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moominmuppet4 Occupations Embracing the Homeless (As Cities Increasingly Can't Take Care of Them)
Labor, Occupy Wall Street Teaming Up on Burgeoning Occupy Foreclosures Movement
Worst of Alaska storm over but more surges expected
On the birthday of Carl Sagan (2 days belated)
In a couple of weeks, on the 20th November, it will be the 13th International Transgender Day of Remembrance. Before I started blogging at BadRep this wasn’t a big date in my calendar, but two moving posts by other team members last year made me realise that it should have been.
Everyone Has the Right to Occupy Space, Safely
inadvertent effect of the Occupy movement has been to call attention to the fact that public space is not always safe space for women, nor for queer and trans people. Fittingly, anti-street-harassment group Hollaback! has stepped up to tackle the issue of sexual violence at Occupy. In a official statement written collectively with Occupied Wall Street Journal and OccupyWallSt.org, Hollaback! is calling on all of the general assemblies of the Occupy movement to adopt an anti-harassment and anti-assault platform to ensure that occupied space is both inclusive and safe. Ms. is proud to cosign this statement, published on OccupyWallStreet.org:
Occupy Des Moines: An Increasingly Important Occupation as Iowa Caucuses Near
Ugandan Gay Activist to Receive RFK Human Rights Award
Every way devised to deflect an asteroid
10 Massive Screw-Ups in Paleontology
Jessie J: Music executives were “initially uncomfortable” with bisexuality
The assumption that tail-chasing is normal behaviour in dogs could be leading to welfare issues being left untreated according to new research from The Royal Veterinary College, London.
A fetus can sense mom`s psychological state
Hill of Witches
How do lesbians and gay women experience anorexia and bulimia?
Friends, colleagues pay tribute to Cleveland Heights' Harvey Pekar
Satellite technology enables rapid, accurate mapping of forest harvest in upper Midwest
Rupert, a three-month-old wombat joey, sits in a teacup at the Healesville Sanctuary, Victoria, Australia. He was rescued from his mother's pouch when she was killed by a car
Orphaned baby bats, some with bottle teats in their mouths, arrive at Brisbane Airport, Australia
Drug-resistant infections: A new epidemic, and what you can do to help
Some of you may have heard of the Edmonton Staging System. It’s gotten nods from size acceptance activists on social media sites because with its Stage 0 classification, it acknowledges that it’s possible to be fat and healthy and at a point where losing weight my any means necessary may not be advisable.
Last week, as part of Wired's nine-week-long geek-list parade, we gave you nine equations that we think every true geek should know (or at least pretend to know). This week, we bring you some of the equations our readers think should have been on that list.
The Pollinator Crisis: What's Best for Bees?
Alice Dreger has made it her life’s work to investigate–and at times expose–the unethical medical treatment of people who have intersex conditions. “I either get love mail or hate mail,” explains the Northwestern University bioethicist and medical historian. The hate mail comes from people whose bad deeds she reveals, the love mail from people thanking her for “saving their lives.”
Let’s talk about men… Men who cuddle. According to a recent article in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, these guys are three times more likely to be happy in long-term relationships than their non-snugglin’ counterparts.
Porn Cooties!!
UC cops' use of batons on Occupy camp questioned
An older couple survive a holocaust and raise Picard's hackles, as the Enterprise deals with a happy couple and a sad mystery on the TNG Rewatch's look at "The Survivors."
Satan? Or merely Hitler?
Kurt Metzger Totally PWNED Me!
A new Symphony of Science has come out today, in honor of Carl Sagan’s birthday. And I’m pleased to see it features three people I call friends: Neil Tyson, Brian Cox, and Carolyn Porco
Traditionally, doctors diagnose severely injured people as "vegetative" when their eyes can't track movement and they can't wiggle any of their fingers. But a new medical study suggests that some of these patients may actually be fully conscious and aware — but trapped in unresponsive bodies.
Cracking an Egg Under the Sea
10 DIY foods you never thought of making yourself
11 Sculptures Made From Books
The Medical Marijuana Industry Comes to Reality TV
Being the ugly girl.
Even in today’s internet-based world, age-appropriate books about LGBT people and issues can provide a lifeline for LGBT youth. Not all schools have the resources to put towards the inclusion of LGBT books in their libraries. Amelia Roskin-Frazeel, a 14-year-old from California is providing a solution with The Make It Safe Project, which gives free packages of LGBT books to schools without any, and makes sure students have access to them, according to Bay Windows.
