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moominmuppetSTEM to STEAM: The Importance of Arts in Science
This is sloppy, risible science. A new paper finds that Pill use in different countries correlates with incidence of prostate cancer. Here is an extended version of a rant I had on Twitter.
More: Memo to the Media: No Link Between Birth Control Pills and Prostate Cancer
Ohio "Heartbeat" Bill May Be Off Until Next Year
Another Vote Fraud Huckster Comes Up Short
New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran said earlier this year that her state had a “culture of corruption” and referred 64,000 voter registration records to police that she thought were possible cases of voter fraud. Now a new report from her office proves she was completely right, 0.0296875 percent of the time.
Duran’s interim report now alleges that 104 voters — about one for every 10,577 on the rolls — were illegally registered to vote. Of that group, just 19 — or approximately one for every 57,894 registered voters — actually allegedly cast a ballot they shouldn’t have.
Clashes erupt in Cairo ahead of elections
Thousands of police battle demonstrators for control of Tahrir Square, killing one protester and injuring 676 others.
Biomusings: Videos Inspired by the Amazing Lives of Field Biologists
The case against synchronized periods
MAKE's Collin Cunningham explains how to read a circuit schematic
Swapping Germs
A potentially beneficial but unusual treatment for serious intestinal ailments may fall victim to regulatory difficulties (on fecal transplants, which are a rather fascinating new topic)
The Science of Sarcasm? Yeah, Right
How do humans separate sarcasm from sincerity? Research on the subject is leading to insights about how the mind works. Really
A survival guide for future prisoners
Carl Cattermole spent three years in a British prison, and wants you to know what he knows–just in case.
Open to open marriage
At the National Center for Transgender Equality gala awards banquet last night, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan made history. Not only was he the first cabinet secretary to address a trans organization, he also become the first cabinet member to come out in favor of marriage equality.
Related: Now this is a big deal. Following on the heels of U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan's speech at a national transgender organization's gala fundraiser, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis has issued a statement recognizing the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Queer Kids (PHOTOS)
Racial Projects and the Wizardry of Dr. Oz
Back in 2007, Dr. Oz stood on the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show and infamously promoted to an audience of 8 million viewers the idea that African Americans experience higher rates of hypertension because of the harsh conditions their ancestors endured on slave ships crossing the Atlantic. This so-called “slave hypothesis” has been roundly criticized for good reason, but I was struck that it was being promoted by such a highly educated medical professional.
"By calling girls like me fat this is what you're doing to other people." — Miley Cyrus, on her twitter, responding to critics of her new, plumper body, by posting a picture of an emaciated woman. -- There are problems with some of what she said in terms of the old "real woman" thing that's such a problem, but I'm glad to see her pushing back against pressures about her body shape.
Op-ed: The Beckhams, the Movie Tomboy, and Me
Legendary Gay Bar Owner in New Orleans Dies at 101
Two Spirit Documentary Breaks PBS Records
The Native American documentary Two Spirits, now out on DVD, broke PBS records earlier this year.
Will Wedding Cake Debacle End? Lesbians Hope So
SOPA: the whole world's Internet under US jurisdiction
For Government Workers, "The Glass a Third Full"
The nation’s largest employer lags behind in workplace equality compared to an increasingly progressive private sector, The Washington Post reports in a Wednesday feature.
AIDS History: Prevention Posters From Around the World
ALERT: Trans Woman Murdered in Hollywood, Shots Fired at Another
A cyber strike launched from outside the United States hit a public water system in the Midwestern state of Illinois, an infrastructure control systems expert said on Friday.
"This is arguably the first case where we have had a hack of critical infrastructure from outside the United States that caused damage," Applied Control Solutions managing partner Joseph Weiss told AFP.
"That is what is so big about this," he continued. "They could have done anything because they had access to the master station."
Making a map accessible for the visually impaired (on a nature reserve)
Nate Silver has compiled a truly spectacular list of every economic variable that might possibly affect a presidential election and then ranked them by how effectively they actually predict presidential elections. (Since 1948, anyway.) The top ten are below, but click the link for the full list of 43 indicators and a bunch of explanations of what it all means.
