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moominmuppetDecember 6: "Occupy Our Homes" National Day of Action to Stop and Reverse Foreclosures -- Yes. This is exactly where we need to be focusing.
Occupy Cleveland: Digest – Fri., Dec. 2 – Actions and Truths
Merry corporate Christmas, Cleveland
Watch ""I'll Occupy" Recruitment Song: The 99 is Pissed and We Will Not Be Dismissed!" on YouTube -- To Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive". This is awesome and you must see it.
Just When You Thought it Was Safe To Be a Woman in Ohio…
Ed Schultz and Alan Grayson on Luntz's "99% for Dummies": His Tricks Won't Work This Time
Quantum entanglement demonstrated in macroscopic objects
Stephen Colbert explains SOPA
Scooby-Doo is Veggie Tales for secular humanists -- This is so, so true! It's part of why I've never had any truck with the versions of Scooby Doo that actually have real monsters and ghosts -- what was fun about them was that they were skeptics, and they unraveled the mystery!
Swiss gov't study: downloading leads to sales, so we're keeping it legal
A retroactive change in death benefits that would extend payment to reservists who die at home during drill weekends passed the Senate on Thursday by voice vote.
A new arrival is delighting keepers at Austria's Zoo Vienna. On Sunday, the 27th of November, a baby Giant Anteater was born and dubbed 'Hombrecito' by zoo veterinarians.
Meet Nero, Maryland's Brand New Baby Sifaka!
Dig Those Baby Degus!
One Day Old Capybara Trots Out to Say Hello
The Saint Louis Zoo and the Missouri Department of Conservation today announced that Ozark hellbenders have been successfully bred in captivity - a first for either of the two subspecies of hellbender. -- Totally awesome news! Hellbenders are ridiculously cool.
Check out the adults!
Alan Cumming To Play Both Macbeth and His Scheming Wife
Daniel Radcliffe Cast As Allen Ginsberg
NBC's The Sing-Off did a good thing — it featured the Trevor Project in a lengthy segment on its finale — but then the show took an odd turn by leaving out any mention of the nonprofit's focus on LGBT youth.
Sex, History And Lesbian Outlaws
The 5 Most Mind-Blowing Things That Can Be Found Underwater
7 Movies That Put Unbelievable Work Into Details You Didn't Notice
7 Nuclear Weapon Screw-Ups You Won't Believe We Survived
White House Says It Will Veto Domestic Military Detention Bill
Religious Believers Distrust Atheists As Much as Rapists
Criminalizing Childhood? 7-Year-Old Charged With "Sexual Harassment" for School Fight
Pastor at Kentucky Church That Banned Interracial Couples Calls for Vote to Reverse Decision
Occupy Crackdowns: Naomi Wolf's Response to My Critique Largely Evades the Issue at Hand
Debating Privacy in a Networked World for the WSJ
A joint U.S./UK research team has found that common encryption techniques are so good that law enforcement, from local to highly resourceful federal agencies, are unable to get at data on a computer hard disk that could be used to prove the guilt of people using the computer to perpetuate crimes. In looking at the current technology, the team, as they describe in their paper published in Digital Investigation, find that if criminals use commonly available hard drive encryption software, law enforcement very often is unable find anything that can be used against them.
Exploring water in the deep Earth
Every so never until now, a book comes along that makes an Abortioneer feel like they’re reading their creed. Linda Weber does such declarative magic with her new book, Life Choices: The Teachings of Abortion
Amazon rainforest splits along geological lines
Scientific Stained Glass?! -- I wish I could find better pictures!
A first-of-its-kind study of transgender health
The Shelter Pet Project
For most researchers’ money, an Earth-like planet is the best bet for finding alien life. But looking in such an exclusive range of possibilities might give them only half the story.
A team of scientists is now proposing an index that ranks a planet’s habitability using a much wider set of criteria.
10 Extreme Places on Earth
Man's "Quest for Every Beard Type"
Cedar-Sinai takes cancer sufferer off transplant list for taking the medical marijuana its doctor prescribed
Marvel Comics Cancels Their Only LGBT Solo Lead Comic Book
New breast cancer screening guidelines released
Microraptor – the four-winged dinosaur that ate birds
Dolphin Whistles Help Solve The Mysteries Of The Cosmos
The 2012 Adipositivity Calendar! [NSFW]
Media Coverage of Occupy: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement
Copenhagen Moves Closer to Legalizing Marijuana
Deconstruction: The Bechdel Test
The Bechdel Test, Bechdel-Wallace Test, or the Mo Movie Measure, is a sort of litmus test for female presence in movies and TV.
Watch: DREAMers Confront Border Patrol Officers in Alabama
Body Mass Index (BMI) appears to be associated with 30-day mortality risk following surgical procedures, and patients with a BMI of less than 23.1 appear to be at highest risk of death, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Surgery.
