- Music that is in everything | Boing Boing
- Ambrose Heron compiled a list of music cues used repeatedly in different movie trailers: near the top is one I always seem to notice, a segment from James Horner's Aliens soundtrack.
- Flower power | The Big Picture
- Flowers are appearing in all kinds of places since the equinox. — Lloyd Young (27 photos total)
- Everything Is Rhythm | Open Culture – Matthias Rascher
- “Foli” is the word used for rhythm by the Malinke tribe in West Africa. But Foli is not only found in Malinke music, but in all parts of their daily lives. Directed by Thomas Roebers, this short film portrays the people of Baro, a small town in eastern-central Guinea, and gives you a glimpse… What makes this film even more beautiful is the fact that it was edited so as to reflect Malinke rhythms.
- Arizona's Faulty Logic on Sex-Selective Abortion | RHRealityCheck.org – Angi Becker Stevens
- As if there were not already enough barriers to abortion access constructed in the name of “protecting women,” Arizona has become the first state to ban abortions performed on the basis of the race or sex of the fetus. Leaving aside for now the “race” side of the coin—a seemingly bizarre response to the “abortion is racist” rhetoric—I’d like to offer just a few thoughts on the genuinely complex issue of sex-selective abortion, and how horribly the new Arizona law misses the point. …
- Modified Marijuana Chemical Blocks Pain Without Buzz | Wired: Science – Ars Technica
- It turned out to be a bit more complicated than that, though. Other aspects of pain apparently do require the cannabinoid receptors…
It appears that 5-desoxy-THC is a very specific painkiller. It blocks reflex responses to pain, but doesn’t inhibit higher-level processing of painful sensations…
- Young Star’s Supersonic Gas Jets Are Strangely Asymmetric | Wired: Science – Lisa Grossman
- “More studies are needed to determine if other jets [of gas] have time delays,” astrophysicist Alberto Noriega-Crespo of Caltech, a co-author of a study in the April 1 Astrophysical Journal Letters, said in a press release. “Now, we know that in at least one case, there appears to be a delay, which tells us that some sort of communication may be going on between the jets that takes time to occur.”
Young stars usually send off symmetric jets of dust and gas as a normal part of their growth.
…Herbig-Haro 34 [is different]…
- App Explores Movie Connections Like Scientists Study Genes | Wired: Science – Brandon Keim
- A new iPhone app called * Movies Mobile…[a] front end for a network map of IMDB’s top 500 movies…allows people to explore connections among films …
What’s unique isn’t the map itself, but the level of exploration the interface provides, said Yaneer Bar-Yam, president of the institute. …
The network itself is based on analysis of relationships among words and phrases in IMDB user comments. The map reflects connections made by viewers’ tastes and impressions; it could just as easily have been designed to map links between actors and directors, or to map something other than movies.
An earlier test of the program was conducted on anthropological documents produced by the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System in Afghanistan. It could also be done with economic networks, networks of genes, disease spread, social groups. Bar-Yam’s group is best known for studying the structural influences of networks in panicking stock markets and economic collapses.
- The War on Joy | Pandagon – Amanda Marcotte
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- Where the Spending Cuts Go – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman
- I think it might be helpful to have a quick picture that illustrates what’s going on in the Ryan budget proposal. …
…he’s…proposing very large tax cuts, mainly, of course, for those with high incomes. …as you can see, a large part — roughly half — of the spending cuts are going, not to deficit reduction, but to finance those tax cuts.
Actually, it’s even worse…
class_warfare united_states infographics fake_deficit_crisis lying_liars
- California Ties For Third Most Shark Attacks in U.S. as Attacks Rise Worldwide – The Bay Citizen
- California's 'Red Triangle' is a global hot spot for shark attacks
[Link to interactive global map of 2010 shark attacks]
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