brooklynmutt:

A teachers hugs a child at Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south OKC Oklahoma City, OK, Monday, May 20, 2013. Near SW 149th and Hudson. By Paul Hellstern, The Oklahoman - newsok

thoughts and prayers for Oklahoma. 

tastefullyoffensive:

[completelyseriouscomics]

this is my most favorite.

(via upworthy)

think-progress:

The real reason Yahoo bought Tumblr: It’s about young women.

oh good, we can all stop freaking out now.

right?

The Cartography of Bullshit

It turns out that the entire exercise is a methodological disaster, with problems in the survey question premise and operationalization, its use by the Swedish economists and by Fisher, and, as an inevitable result, in Fisher’s additional interpretations. The two caveats that Fisher offered in his post – first, that survey respondents might be lying about their racial views, and second, that the survey data are from different years, depending on the country – only scratch the surface of what is basically a crime against social science perpetrated in broad daylight. 

I hope a lot of you didn’t take this ‘tolerance map’ too seriously when it showed up on your Facebook newsfeed. 

According to a study released by the Switzerland-based International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health in July 2010, “the increases in cancer, leukaemia and infant mortality and perturbations of the normal human population birth sex ratio in Fallujah are significantly greater than those reported for the survivors of the A-Bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.”

Karlos Zurutuza on ‘The Iraqi Hiroshima’

Here is his interview with Vice, and here is another link to this horrifying story. Al Jazeera reports here.

Pretty sure this is not what democracy looks like. I hope George Bush takes a break from painting puppies and takes a look at this.

crisisgroup:

Deadly car bomb strikes civilian area in eastern Libyan city of Bengahzi | The Associated Press via The Washington Post

By Esam Mohamed and Aya Batrawy

A deadly car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in a busy area packed with civilians in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, destroying part of the facility, officials said.

Officials gave conflicting casualty figures, with death tolls ranging from three to 10 in the chaotic aftermath of the attack.

Benghazi, which was the birthplace of the revolution that led to the ouster of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, has suffered a series of assassinations and other attacks, including the Sept. 11 assaults on the U.S. diplomatic mission that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

The oil-rich North African nation is still largely dominated by militias, many including fighters who battled Gadhafi’s forces during the 2011 civil war, and many attacks are blamed on them as infighting is rampant in the battle for control.

But witnesses and analysts said Monday’s explosion stood out because it struck during the day in a crowded area, putting civilians at risk.

FULL ARTICLE (The Associated Press via The Washington Post)

Photo: Flickr/BBC World Service

Calvin: If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.

Hobbes: How so?

Calvin: Well, when you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

(Source: the-curious-stranger, via brooklynmutt)