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Monday, August 31, 2015

What happens when you give 100 homeless people disposable cameras? You get true works of art.


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Watch now: POV | The Storm Makers - Trailer | PBS Video


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WATCH: FactCheck.Org Director Makes Rare TV Appearance To Shut Down Recent GOP Lies (Video)


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How To 'Skin' A Watermelon

If it is not worth doing, it is not worth doing well.
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Why The Smear Group Behind The Planned Parenthood Videos Must Release Full, Unedited Source Footage


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William Kentridge Plans Massive, Vanishing Mural in Rome

I have seen his work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Very interesting.
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Google expands Android Wear to the iOS platform - RevealTheTech

Cool! Now I will be able to get to choose which watch to wear every day.
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The Art of Staying Awake at the Opera

Self help advice for all
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A Battle of the Fighter Jets

The F-35 has already lost a shoot out with the F-16, so let's try it against something slower.
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Three Category 4 hurricanes have just hit the Pacific Ocean at the same time

As the pot starts boiling, turbulence increases.
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“Go Back To Mexico” Sentiment Is Most Prevalent In States That Used To Be Mexico


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Sunday, August 30, 2015

A Nerd’s Guide To The 2,229 Paintings At MoMA


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Scott Adams Blog

"Certainty is the same thing as a lack of imagination"
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Corpse Flower 'Lacks Energy to Bloom,' Says Chicago Botanic Garden

On Friday it looked like it needed Viagra
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Friday, August 28, 2015

The Secret to the Psychic Trade? It’s in the Parole Board Transcripts

This is a surprise? Sad that these people are incarcerated but stock market prognosticators and interest rate forecasters go free.
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Brave New Films


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Tech nerds are smart. But they can't seem to get their heads around politics.


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Pro-Clinton Group Demands Benghazi Chair Turn Over All His Emails

Turnabout is fair play
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xkcd: Engineer Syllogism


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Your brain is still 30 times more powerful than the best supercomputers

Using that metric, computers will catch up in 5 years. “Based on current market prices, that means you stand to earn between $4,700 and $170,000 if you rented out your brain's computing power for an hour.” CEOs already earn in that range.
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We found only one-third of published psychology research is reliable – now what?

Not surprising given the statistical illiteracy of many social "scientists"
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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Fox News Asks If Discredited Anti-Abortion Group Deserves A Pulitzer

Maybe vacation at a privately operated penal institute would be more appropriate?
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'Sting' Videos Of Planned Parenthood Are Totally Cooked, Forensic Analysis Finds

Gee, what a surprise!
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The Kochs, A Nazi Past, Oil & The Foundation of The Right

???
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Slain Reporter's Father Demands 'Coward' Politicians Take Up Gun Control


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Yellowstone visitor wants park to train bears to be 'where guests can see them'


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What happens when a Mac devotee tries Windows 10?


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arstechnica.com

People on the far Left and far Right will be outraged by the invasion of privacy. Centrists will be outraged because, you know, outrage is in. Me, I have no problem.
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The Online Photographer: Random Excellence: Paul Heartfield


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Oxford dictionary admits “wine o’clock”

About time...
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Awareness of Memory Loss May Decline 2 to 3 Years Before Dementia Onset

So just when you think it is not a problem -- it is! (But I would love to check their statistics. The sample size is small)
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Mediterranean Eating Habits Prove Good for the Brain

Now, if only I could remember what the Mediterranean Diet was I would be fine.
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Scott Adams Blog


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Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site


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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Incense could be more harmful than cigarette smoke, researchers find

I was wondering when someone would figure this out.
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At the Chicago Air and Water show last week
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How understanding the prisoner's dilemma can help bridge liberal and conservative differences


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Huckabee’s Spin on Iran

"IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano responded to the AP article by issuing a statement that said, “I am disturbed by statements suggesting that the IAEA has given responsibility for nuclear inspections to Iran. Such statements misrepresent the way in which we will undertake this important verification work.”
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015: Maximum Shelf: The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science |...

