Saturday, April 14, 2012
science, bad science, autism, vaccination, vaccines, vaccinate, flu, influenza
What Is Science? From Feynman to Sagan to Asimov to Curie, an Omnibus of DefinitionsMcEwan on Darwin, Einstein, and Priority, Mar 24, 2012Gut Bacteria In Autistic Children Different From Non-Autistic ChildrenScience Not FictionVACCINES. TIME FOR SOCIETY TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, David Ropeik, July 18, 2011, 8:00 AM How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed;
Brian Deer, journalistRetracted autism study an 'elaborate fraud,' British journal finds; By the CNN Wire Staff, January 5, 2011 8:14 p.m. ESTBad Science: The Year in nonsenseAntiAntiVaxJenny McCarthy shows off her knowledge of scienceCrank “scientific” conferences: A parody of science-based medicine that can deceive even reputable scientists and institutionsOsosillyococcinum and other Flu bitsWhite House Releases Long-Awaited Guidance for Scientific Integrity; by Erik Stokstad on 17 December 2010, 5:27 PM
politics and biology, Democrats versus Republicans
Born This Way The new weird science of hardwired political identity. By Sasha Issenberg Published Apr 8, 2012
Tyranny Is a Bipartisan Disease December 31, 2011 by WashingtonsBlog, Extremists on Both the Right and the Left Like Tyranny
Diagnosing the Republican Brain; Fact: Conservatives deny science and facts. But there's a reality check that liberals need too.Think less and become more conservative, April 2, 2012Politics, Odors and Soap, by Nicholas D Kristof, March 21, 2012The Paranoid Style in American Politics, By Richard Hofstadter, Harper’s Magazine, November 1964, pp. 77-86. People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say, By Natalie Wolchover | LiveScience.com – Tue, Feb 28, 2012Issues in Scaling Civilization: The Altruism ProblemPrejudiced, Conservative People Probably Stupid, Says Science, Jan 26, 2012Intelligence Study Links Low I.Q. To Prejudice, Racism, ConservatismA Connection Between Conservatism And Stupidity? Jan 27, 2012Jay-Z Says He Won't Call Us Bitches Anymore, Jan 17, 2012 A study of the voting records of US Congressmen found that those with daughters voted more liberally on issues of reproductive rights, flexible work policies and funding for education. And data on British families found that fathers with three sons and no daughters were far more likely to vote for conservative candidates than were fathers of three daughters and no sons.
Why Republicans Deny Science: The Quest for a Scientific Explanation, by Chris Mooney, Jan 11, 2012 The Market Magic of Democrats vs GOP Presidents, By Barry Ritholtz, Dec 3, 2011Jim
Republicans vs. Democrats TV survey results: Lefties want comedy, right wingers like workTea Party vs. OWS: The psychology and ideology of responsibility, Nov 2, 2011, by Will WilkinsonFinally, a Study That Explains Everything, by Andrew Cohen, Jul 22, 2011Your Brain on Politics: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Liberals and Conservatives, by Chris Mooney, September 7, 2011 The Left and the Right in Thinking, Personality, and Politics, by G. William Domhoff, June 2009The Eating Habits of Conservatives Versus Liberals, May 26, 2011 by Jolie O'DellFood Preferences & PoliticsIn the ‘Stroke Belt,’ Erosion of Memory Is More Likely Too, By PAM BELLUCK, July 4, 2011http://www.google.com/search?client=gmail&rls=gm&q=liberal%20conservative%20brain%20research
Friday, April 06, 2012
dogs, cats and other pets, dog videos
'Soldier Dogs' tells the story of America's canine heroes Maria Goodavage's new book takes an in-depth look at the courageous canines that serve in the U.S. military.
Live Like Royalty: The Many Health Benefits of Dogs, Man's Best Friend, MAR 12 2012By Hiroyoshi Ninomiya, et al. Functional anatomy of the footpad vasculature of dogs: scanning electron microscopy of vascular corrosion casts.Durapet BowlsTracing Unscooped Dog Waste Back to the Culprit, By KATIE ZEZIMA, July 1, 2011Cesar Millan, the Idiot WhispererHow a dog's paws stay warm in very cold weather, ice, and snowExtreme Sheepherding by Border ColliesFirst Domesticated Dogs - Předmostí, Czech Republic Volume 65 Number 1, January/February 2012 by Zach Zorich One of three skulls of the earliest domesticated dogs found in Czech Republic. This one was buried with a mastodon bone in its mouth.
Domesticating Man's Best Friend: How The Dog Became A Dog, Dec 16, 2011Dog Years Calculator The formula is: 10.5 dog years per human year for the first 2 years, then 4 dog years per human year for each year after.
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dog songs:
How Much Is That Doggie In The Window
You Ain't Nothin But A Hounddog
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Top Dog Names of 2011After Duty, Dogs Suffer Like Soldiers Dec 2, 2011
Teach Your Dog to Fetch Anything!- clicker dog training tricksDog Poop IQ QuizUseful Dog Tricks by Jesse the Jack Russell TerrierCatvertisingDevice for cleaning up after your pet's poopAll About Barks, 7 Facts About Canine CommunicationFURminator - FUR Dry, Dry your dog effortlessly with the patented solution that addresses the nuisance of wet dogs indoors.Tame your pet costs; Six smart ways to curb expenses and still provide the best of care, Consumer Reports, August 2011Expert on dog behavior and "Dog Sense" author John Bradshaw suggests to Stephen ways to become even better friends with man’s best friend. Watch it now: http://www.hulu.com/watch/241215National Geographic Channel VideosDog barks quieter and quieter on commandDog World Records# posted by : 10:23 PM
Thursday, April 05, 2012
made in america
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
music
Did Humans Invent Music?
