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To Black Girls Everywhere | The Offing (http://theoffingmag.com/d... http://theoffingmag.com/w... )

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"You will see some of us on the covers of those same glossy magazines that the white girls always read. You’re going to face a lot of trickery. Words like magic suggest lightness and power and a centuries-old truth-myth about us: that we can withstand anything. That we can do it all. And you will, my dear. You will do it all. And you will do it brilliantly, fantastically. Routinely. It will hurt. But the only thing worse than a black girl in pain is a black girl who says that she’s a black girl in pain. So you say nothing and they will call you strong. Some days you’ll even believe it. " - JustDuckie - -

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What's the real difference between what men and women post on Facebook? - Seriously, Science? (http://blogs.discovermaga... http://blogs.discovermaga... )

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"File this under “reinforcing stereotypes“: these scientists use word clouds created from the Facebook messages of 75,000 people to reveal not only the differences between men and women (fighting, football and xbox vs. babies, emoticons, and shopping), but between introverts and extroverts (anime and computers vs. parties and ‘chillin’). If this hasn’t paralyzed you from depression, continue reading for a peek at the rest of the word clouds in all their glory." - JustDuckie - -

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Paintings Of The Muses Dejectedly Performing Their Duties - The Toast (http://the-toast.net/2016... http://17rg073sukbm1lmjk9... )

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"oh wow a harp in Heaven what a bold and exciting new artistic choice " - JustDuckie - -

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Happy Massacre Day | Myths RETOLD (http://bettermyths.com/ha... http://bettermyths.com/wp... )

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"it has come to my attention that many of you don’t even know what yesterday was ABOUT and NOT just because you all have drinking problems so let me tell you what Valentine’s day is all about my friends it is all about murder" - JustDuckie - -

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“Your manuscript is not a good fit”: How “we need diverse books” can move beyond wishful thinking - Salon.com (http://www.salon.com/2016... http://media.salon.com/20... )

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"How an Eskimo woman might view Watkins’ writing is never considered, for the approval that she is seeking comes from “Tom McGuane or Lee K. Abbott or Jeffrey Eugenides or Christopher Coake or Chang-Rae Lee, all of whom have offered me guidance and friendship for which I’m tremendously grateful,” she stated. For her words were still being written for them and directed to them, as well as to white women who might legitimately hope to be mentored by them. But for too many writers of color, it’s a herculean task just to get into a crowded auditorium where just one of those men might lecturing, let alone being able to publicly claim those five literary lights as your professional support system. Merely getting to the point where your writing consciously panders to those kind of men would represent a victory of sorts. From the margins, the sound of writing sounds like nothing at all. You’re a mute in a black hole, hearing nothing but braying in your head." - JustDuckie - -

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Reductress » I Am Going to Fuck Someone On This Haunted History Tour (http://reductress.com/pos... )

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"Look. I didn’t come down to Savannah, Georgia just to have a fun touristy ghost adventure. I also came down here to get plugged. Maybe that’s weird, but I won’t apologize for making my vacation the best it can be. I worked hard for my vacation days, why shouldn’t I spend them exactly how I want to? Why shouldn’t I combine my love of spooky half-true history with my quest for a no-strings-attached Southern hookup? Mark my words: Someone on this haunted history tour WILL fuck me. If you’re wondering, I happen to be actually interested in ghosts and the relationship between folklore and our country’s history. But you know what else I’m into? Sex. My heart is ready to jump at the sound of the wind slamming a door in this old mansion just as much as my vag is ready for some vacation D." - JustDuckie - -

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University uses dogs as study aides for children - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"National Pingtung University, in association with the university’s affiliated Experimental Elementary School, has started a program introducing dogs as study aides for young children to improve their concentration. Students from the university’s department of special education brought two dogs to the elementary school’s library, where the dogs stayed with the children as they read. The university students said the dogs could help encourage children to study, as playtime with the dogs could be offered as a reward after completing their assignments. Children who are more active and need encouragement to focus on their work can often become stressed by the pressure teachers and parents place on them, the university said, adding that children might find it more worthwhile to finish their reading with the incentive of playing with dogs as a reward." - JustDuckie - -

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Interview with a Parisian Burlesque Dancer | Messy Nessy Chic (http://www.messynessychic... http://static.messynessyc... )

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"I was at a masked party one evening in Paris when Marie Antoinette showed up in nothing but her underwear, albeit very pretty underwear indeed. She prowled sumptuously about the room until she found a stage and proceeded to perform the most hypnotising dance with two giant feather fans. Who is that woman behind the feathers? What is her story? I wondered. And then she was gone. The following morning, by chance, someone commented on a photograph I’d posted of her. “That’s Sucre d’Orge!”. And that is how I came to interview a Parisian burlesque dancer…" - JustDuckie - -

