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A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the mid-1950s, describes the many deaths from botched abortions that he saw. ‘The deaths stopped overnight in 1973.’ He never saw another in the 18 years before he retired. ‘That,’ he says, ‘ought to tell people something about keeping abortion legal.’
Eat your greens or your gut gets it: It turns out, scientists are only just starting to figure out just how good vegetables are for you—and no, pizza doesn’t count.
Chart of the Day: Contrary to everything you might have heard, the press is really not that into Barack Obama.
A new artificial coral reef made of more than 400 eerie-looking human figures. Fish and coral have already colonized the sculptures, providing new habitat for wildlife and a new attraction for tourists. Sadly, first thing this reminded me of was Pirates of the Caribbean. More on the project here.
(via abcworldnews)
Hijab in the U.S.A.
A dispatch from the culture war by MJ’s Kristina RizgaThe last time she was called a terrorist, Eman* was drinking coffee in a to-go cup and waiting for the train at the Powell Street BART Station in San Francisco. It was rush hour, and dozens of morning commuters stood near the Mission High School senior from Yemen.
She froze in fear when an older commuter in a suit and tie started yelling at her for wearing hijab and drinking coffee. “Why do you drink this? This is not your culture,” she recalls him saying first. “Eat your own food if you want to wear the scarf!” The anti-Islam insults worsened, continuing until the train came, she says. Not one adult near her said anything to the man in the suit.
“Maybe they didn’t hear it?” I ask Eman, who today is wearing a light blue headscarf with silver stitching around the edges. “They heard it,” she assures me. “The man was yelling, and most people were looking at me. One person was even smiling.”
(Source: Flickr / khashi, via pantslessprogressive)
