Links
In this issue: Blogathon wrap-up
Web site recommendations: IT/politics/cartoons
The final update on the Blogathon is that I raised $1,200 from 40 people. Thank you! The Blogathon as a whole raised over $100,000 for various charities, which is quite neat. The archives of my Blogathon transcript are available here: http://www.esztersblog.com/blogathon03.
You can find lots of information about reproductive rights and reproductive health on it in addition to some fun little puzzles and pictures from the event in my corner of blogworld.
The long-lasting effects of my blogging for Planned Parenthood is that I’ve realized how much important information is out there about reproductive health & rights and how interested I am in the topic. So you’ll be seeing related links on E-LIST in the future.
Do keep sending me material, thanks to those who have!
This is a great conference: TPRC - Sept 19-21 - hope to see you there!
http://www.tprc.org
Six Degrees of Separation or Unification? - a piece I wrote got posted on Kuro5hin.org, a peer-reviewed community site
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/7/31/13198/8282
(I also copy the text below)
Educators Turn to Games for Help
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,59855,00.html
Schools Stay Mum On File Traders’ Names
http://rss.com.com/2100-1027_3-5052884.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news
Teens and Young Adults Now Spend More Time Online Than Watching Television
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030724/245198_1.html
The best of Blogathon ‘03
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000387.html
Job opening: Director-Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/directorsearch/search.html
On the depressing state of affairs, some NYTimes op/eds: Dying in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/31/opinion/31HERB.html
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Muting the Call to Service - re AmeriCorps
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/02/opinion/02EGGE.html?hp
Contraceptive Sparks Debate on Role of Menstrual Period (this isn’t as new as it sounds as similar effects could be achieved by the more traditional pill.. but it’s interesting to see the debate around the new pill)
http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.menstruation03aug03.story
Young Survival Coalition (young women with breast cancer)
http://www.youngsurvival.org
US Anti-War Activists Hit by Secret Airport Ban
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=430073
Repentant Nader Voter
http://www.repentantnadervoter.com/
Pictures of Damaged Libraries in Iraq
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/LibraryPix/LibraryPix.htm#5thLibrary
Beauty in the Classroom: Professors’ Pulchritude and Putative Pedagogical Productivity
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W9853
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summary here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20030726/od_uk_nm/oukoe_economy_beauty
Desire and DNA: Is Promiscuity Innate? New Study Sharpens Debate on Men, Sex and Gender Roles - the article is good b/c it takes a critical look at the study on which it reports
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10691-2003Jul31.html
Vatican Starts Campaign Against Gay Marriage
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Vatican-Gay-Marriage.html?hp
Tweaking Tradition - gay & lesbian Jews tweak traditions for their needs
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=8270
The Bush Administration’s New Press Secretary - a cartoon
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0330/sutton.php
Cartoon: What if the president of the United States always had to be a member of the Bush family?
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2003/08/04/tomo/index1.html
Good political cartoon
http://www.greenberg-art.com/.Toons/.Toons%20recent/ChecklistReport.html
Today’s quote:
“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven’t time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
— Georgia O’Keefe