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2013-05-24 19:22:51 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 29 +1s)

Happy Birthday Bob Dylan

Interactive Map Showing Every Place Bob Dylan has mentioned in his songs. 

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/map_of_the_week/2013/05/bob_dylan_map_every_place_mentioned_in_a_bob_dylan_song.html

2013-05-24 06:10:11 (0 comments, 8 reshares, 75 +1s)

There is no scientific debate on climate change. The data has been in for years. It's a pity our politicians don't understand that.

#ClimateChange  

http://grist.org/climate-energy/in-gop-run-house-has-science-left-the-building/?utm_source=feedly

2013-05-23 19:50:41 (15 comments, 9 reshares, 27 +1s)

Wow. This is the most messed up, awesome mashups I've ever heard. Enjoy... 

NIN's "Head Like A Hole" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe."

http://youtu.be/5Lm1FL7gWl4

2013-05-23 01:18:19 (0 comments, 12 reshares, 72 +1s)

This is a beautiful video. Zach Sobiech passed away 2 days ago. His mentality towards life was exceptional. 

If you or someone you love is going through terminal illness, this is an excellent, classic read. It might better help you understand and communicate.

http://www.amazon.com/On-Death-Dying-Scribner-Classics/dp/0684842238

http://youtu.be/9NjKgV65fpo

2013-05-22 17:41:51 (63 comments, 30 reshares, 102 +1s)

Share The Road

Knocking a cyclist off the road is a crime. Here's an interesting exchange on twitter between a motorist who thought she had the right to knock someone off a bicycle and the local police department, who set her straight. 

More on this story here: http://ipayroadtax.com/no-such-thing-as-road-tax/i-knocked-a-cyclist-off-his-bike-i-have-right-of-way-he-doesnt-even-pay-road-tax/

2013-05-22 06:43:33 (22 comments, 26 reshares, 67 +1s)

Tumblr!

Can't wait for an invite. 

2013-05-21 19:09:50 (19 comments, 2 reshares, 60 +1s)

An abandoned farmhouse, scenery in Utah, Mesa Verde National Park. 

2013-05-21 04:18:45 (39 comments, 25 reshares, 214 +1s)

Here's a baby Tasmanian Devil

And although Tasmanian Devils have been dying from a very strange contagious cancer called "devil facial tumor disease" there's hope for this little one. A vaccine could be on the way. It's a fascinating story and breakthrough, and a recommended read especially if you are interested in immunology. Read more here: 

http://www.nature.com/news/vaccine-hope-for-tasmanian-devil-tumour-disease-1.12576

2013-05-20 20:31:11 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 81 +1s)

Little chalk artists have been busy outside my apartment for the last few weeks. Here's one of the drawings, indicating that we're "the up stars." (Upstairs.) 

2013-05-20 17:49:32 (57 comments, 3 reshares, 251 +1s)

In Arches National Park, yesterday. 

2013-05-18 19:52:52 (22 comments, 35 reshares, 223 +1s)

#Caturday  

2013-05-18 02:02:26 (6 comments, 10 reshares, 60 +1s)

You Do Not Live Alone. 100 Trillion Bacteria Live With You In Your Gut... And They Influence A Lot

#Health  

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-100-trillion-bacteria-that-make-up-your-microbiome.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

2013-05-18 01:33:17 (8 comments, 23 reshares, 100 +1s)

Happy Friday! 

2013-05-17 21:01:10 (16 comments, 36 reshares, 148 +1s)

Hey, it's Friday! Pounce

2013-05-16 16:30:32 (30 comments, 41 reshares, 233 +1s)

Lightning Hits The South Rim of the Grand Canyon

Photographer Travis Roe from the US Department of the Interior/National Parks Service.  

A few facts about lightning: About 70% of lightning occurs over land in the tropics where atmospheric convection is the greatest. This occurs from both the mixture of warmer and colder air masses, as well as differences in moisture concentrations, and it generally happens at the boundaries between them. The flow of warm ocean currents past drier land masses, such as the Gulf Stream, partially explains the elevated frequency of lightning in the Southeast United States. It however happens in other areas too. This massive strike depicted in the photo shows how immensely powerful lightning can be. 

2013-05-15 18:54:29 (36 comments, 17 reshares, 200 +1s)

So much I/O stuff. 

2013-05-15 18:07:01 (20 comments, 2 reshares, 32 +1s)

From the article:

Among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the U.S. box office in 2012, the study reported, 28.4% of speaking characters were female. That's a drop from 32.8% three years ago, and a number that has stayed relatively stagnant despite increased research attention to the topic and several high-profile box-office successes starring women.

