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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Scott Adams Blog

"Certainty is the same thing as a lack of imagination"
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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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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

ap2.googleusercontent.com

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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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

Scott Adams Blog

he has a point - of sorts...
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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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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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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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