The Intricate Music of the Human Genome
Researchers link patterns seen in spider silk, melodies Analogy could help engineers develop materials that make use of repeating patterns, Dec 8, 2011
Seeing the music in nature From spider webs to tangled proteins, Markus Buehler finds the connections between mathematics, molecules and materials. March 3, 2012
The 30 All-time Best Music Videos
The First World Rap
China
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
chocolate, cocoa, coffee
Taste Test: The Best Instant Coffee, Apr 5, 2012Does A Chocolate Habit Help Keep You Lean?Child slavery and chocolate: All too easy to find, Jan 19, 2012, The CNN Freedom Project, Ending Modern-Day Slavery17 Things You Didn't Know About Your Morning Coffee, Nov 2, 2011, by Lindsey Savino Yet Another Sweet Health Benefit Of Chocolate, The Huffington Post, Laura Schocker, 10/11/11 (decrease in stroke risk, flavonoids
data, facts, charts, graphs, information, knowledge, statistics, visualizations sites, formats, conversion
Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them.FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Dataclear answers for common questionsThe Age of Big DataDATA.GOVcircos & hive plots - challenging visualization paradigms in genomics and network analysisdata versus narrativeDNA Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data, NYTimes Science, Dec 1, 2011Following Digital Breadcrumbs To 'Big Data' Gold, by YUKI NOGUCHI, Nov 29, 2011The Amazing Fact GeneratorRoad Fatalities 2001-2009USA Right NowThe Data Journalism HandbookWorldometers: real time world statisticsThe Guardian DatablogMany Eyes: Create Data VisualizationsGraph Design for the Eye and Mind by Stephen M KosslynPerceptual Edge: Visual Business Intelligence; for enlightening analysis and communicationdataists - Fresher than seeing your model doesn't have heteroscedastic errorsData scientist: The hot new gig in tech; By Michal Lev-Ram, writer September 6, 2011Google Public Data ExplorerFileFormat.Info: The Digital Rosetta Stone - data formats, conversions, etcHow to make searchable, Web-based Google chartsOECD - Statistics from A to Z - Beta versionThe Information Sage Meet Edward Tufte, the graphics guru to the power elite who is revolutionizing how we see data. By Joshua Yaffa, May/June 2011The Complete Joy of Stats videoRevolution AnalyticsInfochimps: find the world's dataGapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.Data Mining BlogData Wrangling: MACHINE LEARNING, DATA MINING, AND MOREMy thoughts on data mining, machine learning, programming languages, open-source software and general nerdery.dataists: Fresher than seeing your model doesn't have heteroscedastic errorsStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social ScienceFlowing DataLooking At DataBen Fry: Visualizing DataInformation is BeautifulWhere do search rankings come from?The Joy of Stats: world history in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.red state blue stateRed State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They DoData Visualization vs. Statistical GraphicsVery Small Array: data graphed in an imaginative wayDataspora Blog: Big Data, open source analytics, and data visualizationFiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver's Political Calculus (on the New York Times site)Peter Skomoroch's dataset BookmarksWhere to Find Open Data on the WebSee, understand & share numbersOkTrends (OkCupid Data blog)
Tim O'Reilly
SNA Projects Blog (LinkedIn)
Measuring Measures (Bradford Cross)
Info Vegan (Clay Johnson)
Hilary Mason (bit.ly)
Inductio Ex Machina (Mark Reid)
Chris Riccomini (LinkedIn)
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Dumbotics (Last.FM)
Geeking With Greg
Juice Analytics
Infochimps Blog
Cloudera Blog
Pete Warden
Cerebral Mastication (J.D. Long)
Dolores Labs Blog
Brendan O'Connor's Blog
Kiwitobes (Toby Segaran)
Information Arbitrage
IA Ventures
Freebase: An entity graph of people, places and things, built by a community that loves open data.
