Because I know the issue had been concerning you all too…
The in-depth Cheese & Dreams study, a first of its kind, reveals that eating cheese before bed will not only aid a good night’s sleep but different cheeses will in fact cause different types of dreams.
Another perspective on indigenous issues in The Age: “Can Archie Roach teach the rest of us what he taught British actor Pete Postlethwaite: how to see Australia through Aboriginal eyes?”
Too long apart
Why, yes, I am easily amused.
Cute.
Subject: to mia
Is the moon to grow
Covering the land^×
Again awaken from your being gone to find
What I have in my hands, these flowers, these shadows,
Onto my frozen fingers.
Sought to contrive, intending to express
I seek, above all, in the wandering
Of the matter of snow here. Both of us have grasped
The earth beneath his feet, in its dark cape,
In realms of dingy gloom and deep crevasse
Thinking of your abiding spirit brings
XX. To the Pole
XIII. The Route to the North
That patch of white at the very end of the road
Lucky the bell^×still full and deep of throat,
The edge of that other square cut from the right
Toward . . . that seems to be the whispered question
Two of us, Docteur and Madame Machin, who stand
Sculpting each tree to fit your ghostly form
Why I am a feminist, reason 867: “women who work full time and have never taken time off to have children earn about 11 percent less than men with equivalent education and experience.”
Ok, so women should just get better at asking for money, right? But wait, it’s not that simple:
“…men and women get very different responses when they initiate negotiations. Although it may well be true that women often hurt themselves by not trying to negotiate, this study found that women’s reluctance was based on an entirely reasonable and accurate view of how they were likely to be treated if they did. Both men and women were more likely to subtly penalize women who asked for more — the perception was that women who asked for more were “less nice”.
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“This isn’t about fixing the women,” Bowles said. “It isn’t about telling women, ‘You need self-confidence or training.’ They are responding to incentives within the social environment.””
Washington Post.
Sensible girls! “Managing money and safe-sex practices are among the main topics in which British Girl Guides aged 14 to 26 want more instruction, a Girlguiding UK survey of more than 1000 guides has found.” From the Age OddSpot.
Also a good article “Archaeologists locate possible Aztec tombs” in Mexico.
I really like mental_floss, but they post so often it tends to build up in my RSS reader. Here are some random posts that might explain why I like it: Russian books for naughty children, Summer Solstice Celebrations (great photos of celebrations around the world) and Russian stamps depict the darndest things.
I got an email from 10 Downing Street about a petition, Roads4bikes, I’d signed. And the petition worked!
This is so far beyond wrong that I can’t even start to describe it: The World’s Most Photographed Squirrel.