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Feminist Philosophy of Biology | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy * by Carla Fehr Practitioners of feminist philosophy of biology use gender as an analytic category to conduct philosophical investigations of the biological sciences. >feminism Renata Salecl: How Limitless Choice Limits Social Change | Brain Pickings Jewish bodies found in Medieval well | ABlogAboutHistory.com • by [...]

4 “Facts” That Have Changed Since You Were In School >science history chemistry zoology Take a look at the world’s oldest mathematical object | io9 • by Esther Inglis-Arkell Archaeologists have dug up many ancient, notched bones all around the world, but the Ishango bone is different. On it, there are markings that suggest its [...]

BBC News – Google to show off mobile wallet for Android phones [What could possibly go wrong! -L] >technology Cats and dogs share grasp of physics | BBC News Dogs use the same complex technique as cats to lap up liquid, scientists are surprised to find. >science Venezuela condemns US sanctions | BBC News The [...]

Man Raised By Parents Struggling To Adjust To Human Society | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source Two years after his discovery by a team of developmental psychologists, David Sullivan, a man raised by a pair of mated parents, is still struggling to adapt to normal human society, sources confirmed Friday. According to researchers [...]

Partisan Politics Enter Fray As Regents Consider Closing Colleges | Nevada News Bureau – Andrew Doughman nevada education NV: Effects of a U.S. govt. shutdown would hit Nevada immediately | Stateline.org RSS – Nevada nevada Grand Canyon could close due to federal shutdown | Stateline.org RSS – Arizona Nearly 5 million people visit the iconic [...]

Herb Stein’s Unfamiliar Quotations – By Herbert Stein – Slate Magazine If you meet a madman who says that he is a fish and that we are all fishes, do you take off your clothes to show him that you do not have fins? –Milan Kundera, Risibles Amours, 1984 Three percent exceeds 2 percent by [...]

CSS Floats 101 [A List Apart] The float property is a valuable and powerful asset to any web designer/developer working with HTML and CSS. Tragically, it can also cause frustration and confusion if you don’t fully understand how it works. Test or refresh your knowledge as Noah Stokes explores float theory and behavior, and guides [...]

Ancient cities sprang from marshes The great cities of ancient Iraq thrived in vast lowland marches fed by rivers, but not by the rivers themselves. archaeology Colour photos of Shackleton’s ill-fated voyage Check out these amazing colour photographs documenting Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated voyage across the Antarctic in 1914-1917. none 14th century moat excavated at Fulham [...]

16,500 year old cemetery reveals the pets we kept before dogs [io9 - Alasdair Wilkins] A burial site recently uncovered in Jordan is the oldest ever discovered in the Middle East, at least 1,500 years older than any other cemetery previously discovered. But it's not just its great age that makes it special – the [...]

Carnivorous Plants Eat Poop From Tiny Bats [Wired: Science] wtf_nature Birds Are Best at Holding Quantum Entanglement [Wired: Science - Lisa Grossman] European robins can maintain quantum entanglement in their eyes a full 20 microseconds longer than the best laboratory systems, say physicists investigating how birds may use quantum effects to “see” Earth’s magnetic field. [...]