Some Transgender Protesters Leave Occupy Wall Street Over Safety Concerns
California county to charge prisoners for their jail stay
Remains of war dead dumped in landfill
Election reactions from the The Rachel Maddow Show cubicle farm
Related: Mississippi Rejects Zygote "Personhood" Amendment
Related: Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Standard-Bearer Russell Pearce Goes Down
Related: Openly Gay Man Wins Indy City-County Council Race
Related: Gabrielle Gifford's Former Intern Daniel Hernandez Wins Election
Related: Traverse City, Mich., Votes to Keep Nondiscrimination Law
So, I've noticed some of my fellow male fat admirers throwing tantrums when women object to be sexualized without consent. These dudes whine about how the women are telling them aren't allowed to find fat bodies attractive.
Cut that shit out. Like now.
Halal and kosher hit by Dutch ban -- What a load of bigoted bullshit.
The Biogeography of Rats and Their Quest for Global Domination
Possum eating strawberries (video)
Fossilized footprints reveal the deadly caterpillar that ruled the oceans 500 million years ago
Study links toxic component in herbal remedies to kidney failure and cancer
Tear drops may rival blood drops in testing blood sugar in diabetes
Weird world of water gets a little weirder with a new anomaly
New mothers, newborns happy with home visits
Was the real discovery of the expanding universe lost in translation?
Providing support to a loved one offers benefits to the giver, not just the recipient, a new brain-imaging study by UCLA life scientists reveals.
Giant sunspots are giant
Instead of a loping, lunging Tyrannosaurus rex, imagine the thunder lizard doing more of a power-walk: the clenched bum, the stiff legs, the whole shebang.
How Humans Became Social
What the Death of Mobile Flash Means for the Web
Mysterious Moon Magnetism Could Be Result of Earth’s Gravity
High-Speed Video Shows How Hummingbirds Stay Dry
Pentagon Regrowing Soldiers’ Muscles From Pig Cells
Join the campaign: let's get The Muppets hosting the 2012 Oscars
Anti-Abortion Lobby Dances on Graves
Police in the northern Indian state of Bihar have come up with an original way to deal with the surfeit of seized illegal firearms that are stored in police station storehouses, or malkhanas.
They have decided to melt the weapons down into farming and gardening tools.
After 43 years, Germans finally to see Star Trek Nazi episode on network TV
Eastern Turkey reels after another quake
At least 10 dead after 5.6 magnitude earthquake near city of Van, two weeks after quake killed hundreds in the region.
Credit Unions Gained 40,000 New Members on Bank Transfer Day
Not So Rosy In Ohio?
Some TPM readers are emailing in to throw a bit of cold water on the idea that last night’s election results augur well for Dems there in 2012
Occupying Winter, together
Something Bad's Gonna Happen!: US To Test First Nationwide Use Of Emergency Broadcast System
The Birth of Kermit
I Don't Drought It: 'Airdrop' Machine Pulls Water From Air To Feed Starving Plants
Yangshuo and Moon Hill
Pierre Cardin's Bubble House
Mom & Pop Culture: McGender: Unpacking the Happy Meal
The Last Sideshow Fat Man
“Obesity epidemic”, is the term unjustified and a harmful scare tactic?
cleveland : Occupy Wall Street movement debates how to police its fringe
Roger Greenwood Charged Interest On $0 Balance Bank Of America Credit Card [VIDEO]
Al Franken: Net Neutrality Is Under Attack ... Again
Followup: Rules prohibiting cable, DSL and wireless providers from unfairly interfering with internet traffic survived a Thursday attempt by Republican senators to throw them out.
The "People's Mic" Strikes Again
Renegade Manufacturing: New do-it-yourself CNC machine kits could kick open doors for entrepreneurs
A Miracle in New Orleans Schools? Students Say, Not Quite
A Little Muppet Song, A Little Muppet Dance
Cognitive reframing can help dementia caregivers with depression, stress
Sweetener found in gum may prevent ear infections in children
If you’re a bigot when you’re angry, you’re a bigot all the time
Frogs skin gives researchers the hop on bacteria
Speed-bump device converts traffic energy to electricity
Intelligence and smart thinking are not the same, according to University of Texas at Austin psychologist Art Markman, who studies how best to apply knowledge for smarter thinking at work and home.
Plate shapes may hold secrets to earthquakes
New 'super-black' material absorbs light across multiple wavelength bands
Vitamin B reduces work stress
Methane may be answer to 56-million-year question
Scale assessing suicidal ideation saves lives through high predictive validity and use of common language
Ancient manuscripts that hold important clues to India’s intellectual and religious traditions will be the focus of a new study.
