Last-minute linketies

[moominmuppet]

Wired: Rare Bengal Tiger Mom and Cubs Caught in Camera-Trap Photos -- special for my brother the big cat lover.

Wired: After Massacre, Army Tried to Delete Accused Shooter From the Internet

Wired: Wait Is Almost Over for New Dr. Horrible, Joss Whedon Says

Wired: Google Flushes Heat From Data Center With Toilet Water

Wired: Drones, Dogs and the Future of Privacy

Wired: Supernatural Horror Film Thale Taps Norse Myth

Wired: FBI Can’t Crack Android Pattern-Screen Lock

Wired: After 30 Years, They Might Be Giants Just Simply Are

Wired: Mysterious Hog Farm Explosions Stump Scientists

Wired: How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big-Budget Flick

Wired: America, the Beautiful (And Nutty): A Skeptic’s Lament

Wired: Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable

Wired: White House Privacy Bill of Rights Brought to You by Years of Online Debacles

Wired: Fractal Musical Rhythms

Wired: Three Smart Things About Boogers

NYTimes: SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.

PhysOrg: Hackers violate user privacy at porn website

PhysOrg: Huge hamsters and pint-sized porcupines thrive on islands

PhysOrg: 80% in Japan 'support nuclear phase-out'

PhysOrg: European grasslands challenge rainforests as the most species-rich spaces on Earth

PhysOrg: Economists have measured America’s growing wealth gap in great detail: by income, educational attainment, and in terms of the country’s declining social mobility, among other metrics. At an MIT forum on Tuesday night, however, economists suggested the issue matters for an overarching reason that’s slightly harder to quantify: Inequality, they said, constitutes a threat to America’s values and political system.

PhysOrg: Emotional expression in music and speech share similar tonal properties

PhysOrg: New study of pine nuts leaves mystery of 'pine mouth' unsolved

PhysOrg: Hiding in plain sight: Scientist discovers new frog species in New York and New Jersey

PhysOrg: Researchers replicate slime mold with brainless amoeboid robot that can move toward an attractant

PhysOrg: Small DNA circles found outside the chromosomes in mammalian cells and tissues, including human cells

PhysOrg: Salamander found in China oldest of its kind

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

What's weird is that that tiger story says they are eating a cow - but that sure looks more like a deer than a cow to me.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

I see what you mean, but it is definitely an indian cow, with the rangier build and low floppy ears andd rear-sloping horns

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of an Indian cow before.

Going to hit google right now!

[jajy1979.livejournal.com]

I love the Huldra mythology. I am so going to want to see that film.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

*nod* I've been really psyched about some of the fantasy/horror coming out of northern Europe recently!