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Law To Keep TV Ad Volume Low Gets Passed -- My housemates and I were actually discussing whether this had ever gone into effect. I guess it hadn't. Starts _next_ December, apparently.
Big news, folks! Because of immense public pressure, the House Judiciary Committee cancelled their vote on the bill that would kill Internet innovation and free speech [SOPA] -- and adjourned for the rest of the year!
Ohio: Reform-minded groups starting push for constitutional amendment to change redistricting
Woman Jailed, Ostracized After Resorting to Self-Administered Abortion
Obama Reverses Himself: Administration Won't Veto 'Global Battlefield' Indefinite Detentions Measure
President Obama is expected to sign a defense policy bill allowing the military to arrest and indefinitely hold terrorism suspects -- even Americans arrested on U.S. soil.
Police Commissioner's Order Was Not Enough: NYPD Continues to Make Thousands of Illegal, Racially Biased Pot Arrests
ABC Show, 'Work It,' Finds 'Humor' at Expense of Real Transgender People
X-Ray of two-headed snake
Traces of Illicit Drugs Found in Public Air
Shocking Video: Cop Tasers 14-Year-Old Girl In the Groin for Cursing and Resisting Arrest
Justice Department report blasts Seattle police
‘Children of the Plains’ Was Little More Than ‘Poverty Porn’
More: 2 classes team up to create a rebuttal video to the ABC special "Children of the Plains."
New Study Provides First-Ever Profile of Second Trimester Abortion Patients
Three's Company For Houston Zoo's Fossa Troupe!
Revolutionary bedfellows: What Occupy has in common with the sex-positive movement
THE immensely popular A Game of Thrones books are leading thousands into the desperate squalor of fantasy addiction, it has been claimed. -- *snerk*
Etta James terminally ill: Doctor declares ‘At Last’ singer’s chronic leukemia as incurable
Science myths: zebras are white with black stripes
No Acid Burn for Naked Mole Rats
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals is warning residents about the dangers of the improper use of neti pots. The warning follows the state’s second death this year caused by Naegleria fowleri, the so-called brain-eating amoeba. -- Quick summary -- used distilled or boiled water ONLY.
Ohio Senate President Halts Hearings on Heartbeat Bill
Yesterday US District Judge Edward Korman ruled that he would allow the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) to refile a case against the FDA for "imposing unnecessary age restrictions on emergency contraceptives, and seek immediate relief to allow broader access to available drugs." Judge Korman will also permit CRR to add Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as a defendant after she overruled the FDA's decision to lift the age limit for emergency contraception and permit the over-the-counter sale of the Plan B One-Step last week and instructed the FDA Commissioner to deny the request for over-the-counter sales with a prescription for Plan B One-Step.
FDA Finds Yaz Contains Insufficient Warning Labels
Urban noise reduce biodiversity
UK: Police include Occupy movement on ‘terror’ list
Blackwater/Xe/Academi tried to improve their public image with a new video game (the review pretty much says it all)
10 Pieces of Ancient Graffitti – Now Translated!
When Franklin D. Roosevelt said we have nothing to fear but fear itself, he could have easily been talking about songbirds. A new study shows that the mere sound of predators reduces both the number and survival rate of songbird offspring, regardless of the true threat. The finding could have important implications for managing wildlife, not just for protecting songbirds but for a host of other species. (how this may related to wolf/elk balance is particularly interesting)
Every day Rob Kimmel starts half of a mini-comic for his 8-year-old son Ben. He then slips it into Ben's lunchbox, for Ben to finish at school. The end results are pure wonder, mostly due to the fact that Ben has impeccable taste (he's a lover of both Tom Waits and Star Wars). We dare you to look at these and not be filled with joy.
Bellingham police: Man tackled by victim after harassing lesbian couple
Free Will Baptists respond to racist congregation
Obama Shuts Jim Crow Era Labor-Law Loop Hole for Home Care Workers
Federal Funding for Syringe Exchange Programs is at Risk
Watch: How Life Thrives Without Sunlight
Boy, 6, Accused of Sexual Assault for Playing 'Butt Doctor,' Gag Order Silences Parents
Cagney & Lacey reunited -- I used to love Cagney and Lacey when I was a kid -- haven't seen it since then, but maybe it's time to do a re-view (Oh, yay! It's on Netflix instant!)
Hamleys Toyshop in London has changed its signage in response to a campaign against categorisation of toys by gender and sexist stereotypes.
In signs all around the shop, from top to bottom, the mention of gender has been removed.
Toys are now categorised by type: for example, ‘arts and crafts’, ‘dress-up’ and ‘dolls’, without specifying whether they are for boys or girls. -- Yay! I just wish that most of the movement on this issue weren't the other direction these days (it's a big peeve of mine, and it just seems to be getting worse, not better)
Nerds and Male Privilege
The Best Breaking Dawn Review You’ll Ever Read
UNESCO identifies 19 cultural traditions that need to be preserved cultural treasures
Artist Cleans Moss From Wall To Create Reverse Graffiti
Gorgeous octopus photo
Friday Weird Science: The Erection of the Ostrich
Cinnamon, cloves, & oregano could stop the spread of salmonella in poultry
New condom brand offers 95 different sizes; TheyFit allows consumers to measure to fit
In a survey, nearly half of men reported problems with ill-fitting condoms, breakage and slippage
The Rainbow Village of Taichung
Report: Most scientific research on chimpanzees "unjustified," should be limited
What do colorblind people see?