Darpa’s New Tool for Diagnosing Disease? Semen
Senator Promises To Filibuster Internet Blacklisting Bill
More: Sign the petition against SOPA/PROTECT-IP, and Ron Wyden will read your name into the Congressional record in an epic filibuster
Obama's Overseas Triumph
Uncoordinated Coordination: Six Reasons Limits on Super PACs Are Barely Limits at All
Video: Massive Blasts of Plasma Swirl on Sun’s Surface
The Tetrafol Is a Crazy, Motion-Sensitive Musical Pyramid From Fol Chen
Pedophile priest-enabler Cardinal Bernard Law turns in his resignation to Papa Ratzi
Some of us use the game “rock, paper, scissors” to decide who has to wash the dishes or pay the bar tab. Some use the game “Satan, Hitler, Antichrist” to decide that Others are intrinsically evil and thus We must be intrinsically righteous.
Wonks Agree: Supreme Court Will Uphold Obamacare
How the 99 Percent Won in the Fight for Worker Rights
modern day heroes: Mark Read “bat signal” of #n17 Occupy NYC/Wall Street #ows
Military Finally Schedules a Date for Bradley Manning’s Pre-Trial Hearing
The wondrous database that reveals what Americans checked out of the library a century ago.
The new homophobic aggression website launched less than a month ago has already received almost 200 reports of anti-gay abuse. The site was created by Dutch gay magazine the Gay Krant.
Picard waxes rhapsodic about ships in bottles, O'Brien sucks up to Picard, the Enterprise fails to heed Admiral Akbar's sage advice ("it's a trap!"), and La Forge uses the holodeck for a lot more than research, as the TNG Rewatch does "Booby Trap."
The Diving Grandmas of Jeju Island
Cosmocking: December '11! Part One!
Cosmocking! December '11! Part Two!
The Music Video The Church of Scientology Doesn't Want You To See
On Friday, a news story came out that a second experiment seems to support the results of an earlier experiment which showed neutrinos might be moving faster than light. I commented about this on Google+ at the time, but I want to post about it here as well. Let me be clear: this new result does not confirm FTL neutrinos! What it did was essentially eliminate one possible source of error. A big one still remains.
Red Flags of Quackery (web-comic)
Lightning sprites are out-of-this-world
Fleming's fungus still surprising scientists
Mechanism of wine swirling explained
A computer system allows a machine to recognize a person's emotional state
New research sheds light on how we see family resemblance in faces
Pakistan delays ban on 'obscene' text messages
Tree rings document ancient Western megadrought
‘Pizza’ Party Codeword May Have Doomed CIA Spies
Einstein’s brain is now on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia -- It really bothers me that this was against his wishes and without permission of the family.
The Blanket Octopus, One Of The Most Alien Animals To Swim The Earth -- OMG, gorgeous!
More pictures -- How have I never heard of these? HOW? (also, stuff like this is exactly why I'm so incapable of doing a bulk delete on my linketies folder when I'm behind)
Satellite data can help protect bluefin tuna
Nifty Library-related links from MentalFloss
Will Yelp Put Restaurant Chains Out of Business?
Swanky doodle
Artistic twists on Google logo celebrate dates big and small
Bacteria-powered Lights
British Newspaper Archive: 300 Years of News Now Online
Top 10 Science Tricks to Use at Parties
Websites That Let People Farm out Their Chores
Denied a Job Because of Criminal Record: Is It Discrimination? -- It's certainly a big issue. The inability of ex-convicts to obtain employment just feeds every nasty cycle out there. And given many of the biases in sentencing, it has dramatically unbalanced effects on differing groups.
Physicists Create the Perfect Foam
The Life of the Party -- Holy shit, this is so me.
Braille Handrails at a Zoo
Dead sharks? Edible statues? Contemporary artists rely on exotic materials to push the boundaries of art. And they’re using a new breed of conservators to fix things when they go bad.
Why the ‘Native’ Fashion Trend Is Pissing Off Real Native Americans
The Twist Bridge
9 Huge Blows to the Catastrophic War on Drugs -- Will We Have Sane Drug Policy Some Day?
Czechs Decriminalize Peyote, Magic Mushroom Growing
More cool links than you can shake a stick at (Discover) (the two following links are from this list, but there are many more)
Rainbows of mourning -- On the cultural specificity of mourning patterns.
Cell biology: The new cell anatomy
A menagerie of intriguing cell structures, some long-neglected and others newly discovered, is keeping biologists glued to their microscopes.
Occupy Catch-22: Boston Cops Throw Out the Kitchen Sink
To all those men who don’t think the rape jokes are a problem:
Christians, homophobia and trying hard to follow Jesus -- This is awesome.
Navy Ship Named After Civil Rights Hero Medgar Evers
Testing Program Fails Soldiers, Leaving Brain Injuries Undetected
Why has synesthesia survived throughout human evolutionary history?
Freddie Mercury Remembered: Queen's Best Musical Moments (VIDEOS) -- I know I'm more than a week late with this, but I have a pretty unironic affection for Freddie and Queen.
