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This Woman Documented Her Breast Cancer Diagnosis, And 43 Million People Responded

June 9, 2015 minterest Social Media

In 2012, Holley Kitchen was diagnosed with breast cancer. After being treated with a double mastectomy, chemo, radiation and hormone therapy, she thought her cancer battle was over. But in November of 2013, she was told her breast cancer returned and had spread to her spine and bones. Kitchen now has stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, an aggressive form that

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How Twitter Is Helping Close The Gap Between San Francisco’s Rich And Poor

June 4, 2015 minterest Social Media

Twitter’s latest move empowering underserved San Franciscans definitely deserves a retweet. The tech giant opened NeighborNest — a $3 million learning center connecting impoverished locals to tech education — located just steps away from Twitter’s headquarters, on May 20, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Partnered with local nonprofit Compass Family Services, Twitter allows employee volunteers to teach tech skills to

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Politwoops’ Demise Means Less Transparency In Politics

June 4, 2015 minterest Social Media

Politwoops, the Sunlight Foundation project that curated deleted tweets from politicians, has been stopped in its tracks. In a post on its site Thursday, titled “Eulogy for Politwoops,” Sunlight Foundation President Christopher Gates explained that Twitter suddenly revoked the group’s access to its API, or application programming interface, which was used to tap into the database of tweets. The most

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#GirlsWithToys Campaign Proves Once And For All That Women Have A Place In STEM

May 18, 2015 minterest Social Media

Here’s yet another reminder that women totally kick ass in any field they want. Shrinivas Kulkarni, astronomy and planetary science professor at the California Institute of Technology, was featured in an interview with NPR on Saturday. While speaking on astronomers, the professor said, “many scientists … are what I call ‘boys with toys.’ I really like playing around with telescopes.

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Bill Simmons And The Patriots Nation Go To War With The World

May 12, 2015 minterest Social Media

The NFL finally announced Monday exactly how it plans to punish the New England Patriots for the “deflategate” controversy that was “more probable than not” to have occurred, and the Patriots nation is pissed off, riled up and banding together. The Patriots’ official Twitter account, for example, has apparently been switched to a Tom Brady jersey, a not-so-subtle signal of

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