Battered Tharsis Tholus volcano on Mars
Paleontologists turning to neural networks to find new dig sites
Shortly after he was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on transmitters in the brain, Dr. Greengard decided to endow a scientific prize of his own -- one most of his fellow Nobel laureates could never even hope to win. Awarded annually by Rockefeller University, The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize spotlights achievement in the field of biomedical research by an outstanding woman. Named after Greengard's mother, the $100,000 prize is one man's attempt to put a plus in a column that carries a lot of minuses.
The Jolt's on You: Turn-of-Last-Century Prank Machines Reveal "Shocking" Hazing Practices [Slide Show]
Lessons From Hollywood’s Trips Through the 4th Dimension
Wait, sometimes progressives win?
Related: A Night of Victories for LGBT Candidates
Occupy Everywhere & Economic News Round-Up
Look At These Lemur Twins!
Occupy Portland Given An Eviction Notice
Treehouse on top of Kilauea
Twyfelfontein (ancient art)
Tarasque (the dragon of a french town)
SLDN Calls on U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to do More for LGBT Vets
Bolivia says US drug agents not welcome
The pillow that makes long-distance relationships less lonely
Hi-tech scans catch prehistoric mite hitching ride on spider (w/ video)
Study finds primary health care providers fail to report substantial cases of child abuse
Las Lajas Sanctuary
Haitian Cholera Victims Seek Reparations from U.N.
The victims' petition alleges that the U.N. and MINUSTAH are liable for hundreds of millions of dollars for failing to screen and treat peacekeeping soldiers arriving from Southeast Asian countries experiencing cholera epidemics, dumping untreated waste from a U.N. base directly into Haiti's longest and most important river, the Artibonite, and failing to respond adequately to the epidemic.
American Citizen Racially Profiled At School In Alabama Because She "Looked Foreign"
Warner Bros admits it sends takedown notices for files it hasn't seen and doesn't own
SF Bartenders Wrongly Targeted as Anonymous and Occupy Oakland Goes After Cop -- Not ok. Really not ok.
UK: Can "Opt-Out" Organ Donation Law be the Solution?
The weirdest moons in the solar system, and what it would look like to stand on them
Austerity Wisconsin
Giant planet ejected from the solar system?
How Toronto Lost Its Groove
Astronomers find pristine clouds of primordial gas from the early Universe
Becoming part of global, shoestring team requires researchers only to play fair, share
Whiskers marked milestone in evolution of mammals from reptiles
Study evaluates risk factors for chronic TMJD (this is another of those once-in-a-blue-moon fibro things for me)
More support needed for adult siblings of people with autism
Octopuses and squids can switch camouflage mode to stay invisible in the twilight zone
Understanding the biology of PTSD
Roma women in Europe: the silenced, underreported gender oppression
EPA Finds Compound Used in Fracking in Wyoming Aquifer
Serious and Not-so-Serious Recycling in Antarctica
Attention and awareness uncoupled in brain imaging experiments
This is a video of astronauts falling over on the Moon. That is all.
The Unilluminable Room of George Tokarsky
Volunteering, helping others decreases substance use in rural teens, study finds
Rapper Fat Joe, who's performed with Jennifer Lopez, Diddy, and Nas, says there are powerful gays running hip-hop and it would be a better world if they just came out.
From Tunisia to Oakland, How a New Age of Activism Was Born
Trans Girl Suspended From High School for Using Bathroom
How Complaints From a Single Doctor Caused the Gov’t to Take Down a Public Database
Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the rape conviction of former President Moshe Katsav and ordered him to begin serving a seven-year prison term next month, a landmark decision that culminated a sordid five-year saga.
Ghost wolves join All Souls Procession in Tuscon, Arizona
U-Ram Choe clockwork sculpture at Asia Society Museum in NYC
Betty Rose Dudley: 1951-2011
An area with one of the largest Muslim communities outside the Middle East is bracing itself for a 24-hour prayer rally by a group that counts Islam among the ills facing the U.S. -- Chad was with IVAW and Occupy Detroit at a counter-protest to this today.
11 Free Documentaries Available on YouTube
More cracks found at Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station
The Garden Tunnel
Adipositivity 520 (NSFW)
In his campaign to be People’s Sexiest Man Alive, Joel McHale brewed quite the cup of coffee for his cast mates to show just how sexy he can be.
