November 2011
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October 2011
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Girls given equal rights to British throne under... →
Laura Smith-Spark, CNN:
Sons and daughters of British monarchs will have an equal right to the throne under changes to the United Kingdom’s succession laws agreed to Friday, British Prime Minister David Cameron said.
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The constitutional changes would mean a first-born girl has precedence over a younger brother. They also mean that a future British monarch would be allowed to marry a...
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Swimming-baby-chasing-a-fishhook-with-a-dollar-bill... →
Fantastic. Explains a lot about Generation Y in general. Also, now’s a good a time as any to remind people to whip out their copies of Generations and Millenials Rising.
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Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks? →
Gwen Sharp of Sociological Images posted about a ScotTissue ad from the 1930s. It’s silly and I love it.
Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks?
Employees lose respect for a company that fails to provide decent facilities for their comfort.
Try wiping your hands six days a week on harsh, cheap paper towels or awkward, unsanitary roller towels — and maybe you, too, would grumble.
Spoiler:...
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“[Shortstop Elio] Chacon… was eager but not very talented. And he kept running...”
– Roger Angell on the 1962 New York Mets, the losingest major league team in the modern era, as quoted by Geoffrey C. Ward in Baseball: An Illustrated History.
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285 Indian Girls Change Name from "Unwanted" →
Chaya Babu of the AP with a story that’s great but then also terrible in that it happened at all:
Hundreds of Indian girls whose names mean “unwanted” in Hindi chose new names Saturday for a fresh start in life.
A central Indian district held a renaming ceremony it hopes will give the girls new dignity and help fight widespread gender discrimination that gives India a skewed...
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MegaBus driver arrested for driving drunk →
The title doesn’t do this justice — bizarre story. Glad no one was hurt.
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Jewish Problems →
Crazy paper by Tanya Khovanova and Alexey Radul on arXiv on Jewish discrimination in Russia:
In the summer of 1975, while I was in a Soviet math camp preparing to compete in the International Math Olympiad on behalf of the Soviet Union, my fellow team members and I were approached for help by Valera Senderov, a math teacher in one of Moscow’s best special math schools.
The Mathematics...
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World Scrabble Championships competitors asked to... →
The Associated Press with some Earth-shattering news out of Warsaw, Poland:
Brian Dede, the event coordinator, said a referee had to intervene when opponents Edward Martin from Britain and Chollapat Itthi-Aree from Thailand noticed a missing tile during the last draw of their match.
He said that led to a search on and under the table, and that both players “were asked to show the contents of...
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Gadhafi Put on Display in Shopping Center Freezer →
Kim Gamel and Rami al-Shaheibi for the AP:
Moammar Gadhafi’s blood-streaked body was on display in a commercial freezer at a shopping center Friday as Libyan authorities argued about what to do with his remains and questions deepened over official accounts of the longtime dictator’s death.
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In Misrata, residents crowded into long lines to get a chance to view the body of Gadhafi,...