Teen tweets a joke about Governor Sam Brownback; his office gets vindictive
Ghost Bat Pup Swoops into Perth Zoo!
Study: K Street Is Holy Place
Oregon governor on executions: 'I simply cannot participate once again in something I believe to be morally wrong'
Different Shapes, Sizes, and Colors: The Wide Range of Normal Vulvas
Kampong Ayer
Inuit Throat Singing
Related: Seven Styles of Tuvan Throat Singing
NEWS BRIEF: 61 Days After Expiring, Violence Against Women Act Finally Reintroduced
8 Obnoxious Cliches about Men, Women and Sex in Otherwise Good TV Shows
Today’s Love: D.C. Woman Coaches Boys Football Team to Championship
Life on alien planets may not require a large moon after all -- This is really exciting!
Skilled Jobs Go Begging? Not Quite.
Some of Barney Frank's Best Lines (and Worst Moments)
Free Speech: Not for Government Employees
6 People Who Gained Amazing Skills from Brain Injuries
7 People From Around the World With Real Mutant Superpowers
Study: Common Herbicide Causes Menstrual Trouble
The Occupy Movement and Reclaiming the First Amendment
Buy 1, Donate 1 at the OccupySupply Store Now
One Year Since Cablegate Release by WikiLeaks Began
Alan Moore talks V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes masks
Elvis Costello to fans: my label is gouging you on my new box set; don't buy it. Buy Louis Armstrong music instead, and download my stuff by "unconventional means"
Voynich Manuscript online
23.5 tonne Marmite traffic jam
All dogs originated in one tiny part of East Asia
What’s the coldest water can possibly get before it turns into ice?
The ancestor of all life on Earth might have been a gigantic planetary super-organism -- Makes me think Solaris.
Archaeologists are one step closer to unravelling the mysteries of Stonehenge
The engineers behind Russia's failed Mars attempt could face criminal charges [Holy Crap Wtf]
Must Watch: An Out-of-Character Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson
Parasites, deadly bugs and fungi are more beautiful than you could possibly imagine
‘Star Wars’ Vs ‘Star Trek’ Battle Continues, William Shatner Responds To Carrie Fisher
TR Review: Size Matters Not by Warwick Davis -- Oh, this sounds fascinating!
John Barrowman Is a Kind-Hearted Badass
How to: Relieve pepper spray burns
Beautiful but Deadly Snakes
Zappos Pays Toll For Everyone
25 Absolutely Amazing Rock Formations
Awesome History Of The World Stop Motion Video
Potty-training a Sloth
Porcupine with Corn
Ballet School for Blind Dancers
Austrian artist Klaus Pichler became intrigued by a stuffed antelope that he saw through a window at Vienna’s Museum of Natural History one night. He later toured the museum’s taxidermy division and received permission to re-arrange and photograph the displays. Many of his pictures suggest that the animals are interacting with each other or the humans in the museum. If you opened an elevator and found a bear inside, would you share the ride or take the stairs?
The Bulldog: Dog-Breeding Gone Wrong -- It's not just the bulldog, either. As much as I love some of the predictable characteristics of some of the purebreds, I'm a big fan of mutts for health reasons.
Urinal Video Games Are A Ridiculous Reality
The Wonderfully Surreal Warped Objects of Michael Beitz
France Finds Success Breeding Fossa Pups!
AI: National Moth Week!
Violence Against Women With Disabilities: Probing the Scope of the Problem
Bringing Up Baby: Reagan's Cesarean on Up All Night and the Issue of Control in Childbirth
The Failure of Racial Profiling
Why Some People Say 'Sorry' Before Others
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the CDC: A Long, Tangled Tale
What Did Australopithecines Sound Like? More “Duh” Than “Ugg”
When it comes to acetaminophen (aka Tylenol or paracetamol), taking slightly too much for a few days may be more deadly than taking way too much all at once.
Participate in the largest drug-use survey ever conducted
The world’s oldest fish hooks discovered
Camera Trap App Sends Wild Animals to Your iPhone
Science magazine honors web site that makes physics come alive
The 5 Most Mind-Blowing Acts of Battlefield Mercy in History
Alice’s Restaurant Massacree -- It's belated, but at least I did introduce Chad to it on Thanksgiving.
Cops stun-gun a disabled 61yo man while he was riding his bike. He died.
Americans are freakishly optimistic (or just pathologically wedded to our bootstrap mentality)
Puzzlewood: Tolkien's Inspiration for Middle-Earth -- Wow. Gorgeous.
Lucky iron fish persuades Cambodian women to cook with iron, stave off anemia
Spiders coat their silk with an ant-repellent
Insects trade bacteria by drinking from the same plant
Portrait of Beethoven Made from His Own Sheet Music
Source: MLB add 'sexual orientation' wording to CBA
Heavy Machinery in Trouble! (Wow Pics)
Pigeons ride the Stockholm Metro
Aliens on Ice
Realistic Encumberance On Video Game Characters
Microsoft Cart Offers Free Bacon to Amazon Employees in the Hope of Luring Them Away
Astronomers discover the first unchanged relics of the Big Bang
How long would you survive in an airlock?
