Twitter shown to be faster than earthquakes in tongue-in-cheek video - The Feed - CBS News

A notable achievement of technology in the aftermath of last week's earthquake was the speed at which the information hit the Internet.

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Google makes the best boyfriend: G-Male - Tech Talk - CBS News

Google fans, before you sing more praises about Gmail, Google Docs and Google+ - we know you love 'em - consider a world with a mate who knows as much about you as the beloved tools Google has brought you.

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Professor-student romance ends in murder-suicide - The Daily Breeze

Rowdy J. Hope, who told police he was a close friend of Bustamante, "confirmed that Bustamante had multiple handguns and multiple personality disorders to include one Busamante calls a `psychopathic killer' and another Bustamante calls `the beast,"' Moscow Police Sgt.

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Free Will Is Real: But it's mentalistic, not mechanistic | Psychology Today

Free will is one of those things people argue about endlessly, and the reason is that they are confusing two different cognitive realities, one relating to mentalism, and one to mechanism.

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MaryMagdaleneWithin: Feast Day for Jesus' Grandmother

"Today is Grandmother's Feast Day on the Christian calendar. September 1 is the feast day of "Saint Anna the Prophetess" who was with Jesus' family when they brought him to the Temple for a ceremony of renewal for his mother."

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Commercialized Sexualization and the Choice to Opt Out « MomsRising Blog

My initial thoughts about the Canadian couple refusing to make public the sex of their baby were not kind. It seemed like just another media circus fomented by parents exploiting their children for celebrity—like Jon and Kate, or the balloon boy.

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Poet David Whyte's Questions That Have No Right to Go Away - Oprah.com

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering. Nine years ago, I wrote a poem called "Sometimes" in which I talked about the "questions that can make or unmake a life ...

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Porn-Induced Sexual Dysfunction Is A Growing Problem | Psychology Today

A growing number of young, healthy Internet pornography users are complaining of delayed ejaculation, inability to be turned on by real partners, and sluggish erections

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Women and Bicycles: the wheels of equality

One can imagine the indignation, often expressed in terms of health or morality, that many a male felt when the woman was shown to be just as adept at handling the cycle as her counterpart. Simply put, the bicycle allowed for movement into new spaces, literally and figuratively.

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Ideas, Free and Unfree: A Book Commentary - Jeffrey A. Tucker - Mises Daily - StumbleUpon

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South Africa's Subversive SlutWalk : Ms Magazine Blog - StumbleUpon

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Overhyped Irene makes Washington the inevitable butt of snickers - The Washington Post

Have your fun, Gulf Coasters. Go ahead, LOL at us. And Californians, please join in.

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The confessions of a teenage tourist | Film | The Observer

I used to work in an ice-cream parlour as a student and two guys I worked with looked like John Lennon and Paul McCartney. They were hippies, into world peace, had beards and guitars and would go to Amsterdam every few months.

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LEBANON: Women Prisoners Play the Liberation Role - IPS ipsnews.net

To a soundtrack of almost constant pounding of fists against iron doors, drama therapist Zeina Daccache is trying to capture the attention of a group of women prisoners.

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CONGO: Many Indigenous Women Still Give Birth in the Forest - IPS ipsnews.net

In a survey conducted in April and May 2011, the Congolese Association for Health in Cuvette-Ouest, a non-governmental organisation based at Mbomo, in the north of the country, found that of 520 women of child-bearing age, only eight had given birth at a health centre.

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Mary Magdalene: Author of the Fourth Gospel?

Today, the majority of biblical scholars, both Catholic and Protestant, assert that St. John of Zebedee did not write the Gospel that bears his name. They ascribe authorship to the "anonymous" Beloved Disciple.

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Is This Comedy Monologue A Rape Confession?

What do you call it when you misrepresent yourself as someone's desired partner, don't listen when she repeatedly tells you to leave, come uninvited into her room and penetrate her while she just lies there? Well, at a recent New York City improv festival, this guy, who by his o …

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Spirit Airline's Bullsh*t Response to Sexual Assault

Dear Spirit Airlines,I got your response to my letter today concerning my sexual assault on your plane and your lack of responsible reaction. I am reposting your response in entirety, as follows:

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Zoo mystery: How did apes and birds know quake was coming? - The Washington Post

Orangutans, gorillas, flamingos and red-ruffed lemurs acted strangely before humans detected the historic magnitude-5.8 earthquake. Now the question hovering over the zoo is: What did the animals know, and when did they know it?

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Motherhood More Depressing Than Ever

Dispatches from The Department of Obvious Things! American women who are full time stay-at-home mothers fare worse on mental health assessments than their counterparts who attempt to balance working with motherhood.

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Women Threatening To Ruin All College Fun

In an epic mansplanation worthy of nothing short of the Wall Street Journal's opinion pages, Peter Berkowitz explains that a terrible menace threatens to derail the educational experience of college men across the country- new protocols of sexual assault investigation that will s …

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Italian art experts accused of censoring phallic fresco - Telegraph

"Many parts of the work seem to have been arbitrarily repainted," said Gabriele Galeotti, a town councillor who has called for an investigation after seeing the finished work. "The authenticity of the fresco seems to have been compromised by a restoration effort that did no …

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Finally, The Cure For Female Masturbation

A group called Dirty Girl Ministries claims to treat women for porn addiction — but their definition of addiction appears to include what most people would deem completely normal. And they seem to be convincing women that nearly all forms of sexual thought are "dirty."

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Brownback Strips At-Risk Infants of Access to Health Care While Spending Millions on

sas dropped to 40th in the country in infant mortality, and to worst in the nation for African-American infant mortality, said Christie Appelhanz, vice president of public affairs of Kansas Action for Children in Topeka.

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