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RIP, Granny D.
BBC:
Doris Haddock, who walked across the US at the age of 89 to press for changes in election campaign funding, has died at her home in New Hampshire.
Granny D, as she was widely known, trekked 3,200 miles (5,150km) in 1999 and 2000 to draw attention to the high cost of running for office in the US.
A candidate had “to sell his soul” or be a multi-millionaire, she told the BBC during her journey.
In 2004, she ran for the US Senate for the Democrats, losing 66% to 34%.
John, Paul, George and Jimmy -
I started a new blog all about Jimmy Nicol and his 12 days as drummer of the world’s most popular band. Check it out.
Backstage at The Starwood after a Devo concert in 1978. Who wants to take concert photographs when you can make images like these backstage?
“This year also marks thirty years since the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, or CEDAW, by the United Nations General Assembly. Seven countries that have not ratified the international treaty are the United States, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Nauru, Palau and Tonga.” — Amy Goodman, Democracy Now
I enjoyed these recent-ish episodes of This American Life. The first was produced by a supercool woman I went to college with — Alix Spiegel.
81 Words. The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.
Somewhere Out There. Act II. Tom Girls. Lilly and Thomasina have a lot in common. They’re both 8 years old. And they were both born boys, although it became clear pretty early on that they’d prefer to be girls.
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“The Feb. 27 magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile may have shortened the length of each Earth day. JPL research scientist Richard Gross computed how Earth’s rotation should have changed as a result of the Feb. 27 quake. Using a complex model, he and fellow scientists came up with a preliminary calculation that the quake should have shortened the length of an Earth day by about 1.26 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second).” — NASA