14 Punctuation Marks That You Never Knew Existed
More nifty science links from Discover
Badass of the week: Daniel Inouye
This links to part 5 of a 5-part series (I'd recommend starting from the beginning, obviously), about how cult behavior can emerge in new arenas where we don't normally expect it (in this case, a fandom), and how a generally rational person can get sucked into believing more and more irrational things. -- I'd been familiar with this particular saga for quite a while, but this is a remarkably exposing set of essays about how such things come to be, and I think valuable for that.
I originally found the above from a link in Why I Think Twilight Is Dangerous, Not Just Stupid, which is also a good read.
Board games for little kids and their parents
Germany shocked by secret service link to rightwing terror cell
More: Neo-Nazi Murders in Germany
Related: Race and Europe Link Round Up – 11-18- 2011
Facing Whisper Campaign, Texas Republican Comes Out
TLC’s All-American Muslim, which I previewed last week, aired last night in the United States. The show features a group of mostly Lebanese American Muslims from Dearborn, Michigan as they go about their lives. There has been a stream of reviews, mostly positive from mainstream media outlets and ones that are more questioning by Muslim writers. Regardless of the critiques, the show is the first of its kind to feature an American Muslim community to a large viewing audience.
As you've no doubt heard by now, Community is being taken off NBC's schedule indefinitely as of January. So I've decided to use this week's episode to talk about why this series, as beloved by the Internet as it ignored by Nieslen families, deserves to stay on TV.
Jared French's Magic Realism
Continuing to explore artists who eroticized the male figure before Tom of Finland's career began, we look at bisexual artist Jared French.
Watch: 5 Hollywood Directors Avoid Talking About Race
Alabama DREAMers Speak From Detention: ICE Is “Rogue Agency”
Fat Woman with a Pixie Cut -- on fashion choices fat women aren't "supposed" to make.
Plunge Waterfalls
Thread and Nail Portraits by Pamela Campagna and Thomas Scheiderbauer
An overwhelming 77 percent of Americans believe doctors should be allowed to prescribe medical marijuana for serious illnesses while only 17 percent oppose medical marijuana according to an new CBS News poll.
U.S. Teen Birth Rate Hits an All-Time Low
Alabama Deli Owner, Businesses Stand Strong for Immigrant Rights
Robin Williams explains the totally random origin of Mork and Mindy -- Have to admit, I adored Mork and Mindy as a little kid.
Freakonomics Blog: Still Wrong on Local Food
The 10 Most Head-Shakingly Inappropriate Sesame Street Parody Sketches
Cutting back on salt may not be as beneficial for your heart as once thought, a new study suggests.
While a diet low in salt reduces blood pressure, it increases the levels of cholesterol, fat and hormones in the blood that are known to increase the risk of heart disease, the study found.
Radiance Foundation Continues Pressure on Rape Victims to Carry Their Attacker's Baby
New Front in the War on Women: Regulatory Accountability Act Could Effectively Eliminate Reproductive Health Coverage
Finally Some PSAs About Sex; A Closer Look at the New Bedsider Campaign
"Fetal Remains" Bill Pleases Anti-Choice, Traumatizes Women Who Miscarry
In Kansas, A Public Conference Reveals Deep Contempt for the Poor and for Women
Eat Your Greens, or Your Gut Gets It
Scott Walker's New Jobs Plan: Abstinence-Only Education
Steven Moffat on the possible new Doctor Who film
Op-ed: Lesbian Filmmaker Debates Rick Santorum
Despite headlines that label all harassment in schools as bullying, there is a difference between sexual harassment and bullying. And it’s an important one.
Arson Forensics Sets Old Fire Myths Ablaze
Physics or Fashion? What Science Lovers Link to Most [Interactive]
Science aficionados have odd and surprising interests
Outrage over contaminated Kenya food aid
Much of food aid supplied by Kenya Red Cross for six months found to be infected by the Aflatoxin fungus.
A top human rights group in Bangladesh has praised a bride who disowned her husband within minutes of their wedding because he demanded a dowry.
