Linketies and Life
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moominmuppetLovely weather the last few days, so I've been trying to use that as motivation to work on getting more active. Walked to my dentist and back, partially motivated by a deep desire to avoid the overcrowded drunkenness of the St. Patrick's Day buses. Based on Grafton's rather nightmarish trip across town to work, I made the right call. We're working on plans for the garden, and for painting porches and yard cleanup and all that sort of stuff. I'm in the same "yay, Spring!" mode as everyone else, I expect.
When I'm not out on the porch I've been pretty glued to the news, though. So much going on.
BREAKING: Judge temporarily blocks Wisconsin anti-union law
U.S. House Votes to Cut NPR Funding
Japan nuclear crisis: TEPCO says power line now connected to Fukushima Daiichi plant -- This is good news.
Japan nuclear crisis: A real-world example of radiation risks
Japan nuclear crisis: "Should I take potassium iodide pills to protect against radiation exposure?"
There's not an unlimited supply of potassium iodide pills. If people living in places unaffected by radioactive iodine buy up lots of potassium iodide pills, it means there are fewer of those pills available for the people who really need them. That's why the Union of Concerned Scientists recently put out a press release asking Americans to refrain from buying—or, worse, stockpiling—supplies of potassium iodide pills. People in Japan need them.
Radiation dose and risk table
Japan earthquake and nuclear crisis: The mental and physical impacts of stress
South Africans mobilize against “corrective rape”
UK’s Channel 4 signs agreement to improve coverage of transgender issues
GOP Bill Would Force IRS to Conduct Abortion Audits
More: The Limits of Tax Jihadism
Arizona Senate rejects 5 major immigration bills -- finally some good news!
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he won’t compromise on Planned Parenthood funding
You decide: Which anti-choicer takes the cake?
there are a whole lot of people saying a whole lot of untrue, unfair, unhelpful things about reproductive healthcare and reproductive rights. There are a whole bunch of people talking about women who get abortions. It’s high time we heard from those women instead. Everyone else – especially those who depict women seeking abortions as selfish or unfeeling or who call abortion “the easy way out” – can, in the indelicate but entirely justified words of this woman, back the fuck off.
On Alexandra Wallace, incivility, and responding to hate speech
Jasmine Burnett discusses some of the intersections of reproductive justice–economics, voting, and mothering–and what activism needs to be done.
New study finds that men suffer postpartum depression too
First female engineer graces the cover of WIRED magazine
Why I Am a Male Feminist
Secretary Clinton says no to second term
Take Action: NY set to throw homeless youth out of shelters and back onto the streets
“My vagina, for your intents and purposes, is off the table”
ImmusanT Takes Steps Towards Gluten-Tolerant Vaccine
The science behind the lonely singing of the sand
The first pictures of a methane rainstorm and floods on Titan
The newest member of the Endless
Guest Post: Transmisogyny is Misogyny Against All Women
Geek God Nathan Fillion Graces EW Cover
Egypt: female protesters tortured, sexually abused, "charged as prostitutes"
Antidepressants, stress, and bodyweight.
10 Things You Didn't Know About the Moon
On March 19th, a full Moon of "rare size and beauty" will rise in the east at sunset. The super "perigee moon" will be the biggest in nearly two decades.
What it's like to be a black comic writer -- It's not mentioned in the original post, but Dwayne McDuffie also passed away recently.
Yemen: state of emergency after pro-government snipers massacre protesters
UN approves military intervention to protect Free Benghazi
US military launches Operation Sock Puppet, pays contractor $2.76m for social media ops (UPDATED)
Japan: Citing Wikileaks cables, news reports of TEPCO history of lying, falsifying safety records
Canada: Public Catholic school suspends students for wearing pro-choice stickers
X-ray machine from 1895
World's largest spam botnet goes down (for now?)
How nuclear reactor design played a role in Fukushima crisis
Japan nuclear crisis: Where are the robots? -- I'll admit, the same question's been asked in our house in the past few days.
New York Times paywall: wishful thinking or just crazy?
US military's "gratuitously harsh treatment" of Manning condemned by NYT, WaPo, LAT, ACLU
Four New York Times journalists are missing in Libya
Tennessee to outlaw collective bargaining for teachers
New York slashes hospital spending, but can't touch multimillion-dollar CEO paychecks
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost swede Star Wars
Etsy's management takes steps to undo personal info disclosures
Hoof-shoes
How to fix "sexting" laws
A New Jersey bill is a good start -- but we should do more to defend teens' sexual exploration
Fukushima 50 battle radiation risks as Japan nuclear crisis deepens -- I believe it's up to 180 now, on a rotation. Straight-up heroes, every last one.
