- Why Mother’s Day Horrified, Ruined Its Own Mother | National Geographic News
- Born of war, Mother's Day grew to horrify its own mother, whose fight to fix the holiday "cost her everything, financially and physically."
- 21st Century Non-Sexist | FemaleScienceProfessor
- …don't tell me that kids are harmed by working moms (and dads) and local schools are bad if lots of moms (and dads) work. That is a very unscientific conclusion, in addition to being quite bizarre to inject into a conversation with a Female Scientist at a meeting.
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- Mysterious Maine Earthquakes Caused by Ice Age Rebound | Wired: Science • by Brandon Keim
- On the last day of April and first five days of May, dozens of tiny earthquakes caused Maine’s eastern coast to tremble. What could have shaken this geologically quiet region, located in the middle of a tectonic plate, far from any active faults?
The last ice age, say geologists. Like a trampoline’s surface after liftoff, Earth’s crust along the eastern seaboard is still springing back from the pressing weight of a massive ice sheet that has since melted.
- NRA and Florida gag pediatricians: no more firearm safety advice for parents
- An NRA-lobbied bill in Florida will prohibit doctors, especially pediatricians, from asking patients about their gun-safety. The bill is expected to be signed by Governor Rick Scott. Pediatricians routinely advise parents about seatbelts, bike helmets, etc, but this law will make it illegal for a doctor to offer advice on gun safety unless "it's directly relevant to the patient's care or the safety of others." Comparable legislation is under discussion in North Carolina and Alabama.
- Google Internal Emails Paint a Different Picture of Android ‘Openness’ | Geekosystem • by Robert Quigley
- “We are using compatibility as a club to make them do things we want.”
–An internal email from an Android group manager, unsealed by a Massachusetts state court this week in Skyhook Wireless’ ongoing lawsuit against Google…
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- Neil Gaiman’s Doctor Who story might help convert all your friends to Who fandom | io9 • by Charlie Jane Anders
- It's finally here: award-winning author Neil Gaiman's episode of Doctor Who is airing this weekend. We've seen it, and here's our absolutely spoiler-free review.
- We Might Be Able to Have Conversations With Dolphins | The Mary Sue • by Jamie Frevele
- Humans have been able to communicate with dolphins since the 1960s …. there was no way for them to communicate with humans. So now, divers are going into the ocean to study dolphin sounds to try to decipher their language and make it possible for dolphins to respond. …they hope to “work with dolphins to co-create a language” that will enable natural interspecies communication.
…perhaps it could come in handy for military operations. Or adding sounds to Lisa Frank notebooks.
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- Hillary Clinton Photoshopped Out of Iconic Situation Room Photo | Geekosystem • by Styleite
- We write about Photoshop ridiculousness all the time, but this instance is a little different. A orthodox Hasidic newspaper called Der Tzitung has wiped Secy. of State Hillary Clinton and Counterterrorism Director Audrey Tomason out of the now-famous photo of US government officials watching the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani compound, thanks to its editorial policy never to print pictures of women. Unsurprisingly, some people are not OK with this.
- Mississippi River flooding | The Big Picture
- Portions of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas are under water, with more to come. Pressure on levees led the Army Corps of Engineers to blow up a section below Cairo, Ill, inundating 130,000 acres of farmland while saving the town. As a bulge of river water makes its way downstream, levees are stressed and rivers that empty into the Mississippi have no outlet, backing up and flooding even more land. The bulge will reach the Delta later this month, and millions of acres are threatened. — Lane Turner (33 photos total)
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