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• 1981: My Summer with NASA

  

  Something I painted when I was, oh, nine or ten. See that meteor streaking at the upper right? My teacher, Glenn Brought painted that. How do I know? The brush... Read more

  The 07 September 2017 by   Bbenzon
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• The Netherlands May Let Children Have More Than Two Legal Parents

  

  FOUR years ago Pepijn Zwanenberg, a club DJ and a city-council member for the GreenLeft party in Utrecht, sat down with his boyfriend Ivo and their friend... Read more

  The 07 September 2017 by   Stizzard
  

• Americans Don't Like Trump's Bigoted Transgender Ban

  

  A few days ago, Trump tweeted that he would ban transgendered Americans from serving in the military. He said he had done that after conferring with military... Read more

  The 05 August 2017 by   Jobsanger
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• Democratic Backsliding in Bulgaria

  

  Protest in Sofia, February 2013, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Institute for Market Economics (IME), an independent economic policy think tank in Bulgaria, has sough... Read more

  The 04 August 2017 by   Center For International Private Enterprise
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• Why Is There Still A Rape Kit Backlog?

  

  We need justice for survivors. There are very few (if any) women who haven’t thought about it. We think about it as we walk to our cars after a night out, as... Read more

  The 02 August 2017 by   Juliez
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• Dynamics of Medieval Cities

  

  Cities provide a good illustration of the ontology of the theory of assemblage (link). Many forms of association, production, logistics, governance, and... Read more

  The 29 July 2017 by   Dlittle30
  

• Let's Stop Supersizing "our Dreams"

  

  Megan Miller assures us that "God desires to fill our hearts with big dreams."In my opinion I believe He desires to fill our heart with holiness and... Read more

  The 26 July 2017 by   Elizabethprata
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• Trump, Scouting, My Dad, and Me

  

  [Cross-posted to By Common Consent]I don't know why this makes me so angry, but it does.Maybe anger's not the right word; I'm not angry, I don't think. (I rarel... Read more

  The 25 July 2017 by   Russellarbenfox
  

• A New Model of Organization?

  

  In Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World General Stanley McChrystal (with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussel) describes a... Read more

  The 21 July 2017 by   Dlittle30
  

• Trump Claim Of Increasing Coal Jobs By 50,000 Is A LIE

  

  Shortly after announcing the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris Agreement on global climate change, Donald Trump (and EPA director Pruitt) both claimed that... Read more

  The 19 July 2017 by   Jobsanger
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