A few linketies before I go...
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Advocate: The Oscars: Actresses in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gender Bending and Coded Roles Throughout History
Alternet: The 10 Worst Things About the Oscars
While we ogle the pomp and circumstance, here are some things to keep in mind.
Alternet: Women Directors Missing From the Oscars, Whose Voters are Mostly Old White Men
Alternet/Colorlines: Domestic Workers Use Oscar Buzz Around ‘The Help’ to Create Change
Alternet: Bill Moyers Speaks Out About the Anti-Vaccination Craze
Alternet: Texas' War on Women Includes Those Transvaginal Ultrasounds
Alternet: It Never Ends: South Dakota Brings Back Bill Forcing Women To Go to Anti-Abortion CPCs
Loop21: Mandatory Drug Tests for Welfare Recipients Gain More Support -- Just lovely. *headdesk*
Alternet: Red Cross Makes New Rescue Bid in Syria's Besieged Homs
IO9: Stunning animated maps reveal bird migrations across the United States
ScientificAmerican: Coelacanths are not living fossils. Like the rest of us, they evolve
What They Are Asking: Sexuality educators reveal what people want to know
MotherJones: The Frog of War
When biologist Tyrone Hayes discovered that a top-selling herbicide messes with sex hormones, its manufacturer went into battle mode. Thus began one of the weirdest feuds in the history of science.
Alternet: Move Your Money: San Francisco Churches Move $10 Million From Wells Fargo
IO9: In a deleted scene from The Muppets Bunsen and Beaker accidentally create robotic life
MentalFloss: Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue” Was Written by Shel Silverstein
Neatorama: Tommy Craggs’s Amazing Tree Sculptures
PhysOrg: Chinese netizens flood Obama's Google+ page
MaddowBlog: Rachel Maddow at the Steinbeck Center (getting a Steinbeck Award!!)
IO9: Taxidermied badger and theremin combine to make the world’s weirdest musical instrument
Geekologie: Stephen Hawking: Regular At Freedom Acres Sex Club -- Rock on, Stephen!
Neatorama: Queen’s “We Will Rock You” Played on Bagpipes
PhysOrg: European neanderthals were on the verge of extinction even before the arrival of modern humans: study
DenOfGeek: Joss Whedon talks Cabin In The Woods
Pervocracy: Cosmocking: March '12!
ScienceNews: Crystals may be possible in time as well as space
TheDailyWhat: RC Truck Excavation Project of the Day
SociologicalImages: Creating the “Before” Body
Discover: Video: Coral’s Dramatic Yet Slo-Mo Emergence From the Sea Floor
BitchMagazine: Double Rainbow: Asperger's and Girls
Wired: What An Autopsy Looks Like — And Why You Need One
IO9: Meet Iran’s 3,500-woman-strong ninja army
IO9: This seagrass could be a hundred thousand years old
IO9: Handwritten pages from Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, illustrated by Lewis Carroll
Slacktivist: Ross Douthat’s utopia exists, in Haiti
IO9: The Weird Physics Behind The Jacob’s Ladder, Frankenstein’s Favorite Prop
IO9: Our eyes think optical illusions are as bright as real light
IO9: Everything you know about daisies is wrong
Colorlines: Tucson Youth Group Hosts Their Own Chicano Studies Classes
Pervocracy: Guest Post: Top Tips for New Friends in the [BDSM] Scene.
AbortionGang: When the pro-choice movement perpetuates abortion stigma
BitchMagazine: Pop Pedestal: Two Fat Ladies
Advocate: Does the NYPD Have an Endemic Problem With Trans People?
Out: Surprising trivia about gay literary lions.
RoundShape: I Stand: for Loving all Bodies.
BoingBoing: Teen survivors of American religious brainwashing camps speak
Advocate: Famous Radio Host Comes Out
ScientificAmerican: Gastric ulcer bacteria hide from the immune system H. pylori is always sort of extra-fascinating to me, because it's the way in which I first really learned about how science changes and progresses. I don't know when we first figured out that H. Pylori, not just stress, was at the root of most ulcers (oh, apparently we just began to learn that in 1982, and I would've been in 4th grade around 1984), but it was pretty new info when I was in 4th grade and had a friend who got ulcers. I remember being sort of amazed and baffled when we learned this new information, and the old info was obsolete all of a sudden.
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Date: 2012-02-27 05:55 am (UTC)Can we get tree sculpture guy to come do our tree when we have to take it down? (I think one of our maples is dying slowly).
Translation: Neanderthals went through a bottle neck and it didn't do so hot as a survival mechanism.
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Date: 2012-02-27 09:14 pm (UTC)I think that approach is one of the few things that would minimize my depression at tree death. Unfortunately, every case I've seen that I'd want to turn into a sculpture was rotting from the inside to at least some extent (thinking of some of the great old trees at Kenyon that had to come down over the time I was there)