The weird, sad story of Egyptian animal mummies
Giant theremin appears in Melbourne. Australia now 67 percent spookier.
10 of the Most Dangerous Chemicals in the World
How People Are Fooled by Evidence
The 'one at a time' effect changes how facts are interpreted
Sculpting the Impossible: Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions
Artists find mind-bending ways to bring impossible figures into three-dimensional reality
How to organize a dictionary of made-up languages
Susan Kare, the Woman Who Brought Us Computer Icons
Paperclip Bike Rack
Georgia Court Rules Against Breakaway Episcopal Congregation
5 Black Friday Myths The Media Wants You to Believe -- Thoroughly belated, but really quite interesting.
6 Terrifying Real Speeches That Were Thankfully Never Given
The ‘Madison Method’ for crowd control -- Old but relevant.
The Other Side of Reproductive Justice: How Sterilization and Other Forms of Coercion Are Used Against "Unworthy" Parents -- This is hugely important, and receives too little attention.
Judge Orders Two Michigan Abortion Clinics Closed
How Modesty Doctrines Made Me Hate My Body
Pianos, Kitchens and Offices: Inside London’s Occupy Tents
Cichlid fish are secretly monogamous
Because a company’s purchase of insurance policies is not a public record, it is virtually impossible to know every company that invested in policies on employees’ lives. The following companies, however, are believed to have been named as the beneficiary of life insurance policies on employees (colloquially known as "dead peasant policies", these pay off to the company, not the family)
Otzi the Iceman and life after death
I’m Too Sexy For My Library
In a move predicted by one advocate to become the gold standard for LGBT health, Google has significantly increased coverage of transgender health care for its U.S. employees, and other companies are expected to follow suit.
Honeybees can smell TB
San Francisco Marks 600th OD Death Prevented
Al-Qaeda is....Dead....Kind Of
Sheriff Says Marijuana Legalization Could Cause Window Washers to Fall From Large Buildings and Land on People
Sensitive Santa Helps Kids With Autism Brave Holiday Traditions
Booze Is Booze Is Booze: Paper Wine Bottles
10 Reasons Coffee is Both the Best and the Worst Beverage Ever Invented
The trouble with lab mice (as representative stand-ins for humans)
Blame Your Crooked Teeth on Early Farmers
Will CT Scans and MRIs Kill the Autopsy?
New Theory Explains What Makes a Video Go Viral
According to an algorithm, the four ingredients required are congruency, emotive strength, network involvement and something called "paired meme synergy"
Image: Saturn's Northern storm
The First Amendment is only for those places that don’t have it
Founder sells Milwaukee cafe for $100, promise of food
Secrecy Surrounds Inmate Suicides in California State Prisons
Death Valley Dunes and Former Lake Bed
Fukushima Plant Disaster Long Term Effects Still Unknown
Flamboyant Cuttlefish
Suu Kyi to stand in Myanmar by-elections
Parrondo’s Paradox: Winning Two Games You’re Guaranteed to Lose
The Bipedal Atlas #scienceink
VIDEO: Even the Tiny Town of Littleton, N.H., Is Occupied
We’re Watching: Malls Track Shoppers’ Cellphone Signals to Gather Marketing Data
the creators of Occupy Wall Street
25 of the most breathtaking and colorful places of the world.
Deep Intellect
Inside the mind of the octopus
50 years on, thalidomide victims still suffering
11 Simple Ways to Support the Occupy Movement Without Sleeping in a Park
Banned neuro-toxic nerve gas 'poisons' Tahrir
Homeless Gay Teen Describes Current Life
NPR on Homeless LGBT Youth
New research on gene mutation responsible for deafness shows it also causes heightened skin sensitivity
From Rock Musician to Anti-Slavery Activist
Judge exercises extreme sarcasm on US Bank
Six Famous Thought Experiments
Health Workers Deliver First Aid to Protest Movements
Occupy News Bins
Friday Cephalopod: Watch out! It's above you!
Science myths: dinosaurs were green, scaly & spiny
Friday Weird Science: Clomipramine, yawning, and...orgasm!?
OccupySupply – What We Need
Honey Laundering
Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park and Nature Reserve
Judge says Alabama cannot steal immigrants’ homes
Staggeringly Tall and Mind-Blowingly Old: Some Incredible Examples of Trees
Should Pregnant Women Ditch SSRIs, Microwaves and Cellphones? -- On the paranoia induced by all the correlations we hear about in regards to pregnancy, exposures, and outcomes. It's something where it's massively important to try to balance reasonable precautions versus the longstanding and deeply disturbing tendency to try to blame and control women in regards to every little moment of their pregnancies.
Four separate species of rats evolved to mooch off humans
5 Bizarre Celebrity Conspiracy Theories (That Make Sense)
This Cake Looks Too Good To Eat (amazing tentacles!)
