[Signal boosts are awesome.
...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com!
...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options.
--L.]
- Second Parent Adoption Struck Down by North Carolina Supreme Court
- The North Carolina Supreme Court issued a ruling yesterday striking down the second parent adoption of a same sex couple…
- Department of Awful Statistics: Down and Out on $250,000 a Year
- [Grasping Reality with Both Hands - Brad DeLong]
The fact that after they have spent their money and paid their taxes there is only $75K/year left for savings is not a sign that they are not rich.
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- Senate Passes… Everything
- Today in the Senate, they passed (by unanimous consent) the defense authorization bill that Republicans held up over objections to repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell just two short weeks ago; they passed by a voice vote the 9/11 First Responders Health bill that had been the subject of so much drama and debate; and they passed by a 71-26 vote the START nuclear treaty with Russia despite Republican objections to that as well.
And, for good measure, they are currently voting to confirm Mary Helen Murguia to be a judge in the Ninth Circuit.
- Video: Blue Eclipse on Mars
- Earth isn’t the only planet graced with gorgeous eclipses. On Nov. 9, the Mars rover Opportunity watched the larger of Mars’s two moons, Phobos, slip quietly in front of the sun.
This movie combines 10 individual photos taken every four seconds through special solar filters on the rover’s panoramic cameras. The video was made from images that were calibrated and enhanced, plus extra frames to make the movie run smoothly through the entire 32-second-long eclipse….
- 5 Powerful Questions That Can Help You to Make 2011 a Happier, Simpler and Lighter Year
- [The Positivity Blog - Henrik Edberg]
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- Creativity Can Lessen Leader Image
- …people who are considered “creative” are generally not viewed as leaders.
- Periodic table gets some flex
- Committee’s revisions give chemical isotopes their due
- South Pole neutrino detector complete
- Scientists complete IceCube observatory
- Life Ingredients Found in Superhot Meteorites—A First
- NASA astronomers were surprised to find amino acids—the fundamental foundation for life—in meteorites that had been naturally superheated.
- African Elephant Really Two Wildly Different Species
- "Big surprise": The two African elephant types seem to be as genetically different from each other as Asian elephants are from mammoths.
- Jesus’ great grandmother revealed in medieval manuscript
- According to a 14th-century Florentine manuscript, Jesus’ great grandmother was a woman named Ismeria.
- 20,000 fossils unearthed from mountain in China
- "The fossils are exceptionally well-preserved, with more than half of them completely intact, including soft tissues. Apparently they were protected across the ages by mats of microbes that rapidly sealed their bodies off from decay after death."
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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