Technologies that we’ve lost – and the quest to find them again – io9 Greek fire. Damascus steel. These are two technological innovations whose secrets are said to be lost to time. Even the original schematics for the Apollo missions have disappeared into the mists of history, forever hidden inside hopelessly obsolete computers. Wednesday Geek [...]
Senators Don’t Want Your Netflix Viewing History on Facebook [VIDEO] A number of U.S. senators are opposed to amending the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act to let Netflix automatically publish user views on Facebook via frictionless sharing. [This seems oddly specific to me. -L] Paint Your Desktop with Words with These Typographic Wallpapers – LifeHacker [...]
Tea Party Group Wants To ‘Soften’ Slavery In Textbooks – News Story – WCYB Tri Cities Some members of the Tea Party say what’s in your kid’s textbook may be giving them a negative opinion about our nation’s founding history. … Notably, they’re hoping to make changes in how slavery and encroachment on Native Americans [...]
Janet Howell, Virginia State Senator, Attaches Rectal Exam Amendment To Anti-Abortion Bill To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining [...]
Jonathan Coulton – MegaUpload …I’m guessing that the people who ran MegaUpload were knowingly profiting from the unauthorized download of other people’s intellectual property (including mine). Probably they were making a lot of money that way. That’s certainly illegal, and it doesn’t exactly give them the moral high ground either. In fact, it’s kind of [...]
The Ins & Outs Of Getting And Using Your Free Credit Report – The Consumerist Each of the bureaus comes up with its own score, generally ranging on a scale from 300 to 900 points, and often the only way you can get that score for free is if you’re denied credit or a loan [...]
Jan. 23, 1973 | Nixon Announces End of U.S. Involvement in Vietnam – NYTimes.com The Paris Peace Accords ended America’s direct involvement in the Vietnam War. But despite the ceasefire and provisions calling for “genuinely free and democratic general elections” in South Vietnam and the reunification of Vietnam “through peaceful means,” it did nothing to [...]
Daily Kos: Backyard Science: Knowing What’s In Your Backyard (Wildflower Photos) The photos in this diary were taken yesterday (Sunday 01/22/2012) in Chattahoochee Nature Park, along the Apalachicola River in north Florida. tags: photography botany Daily Kos: When mythology becomes fact: the 1.2 million people who “left” Greece in 2010 If the World Bank is [...]
Go Read Charles P. Pierce On Health Care | Echidne of the Snakes He is telling his own story about what it is like to have good health insurance in the US. Or one tiny aspect of that experience, but I bet it is an aspect many of you have also experienced. I certainly have. [...]
The New York Times Goes All In With The “1 Percenters” – Forbes – 1/05/2012 New York Times employees plan an “urgent” Jan. 9 meeting to discuss their next move because its staff are incensed by the $15 million failure bonus given to outgoing CEO Janet Robinson. Robinson, whose disastrous tenure coincided with a drop [...]
100% Made in the Philippines | Inquirer Lifestyle With his trademark Mohawk hairdo, and pimped out in an all black outfit and black, knee-high biker boots, Black Eyed Pea apl.de.ap a.k.a. Allan Pineda Lindo Jr. stands out in a sea of white barongs. The cream of corporate Makati, mostly bank executives and their staff, have [...]
Guggenheim Museum Makes 65 Exhibit Catalogues Free Online The Guggenheim is one of the real standouts in the global modern art arena. The New York-based institution is no light-weight in the area of arts education. They’ve now extended that mission extensively by making dozens of high-quality publications on artists available to anyone with an Internet [...]
Life in the margins – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com You have no driver’s license because you have nothing to drive. You have no passport because you’ve never been out of the country. You have no other photo I.D. because you have no bank account. You work and get paid under the table, a wad [...]
Meet the molecule responsible for giving Earth all of its oxygen – io9 tags: science The Fluffington Post – New Invisibility Cloak for Dogs Not Ready for Prime Time Workers at Xbox 360 plant threaten mass suicide • News • Eurogamer.net Almost 1 In 3 U.S. Warplanes Is a Robot | Danger Room | Wired.com [...]
Information Diet | Congress Being Stupid on Technology is a Bigger Problem than You Think Part of the problem with government not understanding technology is a lack of paid advocates that lobby on the technology industry’s behalf as compared to other, more entrenched interests. But the larger problem is that government doesn’t have enough access [...]
How to tattoo an ant in the name of science – io9 This is the most endearingly strange thing you’ll watch all day. Andrew Quitmeyer, a PhD student at Georgia Tech, has alerted us to his handy video tutorial on painting ants for scientific experiments. … Those readers with vise-like memories may remember Andrew’s previous [...]
Santorum: Climate Change is a Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy | Mother Jones The emergence of talent: genius and precocity : The New Yorker Prodigies like Picasso, Galenson argues, rarely engage in that kind of open-ended exploration. They tend to be “conceptual,” Galenson says, in the sense that they start with a clear idea of where they [...]
Hypatia – Biography – About.com Women’s History philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician From the little historical information about Hypatia that survives, it appears that she invented the plane astrolabe, the graduated brass hydrometer and the hydroscope, with Synesius of Greece, who was her student and later colleague. Top Women’s History Articles 2011 – About.com Women’s History [...]
Women’s Health Policy Report: N.J. Hospital, Nurses Reach Agreement on Care for Abortion Patients The dispute centered on the extent to which providers can refuse care. According to hospital officials, the nurses were not asked to directly participate in abortion procedures, but they were asked to provide abortion patients with pre- and post-operative care that [...]
Daily Kos: WA Gov. Chris Gregoire will introduce marriage equality bill tags: washington_state marriage_equality Daily Kos: Dallas girl missing since 2010 was “mistakenly” deported The ICE took Jakadrien’s fingerprints, but failed to confirm her identity before deporting her to Colombia. When she arrived the Colombian government gave her a work card and released her. Turner [...]