In her book, The Way Home, Beyond Feminism and Back To Reality, Quiverfull proponent Mary Pride explains that mothers who risk their lives for the sake of building the Kingdom of God are to be honored the same as missionaries
Tumblr users give Congress an earful about SOPA
Pakistan telecom censors ban 1,500 words that must not be texted
Matt Smith strips and introduces your first clip from the Doctor Who Christmas Special
Science Fiction That’s Not Only Anti-Woman, It’s Anti-Science
World's largest 3D painting creates nifty optical illusion
Friday Cephalopod: Skulking
Researchers develop 'super' yeast that turns pine into ethanol
Combo hormone therapy has increased breast cancer risk over estrogen alone
1 in 12 teenagers self-harm but most stop by their twenties
Green buildings save green
America needs to listen to the Arab Spring protestors in Egypt and engage with their vision of the future rather than trying to impose a way of life, according to new research from the University of Warwick. -- Gee, ya think?
Following the low success rate of the first run, local researchers have taken aboard another form of microbicide for trials.
Microbicides are products being developed that women could use vaginally to protect themselves from HIV and possibly other sexually transmitted infections.
Volcanoes Blamed for Greatest Land and Sea Extinctions
Message to Obama: Save the Bats!
Santorum: Labor Unions Are Force For Good…If You’re Iranian
Dwayne Johnson Cast in Lead Role For 'The Monster Hunters' Survival Guide'
10 Mesmerizing Time-Lapse Videos
How Many Drug War Prisoners Were Convicted on Faulty Evidence?
Testing errors at one crime lab led to 3,000 drug convictions in need of review and point to chronic failures in the criminal justice system.
There are increasing signs that the Super Committee won’t reach a deal. This is great news, because no deal means no cuts to Medicare and Social Security, and presumably less likelihood that we will implement dramatically more destructive austerity in the middle of an economic downturn.
Gorgeous 19th Century Patent Models
Suguta Valley, Kenya
Review: The Big Book Of Pussy
Joss Whedon Talks About 'The Avengers'
And now, three minutes of Flamboyant Cuttlefishes resembling acid trips
Australian researchers transform sea snail spit into pain-relieving pills
Flying With Little Children? Go to the Back of the Plane
OK, on to the Occupy Linketies (probably split between tonight and tomorrow to catch up on all I have right now)
This is sloppy, risible science. A new paper finds that Pill use in different countries correlates with incidence of prostate cancer. Here is an extended version of a rant I had on Twitter.
More: Memo to the Media: No Link Between Birth Control Pills and Prostate Cancer
Ohio "Heartbeat" Bill May Be Off Until Next Year
Another Vote Fraud Huckster Comes Up Short
New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran said earlier this year that her state had a “culture of corruption” and referred 64,000 voter registration records to police that she thought were possible cases of voter fraud. Now a new report from her office proves she was completely right, 0.0296875 percent of the time.
Duran’s interim report now alleges that 104 voters — about one for every 10,577 on the rolls — were illegally registered to vote. Of that group, just 19 — or approximately one for every 57,894 registered voters — actually allegedly cast a ballot they shouldn’t have.
Clashes erupt in Cairo ahead of elections
Thousands of police battle demonstrators for control of Tahrir Square, killing one protester and injuring 676 others.
Biomusings: Videos Inspired by the Amazing Lives of Field Biologists
The case against synchronized periods
MAKE's Collin Cunningham explains how to read a circuit schematic
Swapping Germs
A potentially beneficial but unusual treatment for serious intestinal ailments may fall victim to regulatory difficulties (on fecal transplants, which are a rather fascinating new topic)
The Science of Sarcasm? Yeah, Right
How do humans separate sarcasm from sincerity? Research on the subject is leading to insights about how the mind works. Really
A survival guide for future prisoners
Carl Cattermole spent three years in a British prison, and wants you to know what he knows–just in case.
Open to open marriage
At the National Center for Transgender Equality gala awards banquet last night, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan made history. Not only was he the first cabinet secretary to address a trans organization, he also become the first cabinet member to come out in favor of marriage equality.
