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Yesterday, Breitbart.com hyped another “We’re totally not birther, BUT…” campaign demanding that the media wastes even more time digging around the birther issue.

Upcycling for generations to come | write2beheard

When I was over at SLU for my check up lately I decided to also walk down Grand to visit a local business I had spotted on the web call Upcycle Exchange. It’s a shop that participates in the Earth Day collections on the Forest Park Community College parking lot every year and it whetted my appetite for fun.

Humdrum (Lo-Fi Cherokee) | Lo-Fi St. Louis

This is something new for us. A new series of fourteen videos shot on Cherokee St. in a single day featuring bands from Tower Groove Records. We’ll be posting two of these a week (on Tuesdays and Thursdays) for the next seven weeks.

Diversity in Science Carnival #14 is up – Celebrating Womens History Month | The Urban Scientist

Double X Science has done an amazing job curating the 14th Diversity in Science carnival. A host of bloggers shared links of awe-inspiring stories of perseverance and achievement of Women Scientists and Engineers of the distant past and of today.

MO unions plan legislative fightback | Tony Pecinovsky, People's World

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - “Elections matter. They really do make a difference,” State Treasurer Clint Zweifel told about 300 union activists as the Missouri AFL-CIO convened its annual Labor Legislative Conference here on March 26.

Ladue Prop 1: Is the tax hike "excessive?" Let's see... | St. Louis Micropinions

The answer depends onwhat your definition of “excessive” is. Asvoters in the Ladue School District debate the merits of a proposed 49-centincrease in the operating tax levy, some opponents say it’stoo much and a waste of money.

On the outrageous cost of American healthcare | Dangerous Intersection

In France, an MRI costs $280, while in the U.S., an MRI costs $1080. At the Washington Post, Ezra Klein discusses this huge discrepancy…

A lesson from Ladue School District's Proposition 1 | STL Micropinions

The Ladue school district wants more money to keep up its schools, and it’s asking voters to approve a 49-cent tax increase.

Feministing Friday: Why Serial Monogamy is bad propaganda for women | Urban Scientist

In a previous post about EPC (Extra-pair copulations) stirred up some conversations about serial monogamy in real life. Serial monogamy is actually very common among people, especially in our modern society.

Pondering recent chats about access to birth control…. | Feministing

Yesterday I traveled to Jefferson City, Missouri to lobby some state legislators who recently voted on a resolution to deny women access to birth control without co-payments

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What’s Past Is (Not) Prologue: Racism & History’s Problem with Progress. | Miss Mary Max

Prior to college, history gained more ground with me through fiction than through schooling. And now, in my late twenties, I’ve finally begun to wonder why. I’ve begun to interrogate the way I learned history, to question why the subject that has become so dear to me felt so dry for so long.

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