This recent debate between former Drug Czar John Walters and blogger/author Glenn Greenwald is worth watching in its entirety.
Occupy Cleveland: Digest – Fri., Dec. 2 – Actions and Truths
Merry corporate Christmas, Cleveland
Watch ""I'll Occupy" Recruitment Song: The 99 is Pissed and We Will Not Be Dismissed!" on YouTube -- To Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive". This is awesome and you must see it.
Just When You Thought it Was Safe To Be a Woman in Ohio…
Ed Schultz and Alan Grayson on Luntz's "99% for Dummies": His Tricks Won't Work This Time
Quantum entanglement demonstrated in macroscopic objects
Stephen Colbert explains SOPA
Scooby-Doo is Veggie Tales for secular humanists -- This is so, so true! It's part of why I've never had any truck with the versions of Scooby Doo that actually have real monsters and ghosts -- what was fun about them was that they were skeptics, and they unraveled the mystery!
Swiss gov't study: downloading leads to sales, so we're keeping it legal
A retroactive change in death benefits that would extend payment to reservists who die at home during drill weekends passed the Senate on Thursday by voice vote.
A new arrival is delighting keepers at Austria's Zoo Vienna. On Sunday, the 27th of November, a baby Giant Anteater was born and dubbed 'Hombrecito' by zoo veterinarians.
Meet Nero, Maryland's Brand New Baby Sifaka!
Dig Those Baby Degus!
One Day Old Capybara Trots Out to Say Hello
The Saint Louis Zoo and the Missouri Department of Conservation today announced that Ozark hellbenders have been successfully bred in captivity - a first for either of the two subspecies of hellbender. -- Totally awesome news! Hellbenders are ridiculously cool.
Check out the adults!
Alan Cumming To Play Both Macbeth and His Scheming Wife
Daniel Radcliffe Cast As Allen Ginsberg
NBC's The Sing-Off did a good thing — it featured the Trevor Project in a lengthy segment on its finale — but then the show took an odd turn by leaving out any mention of the nonprofit's focus on LGBT youth.
Sex, History And Lesbian Outlaws
The 5 Most Mind-Blowing Things That Can Be Found Underwater
7 Movies That Put Unbelievable Work Into Details You Didn't Notice
7 Nuclear Weapon Screw-Ups You Won't Believe We Survived
White House Says It Will Veto Domestic Military Detention Bill
Religious Believers Distrust Atheists As Much as Rapists
Criminalizing Childhood? 7-Year-Old Charged With "Sexual Harassment" for School Fight
Pastor at Kentucky Church That Banned Interracial Couples Calls for Vote to Reverse Decision
Occupy Crackdowns: Naomi Wolf's Response to My Critique Largely Evades the Issue at Hand
Debating Privacy in a Networked World for the WSJ
A joint U.S./UK research team has found that common encryption techniques are so good that law enforcement, from local to highly resourceful federal agencies, are unable to get at data on a computer hard disk that could be used to prove the guilt of people using the computer to perpetuate crimes. In looking at the current technology, the team, as they describe in their paper published in Digital Investigation, find that if criminals use commonly available hard drive encryption software, law enforcement very often is unable find anything that can be used against them.
Exploring water in the deep Earth
Every so never until now, a book comes along that makes an Abortioneer feel like they’re reading their creed. Linda Weber does such declarative magic with her new book, Life Choices: The Teachings of Abortion
Amazon rainforest splits along geological lines
Scientific Stained Glass?! -- I wish I could find better pictures!
A first-of-its-kind study of transgender health
The Shelter Pet Project
For most researchers’ money, an Earth-like planet is the best bet for finding alien life. But looking in such an exclusive range of possibilities might give them only half the story.
A team of scientists is now proposing an index that ranks a planet’s habitability using a much wider set of criteria.
10 Extreme Places on Earth
Man's "Quest for Every Beard Type"
Cedar-Sinai takes cancer sufferer off transplant list for taking the medical marijuana its doctor prescribed
Marvel Comics Cancels Their Only LGBT Solo Lead Comic Book
New breast cancer screening guidelines released
Microraptor – the four-winged dinosaur that ate birds
Dolphin Whistles Help Solve The Mysteries Of The Cosmos
The 2012 Adipositivity Calendar! [NSFW]
Media Coverage of Occupy: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement
Copenhagen Moves Closer to Legalizing Marijuana
Deconstruction: The Bechdel Test
The Bechdel Test, Bechdel-Wallace Test, or the Mo Movie Measure, is a sort of litmus test for female presence in movies and TV.
Watch: DREAMers Confront Border Patrol Officers in Alabama
Body Mass Index (BMI) appears to be associated with 30-day mortality risk following surgical procedures, and patients with a BMI of less than 23.1 appear to be at highest risk of death, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Surgery.
