- Guest Blog: Does Quantum Mechanics Flout the Laws of Thermodynamics?
- If all this seems confusing, it is! This is very subtle physics and few people, even eminent physicists, understand it straight away. If you pose your questions below, I'll do my best to answer them.
- Syrian abuses are ‘crimes against humanity’ | AJE
- Human Rights Watch finds evidence of systematic killings, beatings, torture and detentions.
- Donate to the Ada Initiative: Seed 100 funding round opens – The Ada Initiative
- [Quoting from an email]
Dear Ada Initiative supporters,
Your patience has paid off: the Ada Initiative is opening its first fundraising campaign, the Seed 100 campaign! The Seed 100 campaign will fund our remaining startup costs…
The Seed 100 campaign is for donations of $512 and over. …We have a very exciting reward for donations of $1024 and over …
If you're not able to donate to this campaign, we definitely understand. We'd still very much appreciate any help you can give in spreading the word. There's some suggested text at http://adainitiative.org/2011/06/seed-100-funding-round-open/#spread with links for easy tweeting and such. Blog posts, re-tweets, Facebooking etc all appreciated too.
- Staying with the big things that matter most: Climate | Today’s Tomorrows | Futurismic – Brenda Cooper
- …, here is a rather extensive list of articles on the internet. It’s a longer list [than] I usually give here, but this topic matters even if we’re tired of it. Almost every article in here is from 2011. Note that not one of these links is about the politics of climate change – that would be an even longer and more depressing list.
- What does it mean if you don’t want to have sex? | io9 – By Annalee Newitz
- If you don't base your most intimate relationships on sex, then you're able to reimagine human intimacy in all kinds of new ways.
- A Celebration of Women Writers
- The books shown above are titles whose copyrights have expired, in many cases because they were not renewed.
Because they are in the public domain, these books can be legally reproduced online. …The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing. …
We attempt to provide easy access to available on-line information. The Celebration provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women.
[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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