Part 2 of Colbert discussing children’s books with the author of Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak.
Stephen Colbert discusses children’s books with Maurice Sendak, author of Where The Wild Things Are.
Danielle Tumminio: A Female Episcopal Priest Visits a Mormon Temple (PHOTOS)
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31.8 Million: Mexicans in the United States
The U.S. Census Bureau released its annual Cinco de Mayo fact sheet on Mexicans recently. Using updated numbers from the 2010 American Community Survey, it offers a little more insight on our community than previously known.
31.8 million U.S. residents are of Mexican heritage, with a median age of 25.5. That’s 9.4% of the total U.S. population and about three-quarters (63 percent) of the 50.5 million classified as “Hispanic” in the United States (The term Hispanic is an attempt by the U.S. government to associate a predominately Indigenous people with its colonizers. It’s inaccurate and offensive.).
61% of us reside in California (11.4 million) and Texas (8.0 million).
Of the 50 U.S. states, Mexicans are the largest “Hispanic” group in 40 of them. “More than half these states were in the South and West regions of the country, two in the Northeast region, and in all 12 states in the Midwest region,” reports the U.S. Census Bureau.
Read the Fact Sheet Here
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Interesting stuff…
Todos Somos Arizona
Artist: Joel Garcia
Alto Arizona’s Creative Resistance campaign gave artists a platform to raise awareness and take collective action in opposition to SB 1070.
Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on SB 1070’s constitutionality, two years after being signed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer.
The resistance continues!
Artist Eero Saarinen’s endearing list of his wife’s good qualities, circa 1954.
Foundational LOVE. AWESOME!
“The origins of most mathematical symbols are either lost in the mists of antiquity, or are so recent that there is no doubt where they came from. The equals sign is unusual because it dates back more than 450 years, yet we not only know who invented it, we even know why. The inventor was Robert Recorde, in 1557, in The Whetstone of Witte. He used two parallel lines (he used an obsolete word gemowe, meaning ‘twin’) to avoid tedious repetition of the words ‘is equal to’. He chose that symbol because ‘no two things can be more equal’. Recorde chose well. His symbol has remained in use for 450 years.”
How the equals sign originated, and the story of 17 equations that changed the world. (via explore-blog)
Hmm…I never knew.
(via explore-blog)