Darpa’s New Tool for Diagnosing Disease? Semen
Senator Promises To Filibuster Internet Blacklisting Bill
More: Sign the petition against SOPA/PROTECT-IP, and Ron Wyden will read your name into the Congressional record in an epic filibuster
Obama's Overseas Triumph
Uncoordinated Coordination: Six Reasons Limits on Super PACs Are Barely Limits at All
Video: Massive Blasts of Plasma Swirl on Sun’s Surface
The Tetrafol Is a Crazy, Motion-Sensitive Musical Pyramid From Fol Chen
Pedophile priest-enabler Cardinal Bernard Law turns in his resignation to Papa Ratzi
Some of us use the game “rock, paper, scissors” to decide who has to wash the dishes or pay the bar tab. Some use the game “Satan, Hitler, Antichrist” to decide that Others are intrinsically evil and thus We must be intrinsically righteous.
Wonks Agree: Supreme Court Will Uphold Obamacare
How the 99 Percent Won in the Fight for Worker Rights
modern day heroes: Mark Read “bat signal” of #n17 Occupy NYC/Wall Street #ows
Military Finally Schedules a Date for Bradley Manning’s Pre-Trial Hearing
The wondrous database that reveals what Americans checked out of the library a century ago.
The new homophobic aggression website launched less than a month ago has already received almost 200 reports of anti-gay abuse. The site was created by Dutch gay magazine the Gay Krant.
Picard waxes rhapsodic about ships in bottles, O'Brien sucks up to Picard, the Enterprise fails to heed Admiral Akbar's sage advice ("it's a trap!"), and La Forge uses the holodeck for a lot more than research, as the TNG Rewatch does "Booby Trap."
The Diving Grandmas of Jeju Island
Cosmocking: December '11! Part One!
Cosmocking! December '11! Part Two!
The Music Video The Church of Scientology Doesn't Want You To See
On Friday, a news story came out that a second experiment seems to support the results of an earlier experiment which showed neutrinos might be moving faster than light. I commented about this on Google+ at the time, but I want to post about it here as well. Let me be clear: this new result does not confirm FTL neutrinos! What it did was essentially eliminate one possible source of error. A big one still remains.
Red Flags of Quackery (web-comic)
Lightning sprites are out-of-this-world
Fleming's fungus still surprising scientists
Mechanism of wine swirling explained
A computer system allows a machine to recognize a person's emotional state
New research sheds light on how we see family resemblance in faces
Pakistan delays ban on 'obscene' text messages
Tree rings document ancient Western megadrought
‘Pizza’ Party Codeword May Have Doomed CIA Spies
Einstein’s brain is now on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia -- It really bothers me that this was against his wishes and without permission of the family.
The Blanket Octopus, One Of The Most Alien Animals To Swim The Earth -- OMG, gorgeous!
More pictures -- How have I never heard of these? HOW? (also, stuff like this is exactly why I'm so incapable of doing a bulk delete on my linketies folder when I'm behind)
Satellite data can help protect bluefin tuna
Nifty Library-related links from MentalFloss
Will Yelp Put Restaurant Chains Out of Business?
Swanky doodle
Artistic twists on Google logo celebrate dates big and small
Bacteria-powered Lights
British Newspaper Archive: 300 Years of News Now Online
Top 10 Science Tricks to Use at Parties
Websites That Let People Farm out Their Chores
Denied a Job Because of Criminal Record: Is It Discrimination? -- It's certainly a big issue. The inability of ex-convicts to obtain employment just feeds every nasty cycle out there. And given many of the biases in sentencing, it has dramatically unbalanced effects on differing groups.
Physicists Create the Perfect Foam
The Life of the Party -- Holy shit, this is so me.
Braille Handrails at a Zoo
Dead sharks? Edible statues? Contemporary artists rely on exotic materials to push the boundaries of art. And they’re using a new breed of conservators to fix things when they go bad.
Why the ‘Native’ Fashion Trend Is Pissing Off Real Native Americans
The Twist Bridge
9 Huge Blows to the Catastrophic War on Drugs -- Will We Have Sane Drug Policy Some Day?
Czechs Decriminalize Peyote, Magic Mushroom Growing
More cool links than you can shake a stick at (Discover) (the two following links are from this list, but there are many more)
Rainbows of mourning -- On the cultural specificity of mourning patterns.
Cell biology: The new cell anatomy
A menagerie of intriguing cell structures, some long-neglected and others newly discovered, is keeping biologists glued to their microscopes.
Occupy Catch-22: Boston Cops Throw Out the Kitchen Sink
To all those men who don’t think the rape jokes are a problem:
Christians, homophobia and trying hard to follow Jesus -- This is awesome.
Navy Ship Named After Civil Rights Hero Medgar Evers
Testing Program Fails Soldiers, Leaving Brain Injuries Undetected
Why has synesthesia survived throughout human evolutionary history?
Freddie Mercury Remembered: Queen's Best Musical Moments (VIDEOS) -- I know I'm more than a week late with this, but I have a pretty unironic affection for Freddie and Queen.
Teen tweets a joke about Governor Sam Brownback; his office gets vindictive
Ghost Bat Pup Swoops into Perth Zoo!
