From Voice of Renaissance: My passion is to be part of the generation of African youths who are working for the sustainable progress of the continent. I’m a 2009 graduate of University of Ghana. Currently, I’m based in Maryland, USA where I’m participating in an internship at Heathcote Center Inc. This blog is dedicated to [...]
I’ve been through an obsessive carrot cake phase lately which resulted in me trying a different version of the recipe nearly every four days, and yes I ate each entire carrot cake every four days, turns out carrot cake can be quite delicious/addictive as a breakfast food. Anyways, none of the recipes were perfect (perfect being a Brighton Bar & Grill or Paradise Bakery slice) and so I started combining different aspects of each recipe until reaching satisfaction/my jeans didn’t button up anymore. Don’t let the carrot in the title fool you, carrot cake is no healthier for you than a double chocolate cake, but my goodness this version is one hundred percent worth the extra calories and when it comes to desserts – go big or go home!
We know dark matter is there. We’ve known it for more than 70 years. There was a 1933 paper by the Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky showing that visible matter is only a small fraction of the universe. Just 18% of the matter in the universe is composed of the stuff we know. The remaining 82% is what we call dark matter. Other discoveries in astronomy have since reinforced this view that something is missing. We know dark matter is there, but only from its gravitational effects.
We selected 526,000 OkCupid users at random and divided them into groups by their (self-stated) race. We then took all these people’s profile essays (280 million words in total!) and isolated the words and phrases that made each racial group’s essays statistically distinct from the others.
“Why race matters in the debate for an immigration reform. A man of European heritages talks about racism and how it is creating division among people.”
“If you don’t believe in evolution, you have to spend a lot of time wondering about the useless shit the creator threw into our bodies. Why don’t our wisdom teeth fit in our heads? Why do we need an appendix? The answer is that evolution is a sloppy and haphazard process. Take a close look [...]
This article was taken from the July/August 2010 issue of Discover Magazine, written by Amber Angelle. For tens of thousands of people suffering from paralysis or neurodegenerative disease, a direct connection to a computer could soon restore speech and even mobility. Neurologist Leigh Hochberg of the VA Medical Center in Providence, Rhode Island, is leading [...]
We believe that, when possible, it is better to buy from companies that treat their workers with dignity (and hopefully with good salaries), and that it’s especially important to avoid products that are made in sweatshops… thus the name Baby Don’t Sweat It.
We have learned, though, that it’s really difficult to know the working conditions where things are made. In our own searching, we have spent many hours looking into this, and since we figure there are other people like us out there, we thought that we would make a website that compiled the best baby products that are made in places where we know the workers are not being exploited.
“A founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, standup comic Maz Jobrani riffs on the challenges and conflicts of being Iranian-American — “like, part of me thinks I should have a nuclear program; the other part thinks I can’t be trusted …”
