Abortion

• Why the Pro-Life movement needs some philosophy.

Advice

• Kareem Abdul-Jabar’s advice for boys becoming men.

Anti-natalism

• Another site dedicated to the childfree lifestyle.

Education

• U.S. Catholic schools are no better than public schools.

Environment

• What would the world look like if all of the ice melted?

Feminism

• The whole Sinead O’Connor and Miley Cyrus conversation is actually different forms of feminism where O’Connor and Cyrus are talking past one another.
• Has feminism become capitalism’s handmaiden?
• An interesting project of talking about women’s experience about the shame culture of being sexual.
• Objectifying gazes come from both men and women.

Gender

• Modesty shaming: “It’s time to admit that if you’re obsessing about what the young women are wearing this season, then the problem may be you.”
• Graphic detail of gender inequality around the world.
• Arguments against circumcision usually revolve around health.  What if there’s an argument that circumcision is bad because it removes males’ well-being.

Language

• Microsoft Kinect technologies to translate sign language into other languages:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnkQyUo3134

Philosophy

• The phenomenology of solitary confinement.  Interesting how Husserl and Merleau-Ponty could give some insight to this horrible condition.
• Questions for free-market moralists.

Race

• An interesting reddit thread asking why & how ex-neo-Nazis, skinheads, and racists changed their minds regarding racism.
• Racism linked between gun ownership and opposition to gun control in white Americans.

Relationships

• California children can now have more than two legal parents.  Moving beyond the two-parent model.
• John Corvino dismantles the Definitional Objection to same-sex marriage.  By bringing up a case of a paralyzed person and his wife, the new natural law theorists bite the bullet and admit that this couple wasn’t really married.  Wow!  However, I disagree with Corvino’s rough and qualified definition of marriage.
• Nearly one in ten teens admits to coercing or forced sexual contact.  Yikes!
• Gay couples choosing to say, “I don’t.”

Religion

• We are not justified to believe in miracles.

Science

• The Invisible Bike Helmet.

Sexuality

• The American Academy of Pediatrics encourages condom use for sexually active teens should be encouraged and access to them should be easier, such as schools and other community venues.
• Telling young women not to drink because they might get raped focuses on the wrong group of people.