New vaccine candidate shows strong potential to prevent highly contagious norovirus
Do-it-yourself quantum spooky action
Research overturns oldest evidence of life on Earth
Why Henry Higgins could tell his barrow girl from his fair lady
Matt Smith has no plans to leave Doctor Who -- Yay!
Tom Baker Joins Big Finish
Michael Gough, The Celestial Toymaker, has died
More: Batman's 'butler' Michael Gough dies aged 94 (AP)
Doctor Who at Comic Relief 2011
TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner Radiation Tests
In Praise of Blogging
Heroes: Hear the Voice of the Heroic Young Woman Who Saved Thousands of Lives
At one point, there was an unspoken agreement with the worker; if you did a good job, you'd be with us for life.
How the Japan Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day
Sheepdogs save an entire penguin colony
City Commons wet, crowded for second Strongsville anti-SB5 rally
Some grocers abandon rebates for reusable bags
Anti-teacher climate humbles the conservative husband of a Cleveland educator: Connie Schultz
Law would protect pets from antifreeze; APL offers discounts; rescue group parties for paws: Animals in the News
Baby Camel in the Minnesota Snow
Filthy Baby Bear Goes to the Vet
World's Largest Rodent Born at San Diego Zoo!
Little Langurs Swing into Australia
Rare Cats Born Through Amazing Science!
Four Formosan Hoglets in Taipei
The Rainbow Connection: Richard Hunt, Gay Muppeteer
Saturn's Serpent Storm
Cassini Approaches Saturn
11 billion miles away, Voyager 1 is doing acrobatics
Image of the Day: agriculture, as seen from space
Scientists Build Nano-Sized Traps to Control Prostate Cancer Metastasis
Wisconsin Republicans retreat from procedural threat
Algerian Women Test the 'Arab Spring' Winds
World Abortion Laws and Policies (Chart)
NYC's High Maternal Deaths Defy Usual Explanations
Cleveland: Native Plant Sale
President Obama: We must seek agreement on gun reforms
Father turns in own kids for bullying
The wire services regularly send images to their member papers that feature the phrase "daily life." They send them from such places as India, Thailand, Japan, China, the Philippines, Syria, Nepal, Britain, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. With the exception of just a couple, the images in this post feature daily life in Pakistan by Associated Press photographer Muhammed Muheisen.
Why the Republicans Hate NPR
Pepsi bottles: no more plastic
House rejects resolution to pull U.S. forces from Afghanistan
The necessity of protest
When I'm not out on the porch I've been pretty glued to the news, though. So much going on.
BREAKING: Judge temporarily blocks Wisconsin anti-union law
U.S. House Votes to Cut NPR Funding
Japan nuclear crisis: TEPCO says power line now connected to Fukushima Daiichi plant -- This is good news.
Japan nuclear crisis: A real-world example of radiation risks
Japan nuclear crisis: "Should I take potassium iodide pills to protect against radiation exposure?"
There's not an unlimited supply of potassium iodide pills. If people living in places unaffected by radioactive iodine buy up lots of potassium iodide pills, it means there are fewer of those pills available for the people who really need them. That's why the Union of Concerned Scientists recently put out a press release asking Americans to refrain from buying—or, worse, stockpiling—supplies of potassium iodide pills. People in Japan need them.
Radiation dose and risk table
Japan earthquake and nuclear crisis: The mental and physical impacts of stress
South Africans mobilize against “corrective rape”
UK’s Channel 4 signs agreement to improve coverage of transgender issues
GOP Bill Would Force IRS to Conduct Abortion Audits
More: The Limits of Tax Jihadism
Arizona Senate rejects 5 major immigration bills -- finally some good news!
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he won’t compromise on Planned Parenthood funding
You decide: Which anti-choicer takes the cake?
there are a whole lot of people saying a whole lot of untrue, unfair, unhelpful things about reproductive healthcare and reproductive rights. There are a whole bunch of people talking about women who get abortions. It’s high time we heard from those women instead. Everyone else – especially those who depict women seeking abortions as selfish or unfeeling or who call abortion “the easy way out” – can, in the indelicate but entirely justified words of this woman, back the fuck off.
On Alexandra Wallace, incivility, and responding to hate speech
Jasmine Burnett discusses some of the intersections of reproductive justice–economics, voting, and mothering–and what activism needs to be done.
