Linketies and life
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moominmuppetSo my meeting at Preterm went really well, and it looks like I'll be working on an educational and awareness project for them, particularly focusing on the online elements. As a result, you may see even more reproductive rights postings here, or I may start a separate journal for that project -- I haven't decided on that yet. I'll be volunteering Wednesday afternoons, which will work out well to put me on the same side of town as patient-instructing on the days I'm scheduled, so that's handy.
On to the linketies:
letter to quantico
Ending the Silence on The Fraudulent Vaccine-Autism Link
More: How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money
Can you be both obese and healthy? -- There are points worth arguing in this, but it's interesting to see, regardless.
Chaucer’s Cunt -- It's a word I'm really quite fond of, and I wish I could find the paper I wrote for History of the English Language in college on the history of obscenity and profanity. Much fun.
Creationists have gotten clever, but there's still no debate over evolution
Bye Bye Blackbird: USDA acknowledges a hand in one mass bird death
Science geeky awesomeness:
The Carnal Carnival #3 – Death and Decay
Carnal Carnival #2: Vomit
Carnal Carnival #1 – Essentials of Elimination
Carnal Carnival #4: Orgasm
Giffords standing on own feet, headed to Houston for rehab to relearn basic skills
Possession With Intent to Soar: Colombian Carrier Pigeon Caught Smuggling Drugs
A Shameful Inheritance:
On the History of Political Violence in America
20 Obsolete English Words that Should Make a Comeback
20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World
More: 20 More Awesomely Untranslatable Words From Around the World
How to Find ANYTHING on the Internet -- handy googling tips
Female indigenous wrestler challenges barriers in Bolivia
Grow Some Moss in Your Bathroom -- WANT! I love moss; I used to make little moss-based nature dioramas when I was a kid. Unfortunately, we suspect the critters would pee on it.
Photo Essay: 7 Beautifully Bizarre Beaches
Photo Essay: 15 Unusual Natural Phenomena and Where to Witness Them
Photo Essay: 18 Places to Feel Dwarfed by Nature
Best Nude Beaches in the World
More: Best Nude Beaches in the World, Volume 2
How to Discern Fallacious Arguments
Photo Essay: 20 Amazingly Creative Works of Paper Art
11 Reasons the TSA is NOT Making Us Safer, and Why It Needs to be Reformed NOW
Post-apocalyptic TV shows never succeed
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse is getting ready to go supernova, and when it does Earth will have a front-row seat. The explosion will be so bright that Earth will briefly seem to have two suns in the sky.
How to hypnotize a shark, and other tales of animal mind control
Why is Captain America ruling our screens and not Wonder Woman?
Book made using 4 daisy-chained printers spanning 100 years' worth of technology
A Chance to Change the Way We Look at Mental Illness
Two new species of wasp have been found in Brazil that use a neurotoxin (species of Hymenoepimecis) to enslave spiders into making nests for their parasitic young.
Los Angeles airport recorded the most laser-beam events in the country last year
Undercover policeman married activist he was sent to spy on
Relieving test anxiety by writing down worries
Ruleaks.net publishes first leak, gets DDoSed
Boy George returns pilfered Christian artifact to Cyprus
There is more to the eye than rods and cones — the discovery of a third photoreceptor is rewriting the visual rulebook. -- Wow!
Concerns new MTV teen drama "Skins" may violate child porn laws -- Oh, good grief.
MTV execs are scrutinizing upcoming episodes of their racy new teen-drama hit Skins to ensure they don’t violate child pornography laws -- more, since the original NYTimes article seems to be paywalled.
Best mafiosi nicknames from today's historic bust
Clean, Soap-Free Living: Here Comes the Science
Salt-loving microbe forges its own path
The Meal that Ended My Career as a Restaurant Critic
Colour blindness corrected by gene therapy
On to the linketies:
letter to quantico
Ending the Silence on The Fraudulent Vaccine-Autism Link
More: How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money
Can you be both obese and healthy? -- There are points worth arguing in this, but it's interesting to see, regardless.
Chaucer’s Cunt -- It's a word I'm really quite fond of, and I wish I could find the paper I wrote for History of the English Language in college on the history of obscenity and profanity. Much fun.
Creationists have gotten clever, but there's still no debate over evolution
Bye Bye Blackbird: USDA acknowledges a hand in one mass bird death
Science geeky awesomeness:
The Carnal Carnival #3 – Death and Decay
Carnal Carnival #2: Vomit
Carnal Carnival #1 – Essentials of Elimination
Carnal Carnival #4: Orgasm
Giffords standing on own feet, headed to Houston for rehab to relearn basic skills
Possession With Intent to Soar: Colombian Carrier Pigeon Caught Smuggling Drugs
A Shameful Inheritance:
On the History of Political Violence in America
20 Obsolete English Words that Should Make a Comeback
20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World
More: 20 More Awesomely Untranslatable Words From Around the World
How to Find ANYTHING on the Internet -- handy googling tips
Female indigenous wrestler challenges barriers in Bolivia
Grow Some Moss in Your Bathroom -- WANT! I love moss; I used to make little moss-based nature dioramas when I was a kid. Unfortunately, we suspect the critters would pee on it.
Photo Essay: 7 Beautifully Bizarre Beaches
Photo Essay: 15 Unusual Natural Phenomena and Where to Witness Them
Photo Essay: 18 Places to Feel Dwarfed by Nature
Best Nude Beaches in the World
More: Best Nude Beaches in the World, Volume 2
How to Discern Fallacious Arguments
Photo Essay: 20 Amazingly Creative Works of Paper Art
11 Reasons the TSA is NOT Making Us Safer, and Why It Needs to be Reformed NOW
Post-apocalyptic TV shows never succeed
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse is getting ready to go supernova, and when it does Earth will have a front-row seat. The explosion will be so bright that Earth will briefly seem to have two suns in the sky.
How to hypnotize a shark, and other tales of animal mind control
Why is Captain America ruling our screens and not Wonder Woman?
Book made using 4 daisy-chained printers spanning 100 years' worth of technology
A Chance to Change the Way We Look at Mental Illness
Two new species of wasp have been found in Brazil that use a neurotoxin (species of Hymenoepimecis) to enslave spiders into making nests for their parasitic young.
Los Angeles airport recorded the most laser-beam events in the country last year
Undercover policeman married activist he was sent to spy on
Relieving test anxiety by writing down worries
Ruleaks.net publishes first leak, gets DDoSed
Boy George returns pilfered Christian artifact to Cyprus
There is more to the eye than rods and cones — the discovery of a third photoreceptor is rewriting the visual rulebook. -- Wow!
Concerns new MTV teen drama "Skins" may violate child porn laws -- Oh, good grief.
MTV execs are scrutinizing upcoming episodes of their racy new teen-drama hit Skins to ensure they don’t violate child pornography laws -- more, since the original NYTimes article seems to be paywalled.
Best mafiosi nicknames from today's historic bust
Clean, Soap-Free Living: Here Comes the Science
Salt-loving microbe forges its own path
The Meal that Ended My Career as a Restaurant Critic
Colour blindness corrected by gene therapy
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Date: 2011-01-21 10:36 am (UTC)(Wanna play 'good grief'? Images of small-breasted adult women in the nude can be considered child pornography here. The woman doesn't need to be underage. Even the character the woman is depicting doesn't need to be underage, which I've always felt is a little bit suspect, though I don't feel it should be illegal. The reasoning is, apparently, that people can imagine that a small breasted woman is a child, because "children have smaller breasts than adults". JFC.)
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Date: 2011-01-26 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-26 03:36 am (UTC)