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Reexamining the Definition of Cancer | NPR
When your hear the word cancer, what does it mean to you? The big C, right? Fear, uncertainty. But not all cancers are created equal. Not all are equally harmful. They are not all treated the same way. This week,… Continue reading
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Why One Nation Wants To Turn Its Undersea Volcanoes Into A National Park | Popular Science
Back in 2008, researchers discovered a massive hydrothermal vent system in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, between Greenland and Norway. This is basically a group of enormous undersea volcanoes, more than 7,500 feet underwater, shooting out superheated water in 40-foot plumes of… Continue reading
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Corporate sell-outs exploit a secret new gimmick – Salon.com
With more and more operations of the executive and judiciary branches happening behind closed doors and out of public view, the legislative branch was bound to join Washington’s secrecy-fest at some point. That point apparently is now. As The Hill… Continue reading
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Homeland Security Taps Generals to Run Domestic Drone Program
Yes. Please militarize this program even more blatantly. Thank you Society of Control. Continue reading
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Taste In Literature
Originally posted on The Dish: Bee Wilson considers the literary merits of the recipe: Recipes have a story arc. You need to get through the tricky early prepping stages via the complications of heat and measuring before you arrive at… Continue reading
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Climate Change And Violence Linked, Breakthrough Study Finds
Shifts in climate change are strongly linked to human violence around the world, according to a comprehensive new study released Thursday by the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University. The research, which was published in Science, examined 60 previous… Continue reading
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the Texas sting
Originally posted on Randall Dean Scott: three years in the pacific northwest is long enough to have the heat in Texas be too much upon returning I haven’t acclimated and all I can seem to do is lie around all… Continue reading
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▶ #TRUTHINJOURNALISM – YouTube
A different take on Venom: “I don’t subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn’t dabble in television, web content, or even comic books … that thinking perpetuates the consumerist mosh pit we are… Continue reading
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“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.”
A wonderful graduation speech from George Saunders to the Syracuse University Class of 2013. Down through the ages, a traditional form has evolved for this type of speech, which is: Some old fart, his best years behind him, who, over… Continue reading
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Mysterious Dancing Lights In Afghanistan
This isn’t a painting. It’s not from a movie. It’s not a strange astronomical event. This is real — what you can see when certain helicopters in Afghanistan touch down on sandy ground, raising dust, causing mysterious arcs of light… Continue reading
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Everything Looks Cool Photographed Under An Electron Microscope | DIYPhotography.net
The folks at FEI are making electron microscopes. If you thought that the D800 was pricy and/or bulky try a Scanning Electron Microscopes. Even a small one weighs over 850 kilos and has a p[referred door width on its installation… Continue reading
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The Book Industry’s Ironic Relationship With Barnes & Noble — New York Magazine
The industry that looked on Barnes & Noble as a virus now treats Amazon like a pandemic. Just last week, in advance of Obama’s visit to an Amazon warehouse, a letter from the ABA (now down to roughly 1,500 members)… Continue reading
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Purple potatoes pack serious antioxidants compared to their white-fleshed counterparts
You may or may not have noticed a new potato in town at your local grocer or more likely at your local health food store. It is native to South America and is called the purple potato, named for its… Continue reading
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Rasputina – The New Zero feat. Karloff and Lugosi – YouTube
I did not put this video together. The quote below is from the person who went to the trouble. Love Rasputina, have ever since my good brother Eric F. gave me a copy of their album way back when. Pretty… Continue reading
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Searching for Integrity: The Politics of Mindfulness in the Digital Economy – Nomos Journal
Fascinating article by a friend of my dear brother, Carl S. With the proliferation of training courses espousing the benefits of yoga and meditation, critics have coined the term “McMindfulness” to describe a cottage industry whose profit motives appear to… Continue reading
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