THE BIGGEST OF DUMPS
Current Event #1 is due on Friday March 28th.
There hasn't been a Sunday Info Dump since the beginning of February because I've been really busy planning, grading, and trying to pretend that I have a social life outside of school. Here are all of the links that I've been saving for the last two months. I'm posting them from most recent to oldest. Most but not all of these articles are great options for your Current Event!
Gay marriage ban struck down
Michigan gay marriage ban struck down: See how Gov. Rick Snyder, other state leaders reacted
Court: Same-sex couples can't marry in Michigan as appeal continues
Tobacco money not going where intended
Wayne Circuit Judge McCree removed from bench
Why Can Google See Your Car But Satellites Can't Clearly See Debris?
More Reasons To Stop Watching Animal Planet
21 Maps Of Highly Segregated Cities In America
Astronomers Just Detected the Beginning of the Big Bang
Detroit Doesn't Need Hipsters To Survive, It Needs Black People
The Secret to Holding Your Breath for 20 Minutes
Steve Rogers Isn't Just Any Hero
8 pronunciation errors that made the English language what it is today
IAmA survivor of medical experiments performed on twin children at Aushcwitz who forgave the Nazis. AMA!
What happens when you opt your kids out of standardized tests
Mount Michmore: Which four great Michiganians belong on a monument?
17 Fantastic Completed Webcomics to Binge-Read from Beginning to End
Does anybody read books the right way any more?
Ask Chris #184: A Brief History of the Metal Men
Ask Chris #186: The Strange Rise of the X-Men
Ask Chris #188: Lex Luthor and Joker
Education researcher says we can't blame teachers for failing schools
11 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Human Space Exploration
Why are the only American meat options chicken, beef and pork?
US to allow banks to do business with licensed marijuana companies
Science Fiction Authors on Black History Month
What The Hell Just Happened In Kansas?
What Happens When You Study An RPG World Like It Was Real
Black History Month, and the history of America spying on Black civil rights leaders
Is A Crappy Under Armour Race Suit Slowing Down U.S. Speed Skating?
Federal Judge Strikes Down Virginia's Ban On Gay Marriage
Is the Black Community Homophobic?: A Discussion With Yoruba Richen
You Can Run But This Very Fast Baby Penguin Will Catch You
Five Olympic Carpetbaggers to Watch
Dallas Sports Anchor Delivers Perfect Speech to Michael Sam's Critics
Terrifying Video of a Guy Climbing a 2,500 Foot Cliff Without a Rope
Here's The Video Of A Sinkhole Swallowing Those Classic Corvettes
Redneck States Are Borrowing a Confederate Plan to Protect Their Guns
28 Days of Fame: The Strange, True Story of 'Flappy Bird'
Gabe Sonnier Was Elementary School's Janitor For 27 Years Now He's The Principal
Two Metro Detroit communities push back against state intervention
Eliminating scarcity won't stop us from being jerks
An Incomplete Guide to Geniuses Who Perfected the Art of Spite
My $295 Skype Exorcism
Lady Who Just Lit Olympic Fame Tweeted A Racist Picture Of The Obamas
Gay marriage ban struck down
- Source: Detroit News
Michigan gay marriage ban struck down: See how Gov. Rick Snyder, other state leaders reacted
- Source: MLive
Court: Same-sex couples can't marry in Michigan as appeal continues
- Source: CNN
Tobacco money not going where intended
- Source: Detroit News
Wayne Circuit Judge McCree removed from bench
- Source: Detroit News
Why Can Google See Your Car But Satellites Can't Clearly See Debris?
- Source: The Vane
More Reasons To Stop Watching Animal Planet
- Source: io9
21 Maps Of Highly Segregated Cities In America
- Source: Business Insider
Astronomers Just Detected the Beginning of the Big Bang
- Source: Gawker
Detroit Doesn't Need Hipsters To Survive, It Needs Black People
- Source: Huffington Post
The Secret to Holding Your Breath for 20 Minutes
- Source: io9
Steve Rogers Isn't Just Any Hero
- Source: Lawyers, Guns, and Money Blog
8 pronunciation errors that made the English language what it is today
- Source: The Guardian
IAmA survivor of medical experiments performed on twin children at Aushcwitz who forgave the Nazis. AMA!
- Source: Reddit
What happens when you opt your kids out of standardized tests
- Source: Boing Boing
Mount Michmore: Which four great Michiganians belong on a monument?
- Source: Detroit News
17 Fantastic Completed Webcomics to Binge-Read from Beginning to End
- Source: io9
Does anybody read books the right way any more?
- Source: io9
Ask Chris #184: A Brief History of the Metal Men
- Source: ComicsAlliance
Ask Chris #186: The Strange Rise of the X-Men
- Source: ComicsAlliance
Ask Chris #188: Lex Luthor and Joker
- Source: ComicsAlliance
Education researcher says we can't blame teachers for failing schools
- Source: Michigan Radio
11 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Human Space Exploration
- Source: io9
Why are the only American meat options chicken, beef and pork?
- Source: io9
US to allow banks to do business with licensed marijuana companies
- Source: Boing Boing
Science Fiction Authors on Black History Month
- Source: Kinja
What The Hell Just Happened In Kansas?
- Source: The Dish
What Happens When You Study An RPG World Like It Was Real
- Source: Kotaku
Black History Month, and the history of America spying on Black civil rights leaders
- Source: Boing Boing
Is A Crappy Under Armour Race Suit Slowing Down U.S. Speed Skating?
- Source: Deadspin
Federal Judge Strikes Down Virginia's Ban On Gay Marriage
- Source: Gawker
Is the Black Community Homophobic?: A Discussion With Yoruba Richen
- Source: Gawker
You Can Run But This Very Fast Baby Penguin Will Catch You
- Source: Gawker
Five Olympic Carpetbaggers to Watch
- Source: Gawker
Dallas Sports Anchor Delivers Perfect Speech to Michael Sam's Critics
- Source: Gawker
Terrifying Video of a Guy Climbing a 2,500 Foot Cliff Without a Rope
- Source: Gawker
Here's The Video Of A Sinkhole Swallowing Those Classic Corvettes
- Source: Jalopnik
Redneck States Are Borrowing a Confederate Plan to Protect Their Guns
- Source: Gawker
28 Days of Fame: The Strange, True Story of 'Flappy Bird'
- Source: Mashable
Gabe Sonnier Was Elementary School's Janitor For 27 Years Now He's The Principal
- Source: Huffington Post
Two Metro Detroit communities push back against state intervention
- Source: Detroit News
Eliminating scarcity won't stop us from being jerks
- Source: io9
An Incomplete Guide to Geniuses Who Perfected the Art of Spite
- Source: Kinja
My $295 Skype Exorcism
- Source: Daily Beast
Lady Who Just Lit Olympic Fame Tweeted A Racist Picture Of The Obamas
- Source: Deadspin