evolution science, extinction, Darwin, Darwinism, creationism, false equivalence
The Originality of the Species A frenzied desire to be first inspired Darwin and Einstein to bursts of creativity. Like writers and artists, scientists strive to have their names attached to a work of brilliance, but any breakthrough depends on the efforts of countless predecessors. Ian McEwan reflects on originality and collaboration.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/nature-brain-and-culture/201010/why-humans-are-so-smart-and-groovy
Harvard Evolution Matters Lecture SeriesThe evolutionary revolutionary In the 1970s, Robert Trivers wrote a series of papers that transformed evolutionary biology. Then he all but disappeared. Now he’s back—and ready to rumble. By Drake Bennett, March 27, 2005
Evolution Is Still Happening: Beneficial Mutations in Humans, Adam Lee on January 11, 2012Evolutionary Development PuzzlesEvil Is No Accident, But LogicThe Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction, by Rebecca CostaE. O. Wilson’s Theory of Everything, By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Nov 2011, Atlantic MagazineThe Origin of Life - Abiogenesis - Dr. Jack SzostakEvolution simplified for tiny brains. BY LES, ON 18 OCTOBER, 2011Chuck Missler disproves Evolution with a jar of peanut butter. BY LES, ON 27 MARCH, 2007Believe in Evolution?A Supergene Paints Wings for Surviving Biological War, By NICHOLAS WADE, August 15, 2011False equivalenceHow Sarah Palin Could Prove Darwin Wrong by Becoming the Stupidest President in History, May 30, 2011, The Existentialist Cowboy, Len HartA Trip to the Creation "Science" Museum, May 22, 2011, by evoloceNational Center for Science Education: Second Annual Upchucky Awards Announced! March 29th, 2011Macroevolution. Partial knowledge leads to total confusion.Republican Jack Kingston On Evolution: I'm Not From A Monkey! (VIDEO) Gorilla Walks Like Human, Upright On Two Hind Legs (VIDEO)Getting a Leg Up on Evolution, the Comic-Book Version: A graphic tour of how we humans came to be, through the eyes of space aliens Bloort and Prince Floorsh; By Jay Hosler, Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, January 3, 2011Comparing the Human and Chimpanzee GenomeComparing the Human and Chimpanzee Genome
healthcare, medicare, health insurance, medicine, doctors, fitness, nutrition, lifespan, life expectancy, 2-minute doctor
Immune retune: Recharging your body's natural defencesTestosterone Levels Fall Worldwide Man Up: Boost Your Testosterone Levels for Health, Power and Confidence, April 4, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog
Doctors groups call for end to unnecessary procedures, 04/04/2012What Your Poop and Pee are Telling You about Your Body, April 1, 2012 Health Care is Worst Where Republicans Poll Best, Mar 26, 2012Top 10 Hotspots For Human Longevity, 03/14/2012 8:45 amConservatives are making a huge mistake using the term "ObamaCare." The day middle-class Blue Dog 'independent' voters find out it is to their advantage, the GOP loses one more constituency. March 14, 2012Massachusetts, Oregon Successes Bolster Obama Health Care Reform, March 15, 2012 07:00 AM, By Jon PerrFatty Foods Bad For Sperm, by NANCY SHUTE, March 14, 2012The Scenic Route to a Longer Life/longevity, March 4, 2012, by Julie TabouliThe Patient of the Future Internet pioneer Larry Smarr's quest to quantify everything about his health led him to a startling discovery, an unusual partnership with his doctor, and more control over his life. MARCH/APRIL 2012BY JON COHEN, Technology Review
The myth of the eight-hour sleep, By Stephanie Hegarty, Feb 22, 2012Hormesis: Can Poison Be Good For You?Homicide rate at near 50-year low, probably thanks to low lead levels, Jan 14, 2012, by David Atkins "...civilization seems to be a pretty thin veneer on human nature. If the difference between a rising wave of murders and record low crime rates, is simply a question of impulse control, that would mean that we all have moments where we would often like very much to do horrible things to people, but fear of reprisal and bouts of conscience get in the way just in time. It doesn't speak well for basic human nature,..."
A Medical Tell-All Can Be Found in Urine, By JANE E. BRODY, January 2, 2012DrugCite Tells You the Side Effects of Nearly Any Medicine and Provides Helpful, Relevant StatisticsDrug CiteQuackwatch: Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions, Operated by Stephen Barrett, M.D."Liquid Silver" Can Tarnish Life; Mercury poisoning, Dec 13, 2011, by Kandy CollinsHow Olive Oil And Ibuprofen Can Make You Want To Cough food "olive oil"
MIT Report: How to Keep from Getting the Flu They recommend washing hands with soap and water for 20-30 seconds, wearing a mask if you have a virus, installing air filters, keeping temperatures and humidity levels high and installing an ultraviolet light (because UV light is antimicrobial).
While inbreeding increases the rate of birth defects among close relatives, in further relatives it may produce healthier offspring by resulting in more babies.Weight-Loss Breakthrough, Nov 12, 2011, obesity, overweight, fatDebunked: 5 Myths About PneumoniaDrinking Pomegranate Juice Slows The Ageing Process, Says StudyReally? The Claim: Drink Eight Glasses of Water a Day to Protect the Kidneys, NYTimes Science, Nov 7, 2011 Regenerative Biology: Have We Discovered the Fountain of Youth? Daniel Honan on November 9, 2011The Healthiest Breads: 6 Types ExplainedDaylight Saving 2011: How Time Change Affects Our HealthReopen National Practitioner Data Bank files, groups urge CongressStay Healthy With These Useful Sites, Oct 30, 2011The Quiet Health-Care Revolution, Nov 2011Panel's Pitch to Nix Routine Prostate Cancer Tests Draws Strong Reaction, October 7, 201160-Second Health--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Friedrich Hayek Joins Ayn Rand as a Hypocritical User of Medicare, September 30, 201138. Gaucho Texas
September 30th, 2011 2:00 pm
Talking about (Austrian) externalities and free-market economists, let me paste this from The Nation regarding the Kock Brothers, Prof. Hayek and Ponzicare:
"Soon after taking over as president, Koch invited Hayek to serve as the Institute for Humane Studies’s “distinguished senior scholar” in preparation for its first conference on Austrian economics, to be held in June 1974.
Hayek initially declined Koch’s offer. In a letter to IHS secretary Kenneth Templeton Jr., dated June 16, 1973, Hayek explains that he underwent gall bladder surgery in Austria earlier that year, which only heightened his fear of “the problems (and costs) of falling ill away from home.” (Thanks to waves of progressive reforms, postwar Austria had near universal healthcare and robust social insurance plans that Hayek would have been eligible for.)
