October 13, 2009
And he gets squid in the deal!!!
Is that an iPod they're looking at just under 3 minutes.
I think I want to eat a banana now.
Go here, learn more, and give them your money. Seriously.
October 13, 2009
In 1968, and the few years before and after, American commercial aircraft were hijacked to Cuba on a regular basis. It became part of our day to day culture...
The latest essay us up at Collective Imagination.
October 13, 2009
A repost
This is obviously true, and i’ve been saying this for a long time. And I’m not talking about the butt-slaps and sharing chewing tobacco and stuff.
To a certain extent, digit ratios seem to be a reasonable indicator of the kinds of hormonal environment in which a person develops in utero…
October 13, 2009
1975, winter, somewhere in the American Southwest. I am driving across a state border and there is a sign that reads "do not transport citrus fruit across state lines." There on the side of the road is a check point with uniformed federal agents, a place to pull off, some garbage cans. I look at…
October 13, 2009
If you don't like Hardball, you won't like this. But Matthews is right.
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October 13, 2009
So the other day, grandma was taken to the hospital with various medical issues, and treated in the ER. After she was stabilized, she was sent to the ICU, but was unable to get a bed at first because the "ICU was full of H1N1 patients." I'm was not sure what that means because the term "H1N1" does…
October 13, 2009
Chesley Sullenberger is the pilot who successfully crash-landed his plane in the Hudson River after both engines were lost to goose strikes. His book, Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, is out today.
A while ago he was asked at which point he started praying as the plain went down…
October 13, 2009
So, I said some things that got my friend DuWayne Brayton mad, and this caused him to write two blog posts (here and here), and now with a little time to spare I'm giving this the attention it deserves.
I'm going to let DuWayne and you, dear reader, piece together most the threads that connect…
October 13, 2009
I don't think I've poked anybody on Facebook. I was afraid. And I'm so glad I didn't do it!
A woman in Tennessee was, apparently, arrested in September for poking someone. Arrested by real police, not some kind of facebook "police" app.
According to an affidavit filed with the Sumner County…
October 13, 2009
October 13th was the eigth birthday of the Office Suite OpenOffice.Org. This is an OpenSource office suite that will look familiar to anyone using Microsoft Office, WordPefect Office, etc. It has a word processor (Writer) that does pretty much everything Microsoft Word does, but with a more logical…
October 12, 2009
He's too big.
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I did not let Amanda see this story. I just turned the TV off and said "Oh, I think the fuse blew, honey."
October 12, 2009
October 20th
7:00 to 9:00 PM
Bryant Lake Bowl
Jonathan Foley, director of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, will talk about another inconvenient truth: our complex global food and agricultural system.
With your help Foley will take-up the question, "How will we feed and…
October 12, 2009
No one was shot in the following video. So don't worry about carrying around guns. It's perfectly safe.
October 12, 2009
Cleaning Up the Orbital Neighborhood
Space debris of the man-made variety has been around ever since the first rocket launches in the late 1950s, but it was not until the end of the Cold War that the major space-faring nations began to see the growing number of leftover objects still in orbit…
October 12, 2009
Automation may .. provide the mechanism needed to balance the needs between privacy and policy. Video cameras are everywhere - this genie is out of its bottle. But for many computer vision applications, raw imagery can be analyzed on the fly and need never be directly viewed by human observers.…
October 12, 2009
Funktionide Part II from eltopo on Vimeo.
Get your own blob here.
Hat Tip: Desiree
October 12, 2009
17th century Arabic anatomy drawing, from the Advances of Islamic Sciences web site. In some Islamic sects, drawing living things is not allowed. As a very practical matter, this excludes students from taking part in certain activities in science classrooms.
During the Bell Museum Slapdown…
October 12, 2009
What might have been a plausible idea in the 17th or 18th century is the starting point for a just published paper in PNAS.
Before you go read about it, I just want to say this: Having a system of publication in which some crap gets published is the cost of having a system of publication in which…
October 12, 2009
Hmmm... Do I go along with Rush Limberger and Faux News? Or do I go along with ... Rachel?
Most people don't get what the Nobel Peace Prize is. I tried to tell you. Some of you didn't get it. Maybe if Rachel tells you you'll get it.
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October 12, 2009
This makes Elinor Ostrom of Indian University the first woman to win this prize.
Ostrom won "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" and Williamson, of Berkeley, won "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm."
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October 12, 2009
Effect Measure has an interesting take-down of a post on The Global Language Monitor (GLM), which brings up an interesting point or two.
The GLM is a very strange site which has, as Revere points out, declared itself to be an important go-to place to find out about language trends across the…
October 11, 2009
Courtesy of the DNC via DMB
October 11, 2009
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
October 11, 2009
Hat Tip Julia
October 10, 2009
A very early example of painting inside a built structure is being reported from Syria.
A Repost
Geometric polychromic painting on the interior of a built wall in a structure occupied by Hunter-Gatherers, about 11,000 years ago, in Syria. [source]
It looks like modern art, but this painting…
October 10, 2009
A good friend of mine is. I know something about this particular issue, and my opinion as a doctor* is that she will be fine. Which I told her. But I know that means very little.
Please read this.
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Footnotes
*Well, doctor of philosophy, but really, that's better anyway.
October 9, 2009
I just love my Linux "calendar" command. It's an old Unix trick. *nix (Linux, Unix) systems have these special files on them where dated information is stored, for the user, the system, or just because it's there. If you have a Linux computer, you have several such files already installed. If…
