June 2012
May 2012
“A dive bar is a social platform. Tumblr is for publicly sharing awful photographs of railroad tracks and snowy branches no one wants to see, not even your mother.”
—A graduation message from an analog dad to a digital son.
Little justice for acid attack victims in Pakistan →
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One little girl whose face was seared away wishes to die or turn back time. Her attackers are fined a few thousand dollars and left to walk free.
This story is heartbreaking.
Study traces origins of monogamous coupling →
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From an evolutionary standpoint, the key players in the mating game were males with poor fighting skills and females faithful to them.
Opinion: College grads, 30 isn't the new 20 →
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Our 20s are life’s developmental sweet spot. They matter. A lot.
Many hospitals, doctors offer cash discount for medical bills →
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There’s a good conversation happening in this thread. Just wanted to note that the hospitals and procedures mentioned in this story are local to Southern California.
— S.
The lowest price is usually available only if patients don’t use their health insurance. In one case, blood tests that cost an insured patient $415 would have been $95 in cash.
Many hospitals, doctors offer cash discount for medical bills →
latimes.com
The lowest price is usually available only if patients don’t use their health insurance. In one case, blood tests that cost an insured patient $415 would have been $95 in cash.
JIA-CHI: Expo Line _ Opening Day →
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Bruce Jia-Chi Chan’s little inside-LA travelogues are pretty great.
This one is about opening day on the Expo Line.
Agreed.
You should really post the front page article from your paper today (May 25, 2012), it's a really powerful story that could spark interesting debate in this forum.
Absolutely. That’s coming up next.
[Updated May 25, 2012 at 11:40 a.m.: And here it is on Tumblr.]
Editorial: Behind the barbed wire of California's prisons →
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Since 1996, the media have not been allowed to interview inmates — and conditions have deteriorated. AB 1270 would allow the media back in.
Study shows isolation may lead to corrupt state capitals →
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What makes some state capitals so much more corrupt than others? New research provides a partial answer to that long-standing question: isolated capitals breed more corruption and lack of news coverage is a major reason why.
Coffee linked to lower risk of death →
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Subjects who averaged four or five cups per day fared best, though it’s not clear why.
Awesome. Go get a refill.
lower risk of death? but done we all eventually…die
?
Hah! That is true. Sorry, we shortened the description a little bit. The lower risk concerned rates of death only during the time of the study.
Coffee linked to lower risk of death →
latimes.com
Subjects who averaged four or five cups per day fared best, though it’s not clear why.
Awesome. Go get a refill.
