Being miserably bad at something is an undervalued skill in life. Statistically, it is just as difficult to be elite at being deficient as it is to simply be elite, and at times it can be equally valuable — as in the case of Rose Beauford. Ms. Beauford was unremarkable in every sense, with one…
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13 Old-Timey Words We Should Bring Back And Two We Shouldn’t
Like any other aspect of culture, our language evolves over time. With the advent of mass media and the internet, language, especially slang, has changed at an even faster pace. Obviously, there are words that have racist or sexist origins which are best left to the dustbin of history, but there are a lot of funny and…
“South of the Slot” by Jack London
Old San Francisco, which is the San Francisco of only the other day, the day before the earthquake, was divided midway by the Slot. The Slot was an iron crack that ran along the center of Market Street, and from the Slot arose the burr of the ceaseless, endless cable that was hitched at will…
Migrants and refugees in the Americas: a solidarity crisis
Click:wholesale pool chlorine tablets Source: IOM Migration trends. According to updated information based on oficial available sources (such as population statistics, migration records and estimates), the map shows the approximate Venezuelannmigrant stock in selected countries. The world is currently dealing with the largest number of internationally displaced persons in history. According to the United Nations…
16 things people don't realize you're doing because you're emotionally ‘numb.’
What is “emotional numbness”? Mighty contributor Elizabeth Duff shared how she defines it in her piece, “When Depression Makes Me Numb, Not Sad” One symptom I wish more people understood is feeling numb. A sense of hollowness — like a dull, numb lump — often defines me when I’m really down. It’s a shitty, zombie…
Charlie’s Bar
Whisky. Scotch or Irish? Irish. I need to kill a man. The bartender raised a bottle of Jameson’s; the bar separating him from the man. His patron sat on the stool, head bowed to his cupped hands as his black duster dripped rainwater on the floor. The Customer looked at the glass, said nothing, as…
How US evangelical organizations deploy ‘human rights’ and ‘development’
The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. Charles Habib Malik, a key evangelising figure in the intellectual debate that defined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).When President Truman introduced Point Four ‘development’ in his 1949 Inaugural Speech, he spawned an American globalist mission…
This Poop Project Helps Scientists Study The Body’s Bacteria Biome
THE GOOD NEWS: By studying poop samples, scientists find clues on health and disease. Have you ever wondered what’s going on in your poop? Perhaps not. But this is precisely what we think about every day at the American Gut Project, the world’s largest microbiome citizen science effort, located at UC San Diego School of…
Kelsey Darragh Shares ‘15 Realistic Things You Can Do To Help Me Through A Panic Attack’
Kelsey Darragh is an actress, comedienne, and development partner at BuzzFeed Motion Pictures. One of Darragh’s segments on BuzzFeed is “Married vs. Single,” in which she talks candidly about relationships and women’s sexual liberation. She’s also been open about having bipolar disorder, extreme panic attacks, and chronic pain. Darragh’s boyfriend wanted to better understand her anxiety disorder,…
Tuskers
Beginning of the end, is what I thought. One bum step put me out for a week. Mostly I was confined to the decking in front of my tent on the edge of camp, leg up, ice pack on my ankle. My three Batswana guys came out for their instructions when they felt like it….