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Sunday, May 31, 2015

The BDLPSWDKS Effect

"Definition of a liberal education: What you need to learn in order to get this joke."
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MIT’s cheetah robot can now autonomously detect and jump over hurdles | Ars Technica

Be afraid, very afraid.
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Every goddamn day: 05/31/15: The shortest bucket list ever


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IBM employees now able to choose Macs as their company issued computer

Hell is now officially frozen over.
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Chill Out, America | Foreign Policy


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Saturday, May 30, 2015

Chicago 2015 festival guide

Summer Bucket List
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Varun Pruthi

A message for Bruce Rauner and his ilk.
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Friday, May 29, 2015

Robots Read News - about FIFA


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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance


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Pop Sensation Lorde, Now in Yiddish | Jewniverse


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How Comedians Became the New Public Intellectuals

They have discovered that the truth, simply and pithily stated, always gets a laugh. Try it in your next business or board meeting.
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How Fake Money Saved Brazil

Definitely worth a huh!
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Art does heal: scientists say appreciating creative works can fight off disease

This may make me immortal. However, the statistician in me says "Bullshit."
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This family sold everything they own to visit 400 National parks in an Airstream Bus

There are only 59 National Parks! Not sure it is truly meaningful, but it sure looks like fun.
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Can We Finally Treat Food Workers Fairly?

Walmart may the most evil corporation ever.
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Obama To Invade Texas...With Temporary Housing, Clean Water, Food And Cash (VIDEO)

I think we should just give it back to Mexico, just like the Texas right want, End the occupation.
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How we cut youth violence in Boston by 79 percent

Rahm Emanuel You need to bring this guy in to run the police force. "That you do for me, without me, you do to me"
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What's the worst joke you've ever heard? - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social...


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Watch Jon Stewart Interview David Letterman as His Final Guest in 1995

Will Jon Stewart interview Letterman again for Jon's last show?
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Message to My Freshman Students

Well said.
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From the Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew: The Secret Ghostwriters of Children's Fiction

Huh! I thought the Hardy Boys were long gone.
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Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness

Reality remains remarkably strange.
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How to mine Bitcoin on a 55-year-old IBM 1401 mainframe

I wrote an accounting suite in Assembler for this machine!
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

8th Grader Arrested, Threatened with Beatings and Held for 6 Days in Jail – For Throwing Skittles

And the beat goes on.
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How American parenting is killing the American marriage


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Bob Dylan

There is still life in the old guys
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Monday, May 25, 2015

Is someone slowing down your Internet? Find out right now.


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Ciência Hoje

Is there any reason to believe that the future will be more stable than the past?
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The Perfect Explanation of Privilege - In One Powerful Punchline


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Art Makes You Smart

Come see the original at the Art Institute of Chicago
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Why You Should Buy Cheap Wine

Bring on the cheap plonk.
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It’s Time to Bring Imperialism Back to the Middle East | Foreign Policy

Excellent analysis. What is left unsaid is that the USA's focus on Democracy as the solution to every problem is itself a problem.
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Statistics PhD ranked as best graduate degree

Statisticians rule!
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Big Lie: America Doesn't Have #1 Richest Middle-Class in the World... We're Ranked 27th!


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Friday, May 22, 2015

Kansas Republicans have come up with a disgraceful new way to screw the poor

Fortunately you are not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy.
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Bossbert


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The Golden State Approach to Managing the Middle East

“We don’t have problems to be solved; we have conditions to be managed.”
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

'The big banks have been caught red-handed'

So why is nobody going to jail?
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

20 years of data reveals that Congress doesn't care what you think.

"Because purchasing political influence is 100% legal" and is called bribery!
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Osama bin Laden Would Not Have Taken Ramadi


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Toyota Recalls 1993 Camry Due To Fact That Owners Really Should Have Bought Something New By Now


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Audi made a featherlight bicycle that costs as much as a car

Get your orders in quickly.
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Have You Heard the One About the Man in Montana Who Shot his Neighbor for Serving Him a Treyf Drink?


