Category Archives: Social

The Better Life Index rates the 36 OECD countries in 11 areas that aim to cover every aspect of life, including income, education, health, work-life balance and life satisfaction

The residents of Switzerland are the most satisfied with their lives, according to the latest Better Life Index report, released this week by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Switzerland has moved up to the top spot, bumping … Continue reading

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May is Military Appreciation Month

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The U.S. Chinese Embassy Refuses Entrance to Congressmen Chris Smith today

Congressmen Chris Smith, Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers and the Director of It’s a Girl, Evan Grae Davis, attempted to deliver 200,000 of your petition signatures demanding an end to gendercide to the Chinese Embassy in Washington, … Continue reading

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INFO-GRAPHIC: When America’s Health is Compared to its Peer Countries…

Image source: http://www.bestmasterofscienceinnursing.com America’s Health Disadvantage   The United States spent $2.6 trillion on health care in 2010 – more than any other country in the world. Yet based on research from a collaborative effort within the National Academy of … Continue reading

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VIDEO REPORT: Speaker Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim

There is a corruption at the heart of American politics, caused by the dependence of Congressional candidates on funding from the tiniest percentage of citizens. That’s the argument at the core of this blistering talk by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig. … Continue reading

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2012 in Review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 22,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this … Continue reading

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NEW EXTENDED TRAILER: Zero Dark Thirty from the writer/director of “The Hurt Locker” Release Date: 12-19-12

This movie is not even out and yet the AFI (American Film Institute) and others are already nominating it as Picture of the Year. Zero Dark Thirty lands in theaters on December 19th, 2012, and it stars Jessica Chastain, Joel … Continue reading

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DoD allows Troops to March in Gay Pride Parade in Uniform (1st time in history)

SAN DIEGO – Some of the loudest cheers last Saturday at San Diego’s gay pride parade were for active-duty troops marching in military dress, the first time that U.S. servicemembers participated in such an event while in full uniform. Dozens … Continue reading

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NEW CASE STUDY: You are 23 times more likely to get into a car accident if you text while driving

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New Facebook ‘want’ button – reports | News | Research

US— Facebook is rumored to be testing a new ‘Want’ button plugin on the lines of its Like button. According to several technology blogs, developers have discovered that a Want button has been added to the Facebook Javascript SDK as an XFBML … Continue reading

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