Late Night FDL: Keystone XL – Because Everything Is Connected
Occupy Legoland (with Lego QR code)
The problem of false positives
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II, The Metal Years
Fishing Cats Really Do Get Wet!
African Black Rhino Declared Extinct
Al Franken Fact Checks Chuck Grassley: Marriage Has Evolved Over Time -- Nicely done!
Linkpost-a-Go-Go
The Dog Toy's Point of View
Soccer Player Comes Out
This Hillis plot will humble you with its representation of humanity’s true place in nature
Dear Feminist
Letters to a Baby-Killing Whore
Facebook: Awesome pics of cool eco-savvy houses
How Students at Historically Black Colleges Drove the Mississippi “Personhood” Defeat
But How Do You Know It’s Sexist? The #MenCallMeThings Round-Up
Memoir takes humorous look at women’s sexual fluidity
Time To Retire the 'Greedy Geezers' Myth
Bechdel's Fun Home to be a musical
Service offers transit directions avoiding stairs
Medieval Marketing
7 Giant Fences Dividing Good Neighbors (don't think I'd define most of those as "good neighbors")
Bibliobitch: "We're fat, we f*ck, it's good, get over it": A Q&A with Hanne Blank
Breaking: Senate Judiciary Committee gives thumbs up to DOMA repeal legislation
Making Hospital Charges Fair and Public
Catholic Intellectuals See LGBT Church Equality as Inevitable
The Time the Fourth Doctor Chose 100 Irish Kids as His Companions
This isn't exactly breaking news, but back in the '70s, Doctor Who star Tom Baker went to Belfast to visit Irish schoolchildren, in character as the Doctor. Some footage of this trip was recently unearthed, and while it's not exactly revelatory, it is cool to think of the beloved actor braving what was in many ways a war zone to bring joy to some kids. If seeing the gigantic Baker running in a mob of dozens of hyper-excited kids doesn't bring a little smile to your face, you may need to seek medical attention.
Experimental ballot kinda works (I've mentioned before that I'm actually a big fan of this method of elections)
World's 10 Worst Toxic Pollution Problems [Slide Show]
Mercury, lead, chromium and other toxic compounds, used in many industrial processes, rob years of healthy life from millions each year. Simple fixes could go far in solving the issue
Public Wi-Fi convenient, but risky (practical steps for lowering risk)
For both men and women, wearing revealing attire causes them to be seen as more sensitive but less competent, says a new study by University of Maryland psychologist Kurt Gray and colleagues from Yale and Northeastern University.
Cute Rodents Eating Pasta
11 Women Warriors of World War II
How much conflict there is in a relationship, or the seriousness of the conflict issues, are not predictors of whether there will be violence. The biggest predictor is the degree to which conflicts in the relationship escalate.
African Americans and Felon Disenfranchisement (with an excellent, if horrify, chart)
Open Thread: Should the State Be Allowed to Ban Advertisements? -- The post is actually about law in the UK, but it does include an element I find concerning -- the very subjective decision that someone of the age of majority "looks too young" and is therefore contributing to the sexualization of children. This has come up in legal issues in the UK, Australia, and the US as far as I know. I don't think it's been clearly settled in any of the three.
Deep-Frying Portable Grill -- OK, I'll admit being tempted by this.
Mom & Pop Culture: Totally Terrible Toys (I'm with the commenters on the bike, but totally agree with the original poster about the rest)
The Amazing Resources Of The Encyclopedia Of Sexuality
BELOVED FANTASY OF A BLISSFUL PAST (fat politics)
Watch Penn State Rioters Topple a News Van; How Would the Police React If OWS Did That?
The Movement Progressives Have Been Waiting For: On the Long-Term Sustainability of OWS
Occupy Comics Kickstarter Campaign Raises Funds for Protesters
Welcome Octopus Chronicles – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs -- *bouncebouncebounce*
Did humans trade guts for brains?
Michigan Attempts to Close Two Clinics
Pennsylvania Woman Being Charged With FACE Violation
Ohio Governor Signs Bill Restricting Abortion Access for Minors
Stricken Mars probe stays silent -- Fuckity. Best of luck to all the very stressed people working on this right now.
