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The Misconception: Venting your anger is an effective way to reduce stress and prevent lashing out at friends and family. The Truth: Venting increases aggressive behavior over time.
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Feminist writer Sady Doyle (of Tiger Beatdown fame) has been writing some very nice pieces about women and pop culture over at the Atlantic. Check them out.
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Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators.
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If you're searching for artistic prompts, these suggestions for improving the Bravo program "Work of Art" would probably be great inspiration.
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Threats for drawing the Mohammed, threats for not drawing cooler pictures of Mohammed (I like her drawings) threats for a Facebook page that it turns out she didn't make. Man, everyone start the pile-on.
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"Cultivating the culture of food and urban agriculture in Indianapolis." – The folks from our CSA (Big City Farms) are involved in this great not-for-profit promoting local, organic food sources
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Long-gone murals in New York, excavated from old photos and posted on Flickr.
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Hitchens on Pullman's deconstruction of the Christ mythos: "This is almost literally to split the difference, and to raise the possibility that Christianity can be salvaged from itself, or at any rate from its later accretions, by a sort of “back to basics” revisionism. The difficulty that Pullman never quite confronts is that this involves what is vulgarly known as fundamentalism: an unmediated contact with the original message. Atheist though he is, Pullman turns out to be a Protestant atheist."