Why I Am Optimistic About the Future of Race Relations in America
Slate
Even amid the racial turmoil of 2014, we are making progress.
What's Really Weird About Placebos
Dr. Ben Goldacre doing standup at Nerdstock. In this bit, Goldacre explains that not only do placebos have real effects, they even have real side effects.
Movie: The Imitation Game
The story of Alan Turing, British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the effort to crack the German Enigma Code, helping the Allies win WWII. After the war Turing was prosecuted by the UK government for homosexual acts.
Top 10 Surprising People Who Advocated Socialism
Ten world-famous contributors to the betterment of humankind who advocated socialism: Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, George Orwell, Pablo Picasso. Who are the other six?
Neil deGrasse Tyson on 'Interstellar'
How realistic is the space epic flick Interstellar? Neil deGrasse Tyson talks to (cognitive dissonance alert!) Fox News about the realism (and the "stretchers") of "Interstellar."
Michael Franti - Same As It Ever Was
Michael Franti says, "When we all see justice, then we'll all see peace. Start today."
Friday Nite Videos -- January 2, 2015
Portside
Michael Franti - Same As It Ever Was. Neil deGrasse Tyson on 'Interstellar.' Top 10 Surprising People Who Advocated Socialism. Movie: The Imitation Game. What's Really Weird About Placebos.
The 9 Most Important Victories for Workers in 2014
In These Times
Fast-food and retail workers demonstrating in record numbers, cities across the country raising their minimum wage under public pressure, student athletes gaining recognition as employees of their universities, the labor movement has seen some important—and, at times, unexpected—victories this past year.
Tidbits - January 1, 2015 - New Year's edition
Portside
Reader Comments- Selma - the movie; Labor, Racism, PBA's Patrick Lynch, Police Police Unions; Sports, Athletes, Equality and Anti-Racism; the 1914 Christmas Truce; It's a Wonderful Life, Comrade; Prosecute those responsible for Torture; Okinawa rejects "Pivot to Asia"; Fighting Anti-Semitism and Jim Crow;
Announcements- Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies - Impacts of Economic Injustice on Vulnerable LGBTQ Communities; Symposium: Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction
Innovations or Hucksterism? Three Little-Known Infrastructure Privatization Problems
Truthout
How will pay for high-quality transportation infrastructure, including roads, trains, bicycles, planes and other multimodal forms of transportation. Here are three under-reported infrastructure privatization issues we need to pay attention to. First, who actually benefits from and pays for infrastructure? Second, how are opinion makers talking about privatized infrastructure? Third, what is the quality of the process used to build large infrastructure projects?
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