Ten-Year-Old Gives Birth at 31 Weeks Due To Medical Complications
Studies Determine Cervarix Extremely Effective in Preventing HPV, Reducing Cervical Cancer
Latin America Serves as Cautionary Tale on Impact of Abortion Bans
Pittsburgh Public School to End Single-Sex Classes
Mythbusting Bisexual Men
Labor, Occupy Wall Street Teaming Up on Burgeoning Occupy Foreclosures Movement
Worst of Alaska storm over but more surges expected
On the birthday of Carl Sagan (2 days belated)
In a couple of weeks, on the 20th November, it will be the 13th International Transgender Day of Remembrance. Before I started blogging at BadRep this wasn’t a big date in my calendar, but two moving posts by other team members last year made me realise that it should have been.
Everyone Has the Right to Occupy Space, Safely
inadvertent effect of the Occupy movement has been to call attention to the fact that public space is not always safe space for women, nor for queer and trans people. Fittingly, anti-street-harassment group Hollaback! has stepped up to tackle the issue of sexual violence at Occupy. In a official statement written collectively with Occupied Wall Street Journal and OccupyWallSt.org, Hollaback! is calling on all of the general assemblies of the Occupy movement to adopt an anti-harassment and anti-assault platform to ensure that occupied space is both inclusive and safe. Ms. is proud to cosign this statement, published on OccupyWallStreet.org:
Occupy Des Moines: An Increasingly Important Occupation as Iowa Caucuses Near
Ugandan Gay Activist to Receive RFK Human Rights Award
Every way devised to deflect an asteroid
10 Massive Screw-Ups in Paleontology
Jessie J: Music executives were “initially uncomfortable” with bisexuality
The assumption that tail-chasing is normal behaviour in dogs could be leading to welfare issues being left untreated according to new research from The Royal Veterinary College, London.
A fetus can sense mom`s psychological state
Hill of Witches
How do lesbians and gay women experience anorexia and bulimia?
Friends, colleagues pay tribute to Cleveland Heights' Harvey Pekar
Satellite technology enables rapid, accurate mapping of forest harvest in upper Midwest
Rupert, a three-month-old wombat joey, sits in a teacup at the Healesville Sanctuary, Victoria, Australia. He was rescued from his mother's pouch when she was killed by a car
Orphaned baby bats, some with bottle teats in their mouths, arrive at Brisbane Airport, Australia
Drug-resistant infections: A new epidemic, and what you can do to help
Some of you may have heard of the Edmonton Staging System. It’s gotten nods from size acceptance activists on social media sites because with its Stage 0 classification, it acknowledges that it’s possible to be fat and healthy and at a point where losing weight my any means necessary may not be advisable.
Last week, as part of Wired's nine-week-long geek-list parade, we gave you nine equations that we think every true geek should know (or at least pretend to know). This week, we bring you some of the equations our readers think should have been on that list.
The Pollinator Crisis: What's Best for Bees?
Alice Dreger has made it her life’s work to investigate–and at times expose–the unethical medical treatment of people who have intersex conditions. “I either get love mail or hate mail,” explains the Northwestern University bioethicist and medical historian. The hate mail comes from people whose bad deeds she reveals, the love mail from people thanking her for “saving their lives.”
Let’s talk about men… Men who cuddle. According to a recent article in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, these guys are three times more likely to be happy in long-term relationships than their non-snugglin’ counterparts.
Porn Cooties!!
UC cops' use of batons on Occupy camp questioned
An older couple survive a holocaust and raise Picard's hackles, as the Enterprise deals with a happy couple and a sad mystery on the TNG Rewatch's look at "The Survivors."
Satan? Or merely Hitler?
Kurt Metzger Totally PWNED Me!
A new Symphony of Science has come out today, in honor of Carl Sagan’s birthday. And I’m pleased to see it features three people I call friends: Neil Tyson, Brian Cox, and Carolyn Porco
Traditionally, doctors diagnose severely injured people as "vegetative" when their eyes can't track movement and they can't wiggle any of their fingers. But a new medical study suggests that some of these patients may actually be fully conscious and aware — but trapped in unresponsive bodies.
Cracking an Egg Under the Sea
10 DIY foods you never thought of making yourself
11 Sculptures Made From Books
The Medical Marijuana Industry Comes to Reality TV
Being the ugly girl.
Even in today’s internet-based world, age-appropriate books about LGBT people and issues can provide a lifeline for LGBT youth. Not all schools have the resources to put towards the inclusion of LGBT books in their libraries. Amelia Roskin-Frazeel, a 14-year-old from California is providing a solution with The Make It Safe Project, which gives free packages of LGBT books to schools without any, and makes sure students have access to them, according to Bay Windows.