IHS vice president George Pearson (who later became a top Koch Industries executive) responded three weeks later, conceding that it was all but impossible to arrange affordable private medical insurance for Hayek in the United States. However, thanks to research by Yale Brozen, a libertarian economist at the University of Chicago, Pearson happily reported that “social security was passed at the University of Chicago while you [Hayek] were there in 1951. You had an option of being in the program. If you so elected at that time, you may be entitled to coverage now.”
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Ron Paul Health Insurance PlanWill the Lack of Paid Sick Days Make Movie Thriller 'Contagion' A Reality? By Kenneth Quinnell, September 14, 2011We're NOT living longer, by John Amato, July 7, 2011Why is Healthcare Absurdly Expensive in USA (Part 2) By Barry Ritholtz - May 9th, 2011, 2:30PMEnd Your Insomnia, Snoring, and Other Common Sleep Problems with These Expert TipsThe Big Picture: A Look at Absurd US Healthcosts (vs. Rest of the World), By Barry Ritholtz - April 21st, 2011, 2:30PMWhy Social Determinants?, Healthcare Quarterly, August 20, 2010Quack Watch: Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent DecisionsPneumonia Symptoms: cold, high fever, shaking chills, cough, sputum, shortness of breath, clammy skin, chest pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, body pain50 Years Later, Republicans Still Trying to Kill Medicare April 6, 2011http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/cinnamon-diabetes-_b_839487.htmlCongress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance -In 1798, by Rick Ungar, Forbes, Jan 17, 2011The Debate Over Mena and Omega-3omega-3 fatty acids, alph-linolenic acid, ALA, Omega-3 Fatty Acid,prostate cancer, EPA, DHA, flaxseed
Blood test: What you don’t know about blood, By Laura LeBlanc, August 20, 2010TATTOOS AND PIERCINGS MAY ADVERTISE GOOD HEALTH, Posted by Science Oxford on December 27, 2009http://coldcure.com The Claim: Gargling With Salt Water Can Ease Cold Symptoms, By ANAHAD O’CONNOR, September 27, 2010, New York Times Gargling with Salt Water Actually Helps a Cold or Cough2-minute doctor: A New Blood Test To Detect Cancer Could Be Coming To Your Doctor's Office, MARILYNN MARCHIONE | 01/ 3/11 09:31 PM, Huffington Post2-minute doctor: BioChips Offer Animal-Friendlier Drug-Testing Technology, Biochips promise to deliver better drug and chemical testing, cutting costs and nixing the need for most animal testing, By Larry Greenemeier, December 21, 2007, Scientific AmericanWalking Speed Predicts Life Expectancy of Older Adults: Baby boomers who keep up the pace as they age are likely to outlive those who slow down, By Katherine Harmon, Tuesday, January 4, 2011, Scientific AmericanSnoring and Sleep problems Could Signal Heart DiseaseMichael Moorehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/they-said-they-would-push_b_784830.html
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weather, climate, climate change, global warming, AGW, drought, natural events, deniars, skeptics, climategate, weather data/information, environment
A Republican meteorologist looks at climate change, April 2, 2012 By Paul Douglas
Temperature TrackerGlobal Warming Reports Over the Last Half CenturyIs Warm Weather Putting a False Shine on the Economy? By Matthew Philips on March 14, 2012A CO2 Warning Etched in Stone and Sediment, March 1, 2012, 2:27 PM, By ANDREW C. REVKINThe ugly delusions of the educated conservative, Feb 24, 2012 Better-educated Republicans are more likely to doubt global warming and believe Obama's a Muslim. Here's why...
Cloud Height Fell Over Last Decade, Nasa Study Reports, 2/24/12 This implies that sunlight travels farther, and longer, in the atmosphere, before being reflected back into space. This would mean that more air is warmed by this sunlight, and increasing, slightly, the temperature of the atmosphere.
Lomborg Versus Gore, comparison of error countsInhoe list of 650 climate scientistsHow Can We Stop Global Warming?Arctic Methane: Is Catastrophe Imminent? By JUSTIN GILLIS, December 20, 2011Methane Releases From Arctic Shelf May Be Much Larger and Faster Than Anticipated, March 4, 2010The Contratians?Global warming controversyExplain pounds of CO2 per gallon of gasoline, Jan 28, 2008 It takes 1200 cubic feet of air or 8977 gallons of air to combust one gallon of gasoline.
