[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Big reveals for genome of tiny animal
- Tunicates’ scrambled gene order suggests arrangement may not matter for vertebrate body plan and hints at origins of mysterious bits of DNA
- Junk touching
- [I have] concerns that the TSA is simply going to readjust the protocols to the standards set by conservatives flipping out—which is to say, if you do it to women and non-white men, okay, but leave the white guys alone. …
Early signs show my concerns are valid. For instance, the TSA allowed the pilot union to get an exemption for their staff, but disallowed this for the flight attendants. This creates a nifty system where a predominantly male group doesn’t have to have the pat downs, but a predominantly female group does…
(Yes, I’m aware many of the examples upsetting people are women. I’m glad for that, but wonder if the pile-on would be as all-encompassing if it was only women feeling horribly humiliated.)
…there’s always a possibility that we can use the anger about these TSA searches and start directing it to all the other ways the highly invasive police state works in our culture. That would be awesome, even if it’s a long shot.
- Image of the Day: Jim Kazanjian’s Impossible Architectures
- [GOOD - Patrick James]
Design Boom just ran a collection of surreal work by Jim Kazanjian, who takes many different digital photographs and turns them into grand composites of architectural madness.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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