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If you've been monitoring the first 100 days of the Obama administration, you know a little something about the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. The case of unequal pay for men and women in the workplace continues to plague society in the 21st century. http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/hsw-shows/stuff-mom-never-told-you-podcast.htm
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Aimee Mullins Prosthetic Aesthetics on Redefining Beauty | The 360Fashion Network Blog

She’s a passionate advocate for a new kind of thinking about prosthetics, and recently mentioned to an interviewer that she’s been looking closely at MIT’s in-development powered robotic ankle, “which I fully plan on having.”
Giving birth is a big event for any woman, but for tiny Stacey Herald it is momentous – and extremely risky. Doctors warned 2ft 4in Stacey off pregnancy. They said a baby would grow so large inside her body it would crush her organs, strangling her from the inside out.

Stacey Herald worlds smallest mum only 28-inch tall | Funster

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Sock Master's Video Game Controller Family Tree

http://www.axess.com/twilight/console/ How did the current home-console controllers come to be?
For a generation now, disruptive young Americans who rebel against authority figures have been increasingly diagnosed with mental illnesses and medicated with psychiatric (psychotropic) drugs. http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=24902

How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness - informationliberation

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64 Things Every Geek Should Know « Caintech.co.uk

If you consider yourself a geek, or aspire to the honor of geekhood, here’s an essential checklist of must-have geek skills.