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Monday, August 31, 2015
How To 'Skin' A Watermelon
If it is not worth doing, it is not worth doing well.
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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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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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Sunday, August 30, 2015
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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Saturday, August 29, 2015
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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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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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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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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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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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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Tuesday, August 25, 2015
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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Sunday, August 23, 2015
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Friday, August 21, 2015
What’s Actually in Five-Spice Powder May Surprise You | The Feed
Now, let's get to the important stuff.
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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
“Bullshit” Now Fit to Print
Thank heavens. I can now accurately express myself in print!
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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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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
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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Tuesday, August 18, 2015
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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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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Monday, August 17, 2015
Key West with the Family in 1998
Google's AI technique creates great memories!
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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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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
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Friday, August 14, 2015
Why The Greenwich Prime Meridian Moved
So do we need to change all our maps?
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015
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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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
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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Sunday, August 09, 2015
Saturday, August 08, 2015
Friday, August 07, 2015
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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Wednesday, August 05, 2015
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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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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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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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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