“There is no nice way of saying it,” Mrs. Engelman said. “Our community protects molesters. Other than that, we are wonderful.”
Good reporting from the NYTimes on the concealment of child abuse in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in New York, and the difficulties faced by community members who try to do something about it.
Now that everyone is talking today about some of the things in Mitt Romney’s past (for which he has now apologized), let’s take a moment to remember that until 1978, when Romney was well into adulthood at the age of 31, Mormonism was officially a racist faith that did not let black people become priests.
More on this history of black people and Mormonism on Wikipedia.
Coming to Citi Field (home of the NY Mets) next month, the “International Conference in the U.S. Against the Scourge of Technology.”
I wonder what #hashtag they’ll use!
(via Scott Heiferman)
A couple laws currently in the Egyptian parliament would legalize marrying girls at 14, and, ahem, permit a man to have sex with his wife within 6 hours after her death.
via ThinkProgress
Fascinating research on the hidden borders that exist in America.
How has our perception of someone’s emotions, based on their facial expressions, changed over time?
The Darwin Correspondence Project has recreated Darwin’s experiments with the expression of emotion online, based on the same old Victorian-era photos that he used on his subjects.
(via Wired, which I would love to link but they don’t seem to put a lot of their print content online. In 2012!)
Cosmologists from Tufts University show how modern ideas of the universe support the idea that our universe did have a beginning.
Jim Gaffigan’s new self-published comedy special, Mr. Universe, is now available for $5. Go buy it.
I’m going to pick up this guy’s book on the strength of this piece alone.