'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.
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. Whether boomers like it or not, Gen Y will continue to transform the workplace to better suit their needs. Build a $300 Underground Greenhouse for Year-Round Gardening (Video) 100 Diagrams That Changed the World. 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. 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. Kabul's DIY Skateboard Workshop: Skateistan Launches Afghan-Native American Exchange. 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.
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.
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? 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.
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.