'She may look clean, but...' 1940s anti-STD posters warn soldiers of the 'booby trap' of disease-ridden prostitutes. By Margot Peppers Published: 21:50 GMT, 10 June 2013 | Updated: 22:03 GMT, 10 June 2013 Sexual health posters from the 1940s reveal how warnings against STDs focused on prostitutes, pinning them as dangerous disease carriers and advising soldiers to resist temptation. Dozens of campaigns portrayed these women as wily temptresses, referring to them as 'good time girls', 'pick-ups', 'procurable women' and 'victory girls'. Others mimicked the style of war propaganda, calling on men to 'fight syphilis and gonorrhea' and using images of dutiful soldiers to encourage them to get tested. Double meaning: Sexual health posters in the 1940s warned soldiers against the dangers of prostitutes, who were seen as 'booby traps' - both for their appearance and the diseases they often carried Think twice: Dozens of campaigns portrayed prostitutes as dangerous temptresses, referring to them with other names like 'good time girls', 'pick-ups', 'procurable women' and 'victory girls'
Tmtmzz. The six ways Generation Y will transform the workplace. More than 12 million strong and representing more than one-third of Canada’s population, Generation Y is the largest demographic cohort to come after the baby boomers. Born between 1981 and 2000, members of Generation Y, also known as millennials, are already stirring things up in the workplace, according to their boomer bosses. After just a few years in the labour market, millennials have earned a reputation for being lazy, unprofessional, entitled “digital natives” who expect to start as interns on Monday and be chief executive officers by Friday. Those are the stereotypes, anyway. The reality? Gen Y is the most educated and most diverse generation in history, and the first to have more women than men obtain postsecondary education credentials. They have also been using computers, mobile phones, the Internet, social media tools and other technologies since childhood – the youngest of them essentially since birth.
More women in leadership roles When it comes to offices, less is more. Build a $300 Underground Greenhouse for Year-Round Gardening (Video) | Living. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World. Since the dawn of recorded history, we’ve been using visual depictions to map the Earth, order the heavens, make sense of time, dissect the human body, organize the natural world, perform music, and even concretize abstract concepts like consciousness and love. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World (public library) by investigative journalist and documentarian Scott Christianson chronicles the history of our evolving understanding of the world through humanity’s most groundbreaking sketches, illustrations, and drawings, ranging from cave paintings to The Rosetta Stone to Moses Harris’s color wheel to Tim Berners-Lee’s flowchart for a “mesh” information management system, the original blueprint for the world wide web. It appears that no great diagram is solely authored by its creator.
Most of those described here were the culmination of centuries of accumulated knowledge. Most arose from collaboration (and oftentimes in competition) with others. Christianson offers a definition: Four Famous New Year's Resolution Lists: Jonathan Swift, Susan Sontag, Marilyn Monroe, Woody Guthrie. By Maria Popova “Stay glad. Keep hoping machine running. Love everybody. Make up your mind.” ‘Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions, but instead of regurgitating the most common ones — like changing habit loops, exercising more, and being more productive — here is a look at some of history’s more unusual resolution lists from the diaries, letters, and personal effects of cultural icons: Writing in A Tale of a Tub in 1699, at the age of 32, Jonathan Swift — best-known as the author of Gulliver’s Travels — compiled a list of 17 aspirations for his far future, titled “When I come to be old.”
When I come to be old. 1699.Not to marry a young Woman. Via Lists of Note In 1972, 39-year-old Susan Sontag noted in her diary: Susan Sontag by Peter Hujar, gelatin silver print, 1975 Kindness, kindness, kindness.I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. Then, in early 1977, she resolved: Starting tomorrow — if not today: I will get up every morning no later than eight. Donating = Loving. How a Baltimore Hairdresser Became a World-Renowned “Hair Archaeologist” of Ancient Rome. In 2001, Janet Stephens, a Baltimore hairdresser, caught sight of a bust of Roman empress Julia Domna at the Walters Art Museum (the image above is of a bust in the Louvre). Captivated by the philosopher empress’s hairdo, she thought “holy cow, that is so cool… like a loaf of bread sitting on her head.”
