Happy Tuesday!
Looks like our neighbors on the East coast are bracing for another snowstorm over the next few days, stay safe and stay warm! We hope that everyone celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King’s Birthday! We honor his legacy and work and encourage folks to remember him in giving back to their communities.
Here’s a look at what some of our speakers were up to this past week.
The reimagined Cosmos series starring Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson will premier March 9th on FOX! Seth MacFarlane-the show’s executive producer and star Dr. Tyson talk about the show with USA Today, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, the Wrap, the LA Times, Zap2It, Channel Guide, TV Equals, Chron, Mother Nature Network, National Monitor, Engadget, and International Business Times. Whew!
Five years out from the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Ledbetter herself takes to the pages of the Washington Post to urge further action toward closing the gender pay gap.
In the pages of the New York Times, Dr. Stephanie Coontz responds to Maria Shriver’s star-studded offering, A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink, taking the reader through the gendered economy of the US, past and present. “Whether they realize it or not, men now have a direct stake in policies that advance gender equity.”
Mother Jones asks Kathleen Hanna to share what she listens to, 16 years after Bikini Kill. She tells the Guardian, “I don’t feel like an icon at all, more like a singing social worker, or a person with a bizarre back story..” At the Rumpus, she answers questions on topics from technology and recording processes available in her different musical projects to her abortion at age 15, paid for with her McDonald’s wages.
At the Huffington Post, law scholar Spencer Overton avers that a bipartisan Voting Rights Act is possible.
“I was born in a culture where music was breath,” kentucky.com quotes Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon as saying. “If you start to sing as soon as you start to talk, then there’s no separation between talking and singing.”
The Mathematical Association of America awards Steven Strogatz’ Joy of X its 2014 Euler Book Prize for showing “that these subjects have a beautiful side, a playful side, a mysterious side, and a practical side even in our present-day cyberculture.”
At io9, Annalee Newitz shares the results of a tech company’s experiment, proving that “booth babes” do not increase sales. She also covers the latest threat to net neutrality.
Tucson Weekly takes a retrospective on Ted Conover’s landmark 1987 book Coyotes, wherein the author joined migrants struggling to cross the US-Mexico border, marveling that the tome, with all its tales of desperation, “is now a quaint anecdote compared to the unimaginable horror today’s migrants face in an era of increased post-Sept. 11 anti-terror border vigilance and drug-running sociopaths.”
Anticipating his performance in Nanaimo, its newspaper writes of Raffi, “Whether it’s singing ‘Bananaphone’ or calling upon the Canadian government to consider ‘reasonable regulations on the Internet,’ Raffi’s endeavors are often aimed at making the world a better place for its youngest inhabitants.” Similarly, Kelowna’s newspaper interviews Raffi in anticipation of his appearance, asking what about children he finds inspirational. “Children are the embodiment of joy. They seek meaning in life and they do it in wonder-filled ways.”
Did you know there are nearly 5,000 extant varieties of potato? Peppered with fun facts about the tuber’s history, Charles C. Mann at the Smithsonian writes how this New World crop fed empire and gave rise to modern industrial agriculture.
That’s all for now – be sure to check back on Friday – our weekly Friday videos are back starting this week!!
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