Only in Scandinavia…
By Emily Rutherford - Jan 29th, 2009 at 2:53 pmIceland is set to have the world’s first openly gay head of government. MP Johanna Sigurdardottir will step forward to fill the void of power…
Iceland is set to have the world’s first openly gay head of government. MP Johanna Sigurdardottir will step forward to fill the void of power…
According to The New York Times, reports of my generation’s sex-having have been greatly exaggerated:
Today, fewer than half of all high school students have…
The New York Times reported yesterday that during the period covering last summer and fall university endowments took their largest loss in value since the…
There’s been a minor kerfuffle over a little “cheating” at the inauguration:
The somber, elegiac tones before President Obama’s oath of office at the inauguration…
I only wish I could have taken part in this survey: the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA has published the latest installment in its…
Sunday afternoon, the inauguration celebration began with a concert at the Lincoln Memorial, featuring James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, will.i.am, loads of other famous musicians…
Season premiere of Battlestar Galactica. Enough said. (Yeah, I’m a nerd).
- Daniel Strauss
Battlestar? Pish posh. Lost season 5 premieres in one week!
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Feministing has a post up about the weighty social issues the MTV show The Real World is tackling this season. The current season of the…
The Washington Post notes that Obama’s staff–excluding Cabinet secretaries, but including czars and other such mysterious officials–is the most diverse (and possibly the best-educated) in…
Russ just wrote about the good news that Bishop Gene Robinson, an openly gay Episcopalian, will be delivering the invocation at an inauguration-related event at…
Because if Joe the Plumber says it, it must be true:
I’ll be honest with you. I don’t think journalists should be anywhere allowed war.…
Via Telmah Parsa at The Daily Beast, the latest out of Iran is evidence of the impossibility of sustaining a culture in which sexual relations…
The Los Angeles Times says that California Attorney General Jerry Brown is getting flak for his new theory in favor of the invalidation of Proposition…
The New York Times has a story about the Army’s latest effort to recruit young people: namely, the “Army Experience Center,” a video game arcade/recruiting…
Despite growing up in an academic family, I’m still learning about the finer points of academia. For example, did you know that sex at academic…