Related: Colorblind Web Page Filter (to aid website designers in not creating unreadable layouts)
A Pill That Stops Stress In Your Brain Before You Feel It (title is a massive overstatement -- interesting research in mice)
This alien-looking fish just rewrote the book on developmental genetics
Smith And Moffat’s Response To Yates’ ‘Doctor Who’ Movie And Other Highlights From BBC’s 5Live Radio Show Appearance
There's a new anti-abortion website called Until Abortion Ends that is asking people, like those hip youngsters on the Facebook, to give up something until abortion ends. Or as the inimitable Jay Smooth says in his latest Ill Doctrine video blog above, until (legal, safe access to) abortion ends. Think of an indefinite, Internet-driven Lent for people seeking to obstruct medical services. (Can UntilObamacareEnds.com be that far behind?)
Study: Hairs on a Spider’s Body Function as Individual Ears
Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas
Do you love Science? Well, that depends, do you like sleep?
Bioethics Panel Urges Stronger Protections for Human Subjects
How Bacteria Break a Magnet
A magnetosensing bacterium bends its internal magnet to weaken it before cell division.
Whole New Meaning for Thinking On Your Feet: Brains of Small Spiders Overflow Into Legs
For a man who spends workdays bedding maidens on wolf pelts and plucking figs from between their perky breasts, Peter Dinklage is oddly resistant to the term "stud." Confronted with this title, as bestowed by GQ, the actor proceeds to shout "STUD?!" for what seems like minutes. "I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am." -- I adore Peter Dinklage. And for a cool role that doesn't revolve around his height (nor make it a running gag), check him out as the sleazy paparazzi in Penelope. (which is a rather odd but wonderful movie on its own terms, anyway)
Utah Middle School Defends Outing Gay Student To Parents As Bullying Prevention Effort
Russia scrambles to save some 100 beluga whales trapped in Bering Sea
Just four weeks into the recall campaign, and as Scott Walker continues to mislead voters, United Wisconsin announced that 507,533 people have already signed a petition to recall Scott Walker and is releasing its new signature collection goal of 720,277 – nearly 200,000 more than needed.
Blood test might predict how well a depressed patient responds to antidepressants
Law To Keep TV Ad Volume Low Gets Passed -- My housemates and I were actually discussing whether this had ever gone into effect. I guess it hadn't. Starts _next_ December, apparently.
Big news, folks! Because of immense public pressure, the House Judiciary Committee cancelled their vote on the bill that would kill Internet innovation and free speech [SOPA] -- and adjourned for the rest of the year!
Ohio: Reform-minded groups starting push for constitutional amendment to change redistricting
Woman Jailed, Ostracized After Resorting to Self-Administered Abortion
Obama Reverses Himself: Administration Won't Veto 'Global Battlefield' Indefinite Detentions Measure
President Obama is expected to sign a defense policy bill allowing the military to arrest and indefinitely hold terrorism suspects -- even Americans arrested on U.S. soil.
Police Commissioner's Order Was Not Enough: NYPD Continues to Make Thousands of Illegal, Racially Biased Pot Arrests
ABC Show, 'Work It,' Finds 'Humor' at Expense of Real Transgender People
X-Ray of two-headed snake
Traces of Illicit Drugs Found in Public Air
Shocking Video: Cop Tasers 14-Year-Old Girl In the Groin for Cursing and Resisting Arrest
Justice Department report blasts Seattle police
‘Children of the Plains’ Was Little More Than ‘Poverty Porn’
More: 2 classes team up to create a rebuttal video to the ABC special "Children of the Plains."
New Study Provides First-Ever Profile of Second Trimester Abortion Patients
Three's Company For Houston Zoo's Fossa Troupe!
Revolutionary bedfellows: What Occupy has in common with the sex-positive movement
THE immensely popular A Game of Thrones books are leading thousands into the desperate squalor of fantasy addiction, it has been claimed. -- *snerk*
Etta James terminally ill: Doctor declares ‘At Last’ singer’s chronic leukemia as incurable
Science myths: zebras are white with black stripes
No Acid Burn for Naked Mole Rats
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals is warning residents about the dangers of the improper use of neti pots. The warning follows the state’s second death this year caused by Naegleria fowleri, the so-called brain-eating amoeba. -- Quick summary -- used distilled or boiled water ONLY.
Ohio Senate President Halts Hearings on Heartbeat Bill
Yesterday US District Judge Edward Korman ruled that he would allow the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) to refile a case against the FDA for "imposing unnecessary age restrictions on emergency contraceptives, and seek immediate relief to allow broader access to available drugs." Judge Korman will also permit CRR to add Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as a defendant after she overruled the FDA's decision to lift the age limit for emergency contraception and permit the over-the-counter sale of the Plan B One-Step last week and instructed the FDA Commissioner to deny the request for over-the-counter sales with a prescription for Plan B One-Step.
