[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Argonauts use shells as flotation devices (Science News)
- Octopus relatives gulp and store air from the surface
- Science & the Public: A new source of dioxins: Clean hands
- The contaminants that form are novel and their risks unknown
[...I give up. -L]
- Science & the Public: Interphone’s data on cell phones and cancer: The spin begins (Science News)
- Reports offer heavy clues to findings, although data remain formally embargoed a while longer
[The words "cancer" and "spin" when used together make me very, very nervous. -L]
- Record number of photons lassoed into a quantum limbo (Science News)
- Physicists entangle five particles that exist in two states
[I don't actually know what this means, but it is awesome, because SCIENCE! -L]
- Red Thong In Divorce Court (Stupid Nail Polish Names)
- Here's a real winner from the Poor Life Choices collection…
- Campfire (xkcd)
- But when she traced the killer's IP address…
- The people's business for the benefit of the business people (Hullabaloo)
- Ryam Grim has the best recap I've seen so far of the events on the Senate floor last night during the financial reform debate. While we were all riveted to the election, the Republicans showed their true colors. When they aren't filibustering unemployment insurance they are blocking efforts to help average consumers in their dealings with banks…
- AC360: Kids’ test answers on race brings mother to tears; we’ve got a long way to go
- I wish I had some positive news to report to the people who still believe we are now living in post-racial society, but alas, our culture is still infecting children of all colors to believe that white=right.
”Black or White: Kids on Race” is a segment airing on Anderson Cooper 360 this week, with Soledad O’Brien reporting. It’s painful to watch young innocents display such racial bias…
- Theatre Women Create Awards in Honor of Lillian Hellman (Women & Hollywood)
- This year a bunch of very high profile theatre writers and others decided that they were tired of women’s work being constantly unacknowledged, so they created The Lilly Awards which will honor 17 women theater artists, as well as Mary Rodgers who will receive a Lifetime Achievement Awards, whose work has been produced in the past year in New York City.
They call themselves the The Committee for Recognizing Women in Theater
- A Prime Candidate For C Street (Talking Points Memo)
- Conservative women's group leader: "If Mark Souder is capable of sexual misconduct, it could happen to anyone. The frat house environment on Capitol Hill does nothing to encourage accountability."
[This is totally understandable, y'know? Souder's misfortune reminds me of that time I fell down and landed with my hand in the pension fund. -L]
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