New study finds that men suffer postpartum depression too
First female engineer graces the cover of WIRED magazine
Why I Am a Male Feminist
Secretary Clinton says no to second term
Take Action: NY set to throw homeless youth out of shelters and back onto the streets
“My vagina, for your intents and purposes, is off the table”
ImmusanT Takes Steps Towards Gluten-Tolerant Vaccine
The science behind the lonely singing of the sand
The first pictures of a methane rainstorm and floods on Titan
The newest member of the Endless
Guest Post: Transmisogyny is Misogyny Against All Women
Geek God Nathan Fillion Graces EW Cover
Egypt: female protesters tortured, sexually abused, "charged as prostitutes"
Antidepressants, stress, and bodyweight.
10 Things You Didn't Know About the Moon
On March 19th, a full Moon of "rare size and beauty" will rise in the east at sunset. The super "perigee moon" will be the biggest in nearly two decades.
What it's like to be a black comic writer -- It's not mentioned in the original post, but Dwayne McDuffie also passed away recently.
Yemen: state of emergency after pro-government snipers massacre protesters
UN approves military intervention to protect Free Benghazi
US military launches Operation Sock Puppet, pays contractor $2.76m for social media ops (UPDATED)
Japan: Citing Wikileaks cables, news reports of TEPCO history of lying, falsifying safety records
Canada: Public Catholic school suspends students for wearing pro-choice stickers
X-ray machine from 1895
World's largest spam botnet goes down (for now?)
How nuclear reactor design played a role in Fukushima crisis
Japan nuclear crisis: Where are the robots? -- I'll admit, the same question's been asked in our house in the past few days.
New York Times paywall: wishful thinking or just crazy?
US military's "gratuitously harsh treatment" of Manning condemned by NYT, WaPo, LAT, ACLU
Four New York Times journalists are missing in Libya
Tennessee to outlaw collective bargaining for teachers
New York slashes hospital spending, but can't touch multimillion-dollar CEO paychecks
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost swede Star Wars
Etsy's management takes steps to undo personal info disclosures
Hoof-shoes
How to fix "sexting" laws
A New Jersey bill is a good start -- but we should do more to defend teens' sexual exploration
Fukushima 50 battle radiation risks as Japan nuclear crisis deepens -- I believe it's up to 180 now, on a rotation. Straight-up heroes, every last one.
New vaccine candidate shows strong potential to prevent highly contagious norovirus
Do-it-yourself quantum spooky action
Research overturns oldest evidence of life on Earth
Why Henry Higgins could tell his barrow girl from his fair lady
Matt Smith has no plans to leave Doctor Who -- Yay!
Tom Baker Joins Big Finish
Michael Gough, The Celestial Toymaker, has died
More: Batman's 'butler' Michael Gough dies aged 94 (AP)
Doctor Who at Comic Relief 2011
TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner Radiation Tests
In Praise of Blogging
Heroes: Hear the Voice of the Heroic Young Woman Who Saved Thousands of Lives
At one point, there was an unspoken agreement with the worker; if you did a good job, you'd be with us for life.
How the Japan Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day
Sheepdogs save an entire penguin colony
City Commons wet, crowded for second Strongsville anti-SB5 rally
Some grocers abandon rebates for reusable bags
Anti-teacher climate humbles the conservative husband of a Cleveland educator: Connie Schultz
Law would protect pets from antifreeze; APL offers discounts; rescue group parties for paws: Animals in the News
Baby Camel in the Minnesota Snow
Filthy Baby Bear Goes to the Vet
World's Largest Rodent Born at San Diego Zoo!
Little Langurs Swing into Australia
Rare Cats Born Through Amazing Science!
Four Formosan Hoglets in Taipei
The Rainbow Connection: Richard Hunt, Gay Muppeteer
Saturn's Serpent Storm
Cassini Approaches Saturn
11 billion miles away, Voyager 1 is doing acrobatics
Image of the Day: agriculture, as seen from space
Scientists Build Nano-Sized Traps to Control Prostate Cancer Metastasis
Wisconsin Republicans retreat from procedural threat
Algerian Women Test the 'Arab Spring' Winds
World Abortion Laws and Policies (Chart)
NYC's High Maternal Deaths Defy Usual Explanations
Cleveland: Native Plant Sale
President Obama: We must seek agreement on gun reforms
Father turns in own kids for bullying
The wire services regularly send images to their member papers that feature the phrase "daily life." They send them from such places as India, Thailand, Japan, China, the Philippines, Syria, Nepal, Britain, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. With the exception of just a couple, the images in this post feature daily life in Pakistan by Associated Press photographer Muhammed Muheisen.
Why the Republicans Hate NPR
Pepsi bottles: no more plastic
House rejects resolution to pull U.S. forces from Afghanistan
The necessity of protest