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"Pocket Princesses 180: Shoe Shopping" - JustDuckie - -

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A Man Posted an R-Rated Personals Ad Seeking a Date at Red Lobster, and It's Hilarious | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"All you need me to do is meet me at the agreed-upon franchise location, and share a meal with me during which we take several photos and maybe even a video or two of us making the best of our voyage to Red Lobster. The only stipulation is that you've got to be cool with me sharing these photos to my various social media outlets. Why would I want to do this? I'll explain: Beyonce recently released the song "Formation," which includes these lyrics: "When he fuck me good I take his ass to Red Lobster, 'cause I slay." As a single man, I currently have nobody to fuck good (or bad, for that matter), and I would like to change that! How? Well, by posting these pictures of you and me crushing biscuits and cracking crab legs at Red Lobster, people will potentially perceive that we have recently fucked real good, like, good enough for you to take me to Red Lobster! And perception is 90 percent of reality, right?" - JustDuckie - -

related: https://twitter.com/Nurse... "Red Lobster sales are up 33% after Bey sang, "when he fuck me good I take his ass to Red Lobster." meanwhile, dudes did not fuck any better." - Andrew C - [ 2 ] -

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Horses can read your emotions. - Seriously, Science? (http://blogs.discovermaga... http://blogs.discovermaga... )

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"According to this study, you can add horses to the short list of animals that can tell if you’re happy or angry (which currently includes only dogs). To test this, the authors showed horses photos of either happy or angry faces and tracked whether the horses looked to the left or right — apparently, looking left tends to be associated with negative stimuli. The researchers found that the horses looked left more often and their heart rates sped up when viewing angry human faces, indicating that they were identifying the appropriate emotions. Our biggest criticism of this study? They failed to include a “why the long face?” joke." - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

(I tried to Like your comment, but clicking on that sent me to the top of the page. Refreshed the page, same thing happened. Anyway. I like your comment. :-) - bentley - [ 1 ] -

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Three Ways Publishers and Libraries Can Work Better Together (http://www.publishersweek... )

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"As of this year, all Penguin Random House e-book titles are now licensed on a perpetual-access model, with prices as high as $65 per copy for new releases, including bestsellers like Danielle Steel’s Blue and Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air. Let’s call this what it is: bullying behavior. PRH—whose titles often make up half of any given bestseller list—is giving public libraries an impossibly hard choice. If we buy PRH e-books in sufficient numbers to meet demand, we are left with less money to acquire books from other houses, which stymies our ability to create diverse collections. If we hold back, we create a dissatisfied public and risk becoming irrelevant to our readers. But the impact is even more far-reaching. For example, would I feature a PRH author as part of a discussion series? Not likely, because I could never be sure that I could afford enough digital copies. If you can’t back up your program with access, why bother?" - JustDuckie - -

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Watch: Monkey drank rum, stole knife at Brazil bar - UPI.com (http://www.upi.com/Odd_Ne... http://cdnph.upi.com/sv/b... )

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"Firefighters were called to a bar in Brazil to remove a drunk and belligerent monkey that downed a glass of rum and armed itself with a kitchen knife. The local fire department in Patos, Paraiba, said they were called to a bar Feb. 5 on a report of an aggressive monkey with a kitchen knife chasing men. Fire deparment Lt. Col. Saul Laurentino said the monkey drank a glass of rum at the bar before picking up the knife and chasing after men, leaving the women alone. "It was a bar staff oversight that ended with the monkey drinking some rum and taking the knife," Laurentino told the aRede website." - JustDuckie - -

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Physicist uses grant submissions to discover a universal law of procrastination. - Seriously, Science? (http://blogs.discovermaga... http://blogs.discovermaga... )

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"As a program director at NSF, I was impressed by the tremendous increase in the number of proposals routinely submitted right before deadline as compared with those turned in earlier in the submission window. In analyzing large data sets from 10 annual submission windows of greater than 60 days with submissions from more than 1000 proposers annually, I have found that the data adhere to a modified hyperbolic function, as plotted in the figure. The model is simple, which means it omits factors such as delays introduced by the universities’ sponsored research offices. Nevertheless, the procrastination behavior is predicted quite well, and without any fitting parameters." - JustDuckie - -