Related: Now this is a big deal. Following on the heels of U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan's speech at a national transgender organization's gala fundraiser, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis has issued a statement recognizing the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Queer Kids (PHOTOS)
Racial Projects and the Wizardry of Dr. Oz
Back in 2007, Dr. Oz stood on the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show and infamously promoted to an audience of 8 million viewers the idea that African Americans experience higher rates of hypertension because of the harsh conditions their ancestors endured on slave ships crossing the Atlantic. This so-called “slave hypothesis” has been roundly criticized for good reason, but I was struck that it was being promoted by such a highly educated medical professional.
"By calling girls like me fat this is what you're doing to other people." — Miley Cyrus, on her twitter, responding to critics of her new, plumper body, by posting a picture of an emaciated woman. -- There are problems with some of what she said in terms of the old "real woman" thing that's such a problem, but I'm glad to see her pushing back against pressures about her body shape.
Op-ed: The Beckhams, the Movie Tomboy, and Me
Legendary Gay Bar Owner in New Orleans Dies at 101
Two Spirit Documentary Breaks PBS Records
The Native American documentary Two Spirits, now out on DVD, broke PBS records earlier this year.
Will Wedding Cake Debacle End? Lesbians Hope So
SOPA: the whole world's Internet under US jurisdiction
For Government Workers, "The Glass a Third Full"
The nation’s largest employer lags behind in workplace equality compared to an increasingly progressive private sector, The Washington Post reports in a Wednesday feature.
AIDS History: Prevention Posters From Around the World
ALERT: Trans Woman Murdered in Hollywood, Shots Fired at Another
A cyber strike launched from outside the United States hit a public water system in the Midwestern state of Illinois, an infrastructure control systems expert said on Friday.
"This is arguably the first case where we have had a hack of critical infrastructure from outside the United States that caused damage," Applied Control Solutions managing partner Joseph Weiss told AFP.
"That is what is so big about this," he continued. "They could have done anything because they had access to the master station."
Making a map accessible for the visually impaired (on a nature reserve)
Nate Silver has compiled a truly spectacular list of every economic variable that might possibly affect a presidential election and then ranked them by how effectively they actually predict presidential elections. (Since 1948, anyway.) The top ten are below, but click the link for the full list of 43 indicators and a bunch of explanations of what it all means.
14 Punctuation Marks That You Never Knew Existed
More nifty science links from Discover
Badass of the week: Daniel Inouye
This links to part 5 of a 5-part series (I'd recommend starting from the beginning, obviously), about how cult behavior can emerge in new arenas where we don't normally expect it (in this case, a fandom), and how a generally rational person can get sucked into believing more and more irrational things. -- I'd been familiar with this particular saga for quite a while, but this is a remarkably exposing set of essays about how such things come to be, and I think valuable for that.
I originally found the above from a link in Why I Think Twilight Is Dangerous, Not Just Stupid, which is also a good read.
Board games for little kids and their parents
Germany shocked by secret service link to rightwing terror cell
More: Neo-Nazi Murders in Germany
Related: Race and Europe Link Round Up – 11-18- 2011
Facing Whisper Campaign, Texas Republican Comes Out
TLC’s All-American Muslim, which I previewed last week, aired last night in the United States. The show features a group of mostly Lebanese American Muslims from Dearborn, Michigan as they go about their lives. There has been a stream of reviews, mostly positive from mainstream media outlets and ones that are more questioning by Muslim writers. Regardless of the critiques, the show is the first of its kind to feature an American Muslim community to a large viewing audience.
As you've no doubt heard by now, Community is being taken off NBC's schedule indefinitely as of January. So I've decided to use this week's episode to talk about why this series, as beloved by the Internet as it ignored by Nieslen families, deserves to stay on TV.
Jared French's Magic Realism
Continuing to explore artists who eroticized the male figure before Tom of Finland's career began, we look at bisexual artist Jared French.
Watch: 5 Hollywood Directors Avoid Talking About Race
Alabama DREAMers Speak From Detention: ICE Is “Rogue Agency”
Fat Woman with a Pixie Cut -- on fashion choices fat women aren't "supposed" to make.
Plunge Waterfalls
Thread and Nail Portraits by Pamela Campagna and Thomas Scheiderbauer
An overwhelming 77 percent of Americans believe doctors should be allowed to prescribe medical marijuana for serious illnesses while only 17 percent oppose medical marijuana according to an new CBS News poll.