Some Transgender Protesters Leave Occupy Wall Street Over Safety Concerns
California county to charge prisoners for their jail stay
Remains of war dead dumped in landfill
Election reactions from the The Rachel Maddow Show cubicle farm
Related: Mississippi Rejects Zygote "Personhood" Amendment
Related: Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Standard-Bearer Russell Pearce Goes Down
Related: Openly Gay Man Wins Indy City-County Council Race
Related: Gabrielle Gifford's Former Intern Daniel Hernandez Wins Election
Related: Traverse City, Mich., Votes to Keep Nondiscrimination Law
So, I've noticed some of my fellow male fat admirers throwing tantrums when women object to be sexualized without consent. These dudes whine about how the women are telling them aren't allowed to find fat bodies attractive.
Cut that shit out. Like now.
Halal and kosher hit by Dutch ban -- What a load of bigoted bullshit.
The Biogeography of Rats and Their Quest for Global Domination
Possum eating strawberries (video)
Fossilized footprints reveal the deadly caterpillar that ruled the oceans 500 million years ago
Study links toxic component in herbal remedies to kidney failure and cancer
Tear drops may rival blood drops in testing blood sugar in diabetes
Weird world of water gets a little weirder with a new anomaly
New mothers, newborns happy with home visits
Was the real discovery of the expanding universe lost in translation?
Providing support to a loved one offers benefits to the giver, not just the recipient, a new brain-imaging study by UCLA life scientists reveals.
Giant sunspots are giant
Instead of a loping, lunging Tyrannosaurus rex, imagine the thunder lizard doing more of a power-walk: the clenched bum, the stiff legs, the whole shebang.
How Humans Became Social
What the Death of Mobile Flash Means for the Web
Mysterious Moon Magnetism Could Be Result of Earth’s Gravity
High-Speed Video Shows How Hummingbirds Stay Dry
Pentagon Regrowing Soldiers’ Muscles From Pig Cells
Join the campaign: let's get The Muppets hosting the 2012 Oscars
Anti-Abortion Lobby Dances on Graves
Police in the northern Indian state of Bihar have come up with an original way to deal with the surfeit of seized illegal firearms that are stored in police station storehouses, or malkhanas.
They have decided to melt the weapons down into farming and gardening tools.
After 43 years, Germans finally to see Star Trek Nazi episode on network TV
Eastern Turkey reels after another quake
At least 10 dead after 5.6 magnitude earthquake near city of Van, two weeks after quake killed hundreds in the region.
Credit Unions Gained 40,000 New Members on Bank Transfer Day
Not So Rosy In Ohio?
Some TPM readers are emailing in to throw a bit of cold water on the idea that last night’s election results augur well for Dems there in 2012
Occupying Winter, together
Something Bad's Gonna Happen!: US To Test First Nationwide Use Of Emergency Broadcast System
The Birth of Kermit
I Don't Drought It: 'Airdrop' Machine Pulls Water From Air To Feed Starving Plants
Yangshuo and Moon Hill
Pierre Cardin's Bubble House
Mom & Pop Culture: McGender: Unpacking the Happy Meal
The Last Sideshow Fat Man
“Obesity epidemic”, is the term unjustified and a harmful scare tactic?
cleveland : Occupy Wall Street movement debates how to police its fringe
Roger Greenwood Charged Interest On $0 Balance Bank Of America Credit Card [VIDEO]
Al Franken: Net Neutrality Is Under Attack ... Again
Followup: Rules prohibiting cable, DSL and wireless providers from unfairly interfering with internet traffic survived a Thursday attempt by Republican senators to throw them out.
The "People's Mic" Strikes Again
Renegade Manufacturing: New do-it-yourself CNC machine kits could kick open doors for entrepreneurs
A Miracle in New Orleans Schools? Students Say, Not Quite
A Little Muppet Song, A Little Muppet Dance
Cognitive reframing can help dementia caregivers with depression, stress
Sweetener found in gum may prevent ear infections in children
If you’re a bigot when you’re angry, you’re a bigot all the time
Frogs skin gives researchers the hop on bacteria
Speed-bump device converts traffic energy to electricity
Intelligence and smart thinking are not the same, according to University of Texas at Austin psychologist Art Markman, who studies how best to apply knowledge for smarter thinking at work and home.
Plate shapes may hold secrets to earthquakes
New 'super-black' material absorbs light across multiple wavelength bands
Vitamin B reduces work stress
Methane may be answer to 56-million-year question
Scale assessing suicidal ideation saves lives through high predictive validity and use of common language
Ancient manuscripts that hold important clues to India’s intellectual and religious traditions will be the focus of a new study.
