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slacktivist: The Indignant Household Budget "[T]he pitiable thing is that here in reality -- as opposed to the smug fantasy world of this stock speech -- overtime and second jobs are exactly what many of those poor cheering fools in the audience are actually doing to try to make ends meet. The…
Cocktail Party Physics: oily hair is not a problem - its a solution for the gulf coast "One of the more interesting solutions proposed (aside from dropping trash in the pipe to block the oil) also involves using fibers; however, the fibers in question are human hair. Chicken feathers, straw, and…
slacktivist: L'affaire Waltke "This is a story about control. It is about, in the unintentionally candid terms of one of the main actors, "absolute authority" and the desire to wield that authority over a text so that the text, in turn, may be used to wield absolute authority over others. It is a…
Think Globally, Compromise Locally - Green Blog - NYTimes.com "Bill McKibben, whose 1989 book, "The End of Nature," helped coalesce and spread worry about climate change, views the national environmental groups' strategy of winning support for energy and climate legislation by compromising with…

regarding the incomprehensible illustration in "Can one 'pin down' electrons?":

Looks to me like an album cover for Yes