When they are on-screen, 31.6% of women are shown wearing sexually revealing clothing, the highest percentage in the five years the USC researchers have been studying the issue.

For teen girls, the number who are provocatively dressed is even higher: 56.6% of teen girl characters in 2012 movies wore sexy clothes, an increase of 20% since 2009.

2013-05-15 17:59:14 (14 comments, 8 reshares, 27 +1s)

Changing my gender to male on Google+ improved my What's Hot experience

Earlier today, +Kimberly Chapman told me about a little experiment she'd done. She'd opened a tab on her browser and directed it to plus.google.com/explore, a stream that enables you to see the hottest content on Google+. In another tab, Chapman changed her gender on her Google+ profile from female to male, and then loaded the Explore page into another tab.

The difference was astonishing. "As a girl, I get stupid warm-fuzzy meaningless shit," Chapman writes on a post (http://goo.gl/ZDBxT). "As a guy, I get nerdy stuff. This is not okay. I get that [What's Hot] algorithms are based on what people click, like, share, comment on, etc. Fine. But I challenge anyone to give me one good reason why there should be such a drastic difference in less than ten seconds by simply changing... more »

2013-05-15 08:23:03 (500 comments, 1235 reshares, 2415 +1s)

What the hell man

2013-05-14 17:32:01 (18 comments, 25 reshares, 86 +1s)

#TurtleTuesday  

An albino baby sea turtle.

Albinism is a term which comes from the Latin "Albus" which means white. (If you're a fan of Harry Potter, remember "Albus Dumbledore?" There's a reason he had white hair.) 

It is a congenital disorder which is characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the body, and affects all vertebrates. The lack of pigment is a result of the absence of tyrosinase, a copper-containing enzyme involved in the production of melanin. 

2013-05-13 15:34:13 (36 comments, 14 reshares, 94 +1s)

#MondayMorning  

Current status. 

2013-05-13 05:16:07 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

It's The Final Countdown! Watch the official trailer for the return of Arrested Development. All new episodes, May 26, only on Netflix. http://youtu.be/vzVhPCMAxWQ

2013-05-13 01:31:16 (29 comments, 43 reshares, 136 +1s)

This is why I'm not on Facebook anymore.

#Privacy  

http://youtu.be/JvQcabZ1zrk

2013-05-11 18:06:01 (13 comments, 11 reshares, 64 +1s)

Would you sing for a tank of gas? What song? 

 Via +Larry Fournillier. 

http://youtu.be/ZNM0ENUCO5I

2013-05-11 23:18:28 (223 comments, 237 reshares, 1165 +1s)

#Caturday  

Cat socks. These are pretty cool. 

2013-05-10 17:06:25 (34 comments, 70 reshares, 182 +1s)

Happy Friday

Here's a hedgehog in a hat. 

#TGIF  

2013-05-10 02:01:37 (25 comments, 27 reshares, 158 +1s)

2013-05-10 00:21:22 (19 comments, 5 reshares, 28 +1s)

There May Be A New Type Of Fuel On The Horizon. This May Be A Potential Pandora's Box

A really long, but great article on +The Atlantic 

#ClimateChange  

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/05/what-if-we-never-run-out-of-oil/309294/

2013-05-09 23:31:01 (67 comments, 148 reshares, 412 +1s)

#CoffeeThursday  

2013-05-09 18:27:35 (73 comments, 14 reshares, 141 +1s)

This is a glass box, 103 floors over Chicago.

Would you stand over it? 

2013-05-09 04:28:23 (18 comments, 3 reshares, 16 +1s)

Coal and Gas vs. Nuclear Power. What Are The Actual Risks vs. Benefits?

#Energy   #ClimateChange  

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/kharecha_02/

2013-05-08 02:25:11 (9 comments, 7 reshares, 30 +1s)

DSM-V Tossed Out By National Institute of Mental Health

One of the best books I've read on mental health recently, btw, is this: http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing/dp/0307452425

I recommend it. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/health/psychiatrys-new-guide-falls-short-experts-say.html

2013-05-07 19:38:40 (2 comments, 15 reshares, 80 +1s)

#TheGreatGatsby  

2013-05-05 07:18:20 (26 comments, 19 reshares, 114 +1s)

Good night, Plus. A little nighttime music before bed. 

http://youtu.be/XZTeavJ9frA

2013-05-04 23:37:03 (8 comments, 9 reshares, 113 +1s)

#Caturday   #ArrestedDevelopment  

The cat's name is "Money."  ;) 

2013-05-03 23:36:20 (7 comments, 18 reshares, 66 +1s)

It's Almost Time For Arrested Development

If you text "Ann" to this number (619) EGG-VEAL you will get a reply that says "her?" and you will also be alerted via text message when the new season of Arrested Development goes live on +Netflix. 

