protego-et-servio:

medievaldendrophile:

halfdesiqueen:

OH MY GOD

OH!!! MY GOD!!!!

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!

I need a source of this IMMEDIATELY

Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced the decision on Thursday in a memo that instructs officials to either decline to renew the contracts for private prison operators when they expire or “substantially reduce” the contracts’ scope. The goal, Yates wrote, is “reducing — and ultimately ending — our use of privately operated prisons.”

In a blog post to department employees, the deputy attorney general pointed out that the federal prison population has been dropping overall, to fewer than 195,000 inmates, because of a shift in how low-level, nonviolent drug criminals are treated.

Washington Post

In making the decision, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates cited new findings by the Justice Department’s inspector general, who concluded earlier this month that a pool of 14 privately contracted prisons reported more incidents of inmate contraband, higher rates of assaults and more uses of force than facilities run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

NPR

pepoluan:

thefeatherofhope:

Adorable!

All Hail the great and adorable African HeroRats!

iatrogenic:

voidbat:

female-only:

sizvideos:

Aipoly Vision App helps visually impaired see the world through their smartphone

this is amazing! i am low-vision and could use this when i am travelling

@iatrogenic!!

i was expecting this to be EXTREMELY expensive but actually it’s FREE? can’t wait for the android version, but it does work really well on my ipad (when i remember to turn the sound up). a thing that differentiates SMOOTH MEDICINE BOTTLE A from SMOOTH MEDICINE BOTTLE B, etc!!!

hipsterkittypostingteenybopper:

rapispoetryandpoetryisart:

zitao1:

sniffing:

oh my god

DONT MUTHA FUCKEN LIE!!!!!!! PLEASE LORDT!!!!

Well it’s not so much that he’s officially disqualified for his comments – it’s more that he couldn’t take the oath of office and remain consistent at this point. If he took the oath and then tried to push his anti-Muslim agenda he’d be up for impeachment for violating the First Amendment. At least that’s my understanding.

RIP Sir Nicholas Winton

sorry:

Not suprisingly I have seen nothing about this man on here because he’s not some American hero or a hate crime against minority races

but this man died today and he was a British person who organised the rescue of 669 children destined for Nazi concentration camps. He arranged for trains to carry Jewish children out of occupied Prague.

He worked to find British families willing to put up £50 to look after the boys and girls in their homes.

Sir Nicholas was knighted by the Queen in March 2003. His work has been likened to that of the “saviour” of Jewish prisoners Oskar Schindler

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis praised Sir Nicholas’ “exceptional courage, selflessness and modesty”.

“He lived to see thousands of descendants of those whose lives he saved who were proud to call themselves members of his family, and who were inspired by his example to undertake outstanding charitable, humanitarian and educational initiatives,“

today he passed away at the age of 106 in his sleep.

so RIP to a truly great hero

coelasquid:

cortair:

cactusrabbit:

thejunglenook:

fyeahscienceteachers:

Why an Iron Fish Can Make You Stronger

When Canadian science graduate Christopher Charles visited Cambodia six years ago he discovered that anaemia was a huge public health problem. In developing countries, such as Cambodia, the condition is particularly widespread with almost 50% of women and children suffering from the condition, which is mainly caused by iron deficiency.

Dr Charles had a novel idea. Inspired by previous research which showed that cooking in cast iron pots increased the iron content of food, he decided to put a lump of iron into the cooking pot, made from melted-down metal.

“Boil up water or soup with the iron fish for at least 10 minutes. That enhances the iron which leaches from it. You can then take it out. Now add a little lemon juice which is important for the absorption of the iron.”

If the iron fish is used every day in the correct way, Dr Charles says it should provide 75% of an adult’s daily recommended intake of iron – and even more of a child’s.

One woman and her daughter, who are part of a current trial in Preah Vihear Province, told the BBC they would use it during cooking.

“I’m happy, the blood test results show that I have the iron deficiency problem, so I hope will be cured and will be healthy soon. I think all the people in Sekeroung village will like the fish, because fish is our everyday food.”

-> Read more about Dr. Charles’ research

-> Learn about the effects of anemia

Give this man a Nobel Prize!

For teaching: public health, human anatomy and physiology

Buy a Lucky Iron Fish and one will be donated to the

Sihanouk Hospital Center of Hope in Cambodia

I am iron poor as hell and this makes me so happy

I need an iron fish.

that’s a cool idea!

nativepeopleproblems:

I know that since Ebola is no longer a risk in America and other Western countries, most people have stopped caring about it, but it’s nice to know that as of today, Liberia is officially Ebola-free.