http://io9.com/the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books-of-2014-1676427116?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
---Steve
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Friday, December 26, 2014
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Monday, December 22, 2014
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Intel Betting on (Customized) Commodity Chips for Cloud Computing - NYTimes.com
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/intel-betting-on-customized-commodity-chips-for-cloud-computing/?_r=0
The reason is, again, computers. Intel's chip fabrication plants are now so automated that leaving out an unwanted core, or changing other properties, is a matter of a few new commands to the machine. Customers are willing to pay a little more for the special run of chips, or pay an engineering fee for the special service.
---Steve
The reason is, again, computers. Intel's chip fabrication plants are now so automated that leaving out an unwanted core, or changing other properties, is a matter of a few new commands to the machine. Customers are willing to pay a little more for the special run of chips, or pay an engineering fee for the special service.
---Steve
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Monday, December 15, 2014
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
CIA torture report
Under the Bush administration, the United States of America systematically used torture to advance its political agendas. Clear cut war crimes, atrocities for which we hung a bunch of high-ranking Nazis at Nuremberg.
Time to show the world our true principles and reinstate our national honor. Time to prosecute George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for crimes against humanity.
---Steve
Sunday, December 07, 2014
CONTRARY BRIN: Correlation vs. Causation? Does the universe conspire against freedom?
An honest libertarian - even a "theorist" would recognize and accept the burden that this long and lamentable pattern lays upon our feet. If 99% of societies were feudal pyramids of hierarchy and inherited status, it suggests that our own - with its emphasis on individualism, rights and competitive creativity is a rare exception. Not an outgrowth of "natural law" but instead an invention, spectacularly clever, complex and needing perpetual maintenance, lest it slump back into older, more entropic ways.
---Steve
CONTRARY BRIN
nearly all human societies that had agriculture - and many that didn't - also practiced feudalism, in which a few strong men would gang up to repress all others and establish rules so that their own sons would have harems.
---Steve
Saturday, December 06, 2014
Brain Pickings
The difficulty is that laws that attempt to enforce special forms of moral behavior breed disrespect for the law and for law-enforcing agencies among those who do not share the beliefs on which these regulations are based. And where disrespect and lawbreaking by the respectable are combined, one also finds connivance with crime in other areas of living.
The more complex a society becomes, the more fully the law must take into account the diversity of the people who live in it. The approach to crime is not a matter for the police and the courts — or even the lawmakers — alone. It is a matter in which the whole society is involved.
---SteveFriday, December 05, 2014
Thursday, December 04, 2014
Tuesday, December 02, 2014
Monday, December 01, 2014
We've got 'em: The best Cyber Monday deals
Check out this article from USA TODAY:
We've got 'em: The best Cyber Monday deals
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2014/11/30/save-of-the-day-cyber-monday/19711885/
---Steve
We've got 'em: The best Cyber Monday deals
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2014/11/30/save-of-the-day-cyber-monday/19711885/
---Steve
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Friday, November 28, 2014
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
The Meaning of the Ferguson Riots - NYTimes.com
In this context, the police are justifiably seen as an alien, occupying force that is synonymous with state-sponsored abuse.
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---Steve
Monday, November 24, 2014
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
The Power of Comedy: How a Simple Line From Comedian Hannibal Buress Reframed the Way America Sees Bill Cosby - The Interrobang
http://theinterrobang.com/simple-line-comedian-hannibal-buress-reframed-way-america-sees-bill-cosby/
"It's even worse because Bill Cosbyhas the fuckin' smuggest old black man persona that I hate," Buress said. "He gets on TV, 'Pull your pants up black people, I was on TV in the 80s! I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom!' Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches."
---Steve
Skeptic » Insight » Eine andere Welt
http://www.skeptic.com/insight/ein-anderen-welt/
Sadly, as the battles over health care showed, most Americans are not only completely unaware of how people in other countries live, but completely uninterested in learning anything from them as well. To most of the world with universal health care, it seemed truly bizarre that Americans were fighting over something which nearly all the rest of the developed world already has. Americans are now becoming notorious for their naive jingoism and insularity, and not knowing or caring about what the rest of the world is like.
