Marginalia: Archive

“A report by the University of Auckland, to be released tomorrow, says that in...”

– New Zealand AIDS Foundation - Our Organisation

Mar 31st

““hey whatever” i said. “why arent you with that girl i all...”

– Forbiden Fruit: the tempation of Edward Cullen Chapter 1 Atlantiana, a Twilight fanfic - FanFiction.Net

Mar 28th

Hausarbeit als Problem in Partnerschaften →

Wer putzt? Wer kocht? Wenn Partner, die in einer gemeinsamen Wohnung leben, danach gefragt werden, fällt ihre Antwort eindeutig aus, wie die Ergebnisse der Allbus-2000 Studie - einer repräsentativen sozialwissenschaftlichen Befragung - zeigen: überwiegend die Frau. Studien zur Verteilung der Hausarbeit in Partnerschaften zeigen immer wieder das gleiche Ergebnismuster: Frauen verbringen sehr...

Mar 22nd

Village on the Edge of Time For a thousand years... →

“I had been lured to Dimen by the music. The Dong people have no written form of their language, Kam. Songs are the record of traditions and a mythic history that is a thousand years old, or so the songs themselves suggest. I had heard that you could ask anyone in a Dong village for a song, and he or she would sing without hesitation. I would hear many: a welcome song about keeping out...

Mar 12th

Mar 10th

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Le Livre de la Cité des Dames – Wikipedia →

Mar 7th

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BookMooch: exchange books and trade them, like a... →

Mar 7th

Mar 6th

Spider

Mar 6th

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Bodies, Book Covers, and Novels about Large Women →

“In the March 5, 2010 issue of Entertainment Weekly, Kate Ward has a feature about the women displayed on the covers of a number of novels featuring female protagonists who are clearly depicted as anything from “curvy” to “plus-size” to obese. Ward draws attention to the fact that despite how the female characters are portrayed in these novels, the cover models are often quite thin....

Mar 6th

Portal 2 Announced →

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season. Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007’s Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards.

Mar 6th

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Ausgaben für Nachhilfe – teurer und unfairer... →

In Deutschland erhalten knapp 1,1 Millionen Kinder und Jugendliche regelmäßig bezahlten Nachhilfeunterricht. Bereits in der vierten Klasse bekommen im Durchschnitt der Bundesländer 14,8 Prozent der Grundschülerinnen und -schüler Nachhilfeuntericht im Fach Deutsch. […] Im Alter von 15 Jahren nehmen der PISA Studie aus dem Jahr 2003 zu Folge im Bundesländerdurchschnitt 19,1 Prozent der...

Mar 6th

“Many clinicians believe that depression goes hand in hand with cognitive...”

– Depression and lack of concentration do not necessarily go together

Mar 5th