The Great Global Warming Fizzle - The climate religion fades in spasms of anger and twitches of boredom. WSJ, Nov 29, 2011, Bret Stephens Global Warming Denialist
Climategate II, the sequel, and not as good as the original.Weather Data Plotting SoftwareClimate Hot Map - Global Warming Effects Around the WorldHow has climate change impacted California? By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Nov 21, 2011Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/11/21/130853/how-has-climate-change-impacted.html#ixzz1eMCSrrj4
Richard Muller, Climate Researcher, Navigates The Volatile Line Between Science And Skepticism, Nov 3, 2011Global Warming is Over, Says ExpertSPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Who's behind the 'information attacks' on climate scientists? Oct 2011Richard Muller, Global Warming Skeptic, Now Agrees Climate Change Is Real, Oct 30, 2011Climate change: What we do – and don't – know, NewScientist, Oct 2011 Climate Change Deniers Abandon ‘Befuddled Warmist’ Physicist Who Came Around On Global Warming, Brian Beutler, Oct 22, 2011Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit, By Kevin Drum, Fri Oct 21, 2011Land Temperature Anomaly VideoBerkeley Earth Surface TemperatureUS Drought MonitorGlobal Drought MonitorMyths and falsehoods from the assault on global warming science, April 06, 2010Arguing With Your Crazy Uncle About Climate Change, October 12, 2011, by David BrinFlood-Gate: Perry Officials Try to Hide Sea Level Rise from Texans with “Clear-Cut Unadulterated Censorship”, By Joe Romm on Oct 12, 2011 Who's Bankrolling the Climate-Change Deniers? By BRYAN WALSH Tuesday, Oct. 04, 2011CIA Says Global-Warming Intelligence Is ‘Classified’, By David Kravets, September 22, 2011Climate Wizard - what will the world look like in the futureClimate Change Deniers Can't Refute 24 Hours of Reality, David Suzuki, Co-founder, the David Suzuki Foundation, September 11, 2011Journal editor resigns over 'flawed' paper co-authored by climate sceptic; Prof Wolfgang Wagner says research was not properly peer-reviewed and wrongly accepted by Remote Sensing, by Leo Hickman, guardian.co.uk, 2 September 2011Insurance Industry, Political Hopefuls Diverge on Climate Change, Bloomberg, September 1, 2011Stratospheric Ozone - Ozone Basics Scientific opinion on climate change, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCarbon Dioxide, CO2, Variations over the last 400,000 years350.orgNew study blames human beings for half of Arctic ice melt, Sunday, August 14, 2011, Richard Mauer, Anchorage Daily NewsDrought Withering Away Any Chance of RecoverySizzle Factor for a Restless Climate, Heidi Cullen, July 19, 2011, The New York TimesStorm Warnings: Extreme Weather Is a Product of Climate Change More violent and frequent storms, once merely a prediction of climate models, are now a matter of observation. Part 1 of a three-part series, By John Carey, June 28, 2011Analysing the ‘900 papers supporting climate scepticism’: 9 out of top 10 authors linked to ExxonMobil, April 15, 2011, The Carbon Brief - Clear on climate, the blogTipping point for severe climate change already reached, By Steve Hynd, May 30, 2011environmental news story sunday. yes. more of those pesky stories you probably won't hear on the white male talking head shows. Sunday, May 29, 2011Capital Weather Gang - The inside scoop on weather in the DC area and beyondClimate study gets pulled after charges of plagiarism, by Dan Vergano, USA Today, May 15, 2011Simple rebuttals to denier talking points — with links to the full climate science, December 28, 2010, Climate ProgressSurface Temperature Measuring StationsCatastrophe Denied: The Science of the Skeptic’s Position Critics' review unexpectedly supports scientific consensus on global warming - A UC Berkeley team's preliminary findings in a review of temperature data confirm global warming studies, by Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times, April 4, 2011Weather Spark Letters to a heretic: An email conversation with climate change sceptic Professor Freeman Dyson, Steve Connor, The Independent, February 25, 2011 House Dems call for climate science hearings amid GOP efforts to block EPA climate rules, By Andrew Restuccia, 02/24/11 12:23 PM ETCalling All Wingnuts - Global WarmingGlobal warming: Impact of receding snow and ice surprises scientists. The seasonal cooling effect of light-reflecting snow and ice in the Northern Hemisphere may be weakening at twice the rate predicted by climate models, a new study shows, accelerating the impact of global warming. Christian Science Monitor, Jan 18, 2011New and Ongoing Wildlife Mortality Events Nationwide (mass animal deaths, mass dieoffs)Roman rise and fall 'recorded in trees', By Mark Kinver, Science and environment reporter, BBC News, January 14, 20112010 Hottest Year on Record: The Graph That Should Be on the Front Page of Every Newspaper; Peter H. Gleickwater, water and climate scientist, President, Pacific Institute, January 13, 2011 05:11 PM2010 ties for warmest year, emissions to blame: U.S.; Timothy Gardner, Reuters Environmental Online Report, Jan 12, 2011 12:51 ESTForbes’ rich list of nonsense; Filed under: Climate Science Reporting on climate — group @ 6 January 2011Why dire climate warnings boost skepticism: Undermining belief in a fair world may mean that climate warnings go unheeded, January 4, 2011, Scientific AmericanRebutting climate science disinformer talking points in a single line, August 9, 2010, climateprogress.orgWeather Underground BlogThat snow outside is what global warming looks like. Unusually cold winters may make you think scientists have got it all wrong. But the data reveal a chilling truth. Guardian, George Monbiot, December 20, 2010 Climate Change Deniers Pull Off a Snow Job, David Jenkins, Frum Forum, December 28, 2010Climate Change MitigationDecember 2010 Blizzard Timelapse from Michael Black on Vimeo.
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'No Sun link' to climate change
As Climate Talks Drag on, More Ponder Techno-Fixes; As climate talks drag on, more look to tinkering with atmosphere to curb warming; The Associated Press; By CHARLES J. HANLEY AP Special Correspondent; CANCUN, Mexico December 4, 2010 (AP)
'Plagiarized' GOP-Commissioned Climate Change Report Laid Groundwork For Climate-Gate: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/plagiarized_gop-commissioned_climate_change_report.php
Russian Scientist Working To Recreate Ice Age Ecosystem: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/27/sergey-zimov-ice-age-ecosystem-siberia_n_788806.html
Siberia's Climate Time Bomb: Thawing Permafrost Could Spell Disaster: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/21/siberia-climate-change-methane_n_786554.html
Climate Scientists To Fight Back Against Republican Climate-Change Deniers: http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/climate-scientists-fight-back-against
Politics and Selective Perception: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/11/politics-and-selective-perception
Climate scientists exonerated in 'climategate' but public trust damaged: http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2010/0707/Climate-scientists-exonerated-in-climategate-but-public-trust-damaged
The Science of 350, the Most Important Number on the Planet
Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming
Scott Sabol's World of Weather
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/10/an-open-letter-to-steve-levitt
GLOBAL WARMING SKEPTICS:
List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming, Dec 1, 2011
Eminent Physicists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming Alarm
800 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of "Man-Made" Global Warming (AGW: Anthropogenic Global Warming) Alarm
Total Recoil: Please - Not global cooling!
