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A reminder of when women were holistically judged on things like making coffee, and men were ok with being jerks about it.

A new study from the Pew Center of Research found that agnostics, atheists, Jews and Mormons were on average more knowledgeable on religion than Christian groups. Go God(s)!

According to a new report by a Chinese environmental group, Apple products leave a toxic trail.

Given the freak earthquake and hurricane warnings in New York last week, let's all take a moment to consider how the world might actually end. Guernica points out several scenarios, per Hollywood's freewheeling imagination.

Another sad case of when conversion to Islam is perceived as race betrayal.

For the first time in history, there are more Puerto Ricans living in the U.S. than in Puerto Rico. Diaspora and its discontents persist away from Boricua.

Via BXChen. Fox Sports makes a racist Asian video.

Yikes. Maya Angelou had some fightin' words for the quote that was selected for the newly unveiled MLK memorial. She called the selection a poor choice that made the civil rights hero look like an "egotist".

An interview with David Graeber, an economic anthropologist, shakes up money mythologies. According to him, credit and debt preceded the barter system, and money shifts back and forth from functioning as a commodity/object and credit/social relation.