The Oscars are once again being scrutinized as the whitest in the film business. After all these years, there appears to be little improvement with diversity in the media.
Calls for boycott of Oscars grow over diversity of nominees http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Articl…
Are these the whitest Oscar nominations ever? http://nyti.ms/1Wns38r pic.twitter.com/pPdx2Ifhdh
Who speaks extremely noisily, walks hot and heavily and attacks those who disagree? Who claims that he is angry because America is not great, but was able to manipulate US laws that allows for multiple bankruptcies?
GOP Nomination Rules Tilt the Playing Field toward Donald Trump: http://prospect.org/article/gop-nomination-rules-tilt-playing-field-tow… via @theprospect
Donald Trump Ramps up Attacks on Ted Cruz, Says 'He's a Nasty Guy' - ABC News - http://abcn.ws/207WYYE via @ABC
There will not be much biking to work this week. A Brutally cold start to the work week turns into hard labor . Well below-normal temperatures are expected to remain in place across the northern Great Plains and Upper Midwest through the early part of the week, with temperatures remaining below zero Fahrenheit across much of the Dakotas and Minnesota on Sunday.
When women rule the world, it will probably be a kinder, gentler place to live in. Wake up, world, the greater gender is already the clear majority.
Not only in politics, but in math and science, and it now turns out male teachers have been outnumbered inside the classroom.
That glass ceiling everyone talks about is going to be dismantled and reassembled as a retractable skylight, presumably so our female bosses can have their herb garden with better northern exposure.
The bleeding has begun on Wall Street and there be a scarcity of bandages. S&P 500 sinking to its lowest since October 2014, while oil prices go below $30 per barrel and fears grow about economic troubles in Asia.
Get used to it: Big drops for stocks are back again http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/f70471f764144b2fab526d39972d37b3/Articl…
BBC News - Shares on both sides of the Atlantic sink in investor sell-off http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35321087
They are multilingual but Hispanics may not identify with being Latino, not the same way in reverse.
Latinos I know have no problem being identified as Hispanics, but that is not always the case in reverse. Latinos refers to geography and Hispanics to the language, try explaining that to a Hispanic and insist they are Latinos.
US now has more Spanish speakers than Spain and the second most in the world, according to a recent study.
US President Barack Hussein Obama II answered questions live on YouTube.
The interview, conducted by YouTube personalized Destin Sandlin, Ingrid Nilsen and Adande Thorne (aka sWooZie), including questions submitted on social media using the hashtag #YouTubeAsksObama.
https://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse
The YouTube Interview with President Obama https://youtu.be/Tjl8ka3F6QU via @YouTube
How will it look next year and what does Wikipedia mean to you? This is the question the massive online database is asking. This free digital collaborative encyclopedia has grown from 500,000 English-language articles in 2005 to more than 5 million in 2015.
Wikipedia is written in English. It started in 2001 and currently contains 5,056,252 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
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Up, not down: the rise of happiness. A new University of Alberta study finds it gets better as we age, refuting old claims that happiness slumps in mid-life.
Happy people live longer, they are healthier and are more likely to engage positively in their communities, and they also cost less to the health-care system and to society in general. Happy people may be cheap, but does happiness decline as young people move into early adulthood and midlife, and then increase again, as various proponents of the “U-curve of happiness” have argued?
Retirement Plan Access and Participation across the 50 States has been studied by Pew and indications are that workers in the United States accumulate the vast majority of their retirement savings through employer-based plans, but large gaps in coverage exist. Pew’s analysis shows that more than 30 million workers report they do not have access to an employer-based retirement plan.