Cameron Russell: Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model. | Video on TED.com

Cameron Russell: Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model. | Video on TED.com: Cameron Russell admits she won “a genetic lottery”: she's tall, pretty and an underwear model. But don't judge her by her looks. In this fearless talk, she takes a wry look at the industry that had her looking highly seductive at barely 16-years-old. (Filmed at TEDxMidAtlantic.)

To Whom Apologies Are Really Due | The Nation

To Whom Apologies Are Really Due | The Nation: "I had a visceral reaction to the news that Virginia Thomas had called Anita Hill and asked her for an apology. In 1991 I was a college freshman, and the televised Hill-Thomas hearings were my adult initiation into the public vilification of black women. I watched as white male senators and conservative commentators exploited the common myth of black women as promiscuous to cast Hill as oversexed and delusional. I remember when Thomas draped himself in the history of America's racial violence by angrily referring to his confirmation process as a 'high-tech lynching."

The Reality of Political Momentum - Herbert Spencer - Mises Daily

The Reality of Political Momentum - Herbert Spencer - Mises Daily: "It is said that when railways were first opened in Spain, peasants standing on the tracks were not unfrequently run over; and that the blame fell on the engine drivers for not stopping — rural experiences having yielded no conception of the momentum of a large mass moving at a high velocity."