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In HS, I used to finish math tests super early and turn them in so I could veg out the rest of the time, but after a while I learned it was better to veg out, then look over the test at the last minute to catch errors with a fresher mind. I agree, the deadline should be the deadline. If you wanted it earlier you should have said so. - Andrew C - [ 2 ] -

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The Bison Roundup the Government Wants to Hide - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"In 1995, the state of Montana sued the park service to control bison that roam outside of Yellowstone’s boundary. Montana stockmen feared that bison could infect local cattle populations with the disease brucellosis, which can cause cows to abort their calves. For years, the Montana Department of Livestock had killed bison that left the park. In 2000, a court- mediated settlement resulted in the Interagency Bison Management Plan, which remains in effect today. It basically requires the park service to do the bidding of Montana stockmen. The park service, in cooperation with the state livestock department, captures bison inside the park and ships them to slaughterhouses. This effort has cost an estimated $50 million since it began 15 years ago. Ninety-five percent of that funding has come from the federal government. Animal epidemiologists have long noted that the risk to cows of brucellosis infection from wild bison is remote. Not a single instance of transmission has ever been documented." - JustDuckie - -

"In December, Montana took a long-awaited step in that direction. Gov. Steve Bullock proposed allowing Yellowstone bison to roam in certain areas beyond the park’s boundaries throughout the year. This modest move must still be approved by various state and federal agencies. Hopefully, this will lead to broader changes in way the animal is managed. Despite this progress, the annual cull will still take place. The sad irony here is that in order to allow Montana ranchers to graze their cattle, the park service is helping to slaughter a native animal so iconic that it is emblazoned on the park service’s own logo." - JustDuckie - -

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Russian teacher 'kills friend in heated poetry versus prose argument' | Europe | News | The Independent (http://www.independent.co... http://static.independent... )

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"The pair engaged in an animated discussion on the merits of poetry over prose during a drinking session, which soon escalated into a lethal brawl, after the suspect stabbed his friend insisting that poetry was superior. In a statement, federal police in the Russian region of Sverdlovsk said: "The host insisted that real literature is prose, while his guest, a former teacher, argued for poetry. "The literary dispute soon grew into a banal conflict, on the basis of which the 53-year-old admirer of poetry killed his opponent with the help of a knife."" - JustDuckie - -

Huh, it's from 2 years ago. - JustDuckie - -

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Trio offered to sell, cook protected animal: officials - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"A live pangolin was reportedly offered for sale in New Taipei City’s Sindian District (新店), with sellers allegedly offering to cook the protected animal to attract buyers, the city’s Animal Protection and Health Inspection Office said yesterday. Three suspects, surnamed Chiang (江), Kao (高) and Chiu (邱), were seen hawking a pangolin at Sindian’s Liching Sunset Market (立青黃昏市場) on Feb. 1, and, despite the three offering to prepare a meal from the animal for free, no one bought the pangolin, and a passerby reported the incident to the office, which suggests that public conservation awareness has increased, office director Chen Yuan-chuan (陳淵泉) said yesterday." - JustDuckie - -

"According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, pangolins are the most trafficked mammal in the world, and more than 1 million wild pangolins have been hunted over the past 10 years, the office said. Pangolin scales are believed to be of high medical value, which the office said was unsupported by scientific evidence, calling on the public to not be misled into purchasing the animals." - JustDuckie - -

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Ruth Goodman’s How to Be a Tudor, reviewed. (http://www.slate.com/arti... http://www.slate.com/cont... )

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"Historian Ruth Goodman is a specialist in British social and domestic life who has appeared in such series as Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm, Wartime Farm, and — a bit of an outlier—Victorian Pharmacy. Her first book, How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life, was enthusiastically received in 2014; books about how the characters in, say, Jane Austen’s or Charles Dickens’ novels really lived—think of it as the “chamber-pots behind the scenes at the Netherfield Park ball” school of popular history—have always found a keen audience. But typically such histories are based entirely on archival research, using information gleaned from offhand remarks in letters or contemporary advice manuals. Goodman, by contrast, lives this stuff." - JustDuckie - -

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The bit about showering vs. lots o' linen was pretty interesting. I could see why, if you had that experience with people who did actually use a water bathing regimen frequently that you'd assume it was not healthy, vs the much less stinky change-and-wash-underclothes frequently bit. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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Shanghai mall to open giant five-story slide next week, netizens scared out of their minds: Shanghaiist (http://shanghaiist.com/20... http://shanghaiist.com/at... )

