A few linketies before I go...

[moominmuppet]

SociologicalImages: Who Are the Oscars Voters?

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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[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

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).

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)