Study: K Street Is Holy Place
Oregon governor on executions: 'I simply cannot participate once again in something I believe to be morally wrong'
Different Shapes, Sizes, and Colors: The Wide Range of Normal Vulvas
Kampong Ayer
Inuit Throat Singing
Related: Seven Styles of Tuvan Throat Singing
NEWS BRIEF: 61 Days After Expiring, Violence Against Women Act Finally Reintroduced
8 Obnoxious Cliches about Men, Women and Sex in Otherwise Good TV Shows
Today’s Love: D.C. Woman Coaches Boys Football Team to Championship
Life on alien planets may not require a large moon after all -- This is really exciting!
Skilled Jobs Go Begging? Not Quite.
Some of Barney Frank's Best Lines (and Worst Moments)
Free Speech: Not for Government Employees
6 People Who Gained Amazing Skills from Brain Injuries
7 People From Around the World With Real Mutant Superpowers
Study: Common Herbicide Causes Menstrual Trouble
The Occupy Movement and Reclaiming the First Amendment
Buy 1, Donate 1 at the OccupySupply Store Now
One Year Since Cablegate Release by WikiLeaks Began
Alan Moore talks V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes masks
Elvis Costello to fans: my label is gouging you on my new box set; don't buy it. Buy Louis Armstrong music instead, and download my stuff by "unconventional means"
Voynich Manuscript online
23.5 tonne Marmite traffic jam
All dogs originated in one tiny part of East Asia
What’s the coldest water can possibly get before it turns into ice?
The ancestor of all life on Earth might have been a gigantic planetary super-organism -- Makes me think Solaris.
Archaeologists are one step closer to unravelling the mysteries of Stonehenge
The engineers behind Russia's failed Mars attempt could face criminal charges [Holy Crap Wtf]
Must Watch: An Out-of-Character Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson
Parasites, deadly bugs and fungi are more beautiful than you could possibly imagine
‘Star Wars’ Vs ‘Star Trek’ Battle Continues, William Shatner Responds To Carrie Fisher
TR Review: Size Matters Not by Warwick Davis -- Oh, this sounds fascinating!
John Barrowman Is a Kind-Hearted Badass
How to: Relieve pepper spray burns
Beautiful but Deadly Snakes
Zappos Pays Toll For Everyone
25 Absolutely Amazing Rock Formations
Awesome History Of The World Stop Motion Video
Potty-training a Sloth
Porcupine with Corn
Ballet School for Blind Dancers
Austrian artist Klaus Pichler became intrigued by a stuffed antelope that he saw through a window at Vienna’s Museum of Natural History one night. He later toured the museum’s taxidermy division and received permission to re-arrange and photograph the displays. Many of his pictures suggest that the animals are interacting with each other or the humans in the museum. If you opened an elevator and found a bear inside, would you share the ride or take the stairs?
The Bulldog: Dog-Breeding Gone Wrong -- It's not just the bulldog, either. As much as I love some of the predictable characteristics of some of the purebreds, I'm a big fan of mutts for health reasons.
Urinal Video Games Are A Ridiculous Reality
The Wonderfully Surreal Warped Objects of Michael Beitz
France Finds Success Breeding Fossa Pups!
AI: National Moth Week!
Violence Against Women With Disabilities: Probing the Scope of the Problem
Bringing Up Baby: Reagan's Cesarean on Up All Night and the Issue of Control in Childbirth
The Failure of Racial Profiling
Why Some People Say 'Sorry' Before Others
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the CDC: A Long, Tangled Tale
What Did Australopithecines Sound Like? More “Duh” Than “Ugg”
When it comes to acetaminophen (aka Tylenol or paracetamol), taking slightly too much for a few days may be more deadly than taking way too much all at once.
Participate in the largest drug-use survey ever conducted
The world’s oldest fish hooks discovered
Camera Trap App Sends Wild Animals to Your iPhone
Science magazine honors web site that makes physics come alive
The 5 Most Mind-Blowing Acts of Battlefield Mercy in History
Alice’s Restaurant Massacree -- It's belated, but at least I did introduce Chad to it on Thanksgiving.
Cops stun-gun a disabled 61yo man while he was riding his bike. He died.
Americans are freakishly optimistic (or just pathologically wedded to our bootstrap mentality)
Puzzlewood: Tolkien's Inspiration for Middle-Earth -- Wow. Gorgeous.
Lucky iron fish persuades Cambodian women to cook with iron, stave off anemia
Spiders coat their silk with an ant-repellent
Insects trade bacteria by drinking from the same plant
Portrait of Beethoven Made from His Own Sheet Music
Source: MLB add 'sexual orientation' wording to CBA
Heavy Machinery in Trouble! (Wow Pics)
Pigeons ride the Stockholm Metro
Aliens on Ice
Realistic Encumberance On Video Game Characters
Microsoft Cart Offers Free Bacon to Amazon Employees in the Hope of Luring Them Away
Astronomers discover the first unchanged relics of the Big Bang
How long would you survive in an airlock?
