This is just great: The Living Library project will enable people to come face-to-face with their prejudices in the hopes of altering their preconceived notions, Ulla Brohed of the Malmö Library in southern Sweden told AFP. “You sometimes hear people’s prejudices and you realize that they are just uninformed,” she said. This weekend, nine people, [...]
A school district in Virginia organized an event at a race track to offload 1000 4-year-old iBooks, for $50 each. Excerpts from the CNN article: “This is total, total chaos,” said Latoya Jones, 19, who lost one of her flip-flops in the ordeal and later limped around on the sizzling blacktop with one foot bare. [...]
Ever see the movie Gattaca? One of my favorites. In the movie, the main character cannot realize his dream to become an astronaut, becuase his genes are sub-par. An op-ed in the Seattle Times discusses the issue, and brings to light a case where a company has already begun researching a genetic correlation with job-related [...]
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