Battered Tharsis Tholus volcano on Mars
Paleontologists turning to neural networks to find new dig sites
Shortly after he was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on transmitters in the brain, Dr. Greengard decided to endow a scientific prize of his own -- one most of his fellow Nobel laureates could never even hope to win. Awarded annually by Rockefeller University, The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize spotlights achievement in the field of biomedical research by an outstanding woman. Named after Greengard's mother, the $100,000 prize is one man's attempt to put a plus in a column that carries a lot of minuses.
The Jolt's on You: Turn-of-Last-Century Prank Machines Reveal "Shocking" Hazing Practices [Slide Show]
Lessons From Hollywood’s Trips Through the 4th Dimension
Wait, sometimes progressives win?
Related: A Night of Victories for LGBT Candidates
Occupy Everywhere & Economic News Round-Up
Look At These Lemur Twins!
Occupy Portland Given An Eviction Notice
Treehouse on top of Kilauea
Twyfelfontein (ancient art)
Tarasque (the dragon of a french town)
SLDN Calls on U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to do More for LGBT Vets
Bolivia says US drug agents not welcome
The pillow that makes long-distance relationships less lonely
Hi-tech scans catch prehistoric mite hitching ride on spider (w/ video)
Study finds primary health care providers fail to report substantial cases of child abuse
Las Lajas Sanctuary
Haitian Cholera Victims Seek Reparations from U.N.
The victims' petition alleges that the U.N. and MINUSTAH are liable for hundreds of millions of dollars for failing to screen and treat peacekeeping soldiers arriving from Southeast Asian countries experiencing cholera epidemics, dumping untreated waste from a U.N. base directly into Haiti's longest and most important river, the Artibonite, and failing to respond adequately to the epidemic.
American Citizen Racially Profiled At School In Alabama Because She "Looked Foreign"
Warner Bros admits it sends takedown notices for files it hasn't seen and doesn't own
SF Bartenders Wrongly Targeted as Anonymous and Occupy Oakland Goes After Cop -- Not ok. Really not ok.
UK: Can "Opt-Out" Organ Donation Law be the Solution?
The weirdest moons in the solar system, and what it would look like to stand on them
Austerity Wisconsin
Giant planet ejected from the solar system?
How Toronto Lost Its Groove
Astronomers find pristine clouds of primordial gas from the early Universe
Becoming part of global, shoestring team requires researchers only to play fair, share
Whiskers marked milestone in evolution of mammals from reptiles
Study evaluates risk factors for chronic TMJD (this is another of those once-in-a-blue-moon fibro things for me)
More support needed for adult siblings of people with autism
Octopuses and squids can switch camouflage mode to stay invisible in the twilight zone
Understanding the biology of PTSD
Roma women in Europe: the silenced, underreported gender oppression
EPA Finds Compound Used in Fracking in Wyoming Aquifer
Serious and Not-so-Serious Recycling in Antarctica
Attention and awareness uncoupled in brain imaging experiments
This is a video of astronauts falling over on the Moon. That is all.
The Unilluminable Room of George Tokarsky
Volunteering, helping others decreases substance use in rural teens, study finds
Rapper Fat Joe, who's performed with Jennifer Lopez, Diddy, and Nas, says there are powerful gays running hip-hop and it would be a better world if they just came out.
From Tunisia to Oakland, How a New Age of Activism Was Born
Trans Girl Suspended From High School for Using Bathroom
How Complaints From a Single Doctor Caused the Gov’t to Take Down a Public Database
Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the rape conviction of former President Moshe Katsav and ordered him to begin serving a seven-year prison term next month, a landmark decision that culminated a sordid five-year saga.
Ghost wolves join All Souls Procession in Tuscon, Arizona
U-Ram Choe clockwork sculpture at Asia Society Museum in NYC
Betty Rose Dudley: 1951-2011
An area with one of the largest Muslim communities outside the Middle East is bracing itself for a 24-hour prayer rally by a group that counts Islam among the ills facing the U.S. -- Chad was with IVAW and Occupy Detroit at a counter-protest to this today.
11 Free Documentaries Available on YouTube
More cracks found at Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station
The Garden Tunnel
Adipositivity 520 (NSFW)
In his campaign to be People’s Sexiest Man Alive, Joel McHale brewed quite the cup of coffee for his cast mates to show just how sexy he can be.