This looks like a must have!
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To laugh or cry


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I’m Chinese, and I Know Why There Aren’t More Asians in the Ivy League

Another perspective...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

Researchers show that an iron bar is capable of decision-making

So maybe we should elect an iron bar to Congress. It may have more empathy than our political classes.
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Robots Read News Of Supreme Court Ruling


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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Friday, August 21, 2015

Misleading AP Story on Iran Deal Draws Fierce Critique


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Anton


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What’s Actually in Five-Spice Powder May Surprise You | The Feed

Now, let's get to the important stuff.
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Ashley Madison is like the lottery: many play, few win

In case you were wondering...
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Apple Hiring Autonomous Vehicle Experts, Including Tesla Engineer Now Working on 'Special Projects'

This could get interesting.
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Breitbart’s Racist Story About Shaun King Has Completely Imploded

Marilyn Krochmal Gelfand
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“The War on Drugs is Over, and We Lost,” Meet the Police Chief Who’s Starting a Revolution

This is important. How can we get the pols and bloggers on board?
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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Clinical psychologist explains how Ayn Rand helped turn the US into a selfish and greedy nation

Needs to be discussed over Tea.
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In What Sense did Orthodoxy Believe the Torah to be Divine? - TheTorah.com


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“Bullshit” Now Fit to Print

Thank heavens. I can now accurately express myself in print!
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Should you go to graduate school? Yes. Maybe. Definitely not


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Conservative moralist Josh Duggar had an Ashley Madison Account

Why am I not surprised? I expect many famous moralists from all across the political spectrum to show up on the list.
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The Unofficial State Cars of America


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Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities

This eerily resonates with the plot of a play called "Inana" that was produced at the Timeline Theater in Chicago
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Nutritionist Attacked After Debunking ‘Glyphosate In Milk’ Study - Here's How She Responded


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Internet meme 'Deez Nuts' out-polls Walker, Fiorina, and Huckabee in North Carolina

Maybe polls are not so accurate after all
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Suitcase Cam Shows What It's Like To Be Luggage At The Airport

I bet they could sell rides on this!
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The Freedom of the Press: George Orwell on the Media’s Toxic Self-Censorship

"Mark Twain bewailed that “there are laws to protect the freedom of the press’s speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press” " The mantle of "the press" is being passed to bloggers and pundits and Facebook commentators (myself included) who are held to even lower standards.
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Traffic Armageddon Is Here: Expressway Lanes To Be Closed For Construction

You have been warned
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Feds: Planned Parenthood Did Nothing Wrong, Republicans Are Lying


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6 Reasons You Can't Trust Science Anymore


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3 Things You Should Know About Birthright Citizenship

Interesting.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Politically-Challenged: Texas Tech Edition - Safeshare.TV

We are doomed.
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As Americans Figure Out the Roundabout, It Spreads Across the U.S.

Spinning headlong into the 20th Century...
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Madeleine Albright To Jeb: Stop Blaming Obama For Your Brother's Iraq Debacle

We need another Bush like we need another ISIS.
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SoFloAntonio


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Hummus Is the Dish of the Year for 2015


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Right-Wing Media Liken Trump's Immigration Plan To The Magna Carta

We are all descendants of immigrants - "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
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Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data

"Findings by Deloitte such as a fourfold rise in bar staff since the 1950s or a surge in the number of hairdressers this century suggest to the authors that technology has increased spending power, therefore creating new demand and new jobs." It may be true, but it also implies that technology drives us to be drunks with well coifed hair.
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Tax Payers Pay $24,000 For 2 Pills: How The Drug War Is Bankrupting Our Country (VIDEO)


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Monday, August 17, 2015

The sad, sick life of the business traveller

This was my life through the 80s!
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Restoring Friendship - rebuilding burnt Friendship center in Tabgha Church


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Anger management


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Key West with the Family in 1998

Google's AI technique creates great memories!
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Pink Floyd officially breaks up: David Gilmour says he’s ‘done' after 48 years

Some people have no patience
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One Simple Thing: Flip-flops are not your friend

"Thirty minutes is a good estimate for too long to be in flip-flops"
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The Online Photographer: A Few More Pieces of the Vivian Maier Puzzle

The saga continues...
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Ten Things I’ve Learned in Fifty Years | Cole Thompson Photography

Thoughtful thinks...
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A Suggestion for Camera Clubs | Cole Thompson Photography

Stephen M. Levin recommended this blogger to me. Check out his blog (and Steve's as well) for interesting and excellent photographs.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015

Friday, August 14, 2015

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

The Myth of a Better Deal


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What Do Iranians Think of the Iran Deal?

