Terrible timing for me, eh? My look at the decline in public messaging around STI prevention hits the Web, and lookie here, a new CDC study shows condom use is up, particularly among those having intercourse for the first time. Well, a couple of things. First, the study released today is focused on preventing pregnancy, […]
Phoebe Connelly
Phoebe Connelly is a former web editor of the Prospect. Previously, she was managing editor of In These Times. She writes on political culture, human rights, and feminism.
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A Guided Tour of the Tweetchive.
Here’s a quick video tour of the Library of Congress IT department. The very place your tweets will be archived: Awesome quote from Thomas Youkel, an information technology specialist with the LOC, who does not have a Twitter account: “What — am I gonna send my wife a tweet that says I’m going to be […]
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Max Palevsky, 1924 – 2010.
Max Palevsky, who died Wednesday at 85 at his Beverly Hills home, was, among much else, one of the first major donors (if not the first — I leave it to Bob and Paul to sort this out) who provided the funds to get a fledgling magazine called The American Prospect up and running 20 […]
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White House Garden Not Organic? Doesn’t Matter.
Over at GOOD, Andrew Price notes an AP report that the White House isn’t calling its vegetable garden organic. “Does it matter,” Price asks “if it’s not organic?” The original AP report quotes Assistant White House Chef Sam Kass: “To come out and say (organic) is the one and only way, which is how this […]
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The Little Picture: Change Takes Courage.
Immigration March, May 1, 2010, Chicago. (Flickr/Carrie Sloan)
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Safe Words
In recent decades the government has stopped urging Americans to have safe sex. Now, we’re seeing the consequences.
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The Little Picture: Henrietta Lacks Saved You From Polio.
Today, in 1954, the first trials began of the polio vaccine. The vaccine was developed using cells unknowingly donated by Henrietta Lacks, a black woman from Baltimore. Her cells — known to researchers as HeLa cells — have been used for everything from understanding the long-term effects of radiation to conducting experiments in space.
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The Library of Congress Is Now Following You on Twitter
TAP talks with the library about why they’re archiving tweets, if you can opt out, and who gets to be the Twitter Librarian.
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Advocating for Women: Texas Equal Access Fund.
Courtney Martin writes that this International Women’s Day, we should look at gender inequality in our own communities. Each day this week on TAPPED we will run a profile of an organization doing exactly that. In 2005, Gretchen Dyer organized a Tea Party, along with some of her University of North Texas students and local […]
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Advocating for Women: Coastal Women for Change.
Courtney Martin writes that this International Women’s Day, we should look at gender inequality in our own communities. Each day this week on TAPPED we will run a profile of an organization doing exactly that. When Hurricane Katrina hit Sharon Hanshaw’s hometown of Biloxi, Mississippi, it destroyed her house and her beauty shop, a business […]
