- Google adding games to its Plus social network
- [But the important question is, will I be able to configure my g+ home so that I never have to see anyone else's game activity? -L]
- More tax breaks for the Ark Park? | Pharyngula
- This makes no sense. Ken Ham is putting up a for-profit theme park, has already got big sales tax breaks from the state of Kentucky, and now we learn that he’s also getting a major break on property taxes….
- > separation_of_church_and_state
- Should vaccinology embrace systems biology? | Field of Science Combined Feed
- Systems biology affords us a chance to more fully understand the complexity of living systems. Through the collection of reams of data…we are now able to adequately model what is going on in the organism/cell through now more common bioinformatic and statistical analyses. …This allows us to ‘see’ changes and functional differences that we would never have observed… and this global, holistic view may just be the savior that vaccinology needs now. …
- These types of studies hail a new way of thinking about viruses, vaccines and the immune response to them…
- More Defensive Reasoning By Standard
- These people have the power to wipe out a trillion dollars in wealth just by changing a rating. Yet they are balking at an SEC requirement that they disclose errors in their calculations…
- Revealingly, the other two top ratings agencies–Fitch, and Moody’s–don’t have the same problem with the proposed SEC policy of disclosing rating agency errors.
- Bachmann Anti-Enlightenment? You’re Surprised? | The Intersection | Discover Magazine
- What we have to recognize is, despite Enlightenment achievements in knowledge and in politics, people didn’t change. They’re still the same as they always were. The irony is how the people who grok Enlightenment still manage to remain so un-Enlightened about the people who don’t.
- Pork Asado « Ang Sarap (A Tagalog word for “It’s Delicious”)
- Asado in general is a term used in some Latin and Southern American countries for a range of barbecue techniques it is even used as a standard word for barbecue in that region. Now Filipino-Chinese Asado is a bit different and it is more closely related to the Chinese Char Siu which is a type of Asian barbecue marinated in sweet and savoury style sauce.
- > food
- Statistics PhD wins lottery four times | FlowingData • by Nathan Yau
- Joan R. Ginther has won the lottery four times, each time with million dollar payouts. Either she’s the luckiest woman in the world, or her wins have to do with her statistics PhD. I suspect the latter. (And I need to get my hands on a lottery dataset.)
- Data Scientist: The hottest job you haven’t heard of | FlowingData • by Nathan Yau
- …there’s a shortage of an estimated 140,000 to 190,000 people who are qualified for the openings available (not all in business). What you need to know to get hired:…
- Mars Rover Reaches Giant Crater After 3-Year Trek | Wired: Science • by Dave Mosher
- Since leaving Victoria crater in August 2008, Opportunity has rolled 13 miles to reach the rim of 24-mile-wide Endeavour crater — the biggest of 11 craters the robot has visited. It’s the site of an ancient impact that shot out dark rocks onto the crater’s rim.
- “We’re soon going to get the opportunity to sample a rock type the rovers haven’t seen yet,” …
- Opportunity landed on Mars in 2004 and has far exceeded its 3-month warranty. A faulty front-right wheel forced its Earth-based operators to drive most of the trip to Endeavour backwards.
- > science
- How Blurb Tapped Into the Burgeoning Self-Publishing Industry | Mashable! • by Brenna Ehrlich
- There was one question for the company before we actually got funded… Could we make money as a business on a book of one? Meaning if somebody made a book, and they only ever ordered one copy, could we have a viable business? …that’s the opposite of traditional book publishing.
- In traditional book publishing, they take a bunch of risk… So they make it up on volume. And so they recoup all their investments on all their books that actually become bestsellers. …
- …we have had to really focus on color, print quality, binder quality…
- …we are seeing work come in from famous, high-end working photographers, from big brands like Lexus, and Honda, and Ralph Lauren and Pixar and others. …
- The Onion predicts the future | kottke.org
- Published in The Onion…after George W. Bush took office, Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’ is just getting more and more prescient. …
- They probably should get a Pulitzer.
- > satire why_we_can’t_have_nice_things
- Calif homicide rate drops to 44-year low | California Government News
- The California homicide rate has dropped to its lowest level since 1966. State Attorney General Kamala Harris released updated 2010 figures Tuesday and credited law enforcement for the 44-year low.
- [Not that this is actually a California-only phenom. -L]
- > california
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