The weird, sad story of Egyptian animal mummies
Giant theremin appears in Melbourne. Australia now 67 percent spookier.
10 of the Most Dangerous Chemicals in the World
How People Are Fooled by Evidence
The 'one at a time' effect changes how facts are interpreted
Sculpting the Impossible: Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions
Artists find mind-bending ways to bring impossible figures into three-dimensional reality
How to organize a dictionary of made-up languages
Susan Kare, the Woman Who Brought Us Computer Icons
Paperclip Bike Rack
Georgia Court Rules Against Breakaway Episcopal Congregation
5 Black Friday Myths The Media Wants You to Believe -- Thoroughly belated, but really quite interesting.
6 Terrifying Real Speeches That Were Thankfully Never Given
The ‘Madison Method’ for crowd control -- Old but relevant.
The Other Side of Reproductive Justice: How Sterilization and Other Forms of Coercion Are Used Against "Unworthy" Parents -- This is hugely important, and receives too little attention.
Judge Orders Two Michigan Abortion Clinics Closed
How Modesty Doctrines Made Me Hate My Body
Pianos, Kitchens and Offices: Inside London’s Occupy Tents
Cichlid fish are secretly monogamous
Because a company’s purchase of insurance policies is not a public record, it is virtually impossible to know every company that invested in policies on employees’ lives. The following companies, however, are believed to have been named as the beneficiary of life insurance policies on employees (colloquially known as "dead peasant policies", these pay off to the company, not the family)
Otzi the Iceman and life after death
I’m Too Sexy For My Library
In a move predicted by one advocate to become the gold standard for LGBT health, Google has significantly increased coverage of transgender health care for its U.S. employees, and other companies are expected to follow suit.
Honeybees can smell TB
San Francisco Marks 600th OD Death Prevented
Al-Qaeda is....Dead....Kind Of
Sheriff Says Marijuana Legalization Could Cause Window Washers to Fall From Large Buildings and Land on People
Sensitive Santa Helps Kids With Autism Brave Holiday Traditions
Booze Is Booze Is Booze: Paper Wine Bottles
10 Reasons Coffee is Both the Best and the Worst Beverage Ever Invented
The trouble with lab mice (as representative stand-ins for humans)
Blame Your Crooked Teeth on Early Farmers
Will CT Scans and MRIs Kill the Autopsy?
New Theory Explains What Makes a Video Go Viral
According to an algorithm, the four ingredients required are congruency, emotive strength, network involvement and something called "paired meme synergy"
Image: Saturn's Northern storm
The First Amendment is only for those places that don’t have it
Founder sells Milwaukee cafe for $100, promise of food
Secrecy Surrounds Inmate Suicides in California State Prisons
Death Valley Dunes and Former Lake Bed
Fukushima Plant Disaster Long Term Effects Still Unknown
Flamboyant Cuttlefish
Suu Kyi to stand in Myanmar by-elections
Parrondo’s Paradox: Winning Two Games You’re Guaranteed to Lose
The Bipedal Atlas #scienceink
VIDEO: Even the Tiny Town of Littleton, N.H., Is Occupied
We’re Watching: Malls Track Shoppers’ Cellphone Signals to Gather Marketing Data
the creators of Occupy Wall Street
25 of the most breathtaking and colorful places of the world.
Deep Intellect
Inside the mind of the octopus
50 years on, thalidomide victims still suffering
11 Simple Ways to Support the Occupy Movement Without Sleeping in a Park
Banned neuro-toxic nerve gas 'poisons' Tahrir
Homeless Gay Teen Describes Current Life
NPR on Homeless LGBT Youth
New research on gene mutation responsible for deafness shows it also causes heightened skin sensitivity
From Rock Musician to Anti-Slavery Activist
Judge exercises extreme sarcasm on US Bank
Six Famous Thought Experiments
Health Workers Deliver First Aid to Protest Movements
Occupy News Bins
Friday Cephalopod: Watch out! It's above you!
Science myths: dinosaurs were green, scaly & spiny
Friday Weird Science: Clomipramine, yawning, and...orgasm!?
OccupySupply – What We Need
Honey Laundering
Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park and Nature Reserve
Judge says Alabama cannot steal immigrants’ homes
Staggeringly Tall and Mind-Blowingly Old: Some Incredible Examples of Trees
Should Pregnant Women Ditch SSRIs, Microwaves and Cellphones? -- On the paranoia induced by all the correlations we hear about in regards to pregnancy, exposures, and outcomes. It's something where it's massively important to try to balance reasonable precautions versus the longstanding and deeply disturbing tendency to try to blame and control women in regards to every little moment of their pregnancies.
Four separate species of rats evolved to mooch off humans
5 Bizarre Celebrity Conspiracy Theories (That Make Sense)
This Cake Looks Too Good To Eat (amazing tentacles!)
This recent debate between former Drug Czar John Walters and blogger/author Glenn Greenwald is worth watching in its entirety.