Thus began Stephens’ quest to recreate the coiffures of ladies of antiquity. Stephens first set about trying the empress’s hairstyle on a mannequin, with no success. She undertook some research and found that scholars generally assumed that the elaborate, sculpted hairstyles of Roman ladies could only be wigs. This set off Stephens’ skeptic detector, and—armed with no more than her free time, some dogged research methods, and a few volunteer models—she ventured to disprove the scholarly consensus. In 2005, she had a breakthrough. The single-prong pins couldn’t have held the intricate styles in place. Her persistence paid off. Kabul's DIY Skateboard Workshop: Skateistan Launches Afghan-Native American Exchange | Creativity on GOOD. Skateistan began as a Kabul-based NGO, and now operates projects in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Pakistan, with a second facility opening in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, in 2013.
Skateistan focuses on reaching out to girls and working children, using skateboarding as a tool for developing leadership opportunities, and building friendship, trust, and social capital among its students. While skateboarding is the initial way to get students involved, Skateistan is then able to provide access to education and platforms for self-expression that help break the cycles of poverty and exclusion. We are excited to announce that the students here at Skateistan have just created the first skateboards ever made in Afghanistan. They were designed, created, and painted by young Afghan skateboarders. The ten skateboards were the result of our recent cultural exchange program known as Connecting Dots. Every Saturday, five girls and seven boys participated in the cultural exchange to share new ideas. Susan Sontag's radical vision for remixing education. Paul Bowles - An American in Tangier (1993) Paul Bowles (1910-1999) Back to Paul Bowles An American in Tangier (1993) Dir.
Mohamed Ulad-Mohand Runtime: 27 min. The American writer and composer, Paul Bowles, reflects on his life in Morocco, his adopted home for over fifty years. Paul Bowles ... Himself Mohammed Mrabet (as Mohammed M'Rabet) Original Music by Paul Bowles Cinematography by Joël Krellenstein Film Editing by Sabine Franel Olivier Le Vacon .... sound This UbuWeb resource is presented in partnership with Bidoun Magazine Bidoun Website UbuWeb Film | UbuWeb PennSound | CENTRO | EPC | WFMU.
Goettingen: The song that made history. The post-war reconciliation between France and Germany was enshrined in a treaty signed 50 years ago. But many believe a song recorded the following year did as much to thaw relations. Can there be many songs that really did change the world? There have certainly been records which have been immensely popular - and some of those have had a message.
But did they really change the hearts and minds of ordinary people? Did they alter politics? There is one which did, and it's barely known now. Fifty years ago, Germany and France were neighbours where the scars of war were still raw. Germany had invaded France and been repulsed, inch by bloody inch and town by town.
Into this minefield of potential resentment and painful rancour, stepped a slight, soft-voiced chanteuse. Barbara was her stage name - she had been born Monique Serf in Paris in 1930. She fell in love with the city and its people and recorded a paean of praise, first in French and then in German, the language of the former oppressor. Neil Macdonald: Death and delusion in a nation of assault rifles - Politics. Yet another "national discussion" about guns is under way here, and it's so anti-rational, so politically cowardly, so …unbearably stupid that you have to wonder how a nation that has enlightened the world in so many other ways could wallow in this kind of delusion.
Twenty children are dead, and journalists and politicians have assumed those breathy, semi-hushed tones that have become so much the norm in covering tragedies. Everywhere, there is talk about "the grieving process," with pious asides thrown in about the need to "go home and hug your children," or pray. As if that is going to accomplish anything. The American audience is a giant emotional sponge looking for distraction from its collective gun craziness, and the media obliges, broadcasting endless montages of victims, with sombre, hymnal piano music playing underneath.
To repeat: the 20-year-old shooter used a Bushmaster .223 assault rifle, a commercial model of the military M-16, and the reporter wanted to talk about crying. The Massey Experience. Welcome to The Massey Experience, an online exploration of the ideas, themes, theories and characters that form Neil Turok's 2012 Massey Lectures The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos. The Massey Experience is an immersive, evolving companion to Neil's Massey Lectures which aired on CBC Radio's IDEAS in November 2012. The story is a journey from quantum to cosmos: where we've come from, where we're going and what we've learned along the way.
Neil argues that we're on the cusp of yet another major transformation: a coming quantum revolution that will supplant our current digital age. It's the story of science and technology, but it is also the story of who we are: amazing creative humans. You can also explore the Massey Lectures by purchasing The Universe Within from House of Anansi Press.
About Neil Turok Neil Turok is one of the world's leading physicists, and a renowned educational innovator. Turok was awarded the James Clerk Maxwell medal of the U.K.