In honor of Children’s Book Week, here’s a photo of an awesome kid.
(Source: unapproachableblackchicks)
Thinking about the latest garment factory disaster in Bangladesh, and wondering… “Are My Hands Clean?” (by Sweet Honey in the Rock, Live at Carnegie Hall (by aremyhandsclean))
Rafia Zakaria: The Tragedies of Other Places
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, a columnist for Pakistan’s largest English newspaper reflects on why violent attacks leave a more lasting impression if they happen on American soil.
Grief is mixed with dread for Boston imams - The Boston Globe
Like so many others this week, local imams have been praying since Monday’s bombings. They’ve been praying for the victims. They’ve been praying that the fanatic who did this is caught quickly and brought to justice. And they’ve been praying for something more: Whoever it is, please don’t let him be a Muslim. What will happen to us if they arrest someone and that someone turns out to be a Muslim? Imam Talal Eid, a chaplain at Brandeis University, said Wednesday. He recalls the backlash that followed the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He remembers being afraid to send his children to school for a few days afterward, and the way some began to view all Muslims with suspicion, even hostility. A few fringe-dwellers even spoke of internment camps like those that held Japanese-Americans during the Second World War.
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(Reblogged from venkatananth)
She was no friend of football and much of its working-class heartlands. In turn, football was no friend of hers. There will be no minutes of silence for her this weekend.
- John Brewin with this piece in ESPN on Margaret Thatcher and football during her reign.
Also, check this video - Liverpool fans at Sunderland singing “When Maggie dies, we’re all ‘avin a party”. Something to do with Heysel and later, Hillsborough, I reckon, given that her brutal police regime and poor spectator conditions played a part in the disaster.
(via venkatananth)Squirrel Monkeys Ride Rodents Of Unusual Size!
So we ain’t the only species to have figured out how to tame other animals into giving us rides in exchange for grooming and kises.
(by uzoouk)
A bit o’ perspective on a Monday morning! Monty python - Universe song ( original ) (by ifem92)
Atlantic blue marlin larva (Makaira nigricans)
In one spawning, the female blue marlin may release up to 7 million eggs, each approximately 1mm in diameter.
The planktonic young may drift in the pelagic zone and may grow as much as to 1.6cm in a day.
© Cedric Guigand