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Chicago records chilliest May 19th in 15 years; warmth in arctic driving buckled jet stream...

In case you thought it was cold today - you were right.
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WTO Ruling on Meat Labels Exemplifies Corporate Profits Trumping Democracy


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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Olympus DSL-ARM Ad Pokes Fun at the Heaviness of DSLRs

This explains it all.
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Time-lapse using photos online

The wonders of the web
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Dilbert Is Not Anti Social


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German Artist Drowns in Venice - artnet News


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Monday, May 18, 2015

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Interview: Jeffrey Goldstein On Why He’s Suing Vivian Maier’s Estate

and the beat goes on...
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Fox News

Sad!
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On "starve the beast"


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Saturday, May 16, 2015

URGENT: Stop the $700 million cut to Medicare


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Disturb Reality

With cops like these guys, who needs criminals?
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Family Guy Trashes the Tea Party (VIDEO)

The good side of FOX!
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What If Americans Ate Like South Africans And Vice Versa?

"corn porridge" = "mielie pap" ~ "grits" is good for you!
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FBI: researcher admitted to hacking plane in-flight, causing it to “climb” | Ars Technica

Oh Shit. Will they soon ban all computer use on planes?
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Friday, May 15, 2015

WATCH: The science behind why it's so hard to remember names

It's not my fault, see.
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Witness Accounts in Midtown Hammer Attack Show the Power of False Memory

Eyewitness testimony without video backup is worth nothing. Unfortunately we have been incarcerating and exonerating people for centuries with no valid reasons.
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www.economist.com

Words to the wise.
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Cerebro Digital


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Scientists: Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans - The New Yorker


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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

THIS Is What That Extra Shoelace Hole Is Used For. I Wish I Knew This Earlier!

I learn something new every day. Sometimes it is even useful.
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Lost...In Your Own Archives

It is a problem.
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Comic for May 13, 2015


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Dimensions


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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Monday, May 11, 2015

Islamic Sects, Schools, Branches & Movements - Information Is Beautiful

Just in case you were wondering…
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We're 1 of only 2 countries in the world without paid maternity leave. John Oliver looks at why.


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How Every Part of American Life Became a Police Matter

"Our incarceration rate is the highest in the world, triple that of the now-defunct East Germany. "
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Sperm has reportedly been created in the lab for the first time ever

The last unique capability of men - now gone? Woe are we!
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

How to control someone else's arm with your brain

Jacob Bokor and friends. How about this for a career?
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I'm most politically like the Solid Liberals. What political type are you?

Why am I not surprised?
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WATCH: Womanizing Cop Caught Feeling On Woman, Arrests Guy Who Tries To Film It (VIDEO)

So the question is - why have this cop and his buddies with him not been charged with criminal assault, unlawful detention, and a whole lot of other things? Most cops are good cops (I hope) - but the system seems to protect the bad cops. And many justify their actions on the grounds that the people they assault are not good people! GMAFB!
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The Surprising Brain Differences Between Democrats and Republicans

"It's not that conservative people are more fearful, it's that fearful people are more conservative."
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Mother's Day History: Why Anna Jarvis wished she'd never founded it


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Mustang1071


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Saturday, May 09, 2015

A Day In The Life Of An Ugly Renaissance Baby


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Abigail' Dance - short clip
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eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov

Cool. Hot. Highlights the dry deserts.
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Abigail Dance Recital Clip May 2015


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Ringing In Your Ears? Finally, Researchers Finding New Clues About Tinnitus

Interesting - but a sample size of one is hardly convincing.
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Dilbert Fixes Boss's Technology Strategy

my life, in three panels.
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Human cognition-affecting virus discovered (Wired UK)

I always thought that stupidity was contagious. Now I understand the mechanism.
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Friday, May 08, 2015

