[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Circumcisions kill 20 boys in SA [BBC News] Twenty South African boys die after botched circumcisions and 60 are taken to hospital, officials say. BP suffers third rating downgrade [BBC News] Rating agency Moody's downgrades BP's [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] On the Prop 8 Closing Arguments [Calitics] I've been trying to keep abreast of the Prop 8 closing arguments, hitting refresh on several different websites. Through all of this, I have tried to at least, on [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Amour – Typographic Print Campaign [Typography Served] L•Train [Photography Served] A photography project exploring the landscapes of New York City's L subway line. Currently a fine art gallery show. Physics in free fall [Science News] Dropping [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] With Evidence of Criminality Mounting, Will Any BP Officers Face Indictment? [Firedoglake] The drumbeat has already started: We can’t afford to indict BP because it would cause a lot of harm to employees and shareholders. The [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] For sight-reading music, practice doesn't make perfect [Science News] A basic type of recall may limit the benefits of experience [This makes me feel a little better about all those years of piano lessons, at the [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Haven't We Heard This Before? [Talking Points Memo] Jon Stewart chronicles the promises from the last eight Presidents to wean us off our dependence on foreign sources of energy. Watch. "Doctor Hoo" gives you all 11 [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Doubts over safety tests on Gulf oil dispersants [New Scientist] We reveal serious flaws in toxicity tests on dispersants being used to break up spilt oil from Deepwater Horizon "God Particle" May Be Five Distinct Particles, [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Why We Must Tell America the Truth About the Prop 8 Trial [Calitics] [SIGNAL BOOST - CALL TO ACTION. -L] During two weeks of riveting testimony back in January, an unlikely duo of plaintiff's attorneys – [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Kepler craft reports apparent planetary bonanza [Science News] Space telescope finds evidence of planets around hundreds of stars Could u [I Can Has Cheezburger] A vortex of fire erupts at the oil spill in the Gulf [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Congressman Suggests Ritual Suicide to BP Executive [Firedoglake] At yesterday’s House Energy and Commerce committee hearings with the executives of BP, Exxon, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron, Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA) suggested Lamar McKay should commit ritual [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] History of the United States in a circle 1050084_inv[FlowingData] Presidential Costs by Rachel Mercer offers a look at the history of the United States: "The outer circle illustrates presidential periods, the governing party, and whether or [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] BP Engaged in Massive Coverup of Oil Damage, Human Health Crisis [Firedoglake] Dr. Riki Ott, a marine toxicologist, former commercial fisherman, and Exxon Valdez survivor, appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night to discuss what [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Now I Won’t Be The Only One Using A Fork [There I Fixed It] With Need to Limit Liability, BP Hires Goldman Sachs [Firedoglake] [I have. no. words. -L] H1N1 virus lacks Spanish flu’s killer protein [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Has Obama Finally Rejected Austerity – and Will California Reject It Too? [Calitics] It has become the most important political story of the year – the battle between the New Hoovers who demand austerity, and the [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Memorize Volume Conversions with a Helpful Graphic [Lifehacker] If you're anything like me, you're doing a sad number of Google searches for things like "one gallon into pints"—while the garlic is quickly browning. This simple visualization [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Friendly fungi could revolutionize rice farming [Mad Science] By engineering a strain of symbiotic fungus, researchers have massively increased the growth rate of rice, and may help stave off the specter of global shortages of phosphates, [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Japanese probe Hayabusa returns from space with a fistful of asteroid dust [Space Porn] Today the space probe Hayabusa returned to Earth after seven years in space studying an asteroid. Already it has sent back hundreds [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] A Dose Of Reality: My Exclusive Interview With Biggest Loser Finalist, Kai Hibbard (Part 1 of 3) » …Kai and I spoke on the phone about her experiences on the Biggest Loser. From seeing her fellow [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] Bizarrely inappropriate "save the Earth" ad about the oil spill [Badvertising] In the department of "getting down with the kids," National Geographic released this PSA aimed at children, showing aliens laughing at a giant oil spill [...]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.] The End of…Something [Shakesville] Hanna Rosin's piece in The Atlantic is titled "The End of Men," but a more accurate title might be "The End of Male Privilege." Well, it would be a more accurate title [...]