Monday, March 26, 2012
Social Security
'Just Scrap The Cap' Video A Creative Way to Raise Awareness on Social Security Fix, Oct 23, 2011http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/02/14/social-security-is-failing-even-faster-than-we-thought/
Social Security and Medicare Taxes and Benefits Over a LifetimeSocial Security Eliminates Payback Option, Kiplinger, Dec 8, 2010Chile's Retirees Find Shortfall in Private Plan, January 27, 2005Social Security Trust Fund DataFive Social Security Non-MythsGreg Anrig has written a great, succinct myth-busting piece on Social Security. Here are the five main points in a nutshell:
1. Social Security didn’t create the deficit.
2. Social Security benefits are earned; reducing them amounts to confiscation.
3. Social Security is funded until 2037.
4. The trust fund is invested in bonds, the most secure investment in the world. To suggest that the trust fund wouldn’t pay is blatant fear-mongering.
5. Social Security is an easy fix.
Cutting Social Security will not fix the national debt, Christian Science Monitor, Karen Friedman, December 28, 2010First Salvo In Social Security Fight - OweNo, A $20 Million Campaign Launched With Bayh, Conrad As Allies
both sides do it, equivalency arguments, he said she said, nonsense examples...
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Goldilocks hailed from Chicago
by digby
Here's your most vapid --- and insulting --- quote of the day. On labor day, no less:
“My view is that the Republican claim that ‘job-killing regulation’ is a redundancy is as ridiculous as the left-wing view that ‘job-killing regulation’ is an oxymoron,” said Cass Sunstein, head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. “Both are silly political claims that have no place in a serious discussion.”
I guess that makes him juuuust right.
Except, you know, it doesn't. Republicans do claim that all regulation is job-killing because they are greedy bastards who don't care much about their fellow man. But I don't know of even one "left-winger" who believes that regulations never kill jobs. Indeed, it's ridiculous. Some regulations kill jobs. Some regulations create jobs. Often, they do both. You'd have to bedead not to be aware of the costs to certain people in any change. At least the left gives a damn about what happens to people who lose their jobs for whatever reason and would offer them some kind of compensation. The right calls them freeloaders and moochers and tells them to get a job at McDonalds.
And anyway, the "silly" political argument in all this is the mind-boggling notion that compromising with these wingnuts and industrial polluters on a few discreet issues like the Clean Air rules is going to buy you another term. Talk about not having a place in a serious discussion ...
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
FPR blog
20120421 http://boingboing.net/2009/12/28/the-mysteries-of-rab.html The Mysteries of Rabies
20120415 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQOFh1exp3A The Monarch Butterfly - Evolutionary Enigma
20120327: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/15/top-25-wild-bird-photographs-of-the-week-6
Dakuwaqa's Garden - Underwater footage from Fiji & Tonga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcbHKAWIk3I&feature=player_embedded
Rapor Resource Project: http://www.raptorresource.org
Finding Frogs: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8479058/how-do-i-find-waldo-with-mathematica/8479757#8479757
20120323: Spider eats and: http://youtu.be/Xq8q8vv2R7Y?hd=1 Amateur Myrmecology Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/myrmecostore
20120321: Hoverflies: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/science/as-hoverflies-grow-so-do-their-acting-skills.html
20120319 Ferns: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/science/ferns-have-a-two-pace-catapult-system-for-spores.html
http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/the-tools-of-tree-ring-research
http://m.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-03/video-slime-mold-inspires-new-autonomous-undulating-soft-robot
The Amazing Kingdom of Fungi.
March 12, 2012:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — F. Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel prize-winning chemist who sounded the alarm on the thinning of the Earth's ozone layer, has died. He was 84.
March 9, 2012: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/science/brains-of-honeybee-scouts-are-wired-for-adventure.html
March 9, 2012:
Daylight Savings Time Invented By George Vernon Hudson, 19th-Century Entomologist (PHOTOS)
March 2, 2012:
Slideshow w/ audio of my talk on "A Field Guide to the Microbes" from the AAAS Meeting #AAASMtg field guide to field guides, iMicrobe, iGerm, Field Guide to Microbes
Climate Change May Alter Earth's Rotation, by Neil Wagner, creator or What On Earth? comic strip
Ocean trench: Take a dive 11,000m down
FEB 23, 2012:
On The Lookout For Galápagos Wildlife (PHOTOS)
February 22, 2012:
World’s Deepest Dwelling Land Animal Discovered 2 Kilometers Underground
Feb 21, 2012:
Sheepherding Art
Feb 20, 2012:
Animation of a spader catching a moth in its web
February 15, 2012
First 3D movie tracks beetle embryo as it forms
Da Vinci’s Ghost is also a profound reflection on humanity’s timeless obsession with untangling the intricate relationship between the physical and the metaphysical in our quest to better understand what we are and where we belong in the universe.
