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2013-05-21 10:02:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Guilty as charged, and that's why I chose to live in the west Chuo Line area of Tokyo. The same pair of jeans lasts for weeks and no one cares.

2013-05-21 05:16:06 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Yet another reason I'm glad to have eliminated red meat from my diet more than 40 years ago.

2013-05-21 04:07:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

It's OK when the US does it, because they never actually kill anyone or anything. #dprk  

2013-05-20 13:03:54 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The cheap seats in Rio are starting to appeal to struggling Europeans.

2013-05-20 01:48:50 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Why my sister has osteoporosis whereas my wife has strong, dense bones: You don’t get osteoporosis and brittle bones from just a lack of calcium—you get [them] from a lack of minerals throughout your entire body. And if bones aren’t made entirely of calcium, that also means that you can’t just strengthen your bones by taking calcium supplements, drinking lots of milk, or eating loads of dairy products and calcium-fortified foods.

2013-05-20 01:22:45 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Cool Words You've Probably Never Used As They're Words That Don't Exist in the English Language!

Ah, words. The endless variety we find in the English language is astonishing sometimes. It makes you think you've heard them all. Or have you? Here are some that may be new to you, as they're originally from another language. See if any of these appeal to your sense of adventure where language is concerned. :P

#language   #foreignlanguage   #coolwords   #interesting  

via/ http://myrevelment.com/page/2

2013-05-19 13:16:20 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 16 +1s)

かわいいけど怖い(笑)

【京橋にて激怖物件発見した】
 https://twitter.com/zatsuhana/status/335910552712921088/photo/1

2013-05-19 13:16:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

The falling-down house is at the top of this large plot of wooded land, hidden by the trees. I snapped it from the road to the north.

2013-05-19 08:00:42 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Beyond repair (a house in the wealthy Musashino part of Tokyo, on land probably worth a few million dollars).

2013-05-19 03:16:13 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Why do people spend money on something with a 1 in 175.2 million chance of success? As a friend once remarked, the lottery is a tax on people who failed probabilities math in school.

2013-05-19 00:59:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"I put the glasses back on, and took off my pants. We stood, naked, before each other with no secrets, no rules, and no shame. And I knew I never wanted to leave Google Island. Even if I could."

2013-05-18 23:28:30 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

The word "pedestrian" defines people in relation to cars.  I object to it. I deeply detest having to watch out for cars, adjust my course for them, wait for traffic lights at "pedestrian crossings," breathe the air fouled by cars, and suffer in the heat given off by the engines that power their air-conditioned capsules.

2013-05-18 04:54:49 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Christians full of love again.

2013-05-17 03:06:21 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 8 +1s)

2013-05-17 00:33:17 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Japanese cellphones themselves may not have caught on outside the Galapagos world in which they were born, but the ideas they pioneered are now taken for granted. via +Nevin Thompson  (non-native English warning)

2013-05-16 21:51:19 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Capitalism and property ownership run amok, as usual.

2013-05-16 13:29:43 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

2013-05-14 11:27:34 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

This is pretty dramatic and raw for a spy bust photo.

2013-05-14 08:41:00 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Imagine operating this machine.

2013-05-14 07:28:13 (1 comments, 8 reshares, 8 +1s)

Ever have a dream like this?

2013-05-14 05:43:32 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Our neighborhood seems to be having an epidemic of uncontrollable coughing fits, which sound like the victims are choking to death. I hope it stays away from our home.

2013-05-13 10:07:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

20th-century composer Hans Zender modernizes the Schubert classic in amazing ways.

2013-05-13 07:12:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Increase your booger consumption?

2013-05-13 04:36:31 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

Americans, taking the English language where Anglais fear to tread.

2013-05-12 22:36:46 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

"...the bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later was clearly a test of new arms,” he wrote. “It cannot be justified.” http://nyti.ms/10sgc9X

2013-05-12 06:10:59 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

#happymothersday and happy #sciencesunday !

Primates are among the most demanding babies in the animal world – which means primate mothers have to work harder than any other mom. While most mammals give birth to many offspring which she takes care of for a few months at most, primate mothers typically give birth to just a single baby who receives their nearly undivided attention for at least a year.

One explanation for this is called the Social Brain Hypothesis – the idea that primates live in incredibly complex social systems, and that increasingly social complexity has driven the evolution of comparatively large brains. It takes a long time for those brains to mature, and it also takes a long time for primate mothers to teach their offspring the ins and outs of living in such a complicated society and environment. “You are dominant to that individual, but you shouldn’tapproac... more »

2013-05-11 10:26:10 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Who knew that Schoenberg music could be so delightful? Listen to all seven parts of this masterpiece before writing him off as unlistenable.