---Steve
Sadly, as the battles over health care showed, most Americans are not only completely unaware of how people in other countries live, but completely uninterested in learning anything from them as well. To most of the world with universal health care, it seemed truly bizarre that Americans were fighting over something which nearly all the rest of the developed world already has. Americans are now becoming notorious for their naive jingoism and insularity, and not knowing or caring about what the rest of the world is like.
---Steve
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Friday, November 14, 2014
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Monday, November 10, 2014
Saturday, November 08, 2014
Midterm Turnout Decreased in All but 12 States - US News
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/11/05/midterm-turnout-decreased-in-all-but-12-states
Because turnout drops for midterm elections compared to presidential elections, it makes more sense to compare Tuesday's voter turnout to the last midterm elections in 2010. Turnout was less for eligible voters this time around: 36.6 percent voted, compared with 40.9 percent in 2010, according to data from the United States Elections Project.
---Steve
---Steve
Friday, November 07, 2014
Five Of The Craziest Conspiracy Theories That The Freshman Republican Class Will Bring To Congress | Right Wing Watch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/five-conspiracy-theories-freshman-republican-class-will-bring-congress
So there you have it, in an election where pundits raved about establishment Republicans "crushing" Tea Party insurgents, it seems that the GOP establishment has simply appropriated the Tea Party's tarnished brand of paranoid politics and unmistakable extremism. - See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/five-conspiracy-theories-freshman-republican-class-will-bring-congress#sthash.XKqjIapi.dpuf
---Steve
So there you have it, in an election where pundits raved about establishment Republicans "crushing" Tea Party insurgents, it seems that the GOP establishment has simply appropriated the Tea Party's tarnished brand of paranoid politics and unmistakable extremism. - See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/five-conspiracy-theories-freshman-republican-class-will-bring-congress#sthash.XKqjIapi.dpuf
---Steve
Thursday, November 06, 2014
Wednesday, November 05, 2014
Tuesday, November 04, 2014
Sunday, November 02, 2014
Climate change 'final warning' as IPCC report pushes for fossil fuel phase-out by 2100 - Climate Change - Environment - The Independent
www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/scientific-evidence-proves-climate-change-is-manmade-un-experts-conclude-9833748.html
This report shows that there is no real intellectual basis for denying the risks of climate change, and governments should be focused on how best to make the transition to low-carbon economic development and growth."
This report shows that there is no real intellectual basis for denying the risks of climate change, and governments should be focused on how best to make the transition to low-carbon economic development and growth."
---Steve
Saturday, November 01, 2014
Friday, October 31, 2014
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Poll tax in Texas
Supreme Court allows Texas voter ID law
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/18/politics/texas-voter-id-law/index.html
---Steve
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/18/politics/texas-voter-id-law/index.html
---Steve
Friday, October 17, 2014
why_men_love_war
n wrote that war is the enduring condition of twentieth-century man. He was only partly right. War is the enduring condition of man, period. Men have gone to war over everything from Helen of Troy to Jenkins's ear. Two million Frenchmen and Englishmen died in muddy trenches in World War I because a student shot an archduke. The truth is, the reasons don't matter. There is a reason for every war and a war for every reason.
Scott Brown: We Wouldn’t Have Ebola If Mitt Was President | Wonkette
http://wonkette.com/563687/scott-brown-we-wouldnt-have-ebola-if-mitt-was-president
Why don't you leave the grown-ups to talk about how to deal with Ebola, and you can stick to what you know: hanging out with the young Republicans and giving free beer to the co-eds at the college tailgate parties, where the cool kids talk about the very issues you want to focus on,
Read more at http://wonkette.com/563687/scott-brown-we-wouldnt-have-ebola-if-mitt-was-president#3mxHHaQjfHtJA0sw.99
---Steve
Why don't you leave the grown-ups to talk about how to deal with Ebola, and you can stick to what you know: hanging out with the young Republicans and giving free beer to the co-eds at the college tailgate parties, where the cool kids talk about the very issues you want to focus on,
Read more at http://wonkette.com/563687/scott-brown-we-wouldnt-have-ebola-if-mitt-was-president#3mxHHaQjfHtJA0sw.99
---Steve
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Sunday, October 12, 2014
The idea that the Quran is God’s literal and most perfect word
We can continue to be in denial and claim that ISIS's ideology has nothing to do with Islam, hoping to dissuade the jihadis and silence the anti-Muslim bigots. Thing is, with the Quran at so many people's fingertips these days, neither the jihadis nor the anti-Muslim bigots are believing this anymore and we are simply hurting our own credibility.
