History
Parenting & Children
Society
Jason Kottke has been doing some reading on children and play, specifically Peter Gray, and has posted a fascinating snippet: In a chapter on the role of play in social and emotional development, Gray discusses play that might be considered inappropriate, dangerous, or forbidden by adults: fighting, violent video games, climbing “too high”, etc. As […]
Fuck the patriarchy
Jesus Wept
Politics
Society
GOP considered dangerous: Republican Assemblywoman Michele Fiore of Nevada recently told The New York Times: “If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them. The sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in their head.”
Cycling
Momentum Mag has a neat list of five ways you can better enjoy your winter cycling. Embrace the cold, put on a jumper, and off you go. (Image ‘Cinema Visit – Cycling in Winter in Copenhagen’ by Mikael Colville-Andersen)
Cycling
Mark Treasure has written up an excellent post (complete with some illustrative photos) on why it is that cyclists have a bad reputation for cycling up one way streets, jumping red lights and so on: Often this is explained in terms of ‘cyclists’ being able to ‘get away with it’, because they’re apparently not identifiable, […]
Arts
Equality
Photography
Privilege
Society
“Boundaries” is a project by photographer Allaire Bartel that aims to capture what it feels like to be a woman in an atmosphere of male entitlement. The Pittsburgh-based photographer tells us that the project started last year during a mentoring program that had “boundaries” as the theme. At the time, there was a lot of […]
Economy
Politics
Regulation
Society
There needs to be a public debate about how the crisis should be resolved. It requires a clear decision about what role we want to give housing in the Irish economy. Should policy allow an unregulated private property market where housing is primarily a private commodity and an investment for speculation and accumulation of private […]
Government
Privacy
Security
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-united-states-is-angry-that-china-wants-crypto-backdoors-too “You can’t have it both ways,” Trevor Timm, the co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, told Motherboard. “If the US forces tech companies to install backdoors in encryption, then tech companies will have no choice but to go along with China when they demand the same power.”
People
Leonard Nimoy — husband, father, photographer, poet, director, musician, and, of course, abundantly talented actor best known as the original Mr. Spock — died this morning at his home in Bel Air from end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 83. – via HelloGiggles “I loved him like a brother. We will all […]
Arts
Life
Mood
People
There’s a lovely interview in Vanity Fair with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer for The Sound of Music's 50th Anniversary. It would surprise no one, perhaps, to learn that Julie Andrews travels with her own teakettle. On a late afternoon last winter she and Christopher Plummer met me at the Loews Regency Hotel, in Manhattan, […]