Why We Cheat: Bird Mating Habits Used To Explain Infidelity In New Study, Feb 17, 2012
Feb 13, 2012:
Matthias Lenke's photostream (macrophotography, insects, abstract forms)
Thomas Shahan's spider & insect photostream
Thomas Shahan microphotography page for spiders & insects
9 Best Science Images From 2011
Blue Marble Eastern Hemisphere: NASA Releases Another High-Definition Image Of Earth (PHOTO), Feb 3, 2012
Feb 3, 2012: “When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?” ~ Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580
2/2/12 A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone – Wolfgang Von Goethe;
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Groundhogs (Marmota monax), By Jason G. Goldman, The Thoughtful Animal blog, February 2, 2012 http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/punxsutawney-phil-isnt-always-122732863--abc-news.html
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/image-of-the-week/2012/01/30/an-enemy-in-the-ranks/
Jan 30, 2012: Goose flying upside down captured in slow-mo movie http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/01/first-slow-mo-video-of-goose-flying-upside-down.html
Jan 27, 2012: Thomas Crapper Day
May 22, 2012: International Biodiversity Day,
Jan 25, 2012: http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb
Jan 24, 2012: National Peanut Butter Day, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/22/peanut-butter-history_n_1222585.html
Jan 22, 2012: The Urban Pantheist: Loving Nature While Living in the City http://urbpan.livejournal.com/
Jan 21, 2012: Squirrel Appreciation Day 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/21/squirrel-appreciation-day-2012_n_1220089.html#s627471
Jan 20, 2012: http://aacel.blogspot.com/2012/01/february-programs-at-fresh-pond.html
January 19, 2012: white-haired man, English accent, asks if I'm a performance artist on seeing my iPad slideshow
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2011-temps.html, global surface temperatures, 1880-2011.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/9kFHQpZpgdg
January 16, 2012: first snow of the season
January 17, 2012:
Bacteria Pictures By Fernan Federici "Bacteria grow by dividing in half, their population doubling in size as fast as every twenty minutes. In a few short hours, a bacterial culture can go from a single cell to billions, and from being invisible to the naked eye to forming dense colonies on a petri dish, sometimes centimeters across. These colonies can be relatively boring little circular mounds, swarms that form ridged waves, or fractal branched patterns [http://www.phys.chuo-u.ac.jp/labs/matusita/doc/PDF/JPSJ-Bacteria/JPSJ-58-3875.pdf]."
January 4, 2012: One of my oldest dog friends, Rascal, has died.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
blondes
attackoftheshow/blog/post/721898/girl-cant-figure-out-math-behind-mph
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
religion, atheism, absolute reductionism, other...
interactive/online computer/web-based services/resources/history/backup
Saturday, March 17, 2012
programming/coding/software/computers/OSX/Windows 7/Linux/WordPress
Programmer 101: Teach Yourself How to Code
http://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html
How to Create Form Posts with Ajax: http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/ajax_forms/index.html
Form Posts with Ajax
Ruby On RailsRails For ZombiesTry RubyRails Best PracticesRails TutorialsalternativeTO, software for Windows'Code Year' Promises to Teach You Computer Programming in 2012Easily Keep Your New Year’s Resolution To Learn How To Code, Jan 5, 2012Boom volume monitorVideo Tutorials for the Rest of Us - Specializing in Apple SoftwareChosen: a JavaScript plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. It is currently available in both jQuery and Prototype flavors.Should I Change MY Password? has been created to help the average person check if their password(s) may have been compromised and need to be changed. This site uses a number of databases that have been released by hackers to the public. No passwords are stored in the ShouldIChangeMyPassword.com database.
Learn to Code - A Lifehacker Night & School CourseMove Your Blogs from Blogger to WordPress The Easy WayThe Ultimate Blogger Wordpress Comparison GuideWordPress tutorial introduction "getting started"Emacs Macro Tutorial: How to Record and PlayRunning Windows on a Mac"Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac, Fifth Edition” kicks off by helping you figure out which version of Windows you should run (XP, Vista, or 7) and which virtualization software makes sense for you (Parallels Desktop 6, VMware Fusion 3, or VirtualBox 4) or whether you should dual-boot with Apple’s Boot Camp. Next up, Joe helps you round up the necessary hardware and software, and make any obligatory preparations. Mid-way through the ebook, you’ll be making it all work right with hardware drivers installed, printers printing, anti-virus software patrolling the perimeter, and so forth. Before you finish, you’ll know how to share files between Mac and Windows installations, enjoy the snazzy new features in the latest versions of Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion, create functional backups of your Windows installation, and generally get on with your life while using Windows.
Questions answered in the ebook include:
* What are 13 things that you can do in Windows, but not on the Mac?
* How can I get a copy of Windows that will work on a Mac?
* How can I set things up so that Windows won’t bog down my Mac’s
backups?
* How should I handle partitioning for my Windows installation?
* How can I avoid or handle activation hassles?
* What’s the best way to right-click in Windows?
* How do I make my Bluetooth devices work in Windows?
* What is FAT32, and why might it matter to me?
* What are the coolest new features in Parallels Desktop 6?
* Is VirtualBox 4 a serious contender in the world of virtualization?
