Pansynthesis

Putting innovation and tech to work against breast cancer | In April, Jeff Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley and made an observation to Businessweek that spread like wildfire: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” he said. … Tim O’Reilly moderated two panels during the launch yesterday [...]

Boehner Rejects Jobs Bill, Advances Deregulatory, Anti-Tax Agenda | Firedoglake • by David Dayen …Boehner cited deregulation and lower taxes as the path to economic growth. But curiously, he rejected the tax cuts in the American Jobs Act, meaning that there will be higher taxes on all American wage earners by January. > class_warfare New [...]

Black Hole Holds Universe’s Biggest Water Supply | Wired: Science Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever found in the universe. It’s 12 billion light years away, and holds at least 140 trillion times the amount of water in all the Earth’s oceans combined. > science astronomy Brain [...]

Herman Cain’s Bigotry: No More Free Pass On a weekend talk show, Herman Cain took the position that any community in the nation has the right to prohibit Muslims from building a mosque. The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson says his reasoning sounds a lot like the arguments bigots of generations past used to make about [...]

The Infographic that Spoofs Infographics none The Theory of Two Truths in Tibet [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Sonam Thakchoe] Tibetan philosophers argue that the two truths theory is not only core ontological doctrine as it is understood within the Indian Buddhist thought, it also makes the central theory behind epistemology and soteriology. The Indian [...]

This Is The Pits. How Anti-Abortion Politicians Victimize Women The ironic aspect of what's taking place in the public debate about abortion is the way we are told that reproductive choice hurts women. Planned Parenthood clinics don't adequately fight sex trafficking! … So we must protect women and girls by de-funding Planned Parenthood clinics! Not [...]

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. [...]

Acting Like Animals: I Am Sad. Hug Me? [Daily Squee] I almost feel guilty for posting this… I mean, just look at this little guy! He’s the saddest thing I have ever seen in the entire world! cute_animals Earth may soon have a second sun [io9 - Alasdair Wilkins] The red supergiant star Betelgeuse is [...]