2013-05-11 06:37:06 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-05-10 11:28:09 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

For every pithy saying there is an equal but opposite pissy reality.

2013-05-09 11:35:52 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Thanks to the person who uploaded this to YouTube a couple of weeks ago. I used to own the LP version and recently bought it for my son-in-law. This is the raw side of Coltrane, not the smooth side. 

2013-05-09 10:49:28 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

An essential jazz album, unfortunately not well represented on YouTube.

2013-05-09 00:26:28 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

This is very smart: Because the default position whenever anything happens anywhere for many American foreign policy and media elites is "do something," it becomes exceedingly difficult for an administration to exercise restraint without appearing weak.

2013-05-08 13:26:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I just posted part of Stravinsky's Le Rossignol, a great work; but I really wanted to post Persephone, except there were no good performances on YouTube. Am thinking of doing a series of "Little-known masterpieces," because in six or seven decades of music listening I have uncovered some works that deserve a much wider audience.

2013-05-08 13:17:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-08 13:09:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

After a long hard day of translating impossible stuff, it's nice to come to Google+ with all your absolutely fascinating content. Thanks, people! You put Facebook to shame every day of the year.

2013-05-07 01:59:57 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Yes, this is from a vegan advocacy site, but the science seems solid and at least worth considering when evaluating Savory's TED talk, etc.

2013-05-06 13:16:19 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

A very Russian symphony that I love.

2013-05-06 11:43:52 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

A British guy I know went through his Facebook "friends" list and asked two questions:
1) Does Facebook enhance my relationship with this person?
2) Does this person add value to my Facebook experience?
He then whittled the list down to just 54 friends.
Seems like one approach to an SNS like FB, but I wouldn't want to do the same on G+. I have had people come out of the blue with amazing comments I never expected. Even my "essential" circle has 400 people in it; and I try to follow many more than that whenever possible.

2013-05-06 03:44:47 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Is this "multiarch support" something other distributions lack? Also surprising to see all the multimedia codecs built into what I have always considered a rather conservative distro.

2013-05-06 03:30:43 (13 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

More Chinese pollution porn (PM2.5 levels). North Korea gets hit quite hard and often by this stuff.

2013-05-06 03:14:45 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Never argue with people of faith, for they have an iron-clad circular argument with which to deflect all doubts.

2013-05-05 13:20:27 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

2013-05-05 11:36:00 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This is scary if you eat food.

2013-05-05 08:31:45 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

2013-05-05 03:33:17 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

The manga is a regular part of our bathroom library selection. Quite entertaining, actually.

2013-05-05 00:35:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Thank you +Vas Littlecrow Wojtanowicz for taking the time to post such an amazingly knowledgeable comment on my earlier post. I want to reproduce it here for others who may have missed it.

Crops, regardless of whether they are endemic or artificially created, go through cycles of heavy and weak production. Mutations or hybridizations that may be a boon when they are still novel can become a liability if they (1) don't adapt to environmental conditions or predatory life forms, (2) fall out of favor from those who consume them or (3) there isn't sufficient genetic diversity or change to mitigate unfavorable collateral genetic defects. This is not my opinion, or a conspiracy theory -- this is basic biology.

What Norman Borlaug did was nothing short of miraculous, but it still did not address the root causes of the disaster that made the green revolution necessary: (1) misguidedg... more »

2013-05-04 11:39:08 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

The Green Revolution has spread monocultures of chemical rice and wheat, driving out biodiversity from our farms and diets. And what survived as spontaneous crops - like amaranth greens (chaulai) and chenopodium (bathua) that are rich in iron - were sprayed with poisons and herbicides. Instead of cherishing them as iron- and vitamin-rich gifts, they were treated as "weeds". (See also the role of Bill Gates in this.)

2013-05-04 08:13:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This is still my favorite RSS reader (desktop), and now it has added sharing to Google+.

2013-05-04 04:48:26 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

The fantastically popular girls group AKB48 includes more than a dozen girls who have the benefit of some foreign heritage. (Said, who is half-Pakistani, dropped out last year.) It's quite a varied list, including Philippine (4), Russian, Myanmar, Italian, American, Spanish, French, and more.

2013-05-04 01:39:04 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

So there's still no G+ app for the Win8 "modern" interface (or what I call the "one-hand-tied-behind-your-back" interface since I don't want to use the word "retarded")? Will there ever be?