[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Memo to Fauxheads: Before you get worked up over imam's remarks, check the Iraq body count. We do have blood on our hands.
- [Crooks and Liars - David Neiwert - with statistics]
- James C. Christensen
- [lines and colors - Charley Parker]
James Christensen’s paintings range from straightforward portraits to fantasy tinged depictions of angels and Renaissance ladies to phantasmic tableaux of fantasy subjects…
Christensen seems to swim in a rich sea of influences, from medieval, Renaissance and baroque art to Golden Age illustrators…
[Click through to see pics. -L]
- The cut-free autopsy
- [O'Reilly Radar - Julie Steele]
[Note: This is a book promotion. -L]
The field of data visualization is much broader than most people conceive of it, and exploring this breadth was one of our primary goals in compiling the projects described in "Beautiful Visualization." In the following excerpt, Anders Persson of Linköping University in Sweden explains how radiological digital imaging methods allow medical practitioners to conduct "virtual autopsies" without the use of a scalpel or any other invasive instrument.
- A record backlog in immigration courts
- [ImmigrationProf Blog]
With the Obama "enforcement now, enforcement forever" approach to immigration firmly in place, there are more arrests and deportation proceeedings than ever. The result: "a record backlog in the immigration courts." [link]
- Money managers are optimistic, but clients aren't
- [MarketWatch]
A majority of investment advisers say that a double-dip recession is unlikely and that the stock market will improve over the next six months — but their clients are more worried, according to a Schwab survey of money managers.
- Pictures: "Lost" Deer, Rare Cuckoo Caught in Camera Traps
- [National Geographic News]
The Sumatran tiger and rhinoceros hornbill are just some of the rare species spotted in Sumatra during a recent photographic survey.
- Website set up for Jordanian archaeological information sharing
- [ABlogAboutHistory - Sevaan Franks]
A website has been set up by the Getty Conversation Institute in Los Angeles that allows archaeologists to gain access to decades worth of records about Jordanian sites.
- Fictional Science 101: Important scientific ideas that inform science fiction
- [io9 - Annalee Newitz]
Though science fiction often mangles scientific truths, it is nevertheless a genre that is highly influenced by the latest trends in scientific thought and research. Here are some of the scientific (and semi-scientific) ideas that have influenced SF the most.
- GOP, What Have You Wrought? Cabbie Stabbed After Answering "Are You A Muslim?"
- [Crooks and Liars - Nicole Belle]
[video]
Damn it all. Listen, lizard brain people: "Muslim" does not mean "terrorist" or "America hater". There have been American Muslims here for a century. Muslims died on 9/11 too. Muslims reached out and helped their community after that tragedy as well, as NYPD, FDNY and volunteers. It was their tragedy too.
[Article uses ablist language re mental health. -L]
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