Jessica Valenti, feminist blogger and writer, spoke to a crowd of excited U of M students last night. Her talking points ranged from her books, her blog to her personal beliefs, but her overall message urged us to be activist feminists. Valenti specifically championed the power of Internet activism, which I didn’t really realize the [...]

CORRECTION: This post incorrectly states that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Bill of Rights. That is incorrect. James Madison did. The editors regret this error. For some reason education is on my mind a lot recently (as you can see here).  This time around I read an interesting The New York Times magazine article about the [...]

The Daily Yonder put up these sweet maps detailing dietary habits – fast food spending, meat consumption, soda intake, etc – across the country. On his blog, Ezra Klein did a cursory comparison of these maps with a map that displays obesity rates. He points out: The most interesting, perhaps, is the map showing fruit [...]

Sarah Firisen over at 3 Quarks Daily wrote a fantastic post on the kinds of things we need to do to improve education in America. She thinks that we need to do away with the emphasis on standardization and rote memorization and work with children’s intrinsic motivation: It is possible to tap into someone’s internal, [...]

I keep scratching my head about why the capture of the Taliban’s top military commander isn’t getting more media attention. As of right now it’s not the lead story on The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Huffington Post, or The Washington Post, and The New York Times (which broke the story). The capture story is up [...]

I’m all about the reports and surveys today I guess. Balk at The Awl refers us to an interesting study by the Sexually Transmitted Infections journal (yes such a journal actually exists) which found that men are more likely to take a condom off during sex if it “doesn’t fit right.” According to Balk, researchers [...]