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Running Mac & PC on the same computer: http://lifehacker.com/#!5623313/how-to-run-windows-mac-and-linux-side-by-side-and-pain+free-with-virtualbox
http://www.parallelsstore.com
http://www.winehq.org
BootCamp
How to Run Windows, Mac, and Linux Side by Side and Pain-Free with VirtualBox
How to Build a Hackintosh Mac and Install OS X in Eight Easy Steps
A List Apart: for people who make websites
Stackoverflow: Answer site for programmers
Site Wizard: Website design, promotion, programming and revenue making
Topcoder Programming partner site
Visual Basic Helper
Emacs Tutorial: http://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/tcl-course/emacs-tutorial.html
Ronald Reagan
Thursday, March 15, 2012
friends, people I know,
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
war, The Iraq War, The Civil War
The new old lie, by Thomas Bruscino, MARCH 2012, On war art and the meaning of war.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Obama Fulfills Promise To End Iraq War As GOP Wants Endless Engagement, Sat, Oct 22, 2011The Liberal Curmudgeon
Liberal commentary that attempts to make sense out of the mess we're in.
President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise by announcing that the troops will come home from Iraq by the end of the year. Lawrence O’Donnell recounts the terrible costs of the war, based on false premises of WMD: for Americans, 4,482 lives, 32,213 wounded, 1,146 amputees; for Iraqis, over 100,000 casualties. The Republicans are filled with misgivings at the announcement. Herman Cain wouldn’t have told the enemy about the withdrawal; presumably 39,000 troops could withdraw in secret, with the Iraqi government also kept in the dark and given no time to prepare. Mitt Romney decries Obama’s “astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition,” without specifying how he would do so, if ever. Rick Perry echoes this point. John McCain criticizes this “strategic victory for our enemies." When would the Republicans think is the right time to withdraw and under what circumstances? None of the statements clarify that–and none mention the cost of continuing operations, for all of the GOP's talk about cutting the deficit. Rachel Maddow joins O'Donnell to point out that the Republicans didn’t complain when George Bush negotiated this very withdrawal timeline with the Iraqi government.
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Richard Engle's Iraq journal: War journal: my five years in IraqThe Storm That Nearly Lost the War, Nov 2, 2011, by Albin J Kowalewski
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
math, mathematics, innumeracy
Pi Day in AmericaRefining the Formula That Predicts Celebrity Marriages’ Doom, By JOHN TIERNEY, March 12, 2012Americans Stumble on Math of Big Issues, Jan 7, 2012, The Numbers GuyAmericans and Innumeracy, by JOHN SIDES on JANUARY 8, 20121728 Software SystemsAlgebra SolveriFigure provides links to online calculators and worksheets.Math Fail - From failures in math, funny jokes, cool facts, puzzles, comics… mathematics
Mathematics in Movies9 Geeky Equations Our Readers Think You Should (at Least Pretend to) Know, Wired, Nov 10, 2011This Video Will Solve the Math Ed Crisis, October 22, 2011The Man Who Loves Only Numbers, by Paul Hoffman, November 1987Doodling in Math Class: Binary TreesVi Hart bloghttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/Kiss-My-Math/Danica-McKellar/e/9781616821791/pwb=1&
Mathematics in Movies: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies
mathematics problem solving: http://mathteacherorstudent.blogspot.com/2010/09/habits-of-mind.html
blowback from Republican policies
technology, gadgets, doo-dads, Internet thingies..., free services, interesting sites for interesting stuff
TuneTune: convert YouTube music pages to .MP3sThe Top 50 Technology Blogs to Watch in 2012Follow Up Then: free and easy email remindersCalepin.co: Publishing for writers who love Markdown and DropboxInternet of ThingsTWINE, Supermechanical.comCrowdsourcing Revives Use of Human Computers Mechanical Turk, CrowdForge, CastingWords
Ball Cameramini-helicopter, drone, aircraftKAYWA QR-CODE Generator binary/black/white thingy
Damn InterestingThe Verge is a technology-focused news publication founded in 2011 by Joshua Topolsky and Marty Moe in partnership with Vox Media and its CEO Jim Bankoff. The Verge's mission is to offer breaking news coverage and in-depth reporting, product information, and community content via a unified, modern platform.SoapBox: controlled digital space, designed to improve student engagement by breaking down the barriers students face when deciding whether or not to participate in class, and gives teachers a concrete assessment of student comprehension, in real time.Text to Movie, filmmakingSend a postcard via your computer and USPSA beginner's guide to using the internet safelyRead Comfortably—Anytime, Anywhere. Return to distraction–free reading while supporting writers & publishers.157 of the Most Useful Websites on the InternetDraw a line, any line, and Google Correlate will give you trends relating to your line.HYPNOTIC SPIRALThinkUp is a free, open source web application that captures your posts, tweets, replies, retweets, friends, followers and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. With ThinkUp, you can store your social activity in a database that you control, making it easy to search, sort, analyze, publish and display activity from your network. All you need is a web server that can run a PHP application.JPEGmini - minimize the size of a .JPG or a set of .JPGsSI:K - a magical interactive artworkspielzeugGeek Culture | Technology, Entertainment, Power Grid: http://www.geekosystem.com
Nerd Approved - Gadgets and Gizmos: http://nerdapproved.com
Neatorama: http://www.neatorama.com
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Village Dog Project
Friday, March 09, 2012
pollution, air/water/food
dinosaurs
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Ayn Rand
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
idea conferences (TED, TEDX, Davos, etc)
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
physics, speed of light, relativity, quantum mechanics, the universe
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