February 2012
98 posts
Why Astronauts Crave Tobasco Sauce →
discoverynews:
Part of the reason may be that after arriving in space, astronauts lose their sense of smell, which largely governs the pleasurable taste of food. An example of this is coffee. “If you hold your nose and sip your coffee, you’re getting just a bitter liquid,” says Jean Hunter, a food engineer at Cornell University.
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This Is Awesome: Scifi author spoils his entire... →
This is both heart-rending and wonderful. Nachu Bhatnagar is a huge fan of author Harry Turtledove’s The War That Came Early alternate history novel series.
Black people serve 60% longer sentences than... →
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leftcollection:
“A new study by M. Marit Rehavi of the University of British Columbia and Sonja B. Starr of the University of Michigan Law School shows that Black Americans receive almost 60% long prison sentences than white Americans who committed the same crime.
The study covered 58,000 federal criminal cases and found that there was a significant difference between the...
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact...”
“Women’s status in the society is much worse. When Saddam was around, we had many...”
– Yanar Mohammed, interviewed by In These Times. Yanar is a feminist activist in Iraq, where she heads up the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq and has been responsible for organizing weekly protests by women in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
