- Getty Images Says Google Plus Terms of Service is “OK” | ReadWriteWeb * by Sarah Perez
- Should photographers be concerned about Google Plus? This is the subject on an ongoing debate right now, due to the wording Google uses in its Terms of Service – specifically parts that seem to indicate it will have rights to photos posted on the new social network. But some folks, including both professional photographers and an intellectual property attorney say the reaction is overblown. The issue is not a “Google” problem – it’s something to consider before posting your images online, anywhere on the Web.
- Guest Blog: Why Is Quantum Gravity So Hard? And Why Did Stalin Execute the Man Who Pioneered the Subject?
- Our modern understanding of gravity is based on Einstein’s general theory of relativity, but Einstein himself realized that it was incomplete. Shortly after publishing his most famous theory, he remarked that gravitational effects would cause electrons to spiral in on atomic nuclei. To stop that would take a quantum revision of general relativity.
- People Withdrawal – Lessons from a Recovering Doormat
- The best antidote for loneliness is learning to enjoy your own company and building strong self-love.
- BOOK REVIEW: Periodic Tales: A Cultural History Of The Elements, From Arsenic To Zinc By Hugh Aldersey-Williams – Science News
- Like the periodic table itself, the book is episodic. But that’s not always a bad thing. Many of the elements highlighted come with strong narratives (see the chapter on chromium for the story of an element that rose and fell in the public eye over the span of a few decades).
- Chemistry buffs should be warned, however, that this sometimes personal endeavor is about as far away from a textbook as hydrogen is from radon on the iconic table. Aldersey-Williams doesn’t spend much time explaining why neon is inert, but he does explore the element’s associations with American flashiness. In other words, this is the book for those who spent science class wishing they were reading Nabokov instead. Or, perhaps, for chemistry buffs willing to take their valence electrons with a touch of whimsy.
- Patrice Gaines: 40 Years Since Prison, How I Still Fight to Get Free
- My cell phone rang. It was my supervisor.
- “Patrice, headquarters called me and told me to send you home immediately and to take back all government property,” she said. “I don’t know why.”
- She knew me as a 61-year-old gray-haired mother, a former Washington Post reporter, an author and motivational speaker. She knew nothing about me 40 years ago, when I was a 21-year-old heroin user. I knew exactly why they were sending me home: I am a convicted felon.
- Rewriting the “Tragedy of the Commons” by Bill McKibben
- The only thing that Hardin’s argument didn’t fit was the facts, at least not all of them. For eons communities had managed to protect all kinds of resources …
- Here’s how public radio works: give away your product for free with no advertising, and then twice a year wheedle people to make a donation to pay for it. Turn that in as your business plan at some bank and they’ll laugh you out the door, but public radio has been the fastest-growing sector of the broadcast industry for years.
- Seeing an American flag can shift voters towards Republicanism | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
- Travis Carter from the University of Chicago has found that when people think about voting decisions, the mere sight of the American flag can subtly shift their political views…
- [In a 2007 study involving Israeli voters, their] flag pushed people towards the political centre, but the US one shifted people to the right. Why? …
- Our [voting] choices are affected by unconscious preferences, our reflexes, and even local sports results. We are so predictable that people can guess the victors of elections with a surprising degree of accuracy based only on fleeting glances.
- Sissy Bounce: New Orleans Music Spreads Worldwide
- Sissy bounce, the audaciously queer brethren to New Orleans bounce, is a phenomenon whose unique call-and-response, raw dance moves and unadulterated bravado create an untiring energy that is hypnotic. It’s made its way from the clubs of the 9th Ward and the unruly French Quarter to the typically heterosexual scene at Vancouver’s Post Modern Dance Bar and Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club. This leap outside of the Crescent City is curated by sissy-bounce deities Big Freedia, Katey Red, Sissy Nobby, Vockah Redu and others, who embrace the term “sissy” with gusto and whose candid, gender-bending ways have gained notoriety across the U.S. and across the Atlantic in the U.K.
- “I see bounce music itself going mainstream real soon,” sissy-bounce artist Sissy Nobby told The Root. “I’m fighting for it.”
- Fair Use School | Organization for Transformative Works
- Kudos to Patrick McKay for winning Public Knowledge’s “Copyright School” Video Challenge, a contest that asked remixers to come up with a more balanced eductaion video than YouTube’s “Copyright School” (which, notoriously, featured a squirrel in a pirate hat.) You can see the video here:…
- A Non-Designer’s Guide to Creating Awesome Diagrams for Slides | Lifehacker • by Melanie Pinola
- By following just a few simple rules, anyone can create diagrams and illustrate information more clearly in slide presentations. Enrique Garcia Cota shared some essential guidelines for things like choosing font size, shapes, color, and more.
- Lorem Ipsum Generators: 10 Ways To Make Your Dummy Text More Fun | Mashable! • by Amy-Mae Elliott
- …more than 30 placeholder text generators that offer something a little different — from cult movie references to classic novels to bacon. Mmmmm, bacon.
- Take a look through the gallery below to discover some fun options next time you’re greeking. Let us know in the comments about any we’ve missed that you like to use.
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