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"However, many netizens say that they won't be in line to be one of the brave first to go down. "I feel like it will cause deaths, seriously," reads the top comment on the Weibo article, with more than 6,500 likes, SCMP reports. "It’s very scary, I feel like if you die in there, it’ll take a while for people to find out," agreed another, earning 4,500 likes. "It’ll be more fun if it was transparent," suggested yet another. Meanwhile, some were more preoccupied with more trivial concerns: "What if someone farted inside?"" - JustDuckie - -

NOPE. - JustDuckie - -

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Reductress » Fun Prizes To Give Him After He Guesses Your Ethnicity Right (http://reductress.com/pos... )

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"You found a guy who correctly guessed your nationality on the first try. Lucky you! Even though you didn’t ask him to guess, he still deserves a little reward for his sharp eye and bold questions! Depending on how much of your cultural background he guesses correctly, give him an approving nod and one of these gifts that say, “Wow! You partially nailed it!” If He Guesses 1/8th of Your Ethnic Background Correctly No need to go crazy! He’s learned how to phrase an uninvited question but he’s still pretty new at this. Any of these simple trinkets will do: A cookie. A piece of gum. Some temporary tattoos. A small bouncy ball. A Chinese finger trap. (It’s Chinese, like one of the ethnicities he guessed, so he’ll probably like it!)" - JustDuckie - -

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Taipei public libraries remain popular - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"Libraries are continuing to draw users in Taipei, even in an age where information is instantly available at the press of a button. The capital saw an increase in the number of books on loan last year, with Taipei residents on average checking out 5.1 books per year from libraries, Taipei Public Library data released on Jan. 30 showed. The total number of books borrowed was 12.98 million, up from 12.79 million in 2014. Women represented the majority of library users, accounting for 7.19 million, or 55.39 percent, of books borrowed last year. People aged 41 to 50 checked out 3.46 million books, followed by those aged 31 to 40 with 2.76 million books and school-aged people from grades one to nine with 1.52 million titles. People under 30 made up a small fraction of library users, which could be attributed to Taiwan’s lower birth rate over the past three decades. Language books and literature were the most popular, followed by the arts — including comic books — history and geography, applied sciences and social sciences." - JustDuckie - -

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Spanish civil servant off work unnoticed for six years - BBC News (http://www.bbc.com/news/w... http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk... )

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"A Spanish civil servant who failed to turn up for work for "at least" six years has been caught after becoming eligible for a long service award. Joaquin Garcia, 69, was fined €27,000 (£21,000; $30,000) after the award brought his long absence to light. Mr Garcia, whose job was to supervise the building of a waste water treatment plant, has since retired. He denies the allegations and his lawyer says he has gone into hiding after suffering a media "lynching"." - JustDuckie - -

Fine of 1 year's salary for 6 years of no-shows is a pretty good deal! (Even after taxes) - Andrew C - [ 6 ] -

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Reductress » CDC Recommends ‘Five-Date Rule’ (http://reductress.com/pos... )

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"The Center has stated that, like abstaining from alcohol, adhering to the Five Date Rule can reduce the risk of unwanted pregnancy while also making you seem “ladylike” and “hard-to-get.” They even published a second infographic to help women understand the benefits of the five-date rule, which include “no walk of shame” and “men who love the thrill of the chase.” “We just want what’s best for our country’s women,” says a CDC spokesperson. “And everyone knows that if you sleep with a guy on a first date, you’ll be so excited you’ll forget to wear a condom. Also, the guy will totally lose interest.”" - JustDuckie - -

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‘Monkey-gourd’ lantern panned - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"A large lantern commissioned by the Taipei City Government to be displayed during next month’s Taipei Lantern Festival has drawn the ire of Internet users, with many calling the decoration “ugly.” Lin Shu-min (林書民), the artist who created the piece, told a news conference on Wednesday last week that the 14.2m lantern is a cross between a monkey and a gourd, which is seen in Chinese-speaking communities as an auspicious symbol for people who want to have children. The monkey has a red face and a bright yellow body, with images of a goldfish and a peach — both auspicious symbols — painted on its belly and back, and a gourd stem sticking out from the top of its head." - JustDuckie - -

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^ right? I honestly think it is kinda cute, but I didn't quite understand that bit. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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LOOK: God of Wealth makes it rain red packets on Nanjing residents from the back of dinosaur: Shanghaiist (http://shanghaiist.com/20... http://shanghaiist.com/at... )

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"Today is the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, celebrated as the birthday of the God of Wealth with a feast the night before and fireworks in the morning. Typically, you're not supposed to leave your house during the day, just in case the God happens to show up, but we assume it's ok when he's outside on the street making it rain hong bao from the back of a dinosaur." - JustDuckie - -

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