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May 19, 1925: Malcolm X is born.
In 1960, LIFE magazine assigned Arnold, who died in January 2012 at the age of 99, to document the days and nights of Malcolm X, the controversial and intensely charismatic public face of the Nation of Islam. For nearly a year, she followed the thug-turned-devout Muslim and activist from Washington to New York to Chicago. (Eve Arnold—Magnum)
See Eve Arnold’s photographs of Malcolm X here.
Happy Birthday, Brother Malcolm.
npr:
Emperor Scorpion Has 25 Babies at the Cincinnati Zoo! - ZooBorns
Amazing image, but cringe-inducing…
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The Paradox of College: The Rising Cost of Going (and Not Going!) to School
Have you heard about the dangerous, rising cost of not going to college? In the last 30 years, the typical college tuition has tripled. But over the exact same period, the earnings gap between college-educated adults and high school graduates has also tripled. In 1979, the wage difference was 75%. In 2003, it was 230%. Over the last three decades, the cost of going to college has increased at nearly the exact same rate as the cost not going to college. How can the price of getting something and not getting something both rise at the same time? That is the paradox of college costs.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]
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The Paradox of College: The Rising Cost of Going (and Not Going!) to School
Have you heard about the dangerous, rising cost of not going to college? In the last 30 years, the typical college tuition has tripled. But over the exact same period, the earnings gap between college-educated adults and high school graduates has also tripled. In 1979, the wage difference was 75%. In 2003, it was 230%.
Over the last three decades, the cost of going to college has increased at nearly the exact same rate as the cost not going to college. How can the price of getting something and not getting something both rise at the same time?
That is the paradox of college costs.Read more. [Image: Reuters]
College attendance has become a paradox…
What Mark Zuckerberg Could’ve Bought With $1 Billion
- The entire New York Times, says Reuters’ Jack Shafer
- The ability to buy out New York Times CEO Janet Robinson 42 times
- 800 of
AOL’sMicrosoft’s patents- Roughly 1,250 GSA West Coast Conferences
- Shell’s Debt on Iranian Oil
- The cure for Lou Gehrig’s disease
- Solo Cups (the company)
- The amount BP has pledged toward Gulf Restoration
- A better 911 program in New York City
- Soccer team Real Madrid’s Island in the UAE
- The winnings of every Powerball jackpot in 2007
- 45% of a B-2 Bomber
- 68 Lebron Jameses , 40 Kobe Bryants, and 83 Albert Pujolses
- All of J.Lo’s love (it’s gratis!)
Because once a joke is made, you can only follow it through to its natural conclusion.
If you’re just getting caught up on today, this will suffice.
When two trending topics collide, the outcome can be hilarious.
npr:
Neal Conan (@NealConan), host of Talk of the Nation; Michele Norris (@Michele_Norris), host of All Things Considered and founder of The Race Card Project; and, Keith Woods, NPR’s vice president for diversity. The three explored how to talk about race with a panel of guests during Tuesday’s broadcast of Talk of the Nation.
Photo credit: Padmananda Rama / NPR
Glad to hear @Michele_Norris back on NPR.
After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
From the NY Times:
After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print.
Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered sets of reference books that were once sold door to door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed as proud fixtures in American homes will be discontinued, the company is expected to announce on Wednesday.
In a nod to the realities of the digital age — and, in particular, the competition from the hugely popular Wikipedia — Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus primarily on its online encyclopedias and educational curriculum for schools, company executives said.
The last edition of the encyclopedia will be the 2010 edition, a 32-volume set that weighs in at 129 pounds and includes new entries on global warming and the Human Genome Project.
“It’s a rite of passage in this new era,” Jorge Cauz, the president of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., a Chicago-based company, said in an interview. “Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now. The Web site is continuously updated, it’s much more expansive and it has multimedia.”
Why did it take so long?
(via theatlantic)
In Focus: Japan Earthquake, One Year Later
This Sunday, March 11, will mark the one-year anniversary of the horrific earthquake that struck northeastern Japan, spawning an incredibly destructive tsunami that crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In the year that has passed, much has changed. Mountains of rubble have been cleared, but not fully disposed of yet. Nuclear power has fallen out of favor, and confidence in the government has been shaken. Japan mourns the confirmed deaths of more than 15,850 people, and still lists 3,287 as missing 12 months later. Questions remain about rebuilding villages, cleaning up the nuclear exclusion zone, and deciding the future of nuclear power in Japan. Collected here are recent images of those affected by the disaster, coping and moving on one year later.
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