If we want to really solve the problem and maybe even regain some credibility, we need leaders who are willing to put forth the idea that we have to change the way we regard the Quran. Treating the Quran as God's perfect and literal word to man is creating too much havoc.
Only when the notions of Quranic infallibility and inerrancy are challenged, will it be possible for believing Muslims to openly admit that according to literalist interpretations at least, violent and hateful passages exist in the Quran: passages that call for fighting those who don't believe in Allah, that support ISIS's ideology and help them recruit young Muslims like Aqsa Mahmood.
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Tweet from Dan Wineman (@dwineman)
Friday, October 10, 2014
Thursday, October 09, 2014
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Intentionally Bringing In Ebola To Make America More Like Africa | Right Wing Watch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/phyllis-schlafly-obama-intentionally-bringing-ebola-make-america-more-africa
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Intentionally Bringing In Ebola To Make America More Like Africa - See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/phyllis-schlafly-obama-intentionally-bringing-ebola-make-america-more-africa#sthash.EQ01xwzE.dpuf
---Steve
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Intentionally Bringing In Ebola To Make America More Like Africa - See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/phyllis-schlafly-obama-intentionally-bringing-ebola-make-america-more-africa#sthash.EQ01xwzE.dpuf
---Steve
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
Monday, October 06, 2014
Tweet from ZanDark Lorda Da Fif (@ZandarVTS)
 | ZanDark Lorda Da Fif (@ZandarVTS) |
RT @LOLGOP: Same-sex marriage. Now legal in every state where Mitt Romney owns a home. || Game, set, match | |
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---Steve
Slate: The Better Call Saul Music Video Is a Great Advertisement, but a Better Song
I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad
The Better Call Saul Music Video Is a Great Advertisement, but a Better Song
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/10/05/better_call_saul_music_video_watch_junior_brown_perform_the_breaking_bad.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/10/05/better_call_saul_music_video_watch_junior_brown_perform_the_breaking_bad.html
---Steve
Sunday, October 05, 2014
Friday, October 03, 2014
New Statesman | John Gray: is religion to blame for history’s bloodiest wars?
http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/09/lambs-slaughter
Conventional distinctions between religious and secular belief pass over the role that belief itself plays in our lives. "We are meaning-seeking creatures," Karen Armstrong writes wisely, "and, unlike other animals, fall very easily into despair if we fail to make sense of our lives." We are unlike our animal kin in another way. Only human beings kill and die for the sake of beliefs about themselves and the nature of the world. Looking for sense in their lives, they attack others who find meaning in beliefs different from their own. The violence of faith cannot be exorcised by demonising religion. It goes with being human.
---Steve
Conventional distinctions between religious and secular belief pass over the role that belief itself plays in our lives. "We are meaning-seeking creatures," Karen Armstrong writes wisely, "and, unlike other animals, fall very easily into despair if we fail to make sense of our lives." We are unlike our animal kin in another way. Only human beings kill and die for the sake of beliefs about themselves and the nature of the world. Looking for sense in their lives, they attack others who find meaning in beliefs different from their own. The violence of faith cannot be exorcised by demonising religion. It goes with being human.
---Steve
Thursday, October 02, 2014
Slate: Climate Science Is Settled Enough
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---Steve
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Monday, September 29, 2014
New Construction of Single Family Homes Picking up in Sedona
http://www.sedonafinehome.com/Housing-Starts.html
The cost of building new is now beginning to compete with the cost of buying an existing home. Prices of new homes ranging between $380,000 and $750,000 depending on size and finishes, have an average price per sqft of $260. By comparison, existing homes are listed at an average of $200/sqft.The economic case for building new versus buying an existing home becomes more compelling at the high end of the market as it commands higher prices per square foot.