U.S. Teen Birth Rate Hits an All-Time Low
Alabama Deli Owner, Businesses Stand Strong for Immigrant Rights
Robin Williams explains the totally random origin of Mork and Mindy -- Have to admit, I adored Mork and Mindy as a little kid.
Freakonomics Blog: Still Wrong on Local Food
The 10 Most Head-Shakingly Inappropriate Sesame Street Parody Sketches
Cutting back on salt may not be as beneficial for your heart as once thought, a new study suggests.
While a diet low in salt reduces blood pressure, it increases the levels of cholesterol, fat and hormones in the blood that are known to increase the risk of heart disease, the study found.
Radiance Foundation Continues Pressure on Rape Victims to Carry Their Attacker's Baby
New Front in the War on Women: Regulatory Accountability Act Could Effectively Eliminate Reproductive Health Coverage
Finally Some PSAs About Sex; A Closer Look at the New Bedsider Campaign
"Fetal Remains" Bill Pleases Anti-Choice, Traumatizes Women Who Miscarry
In Kansas, A Public Conference Reveals Deep Contempt for the Poor and for Women
Eat Your Greens, or Your Gut Gets It
Scott Walker's New Jobs Plan: Abstinence-Only Education
Steven Moffat on the possible new Doctor Who film
Op-ed: Lesbian Filmmaker Debates Rick Santorum
Despite headlines that label all harassment in schools as bullying, there is a difference between sexual harassment and bullying. And it’s an important one.
Arson Forensics Sets Old Fire Myths Ablaze
Physics or Fashion? What Science Lovers Link to Most [Interactive]
Science aficionados have odd and surprising interests
Outrage over contaminated Kenya food aid
Much of food aid supplied by Kenya Red Cross for six months found to be infected by the Aflatoxin fungus.
A top human rights group in Bangladesh has praised a bride who disowned her husband within minutes of their wedding because he demanded a dowry.
In her book, The Way Home, Beyond Feminism and Back To Reality, Quiverfull proponent Mary Pride explains that mothers who risk their lives for the sake of building the Kingdom of God are to be honored the same as missionaries
Tumblr users give Congress an earful about SOPA
Pakistan telecom censors ban 1,500 words that must not be texted
Matt Smith strips and introduces your first clip from the Doctor Who Christmas Special
Science Fiction That’s Not Only Anti-Woman, It’s Anti-Science
World's largest 3D painting creates nifty optical illusion
Friday Cephalopod: Skulking
Researchers develop 'super' yeast that turns pine into ethanol
Combo hormone therapy has increased breast cancer risk over estrogen alone
1 in 12 teenagers self-harm but most stop by their twenties
Green buildings save green
America needs to listen to the Arab Spring protestors in Egypt and engage with their vision of the future rather than trying to impose a way of life, according to new research from the University of Warwick. -- Gee, ya think?
Following the low success rate of the first run, local researchers have taken aboard another form of microbicide for trials.
Microbicides are products being developed that women could use vaginally to protect themselves from HIV and possibly other sexually transmitted infections.
Volcanoes Blamed for Greatest Land and Sea Extinctions
Message to Obama: Save the Bats!
Santorum: Labor Unions Are Force For Good…If You’re Iranian
Dwayne Johnson Cast in Lead Role For 'The Monster Hunters' Survival Guide'
10 Mesmerizing Time-Lapse Videos
How Many Drug War Prisoners Were Convicted on Faulty Evidence?
Testing errors at one crime lab led to 3,000 drug convictions in need of review and point to chronic failures in the criminal justice system.
There are increasing signs that the Super Committee won’t reach a deal. This is great news, because no deal means no cuts to Medicare and Social Security, and presumably less likelihood that we will implement dramatically more destructive austerity in the middle of an economic downturn.
Gorgeous 19th Century Patent Models
Suguta Valley, Kenya
Review: The Big Book Of Pussy
Joss Whedon Talks About 'The Avengers'
And now, three minutes of Flamboyant Cuttlefishes resembling acid trips
Australian researchers transform sea snail spit into pain-relieving pills
Flying With Little Children? Go to the Back of the Plane
OK, on to the Occupy Linketies (probably split between tonight and tomorrow to catch up on all I have right now)
