Molecules with silly or unusual names | kottke.org Like moronic acid, betweenanene, and draculin:… science silly Only 30% of Americans Blame Obama For The Economy | Politicususa • by Jason Easley none Yet Another "Classic Breitbarting" | MoJo Blogs and Articles | Mother Jones • by Dave Gilson lying_liars Scientific Realism | Stanford Encyclopedia of [...]
Let’s Call Trump’s Language What It Is | The Root – By: Elon James White Oh, look. The president has a birth certificate. Apparently he isn't a sleeper terror agent trying to bring down the country. What a relief. …it's really hard for a black American to watch the first black president get treated like [...]
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Posted 29 April 2011
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After-Birthers: How Conspiracy Theorists Reacted To Obama’s Long-Form Birth Certificate | TPMMuckraker racism xenophobia FBI Launches Investigation of Change.org Attacks – The Bay Citizen none Making a Few Extra Bucks, Selling Bone Marrow – The Bay Citizen none BBC News – Exxon and Shell see profits boosted by high oil prices none [My bookmarks live [...]
BBC News – Bradley Manning cleared to leave isolation cell none BBC News – India: Activist Binayak Sen attacks sedition laws none BBC News – Libya: Tunisia indignant over border clashes none BBC News – Uganda riots over Kizza Besigye’s arrest none [My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I [...]
21L.705 Major Authors: America’s Literary Scientists | MIT OpenCourseWare: New Courses • by Kelley, Wyn Global exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries radically changed Western science, orienting philosophies of natural history to more focused fields like comparative anatomy, botany, and geology. In the United States, European scientific advances and home-grown ventures like the Wilkes [...]
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Posted 28 April 2011
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Women’s dress sizes demystified | FlowingData • by Nathan Yau infographics Laser Hole Punch Turns Hair Into Forensic Time Machine | Wired: Science • by Dave Mosher A new laser-powered chemical analysis technique is so sensitive that it can take dozens of samples from a single strand of hair, distinguishing between the chemical signatures of [...]
Mayan hieroglyphic stairway found in Mexico | ABlogAboutHistory.com "Typically, hieroglyphic stairways are part of the central or core elements of the elite ruling class, however, this was not the case at El Palmar because the building was located on the outskirts of the site, away from the center. The location of the stairway perplexed Javier: [...]
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Posted 28 April 2011
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BBC News – Immigrants offer US cities scope for new growth none BBC News – Man lives after ‘driving car over Grand Canyon rim’ none BBC News – Storms kill scores in Alabama and other south US states none BBC News – Climate of fear over Pakistan blasphemy laws religious_tolerance civil_liberties BBC News – Israel [...]
BBC News – Hungary Roma battle far-right vigilantes racism hate_crime BBC News – Thailand and Cambodia agree truce after border clashes none BBC News – Tripoli witness: Rioting, fighting and dying for fuel Libya BBC News – Morocco: Blast rocks Marrakesh’s Djemaa al-Fna square none BBC News – Libya: Nato strike ‘kills rebels’ in Misrata [...]
Ousted Administrator Has Doubts About Jindal’s Privatization Plan | TPMMuckraker …the former chief executive officer of Louisiana's Office of Group Benefits (OGB) expressed doubts about the Jindal Administration's plan to privatize the agency, which manages state public employees' health insurance. "There's a million details that would have to be worked out in order for a [...]
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Posted 27 April 2011
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The Root Recommends: ‘Ice’ | The Root In his new memoir, Ice: A Memoir of Gangsta Life and Redemption, rapper-turned-actor Ice-T gives readers a peek into his fascinating life and career… Although Ice-T's off-screen persona isn't for everyone, this honest and sometimes surprising memoir might just be worth the read. books Lessons in Ebonics: What’s [...]
Are U.S. Universities Discriminating Against Asian Students? | About.com Race Relations …an increasing number of Asian Americans say that admissions officers at the nation's most elite universities have what's been dubbed an "Asian ceiling." This prevents the Asian population of the student body from exceeding 20 percent. At Harvard, for example, the number of Asian [...]
BBC News – Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to go on Endeavour shuttle none BBC News – Obama releases ‘long form’ birth certificate none BBC News – Petraeus ‘next head of CIA’, Panetta to lead Pentagon none BBC News – Most foreign prisoners in US are Mexicans – report none BBC News – Japan emperor visits port [...]
SlutWalks Sweep The Nation | Huffington Post Toronto police constable Michael Sanguinetti thought he was offering the key to rape prevention. "I'm not supposed to say this," he told a group of students…, but to prevent being sexually assaulted, “Avoid dressing like sluts.” Despite [his] subsequent written apology and promises of further professional training, the [...]
And that’s a wrap, folks | Pandagon – Amanda Marcotte …opponents of gay marriage in California are trying to appeal the decision overturning Prop 8 on the grounds that the judge is gay and so can't be allowed to rule on gay issues. Amazing because they're always denying this is about bigotry, and yet bigotry [...]
The Rails Hotline: A Free Helpline for Ruby on Rails Developers | ReadWriteWeb • by Klint Finley Stuck on a Ruby on Rails problem? Call Rails Hotline, a free helpline staffed by volunteer Rails developers, at (877) 817-4190. resource programming The Genotype/Phenotype Distinction | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy • by Richard Lewontin The distinction between [...]
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Posted 26 April 2011
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The Mystery of the Singing Mice | Science …Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell, a [behavioral ecologist]… …heard something unusual, something loud. …the four-note song of what would prove to be a deer mouse. Played back at slow speed, it sounded a little like the wooing song of a whale, a plaintive rise and fall. …Her research and that [...]
BBC News – US cables likened ISI to Taliban, al-Qaeda: Wikileaks pakistan BBC News – US Supreme Court weighs data mining and privacy rights scotus BBC News – Climate change to reduce US West water supply – report global_climate_change BBC News – Storms and tornadoes hit central US, killing five none BBC News – Yemen: [...]
I.e. Versus E.g. : Grammar Girl :: Quick and Dirty Tips ™ Seriously. I got so engrossed in the question of whether or not a comma is required after i.e. and e.g. that I made a table for the web site summarizing the opinions of six different style guides. grammar Wiki dump: asymmetrical suicide, useful [...]
BBC News – Taliban behind brutal Afghan bank attack unrepentant terrorism BBC News – Arab unrest: Iraq’s struggle a warning for protesters none BBC News – Syrian army ‘attacks protest city of Deraa’ none BBC News – Technology tested for future manned missions to Mars none BBC News – Burmese ‘slavery’ fishermen are trafficked and [...]