I miss that feeling
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Drake vs. T. Boone Pickens
T. Boone Pickens is a rich-as-fuck Texas hedge funder. Drake, as you know, is a rich-as-fuck emo rapper. Last night they made sweet Twitter comedy together. Sometimes the Internet really does seem like something special, doesn’t it?
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"Kids play T-ball, then baseball; they play games and have practice every week and, if they’re serious about it, pre-season and post-season too. We never think, “Let’s have kids play baseball for eight weeks in seventh grade,” and then expect that in five years they can join the majors or even be on a college team. But for some reason we do this with civics. We say, “We’re going to have you do a penny harvest in fifth grade and a service learning project in tenth grade, and then we’ll teach you abstractly about government for a semester in twelfth grade.” Then our students enter the major leagues of citizenship, and we give them the vote and expect them to keep our country going. And that’s just crazy!"
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Meira Levinson talking about her new book No Citizen Left Behind. (via bostonreview)
Wow. Just, wow. Quote of the week.
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Retreat Avenue of Oaks, one of the many picturesque bridle trails at Sea Island, Georgia. These oaks, planted in 1750, form America’s first arboretum and were once the approach to the main house of the Thomas Butler King plantation.
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The Bitonga Divers is an NGO championed by Mozambique’s first dive professional, the inspiring Carlos Macuacua, based in Tofo, a town in Inhambane province.
In 2006, when Bitonga Divers was formed, there were no Moçambican divemasters or instructors. Since that time, in partnership with Ocean Revolution and foreign owned dive centers, Bitonga Divers now has trained eight Mozambican Instructors and 11 divemasters.
The Bitonga Divers also invest in outreach to communities, showing megafauna and underwater scenes to people living near the coast, many of whom have never been underwater or seen these animals alive. Through this kind of outreach, people begin to make positive links between protecting sea life, tourism and economic development.
(via npr)
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