December 2011
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40 dishes every Washingtonian must try →
The photos are fun to look at.
Dec 30th
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Think Progress: 11 Facts From 2011 →
think-progress: 1. The CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets per day.  2. Income inequality in America is worse than in Ancient Rome. 3. Twenty-three straight polls find Americans overwhelmingly want to raise taxes to pay down debt. 4. 68% of millionaires support raising taxes on millionaires.  5. Wall Street’s recession cost 1.5 million times more than securing Occupy Wall Street...
Dec 27th
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Number of homeless children highest in American... →
soupsoup: Josh Sternberg for Current - The number of homeless children in the United States is at its highest levels in the nation’s history, according to a study released last week from the National Center on Family Homelessness. 1 out of every 45 children is homeless. That’s a staggering number; a majority of them are under 7.
Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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WatchWatch
‘The Elements of Style’ rap video. Good stuff. 
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dutch Astronaut Brings Cheese To Space
discoverynews: Gouda to be exact. Dutch astronaut André Kuipers got official permission to take a whole bunch of gouda with him when he heads up to the International Space Station for six months. Kuipers gets to take nine containers of bonus food and every single one of those babies is going to be packed full of gouda.
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 14th
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centerforinvestigativereporting: As Egyptians move into the second phase of elections this week, Sandy Tolan explores the debate over food policy in the wake of what some are calling the “revolution of the hungry.” The Food for 9 Billion series is a collaboration with the Center for Investigative Reporting, Homelands Productions, PBS Newshour and American Public Media’s Marketplace.
Dec 13th
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A New Model of Empathy: The Rat →
In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes. The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the...
Dec 12th
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Listenspokeydoke: WMATA announcer on the metro...
Dec 12th
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Puzzling E-Books
mentalflossr: For example, the Nook version of the coloring book Hours of Coloring Fun. More: 11 Ironic and Puzzling E-Books
Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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