For the Fallen Queers & the Fighting Queers

August 28, 2010

In spite of the terror his philosophies inflicted on LGBT citizens and in spite of the decades long scare-fest of anti-gay hatred, gay-baiting and discriminatory laws foisted on us, Ken Mehlman wants us to know that his coming out experience has been just peachy. No apology for all the suicides his party’s stances inevitably brought [...]

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AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING: ‘Star Wars Uncut’

August 27, 2010

via latimesblogs.latimes.com Go to http://www.starwarsuncut.com and watch it!!!!!! Posted via email from chanda’s (pre)posterous

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NASA’s Invasive Background Checks: I had to do one and they suck

August 26, 2010

August 10th, 2010 EFF Urges Supreme Court to Block NASA’s Invasive Background Checks Over-Collection of Personal Data Invades Employees’ Privacy Washington, D.C. – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the United States Supreme Court Monday to uphold an appeals court decision that blocks invasive and unnecessary background checks at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [...]

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Now we must make movies about it instead | .poetry.

August 25, 2010

This is my favorite film about the Holocaust. My favorite film in the Holocaust genre, as it were. This time the tears are really real. And it is not so much cinema as the telling of this story which we know, over and over. In 40 years, will they be saying this about Palestine? I [...]

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Aesthetics & Astronomy at Chandra’s X-ray Universe

August 25, 2010

We have posted a few times on the Chandra blog about a project known as “Aesthetics & Astronomy” (A&A, for short). It’s a research study we’re conducting along with a team of experts outside of astrophysics to see just how the public perceives and understands the images we put out, as well as those from [...]

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Physics Students Reveal Bias for Male Lecturers: Scientific American

August 19, 2010

Male and female actors gave physics lectures to college students. All students thought the males were more knowledgeable. And whereas female students gave a a slight nod to women teachers, male students thought male teachers were vastly better. via scientificamerican.com Basically, male physics students are all sexist pigs Oh, I wish that was actually a [...]

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Astro2010: A State of the Union for Stargazers by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

August 19, 2010

What is clear from listening to the press conference, reading the blog responses, and looking at the actual report is that, like anything else that involves large sums of money and a lot of people, everything still seems to come back to politics, or human error. I think they may be the same thing, or [...]

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I’m a bit tired but . . .

August 17, 2010

at least I don’t have braces anymore!!!!! Sent from my YummyBerry! Posted via email from chanda’s (pre)posterous

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Israeli Academic Talks about Supporting Boycott and Divestment from Israel

August 16, 2010

via youtube.com A point of view that we never hear about in the press. Posted via email from chanda’s (pre)posterous

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Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions by Joy Gordon

August 14, 2010

The economic sanctions imposed on Iraq from 1990 to 2003 were the most comprehensive and devastating of any established in the name of international governance. The sanctions, coupled with the bombing campaign of 1991, brought about the near collapse of Iraq’s infrastructure and profoundly compromised basic conditions necessary to sustain life. via hup.harvard.edu This book [...]

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