Yeah this is pretty much in the wheelhouse.
The effects of unchecked criminalization: Teen charged with felony for science experiment
This is what the school-to-prison pipeline looks like. This is how black youth criminalized.
- She was doing a science experiment
- She’s being charged as an ADULT
- She’s being charged with a FELONY
If this all goes the way the prosecution wants, this young woman will be LEGALLY discriminated against for the rest of her life. No voting, housing discrimination, employment discrimination (as if getting a job while black isn’t hard enough), etc. etc.
There is a petition up … spread the word.
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-bartow-police-and-bartow-high-school-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot
Hey, remember this from yesterday? Go ahead and hit up the petition.
Unreal that we’re doing this to the next generation of scientists. Sign it, folks!
Should this be a felony? Probably not. But trying to make a “Works Bomb” may not be the act of a budding scientist, folks.
Because we could all use a therapy dog this week.
Photo Fad of the Day: Hadoukening Inspires Vadering
This is America’s answer to Hadokening, the latest Dragon Ball-inspired Twitter meme from Japan. Hat tip goes to Kotaku! See more at Know Your Meme
‘merica!
Mike Brodie says that he never really wanted to be an artist. But he’s travelled over fifty thousand miles by train, lived with an underground rock band in Philadelphia and with vegans in Portland, and photographed it all. His images—of trains with the earth flying by, of a tender sleeping embrace—are touching and terrifying, exciting and raw. This work will be released as Brodie’s first book, “A Period of Juvenile Prosperity,” by Twin Palms Publishers and TBW Books, on March 1st. He will also have two concurrent exhibits in March, one at Yossi Milo Gallery, in New York, and one at M + B, in Los Angeles, and book signings on March 8th, at Dashwood Books in New York, and March 17th, at Family Books in Los Angeles.
Click-through for a slideshow, and a Q. & A. with Brodie: http://nyr.kr/VwK7lC
A rodent-eating snake and a hamster have developed an unusual bond at a zoo in Tokyo, Japan. Their relationship began when zookeepers presented the hamster to the snake as a meal.
However, the rat snake (named Aochan) refused to eat the rodent. The two now share a cage, and the hamster sometimes falls asleep sitting on top of his natural foe. Zookeepers have since named the hamster ‘Gohan’ – the Japanese word for meal.…oh my actual God what?
(See, in my head this has in fact kind of happened.)
This ends poorly.
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“If you do not go see the new Arnold Schwarzenegger movie now, you are failing your country, your family, and your own personal god.”
LEGO Craftmanship of the Day: Erickson S-64 Air-Crane Helicopter
Check out this scale model of an Erickson S-64 Air-Crane Helicopter made out of 100,000 bricks by Ryan McNaught, a.k.a “The BrickMan” and one of 13 LEGO certified Professional builders in the world. His work will be on display at the Australian LEGO con Brickvention this weekend. Head to McNaught’s Flickr for more photos. Hat tip goes to Laughing Squid.
If I had known I could be a LEGO Professional builder…seriously. That’s a thing?
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“No, seriously…we need a road. Like here.”
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Because…Ducati. Seriously, what are your questions?
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