Things you should know.
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Massive Toxic Algae Blooms May Prove a Sign of Climate Change to Come

... not with a bang but a whimper.
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Why conservative billionaires have started talking like Bernie Sanders: “We are creating a caste...

It's not only billionaires that worry about this. Me and and some of my non-billionaire friends also worry. You should too.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes at BrainyQuote.com

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt - Bertrand Russel. This applies to most political discourse.
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11 Unexpected Health Benefits of Drinking Whisky


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The dreamboat next door

"He finds that for every 10% more children of the opposite sex among a student’s friends, his or her grade-point average (GPA) declines by 0.1 (GPAs range from 0 to 4)." Otherwise stated: For every decrease in GPA of .1, the student has 10% more opposite sex friends. Or: Dumb jocks get the girls!
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Crocs for horses: Plastic slip-on hooves that making nailing horseshoes a thing of the past

Next we need catalytic converters to clean up their exhausts.
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Monday, August 10, 2015

How To Break Free If Your Hands Are Bound With Duct Tape. This Could Save Your Life.

News you should never have to use.
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The surprising way groups like ISIS stay in power


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Germany’s bizarre version of capitalism—where bosses and workers actually cooperate—is winning

Interesting analysis.
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The 21st Century Cures Act: The (Somewhat) Good, The (Mostly) Bad, and The (Very) Ugly

Interesting. I find it strange that scientific rigor needs to be (or can be) defined by an act of Congress, given that many congressmen begin their sentences with "I am not a scientist, but..." OTOH, unconstrained the drug companies will likely try to scare the public into taking all kinds of crap to cure imaginary illnesses. Remember where snake oil originated.
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I in Team


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Friday, August 07, 2015

Scientists discover an unexpected natural hangover cure that actually works


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Two leaders, two countries, two international standings

If we get a President like Putin, war with Russia may be inevitable. Sit down, put your head ... you know how it does.
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What Really Happened At Last Night's Fox News Debate

Let's see if they can keep up the charade. I will give them the benefit of the doubt - for a while.
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Thursday, August 06, 2015

Meet RollJam, the $30 device that jimmies car and garage doors

If you are wondering where your car is...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Language Log » Statistical cognition in the media

Great take down of the statistical BS typically found press reports of science.
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Monday, August 03, 2015

Fix sexism in air conditioning, save the planet | Ars Technica

Almost everyone complains that buildings are too cold. Why is it so hard to figure that out. Take a survey!
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Father and Son Take the Same Picture Every Year for Nearly 3 Decades

Great project!
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Five Myths About New U.S. Climate Plan: What You May Not Know

Why do conservatives always resist the introduction of new technologies - and then they fight to retain them when they are no longer new?
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Why teachers can't hotfoot it out of Kansas fast enough

The spiral into 3rd world status continues
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Driving


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Sunday, August 02, 2015

Two Proud Gun Nuts Second-Amendment Each Other To Death In Road Rage Incident

The only thing that will stop a dumb guy with a gun is another dumb guy with a gun!
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Time-lapse of Montrose Beach on Chicago’s North Side being evacuated as Sunday’s mid-afternoon supercell t-storm moves in

Chicago today.
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Portraits of Babies in Camera Bags

It's raining on Mackinac Island so here are some pictures of babies
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Saturday, August 01, 2015

SHERIFF: Huron County woman shot dead by neighbor for mowing her lawn too late at night

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a lawnmower is a good guy with a gun?
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