FDA Finds Yaz Contains Insufficient Warning Labels
Urban noise reduce biodiversity
UK: Police include Occupy movement on ‘terror’ list
Blackwater/Xe/Academi tried to improve their public image with a new video game (the review pretty much says it all)
10 Pieces of Ancient Graffitti – Now Translated!
When Franklin D. Roosevelt said we have nothing to fear but fear itself, he could have easily been talking about songbirds. A new study shows that the mere sound of predators reduces both the number and survival rate of songbird offspring, regardless of the true threat. The finding could have important implications for managing wildlife, not just for protecting songbirds but for a host of other species. (how this may related to wolf/elk balance is particularly interesting)
Every day Rob Kimmel starts half of a mini-comic for his 8-year-old son Ben. He then slips it into Ben's lunchbox, for Ben to finish at school. The end results are pure wonder, mostly due to the fact that Ben has impeccable taste (he's a lover of both Tom Waits and Star Wars). We dare you to look at these and not be filled with joy.
Bellingham police: Man tackled by victim after harassing lesbian couple
Free Will Baptists respond to racist congregation
Obama Shuts Jim Crow Era Labor-Law Loop Hole for Home Care Workers
Federal Funding for Syringe Exchange Programs is at Risk
Watch: How Life Thrives Without Sunlight
Boy, 6, Accused of Sexual Assault for Playing 'Butt Doctor,' Gag Order Silences Parents
Cagney & Lacey reunited -- I used to love Cagney and Lacey when I was a kid -- haven't seen it since then, but maybe it's time to do a re-view (Oh, yay! It's on Netflix instant!)
Hamleys Toyshop in London has changed its signage in response to a campaign against categorisation of toys by gender and sexist stereotypes.
In signs all around the shop, from top to bottom, the mention of gender has been removed.
Toys are now categorised by type: for example, ‘arts and crafts’, ‘dress-up’ and ‘dolls’, without specifying whether they are for boys or girls. -- Yay! I just wish that most of the movement on this issue weren't the other direction these days (it's a big peeve of mine, and it just seems to be getting worse, not better)
Nerds and Male Privilege
The Best Breaking Dawn Review You’ll Ever Read
UNESCO identifies 19 cultural traditions that need to be preserved cultural treasures
Artist Cleans Moss From Wall To Create Reverse Graffiti
Gorgeous octopus photo
Friday Weird Science: The Erection of the Ostrich
Cinnamon, cloves, & oregano could stop the spread of salmonella in poultry
New condom brand offers 95 different sizes; TheyFit allows consumers to measure to fit
In a survey, nearly half of men reported problems with ill-fitting condoms, breakage and slippage
The Rainbow Village of Taichung
Report: Most scientific research on chimpanzees "unjustified," should be limited
What do colorblind people see?
Related: Colorblind Web Page Filter (to aid website designers in not creating unreadable layouts)
A Pill That Stops Stress In Your Brain Before You Feel It (title is a massive overstatement -- interesting research in mice)
This alien-looking fish just rewrote the book on developmental genetics
Smith And Moffat’s Response To Yates’ ‘Doctor Who’ Movie And Other Highlights From BBC’s 5Live Radio Show Appearance
There's a new anti-abortion website called Until Abortion Ends that is asking people, like those hip youngsters on the Facebook, to give up something until abortion ends. Or as the inimitable Jay Smooth says in his latest Ill Doctrine video blog above, until (legal, safe access to) abortion ends. Think of an indefinite, Internet-driven Lent for people seeking to obstruct medical services. (Can UntilObamacareEnds.com be that far behind?)
Study: Hairs on a Spider’s Body Function as Individual Ears
Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas
Do you love Science? Well, that depends, do you like sleep?
Bioethics Panel Urges Stronger Protections for Human Subjects
How Bacteria Break a Magnet
A magnetosensing bacterium bends its internal magnet to weaken it before cell division.
Whole New Meaning for Thinking On Your Feet: Brains of Small Spiders Overflow Into Legs
For a man who spends workdays bedding maidens on wolf pelts and plucking figs from between their perky breasts, Peter Dinklage is oddly resistant to the term "stud." Confronted with this title, as bestowed by GQ, the actor proceeds to shout "STUD?!" for what seems like minutes. "I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am." -- I adore Peter Dinklage. And for a cool role that doesn't revolve around his height (nor make it a running gag), check him out as the sleazy paparazzi in Penelope. (which is a rather odd but wonderful movie on its own terms, anyway)
Utah Middle School Defends Outing Gay Student To Parents As Bullying Prevention Effort
Russia scrambles to save some 100 beluga whales trapped in Bering Sea
Just four weeks into the recall campaign, and as Scott Walker continues to mislead voters, United Wisconsin announced that 507,533 people have already signed a petition to recall Scott Walker and is releasing its new signature collection goal of 720,277 – nearly 200,000 more than needed.
Blood test might predict how well a depressed patient responds to antidepressants
