brutality. Funnily enough (or not so), I ended up being over an hour late, because this happened. I recorded the incident August 4th 2015 during the lunch hour. It…
In the past few weeks, Black Lives Matter protesters have disrupted Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders campaign events, but the front-runner for the Democratic presidential election has avoided any embarrassing confrontations — thanks to the Secret Service. Last week several activists from Massachusetts planned to disrupt a Clinton campaign event in New Hampshire, but they…