February 2012
“Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian...”
– NBC News, “Israel Teams With Terrorist Group to Assassinate Iran’s Nuclear Scientists.”
Jesus H. Christ.
(via inothernews)
Life For A 21-Year-Old In Homs, Syria
newsweek:
This is happening:
Maras, 21, awoke yesterday morning at 6:00 a.m. to the sound of bombs falling on his neighborhood.
In his world, the Bab Amro neighborhood of Homs in central Syria, this was not the part of his day that shocked him most. This was how it had been for the past six days, he said, bursts of gunfire and shelling booming through the streets every half hour or so in the...
“One Planned Parenthood clinic does more in a day to prevent abortions than the...”
– Helen Philpot (via feminishblog)
“From 2007 to 2011, Canada’s economic performance put us in the middle of the...”
– Lawrence Martin, The myth of Tory economic performance (via politicalcanuck)
Entire genome of extinct human decoded from fossil →
“The genome is of very high quality”, says Matthias Meyer, who developed the techniques that made this technical feat possible. “We cover all non-repetitive DNA sequences in the Denisovan genome so many times that it has fewer errors than most genomes from present-day humans that have been determined to date”. >continue<
Rogers follows Bell in ending Internet throttling →
Off to my first radio gig
nothingshortof:
More than a little nervous - I’ve done a fair bit of public speaking and lots of scientific presenting over the years, but nothing of this sort … excited but nervous.
Anyone in Toronto can tune in to CIUT (89.5FM) between 11 and noon today to hear me blather about electric cars, if you’re interested. Or better yet probably don’t because it might be a total train wreck.
Good...
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UT biosolar breakthrough promises cheap, easy... →
To produce the energy, the scientists harnessed the power of a key component of photosynthesis known as photosystem-I (PSI) from blue-green algae. This complex was then bioengineered to specifically interact with a semi-conductor so that, when illuminated, the process of photosynthesis produced electricity. Because of the engineered properties, the system self-assembles and is much easier to...
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Government apologizes to Sun News for fake... →
From theNational Post:
Despite calls to apologize to Canadians and Parliament for its involvement in a fake citizenship ceremony broadcast last fall, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s office instead said it was sorry to Sun News. “We’re very apologetic and very sorry that this happened,” Kenney spokeswoman Candice Malcolm told Sun Media host Pat Bolland during a broadcast...
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral”
(source: npr)
“We who mourn continue the heat of our own lives”. Damn.
(via lonelyheartsdeathmetal)
Yes. Yes I would like exactly this at my funeral; thank you.
I need to send this to Mom.
(via nanner)
Check out this new tumblr: "Planned Parenthood... →
think-progress:
Accepting submissions.
“We have anti-choice women in for abortions all the time. Many of them are just...”
– A physician at an abortion clinic (via fuckititsfriday)
The greatest wikipedia entry that was ever... →
Birth control pill recall amid pregnancy fear -... →
bluntlyblue:
Pfizer said on Tuesday it was recalling about a million packets of birth control pills in the United States because they may not contain enough contraceptive to prevent pregnancy.
“As a result of this packaging error, the daily regimen for these oral contraceptives may be incorrect and could leave women without adequate contraception, and at risk for unintended pregnancy,”...
January 2012
“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before...”
– Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
Well played, my dear woman.
(via afternoonsnoozebutton)
“If we’re willing to spend $750 billion (so far) to make democracy in Iraq...”
– Lawrence Lessig in Republic, Lost (via think-progress)
Previously: Iraq war facts & stats
(via kateoplis)
This Is What You'd Call "Editorial Bias"
jtotheizzoe:
Listen folks, climate change sucks. It sucks to talk about, it sucks to experience it, and it sucks to research it. I would say that it sucks to cause it, but we apparently haven’t learned that lesson yet.
I imagine the world’s climate scientists feel like they are in the back row of a bus, yelling at the drunk bus driver to turn before he drives off of a cliff. Except that the bus...
cognitive dissonance responds to "nobody cares... →
Anonymous asked: nobody cares about your fucking uterus. get over it. Ron Paul is not taking away anyone’s right to reproductive freedom. This country is fucked in so many ways and you can’t look past a wedge issue like this that will NEVER effect anyone directly.
http://cognitivedissonance.tumblr.com/post/16571594044/nobody-cares-about-your-fucking-uterus-get-over-it#notes
I care about my...
Watchonearth:
climateadaptation:
“Until recently, this area of southern Mongolia was one of the world’s last great wildernesses – a cold desert that is home to gazelle, wild ass and herders living a traditional nomadic existence.
Today, however, it is the centre of the planet’s greatest resource boom. Some are calling it “the last frontier”, others “Minegolia”. Whatever the name, this impoverished...
“There as a study in which it comes out that thirty of the largest companies in...”
– Massachusetts Senate candidate ELIZABETH WARREN, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
Tax group names 'Dirty Thirty' companies - Dayton... →
socialismartnature:
“Representation without Taxation: Fortune 500 Companies that Spend Big on Lobbying and Avoid Taxes … looks at what it calls the “Dirty Thirty” particularly aggressive tax avoiders that spent more on federal lobbying than income taxes between 2008 and 2010.”
“The ‘Dirty Thirty’ companies all told made $163.7 billion in profits while paying zero dollars in federal income taxes...
WASHINGTON POST: "Google announced Tuesday that it... →
inothernews:
No opt-out.
Whistleblower's Open Letter to Canadians →
As I have detailed in a sworn affidavit, no less than three senior managers with TidesCanada and ForestEthics (a charitable project of Tides Canada), have informed me, as theSenior Communications Manager for ForestEthics, that Tides Canada CEO, Ross McMillan,was informed by the Prime Minister’s Office, that ForestEthics is considered an “Enemy of the Government of Canada,” and an “Enemy of the...
“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put...”
– Neil Gaiman on Copyright, Piracy, and the Commercial Value of the Web (X)
After a date rape (by a "poet") during a trip to... →
motherjones:
“The Way It Was”: Abortion in the US before Roe v. Wade.
Death Sentence Upheld for Iranian Programmer →
The latest Internet-related piece of news to come out of Iran is probably the most disturbing we’ve heard in a while. An Iranian web programmer, Saeed Malekpour, has been sentenced to death on charges of insulting the sanctity of Islam. He was accused of developing porn sites, and according to the Guardian, Malekpour’s accusation is the result of developing software to upload photos, which was...