If you call it, btw, it plays a special song.  ;)

#ArrestedDevelopment  

2013-05-03 23:08:59 (1 comments, 6 reshares, 22 +1s)

NASA's Newest Rover Destination: Greenland

The rover's called "GROVER" and we can only hope it reports back to NASA in a Sesame Street type of voice. ;) 

Read more about why GROVER's headed to Greenland here:

#Glaciology   #SolarEnergy  

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/may/HQ_13-127_greenland_rover.html

2013-05-03 19:01:08 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Do You Know The Odd Effects Of Climate Change? Take The Quiz And Find Out

#ClimateChange  

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2012/0928/Think-you-know-the-odd-effects-of-global-climate-change-Take-our-quiz/island

2013-05-03 16:34:49 (21 comments, 64 reshares, 180 +1s)

Wait for it... wait for it....

#FidoFriday  

2013-05-03 01:18:23 (241 comments, 224 reshares, 1319 +1s)

#CoffeeThursday  

I love the intersection of coffee and art. 

2013-04-30 19:02:16 (19 comments, 38 reshares, 83 +1s)

Finally, A Solution For Walking And Texting

from +Improv Everywhere 

http://youtu.be/kNyTqIsrk0w

2013-04-30 03:37:37 (13 comments, 22 reshares, 104 +1s)

Oh Jon Snow, you hipster. #GameofThrones  

2013-04-30 01:06:48 (17 comments, 7 reshares, 41 +1s)

In 1973, a Precursor To The Internet Was Born In Chile. Unfortunately, the CIA Saw Fit To Undermine and Overthrow It

I never knew the entire story behind Cybersyn, the Chilean coup of 1973, and Pinochet's rise to power. Wow. Someone should turn this into a movie.

http://www.damninteresting.com/nineteen-seventy-three/

2013-04-28 11:19:25 (15 comments, 18 reshares, 156 +1s)

70 Million Year Old Ammonite Fossil

Pretty cool, huh? 

From Wikipedia: Many ammonoids probably lived in the open water of ancient seas, rather than at the sea bottom, because their fossils are often found in rocks laid down under conditions where no bottom-dwelling life is found. Many of them are thought to have been good swimmers, with flattened, discus-shaped, streamlined shells, although some ammonoids were less effective swimmers and were likely to have been slow-swimming bottom-dwellers, feeding on plankton. They may have avoided predation by squirting ink, much like modern cephalopods; ink is occasionally preserved in fossil specimens.

Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonite

#Geology   #ScienceSunday  

2013-04-28 05:27:39 (53 comments, 32 reshares, 192 +1s)

Sometimes, I have high hopes that we as a species can all understand things like climate change and evolution.

And then I see a post like this and I think, "Hell, I'll settle for basic geography and history. Toss in proper spelling, and we have a deal." 

2013-04-26 23:55:20 (27 comments, 19 reshares, 71 +1s)

Should a life-saving drug that can be profitably sold for far less cost more than $100,000 per year?

A group of more than 120 cancer researchers and physicians took the unusual step this week of publishing a research paper taking aim at pharmaceutical prices they see as exorbitant and unjustifiable.

Drug companies are profiteering, the doctors say, by charging whatever the market will bear for medications that patients literally can't live without.

The paper, published online in the American Society of Hematology's medical journal Blood, analyzes and criticizes the cost of drugs used to treat chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), a rare type of cancer that responds very well to drug therapy. The 10-year survival rate for CML patients now tops 80% for those who receive targeted drugs -- but the annual price tag for the treatment is usually in the six-figure range.... more »

2013-04-22 21:35:28 (21 comments, 17 reshares, 167 +1s)

#Art  

#Food  

2013-04-22 20:53:20 (0 comments, 8 reshares, 48 +1s)

I just got off the phone with the office of my Senator.  They informed me that #CISPA is on the floor of the Senate now.  Please call your Senator and make your voice heard.  The number for the US Senate Switchboard is 202-224-3121.

Thank you ~

From the C-Net article I posted earlier, just one reason this is a bad bill:
And despite numerous amendments and changes, there are no requirements that personal data, such as health records or banking information, should be anonymized before sharing it with the government.

The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describingth... more »

2013-04-20 21:40:42 (0 comments, 19 reshares, 51 +1s)

U.S. House shamefully passes #CISPA.@EFF vows to take the fight for online privacy to the Senate https://eff.org/r.b8PH

2013-04-20 01:21:59 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Dan McDermott is hanging out with 6 people right now in a live Hangout On Air! #hangoutsonair