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photos: early 20th century america, semi-vegan, hooray for the montana supreme court for ruling against corporate campaign spending
These first few photos are from around 1885 to 1927, the turn of the 20th Century. african-american school early 1900s . This is not typical of the time. many African-Americans did not go to school because most public schools were for whites only. While there were some relatively good schools, most were not and the [...]
a few 20th century innovators, congress is filled with pirates, night train wallpaper
Dr. Linus Pauling Pointing to a Scientific Model. Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was a U.S. chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator. If Crick, Watson and Rosalind Franklin had not been the first to discover the helical structure of DNA, Pauling was one of the scientists that might have [...]
rain on window wallpaper, skin is wired for touch, equal outcomes my aunt fanny
How Skin is Wired for Touch Compared to our other senses, scientists don’t know much about how our skin is wired for the sensation of touch. Now, research reported in the December 23rd issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, provides the first picture of how specialized neurons feel light touches, like a [...]
joshua tree wallpaper, redemption and second chances
joshua tree wallpaper The whole scandal over Stephen Glass and the stories he either completely fabricated or greatly enhanced via his imagination, for The New Republic happened 14 years ago (1998). There is no Cliffs Notes version, but there is a critically acclaimed movie about those events called Shattered Glass (2003). If you care about [...]
the big lie and fannie may, policy outcomes strongly reflect the preferences of the affluent, too connected to fail
The Big Lie is directly descended from the Third Reich, From Chapter 10 of James Murphy’s translation of Mein Kampf: But it remained for the Jews, with their unqualified capacity for falsehood, and their fighting comrades, the Marxists, to impute responsibility for the downfall precisely to the man who alone had shown a superhuman will [...]
american masters of design, ray and charles eames
Charles & Ray Eames were a husband and wife team of artists. Despite the names and the confusion they have caused for some media reviewers, theywere not brothers. PBS did a documentary on them as part of the American Masters series. A short biographic essay is on-line, Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter [...]
no good deed goes unbrutalized, black and white photos, HIV Replication 3D Medical Animation
Good Samaritan in West Virginia Brutalized by Police Chief Justin Burke Childers Teter, who had undergone spinal surgery and had 16 probes implanted near his spinal cord, says he told Childers he was disabled from spinal surgery and asked him not to cuff him behind his back. “In response, defendant Childers threw Mr. Teter into [...]
