pinboard August 22, 2011

• American Prospect: Decline and Rebirth | Solutions
  To our great shame, among the 20 major advanced countries America now has
  the highest poverty rate, both generally and for children;
  the greatest inequality of incomes;
  the lowest government spending as a percentage of GDP on social programs for the disadvantaged;
  the lowest number of paid holiday, annual, and maternity leaves;
  the lowest score on the United Nations’ index of “material well-being of children”;
  the worst score on the United Nations’ gender inequality index;
  the lowest social mobility;
  the highest public and private expenditure on health care as a portion of GDP,
  yet accompanied by the highest

  infant mortality rate;
  prevalence of mental health problems;
  obesity rate;
  portion of people going without health care due to cost;
  low-birth-weight children per capita (except for Japan);
  consumption of antidepressants per capita;

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• Living in SF Means… – The Bold Italic – San Francisco
• World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans – Alan Taylor – In Focus – The Atlantic
  Grimly important photos from the U.S. internment of Japanese during WWII –
• It’s Almost
  It’s Almost – brilliantly simple web app lets you create a countdown to anything
• Oldest well-preserved fossils found in Western Australia | COSMOS magazine
  The oldest well-preserved fossils on Earth have been discovered in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia.
• Ahna O’Reilly Slips Into Fall’s Retro Looks :: Articles :: Los Angeles Confidential Magazine
  My niece, actress Ahna O’Reilly from The Help, dresses up like Veronica Lake Amazing seeing someone you know like this
• The Interrupters reviewed: This documentary on Chicago gang violence is the most necessary film of the year. – By Dana Stevens – Slate Magazine
• ‘EBay for Science’ Could Enable Outsourcing of Experiments: Scientific American
  An ebay for science? Another part of the big trend that @sharethemesh has been evangelizing

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