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Topo Chico is Espresso’s Best Friend in Texas – Sprudge
“Here in Texas, our state motto is ‘Friendship,’ our state mammal is the armadillo, and our state bubble water is most assuredly Topo Chico.” Source: sprudge.com
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Next Step for Net Neutrality: Join Call for Regional Hearings
Our next step on net neutrality is to demand that the FCC commissioners hold hearings across the country where people can speak face-to-face with the commission. Source: www.truth-out.org
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11 things humans do that dogs hate
There are many ways you can drive a dog nuts — and you probably aren’t even aware of them. So if you want to be your dog’s best friend, find out how you can fix your annoying habits. Source: www.mnn.com
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we hunted the mammoth
the new misogyny, tracked and mocked Source: wehuntedthemammoth.com Here, Cats respond to #Women AgainstFeminism. Great send up.
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Dumb Movie About Brain Capacity
I cringe whenever the trailer for LUCY shows up online or at the theater. The notion that humans use only 10% of our brain is so silly. It is passed around because of a popular equivalence: the mind = the brain. So, here is the problem. If the mind is the brain,…
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Physicist George Ellis Knocks Physicists for Knocking Philosophy, Falsification, Free Will | Cross-Check, Scientific American Blog Network
Biologist Rupert Sheldrake, whom I interviewed in my last post, wasn’t the only fascinating scientist I hung out with recently at Howthelightgetsin, an festival hosted by … Source: blogs.scientificamerican.com
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The Internet Is Flooded with Wikipedia Edits Made by Government and Big Oil | VICE Canada
We dug up some new examples of corporate and government interests editing Wikipedia, plus we spoke to a developer who has obsessively collected edits from governments and powerful organizations worldw… Source: www.vice.com
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Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters
After ten years in the specialty coffee industry, Andy Sprenger returned with his family to his home town of Lakewood, Colorado to start a new chapter in his coffee career. Formerly the head roaster for Ceremony Coffee, he brings a wealth of sourcing and roasting knowledge and titles such as two-time…
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Multiple Lovers, Without Jealousy
Polyamorous people still face plenty of stigmas, but some studies suggest they handle certain relationship challenges better than monogamous people do.Source: www.theatlantic.com
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The Original Tea Partiers: How GOP Insurgents Invented Progressivism
Wisconsin Senator Robert La Follette and his supporters pioneered long-shot primary challenges, strong ideology, and populist rhetoric a century ago.Source: www.theatlantic.com
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How to Dismantle the Comic-Books Boys’ Club
New allegations of sexual harassment and inequality could help change a culture that routinely alienates female fans and cartoonists.Source: www.theatlantic.com
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Of Course Women Read Superhero Comics
The stereotype that only men want to read superhero stories is wrong—but just how wrong?Source: www.theatlantic.com
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A Shadow Picture Book From Japan
Japanese duo Megumi Kajiwara and Tathuhiko Nijima created an interactive children’s book, Motion Silhouette, that tells its story using shadows and light. You can use your own flashlight to manipulate the imagery. The results are quite stunning. Here are more information and pictures of the book.Source: viralscape.tv
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The Bullshit Machine — Medium
Here’s a tiny confession. I’m bored.Yes; I know.Source: medium.com”To be bored isn’t to be indifferent. It is to be fatigued. Because one is exhausted.”
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Massive ‘ocean’ discovered towards Earth’s core – environment – 12 June 2014 – New Scientist
A huge expanse of water trapped in a layer of the Earth’s mantle could help explain the origin of our oceansSource: www.newscientist.com
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Scientists Are Beginning to Figure Out Why Conservatives Are… Conservative | Blog | BillMoyers.com
Ten years ago, it was wildly controversial to talk about psychological differences between liberals and conservatives. Today, it’s becoming hard not to.Source: billmoyers.com”…All of this matters, of course, because we still operate in politics and in media as if minds can be changed by the best honed arguments, the most…
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Wanted: A Future for Philosophy – The Conversation – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Something is out of joint: Overworked and underpaid graduate students are taking on major teaching responsibilities, apparently at least in part so that parents can get a discount on tuition, and professors can produce books and articles of dubious societal value.Source: chronicle.com
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Educational Technology Is Making Achievement Gaps Even Bigger
The local name for the Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington is “the Badlands,” and with good reason. Pockmarked with empty lots and burned-out row houses, the area has an unemployment rate of 29 percent and a poverty rate of 90 percent. Just a few miles to the northwest, the genteel neighborhood…Source:…
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