Late Night FDL: Keystone XL – Because Everything Is Connected
Occupy Legoland (with Lego QR code)
The problem of false positives
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II, The Metal Years
Fishing Cats Really Do Get Wet!
African Black Rhino Declared Extinct
Al Franken Fact Checks Chuck Grassley: Marriage Has Evolved Over Time -- Nicely done!
Linkpost-a-Go-Go
The Dog Toy's Point of View
Soccer Player Comes Out
This Hillis plot will humble you with its representation of humanity’s true place in nature
Dear Feminist
Letters to a Baby-Killing Whore
Facebook: Awesome pics of cool eco-savvy houses
How Students at Historically Black Colleges Drove the Mississippi “Personhood” Defeat
But How Do You Know It’s Sexist? The #MenCallMeThings Round-Up
Memoir takes humorous look at women’s sexual fluidity
Time To Retire the 'Greedy Geezers' Myth
Bechdel's Fun Home to be a musical
Service offers transit directions avoiding stairs
Medieval Marketing
7 Giant Fences Dividing Good Neighbors (don't think I'd define most of those as "good neighbors")
Bibliobitch: "We're fat, we f*ck, it's good, get over it": A Q&A with Hanne Blank
Breaking: Senate Judiciary Committee gives thumbs up to DOMA repeal legislation
Making Hospital Charges Fair and Public
Catholic Intellectuals See LGBT Church Equality as Inevitable
The Time the Fourth Doctor Chose 100 Irish Kids as His Companions
This isn't exactly breaking news, but back in the '70s, Doctor Who star Tom Baker went to Belfast to visit Irish schoolchildren, in character as the Doctor. Some footage of this trip was recently unearthed, and while it's not exactly revelatory, it is cool to think of the beloved actor braving what was in many ways a war zone to bring joy to some kids. If seeing the gigantic Baker running in a mob of dozens of hyper-excited kids doesn't bring a little smile to your face, you may need to seek medical attention.
Experimental ballot kinda works (I've mentioned before that I'm actually a big fan of this method of elections)
World's 10 Worst Toxic Pollution Problems [Slide Show]
Mercury, lead, chromium and other toxic compounds, used in many industrial processes, rob years of healthy life from millions each year. Simple fixes could go far in solving the issue
Public Wi-Fi convenient, but risky (practical steps for lowering risk)
For both men and women, wearing revealing attire causes them to be seen as more sensitive but less competent, says a new study by University of Maryland psychologist Kurt Gray and colleagues from Yale and Northeastern University.
Cute Rodents Eating Pasta
11 Women Warriors of World War II
How much conflict there is in a relationship, or the seriousness of the conflict issues, are not predictors of whether there will be violence. The biggest predictor is the degree to which conflicts in the relationship escalate.
African Americans and Felon Disenfranchisement (with an excellent, if horrify, chart)
Open Thread: Should the State Be Allowed to Ban Advertisements? -- The post is actually about law in the UK, but it does include an element I find concerning -- the very subjective decision that someone of the age of majority "looks too young" and is therefore contributing to the sexualization of children. This has come up in legal issues in the UK, Australia, and the US as far as I know. I don't think it's been clearly settled in any of the three.
Deep-Frying Portable Grill -- OK, I'll admit being tempted by this.
Mom & Pop Culture: Totally Terrible Toys (I'm with the commenters on the bike, but totally agree with the original poster about the rest)
The Amazing Resources Of The Encyclopedia Of Sexuality
BELOVED FANTASY OF A BLISSFUL PAST (fat politics)
Watch Penn State Rioters Topple a News Van; How Would the Police React If OWS Did That?
The Movement Progressives Have Been Waiting For: On the Long-Term Sustainability of OWS
Occupy Comics Kickstarter Campaign Raises Funds for Protesters
Welcome Octopus Chronicles – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs -- *bouncebouncebounce*
Did humans trade guts for brains?
Michigan Attempts to Close Two Clinics
Pennsylvania Woman Being Charged With FACE Violation
Ohio Governor Signs Bill Restricting Abortion Access for Minors
Stricken Mars probe stays silent -- Fuckity. Best of luck to all the very stressed people working on this right now.
Ten-Year-Old Gives Birth at 31 Weeks Due To Medical Complications
Studies Determine Cervarix Extremely Effective in Preventing HPV, Reducing Cervical Cancer
Latin America Serves as Cautionary Tale on Impact of Abortion Bans
Pittsburgh Public School to End Single-Sex Classes
Mythbusting Bisexual Men
