November 10, 2013
Black Lung Coverup
Coal industry's go-to law firm withheld evidence of black lung, at expense of sick miners. "Jackson Kelly, documents show, over the years has withheld unfavorable evidence and shaped the opinions of its reviewing doctors by providing only what it wanted them to see. Miners, often lacking equally savvy lawyers or even any representation, had virtually no way of knowing this evidence existed, let alone the wherewithal to obtain it."
Fée Paradis
Etymology maps: charting various words throughout Europe
Redditor sp07 started a Reddit trend: creating etymology maps of Europe, with more to be seen in r/etymologymaps.
"World's greatest detective and you still can't figure it out."
Mahna Mahna
♪ Why do we always come here?
I guess we'll never know.
It's like a kind of torture
To have to watch the show! ♫
[more inside]
I guess we'll never know.
It's like a kind of torture
To have to watch the show! ♫
[more inside]
A different route to the ABCs of HIV/AIDS awareness in Kenya
That’s a big machine, isn’t it!
- J.D. Salinger (1, 47)
Missing
What Is Missing? is artist and architect Maya Lin's (previously) last memorial, this one to vanishing species and habitats. [Via] [more inside]
High Octane, In Your Face, Down and Dirty Knitting Action
If you haven't been able to find time to watch the recent 12.5-hour broadcast of Norway's National Knitting Evening (previously), Jimmy Kimmel has a 2-minute, 27-second piece on it that might be more your speed, and that features a bonus preview of a possible future "Norwegian Knitting Tour" reality show.
Sasha Fleischman
Last week, high school student Sasha Fleischman was set on fire while riding a city bus, most probably related to their gender presentation. Sasha identifies as agender and was wearing a skirt on the bus.
A couple of lights in this appalling and sobering story are the solidarity rally held by Sasha's classmates, and the moving and compassionate letter from Sasha's father.
"Egg," the seal said. "Gub. Gleg."
the majority of the themes in this comic are based on real experiences
Qahera the hijabi superhero, in Arabic and English
I would love a swan. Oh, a swan. That would be nice.
Miley's Lunch Box by The New Choobs is a lip-synched parody of Wrecking Ball and a deranged litany of the animals and foodstuffs Miley would like to eat.
The Thankful Villages
"The phrase was first used by Arthur Mee in his King's England series in the 1930s. A Thankful Village, it was said, was one which lost no men in the Great War because all those who left to serve came home again. For example, in Yorkshire East Riding he says about Catwick, "Thirty men went from Catwick to the Great War and thirty came back, though one left an arm behind." It was also said that such villages have no war memorials - or that if they do, they are a thankful reminder of all who served. Any community which enjoyed this rare distinction must have been Thankful indeed, in an age when family and community life broken by war was the norm." -- From the Hellfire Corner research project on Thankful Villages [more inside]
the body, the rock
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