Femmostroppo Reader July 13, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
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QFT: Cleaning up is a costly business
Over the last few years, the idea of treating the atmosphere with the same level of care as we (now) treat our neighborhoods and our waterways has become an ideological football.
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Australia’s Honour killings – In the end, they’re just as dead
James Ramage was released from prison last Friday, after only eight years following his conviction for strangling and bashing his wife, Julie, to death in their house and burying her in a shallow grave. The details of the case reveal a textbook case of a controlling, abusive spouse who killed his wife rather than let [...]
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Femmostroppo Reader July 9, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
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Otterday! And Open Thread.
Today’s sea otter comes via toniluca on flickr.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
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And good riddance
UK Sunday tabloid News of the World is shutting down after the latest phone-hacking revelations.
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Just say no to uninformed opinions and fat phobia.
Don’t let lack of qualifications in the field get in the way of some good old fashioned fat phobia!
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Bye bye Dawkins: a voice from the past
How very disappointing, but sadly not surprising, that he turned out be such a smug, patronising git about more than just religious beliefs.
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