Five Takeaways (and a Needlepoint) from the British Elections


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The Ultimate Coalition: Averaging the Portraits of UK Political Leaders

Looks familiar.
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Study: Half Of Tinder Users Aren’t Single

It is from The Onion - but it caught me :-( ... and I still think it is not a joke. The divide between satire and reality continues to erode. If the universe is a hologram maybe it is a satire on a late night intergalactic TV show. Everyone is laughing at us. Think about it.
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White America's Greatest Delusion: "They Do Not Know It and They Do Not Want to Know It"

Contemplate and cogitate on this.
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Real-Time Lightning Map :: LightningMaps.org

If you want to know where the lightning is, check this out. Very cool.
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World War II: The Fall of Nazi Germany

It is hard to believe that the whole war in Europe lasted just a little over five years, with the war with Japan starting later and ending later. About 30,000 deaths PER DAY! About half of them civilians.
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Jeb Bush Names George W. Bush As His Most Trusted Middle East Adviser

The man who gave us the Iraq debacle is back!?
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Live: The Conservatives win big in Britain’s surprisingly decisive election

One think the UK does more efficiently than the US is electing its government. It takes a few months vs a few years, and costs a lot less.
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Meet the outsider who accidentally solved chronic homelessness

Huh. Why is this not more widely adopted?
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It sounds crazy, but he asks it anyway: What if we got rid of immigration laws?

It worked for the United States of America. Why not the United States of the World?
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The Science Of Good Sleep: There's A Reason You're Always So Tired


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Thursday, May 07, 2015

Best and worst graduate degrees for jobs in 2015

Jacob Bokor Julia Bokor take note.
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I just unlocked 3 months of PaperKarma for free!


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Wednesday, May 06, 2015

How The Iconic 'Doctor Who' Theme Was Created

Who knew.
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Ex-CIA Official in New Book: GOP Distorted Agency’s Benghazi Findings

Without a conspiracy, what would the chattering classes chatter about?
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WATCH: Where are all the aliens? The Fermi Paradox explained in 6 minutes

Thoughts worth a thunk.
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From the hood to Harvard

The bigotry in the comments is astounding.
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The Unexpected Pleasure of Doing Things Alone


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Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Rep. Seth Moulton appears to be determined to do the right thing, even if it means not getting...

An honest Congressman? Hw will not last long.
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F-35 Contractors, Under Fire, Spent Record Amounts in 2014

" the four main contractors on the project have made sure campaign funds flow to lawmakers who are instrumental in keeping government payments coming for the jet. " So Congress takes our tax money and sends it to the defense contractors who send it right back to Congress. Why such a complex route? Why not pass a bill that allows the congressmen just to take the tax money and kill the program. It would save a lot of money overall.
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Sunday, May 03, 2015

Wearing a suit changes the way your brain works, research finds

It is not the suit. It is the tie - it restricts blood flow to the brain and makes you act stupid.
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How Doing Nothing Became the Ultimate Family Vacation


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Evidence Shows That Saudi Arabia May Be Using Internationally Banned Weapons

Well Gee Golly Gosh. OMG. Weapons are being used for what they were designed to be used for. How shocking. I am shocked, shocked. This can't be. Do these people not know that the right to bear arms is restricted to US patriots.
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Calling for a True Conservative Strategy - Breitbart

Why on earth would any sane person call for a true conservative strategy?
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Watch Korean American Woman Turn The Stereotype Table On White Man (VIDEO)

Wonderful. Sad.
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America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking

"Smart money versus dumb voters is hardly a fair fight. But it does offer compelling evidence that the survival of the fittest remains an unshakable truth even in American life. A sad sort of proof of evolution.:
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Comic for May 03, 2015


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Science Confirms: The More Coffee You Drink, The Longer You Will Live

Actually, it is the other way around. The longer you live, the more coffee you will drink.
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Dear white Facebook friends: I need you to respect what Black America is feeling right now


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