Sunday, May 03, 2015

Left Side of the Aisle #202




Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of April 30 - May 6, 2015

This week:

Good News: Pope Francis calls for equal pay
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/04/29/pope_francis_compensation_disparity_a_pure_scandal/1140428

Same-sex marriage at the Supreme Court
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/04/28/supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-same-sex-marriage-case-obergefell-v-hodges-today/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/us/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/04/28/marriage_equality_arguments_first_reaction_ginsburg_strikes_kennedy_wavers.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/04/23/National-Politics/Polling/release_395.xml
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/poll-gay-marriage-support-at-record-high/2015/04/22/f6548332-e92a-11e4-aae1-d642717d8afa_story.html

Footnote: April 28 in the history of the Constitution
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/04/23/how_john_bingham_s_edits_to_the_14th_amendment_paved_the_way_for_gay_marriage.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bingham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

New evidence tells the same old story: guns don't stop violence, they cause it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_v._City_of_Chicago
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2015/04/05/nra-nashville-things-to-know/25291131/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/07/1376216/-Gun-Control-at-NRA-Convention
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/true-cost-of-gun-violence-in-america

Outrage of the Week: more media failures on global warming
https://twitter.com/FossilFreeYale/status/586158848446181376/photo/1
https://twitter.com/DivestTulane/status/587986598265929729/photo/1
https://twitter.com/divestumass/status/585826051651198976/photo/1
https://twitter.com/DivestUMW/status/585843916550856705/photo/1
https://instagram.com/p/1FEnBrjSLZ/
https://twitter.com/ClimateActionME/status/583246819074936832/photo/1
https://twitter.com/SwarthMJ/status/581525588017614848/photo/1
https://twitter.com/hashtag/HarvardHeatWeek?src=hash
http://fair.org/home/as-drought-grips-california-networks-come-up-dry-on-climate-science/
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/temperatures-california-drought-030215.html

The Hubble Space Telescope at 25
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/23/the-hubble-space-telescope-its-a-terrific-comeback-story
http://www.biography.com/people/edwin-hubble-9345936#acclaimed-career
http://www.npr.org/2015/04/23/401781449/hubble-telescope-celebrates-25-years-in-space
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/hubble-at-25-science-that-transformed-our-cosmos-150423.htm
http://www.livescience.com/46593-how-earth-formed-photo-timeline.html
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/waves/u10l3d.cfm

Related series on gun violence in America referred to in the item on guns
#1 - http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2013/01/left-side-of-aisle-91-part-6.html
#2 - http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2013/01/left-side-of-aisle-92-part-6.html
#3 - http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2013/01/left-side-of-aisle-93-part-6.html
#4 - http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2013/02/left-side-of-aisle-94-part-6.html
#5 - http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2013/02/left-side-of-aisle-95-part-6.html
#6 - http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2013/02/left-side-of-aisle-96-part-6.html
#7 - http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2013/03/left-side-of-aisle-97-part-5.html
#8 - http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2013/03/left-side-of-aisle-98-part-5.html

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