---Steve
The cost of building new is now beginning to compete with the cost of buying an existing home. Prices of new homes ranging between $380,000 and $750,000 depending on size and finishes, have an average price per sqft of $260. By comparison, existing homes are listed at an average of $200/sqft.The economic case for building new versus buying an existing home becomes more compelling at the high end of the market as it commands higher prices per square foot.
---Steve
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Slate: Hitchcock’s Obsession With Eyes Gets a Great Supercut
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Hitchcock's Obsession With Eyes Gets a Great Supercut
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/09/27/eyes_of_hitchcock_video_essay_kogonada_delivers_another_stunning_montage.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/09/27/eyes_of_hitchcock_video_essay_kogonada_delivers_another_stunning_montage.html
---Steve
Friday, September 26, 2014
WAKING UP: Chapter One : Sam Harris
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/chapter-one
Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others. This might not be obvious, especially when there are aspects of your life that seem in need of improvement—when your goals are unrealized, or you are struggling to find a career, or you have relationships that need repairing. But it's the truth. Every experience you have ever had has been shaped by your mind. Every relationship is as good or as bad as it is because of the minds involved. If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life—you won't enjoy any of it.
---Steve
Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others. This might not be obvious, especially when there are aspects of your life that seem in need of improvement—when your goals are unrealized, or you are struggling to find a career, or you have relationships that need repairing. But it's the truth. Every experience you have ever had has been shaped by your mind. Every relationship is as good or as bad as it is because of the minds involved. If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life—you won't enjoy any of it.
---Steve
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Friday, September 19, 2014
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
'Boyhood' (R) | miami.com
http://www.miami.com/039boyhood039-r-article
Mason asks his father what life is all about, his dad replies "We're all just winging it. The good news is you're feeling stuff, you know? And you've got to hold on to that. You get older, and you don't feel as much, your skin gets tough." This remarkable, wonderful movie helps you remember.
---Steve
Mason asks his father what life is all about, his dad replies "We're all just winging it. The good news is you're feeling stuff, you know? And you've got to hold on to that. You get older, and you don't feel as much, your skin gets tough." This remarkable, wonderful movie helps you remember.
---Steve
Monday, September 15, 2014
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Friday, September 12, 2014
Best Story of the Day: Sarah Palin Clan Reportedly Involved in Huge Drunken Brawl - Little Green Footballs
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/43830_Best_Story_of_the_Day-_Sarah_Palin_Clan_Reportedly_Involved_in_Huge_Drunken_Brawl
The failed governor's hillbilly reality show continues...
---Steve
The failed governor's hillbilly reality show continues...
---Steve
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Sleepwalking Toward Armageddon : Sam Harris
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/sleepwalking-toward-armageddon
But it remains taboo in most societies to criticize a person's religious beliefs. Even atheists tend to observe this taboo, and enforce it on others, because they believe that religion is necessary for many people. After all, life is difficult—and faith is a balm. Most people imagine that Iron Age philosophy represents the only available vessel for their spiritual hopes and existential concerns. This is an enduring problem for the forces of reason, because the most transformative experiences people have—bliss, devotion, self-transcendence—are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and to ways of thinking that merely amplify superstition, self-deception, and conflict.
Among all the harms caused by religion at this point in history, this is perhaps the most subtle: Even when it appears beneficial—inspiring people to gather in beautiful buildings to contemplate the mystery existence and their ethical commitments to one another—religion conveys the message that there is no intellectually defensible and nonsectarian way to do this. But there is. We can build strong communities and enjoy deeply moral and spiritual lives, without believing any divisive nonsense about the divine origin of specific books.
---Steve
But it remains taboo in most societies to criticize a person's religious beliefs. Even atheists tend to observe this taboo, and enforce it on others, because they believe that religion is necessary for many people. After all, life is difficult—and faith is a balm. Most people imagine that Iron Age philosophy represents the only available vessel for their spiritual hopes and existential concerns. This is an enduring problem for the forces of reason, because the most transformative experiences people have—bliss, devotion, self-transcendence—are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and to ways of thinking that merely amplify superstition, self-deception, and conflict.
Among all the harms caused by religion at this point in history, this is perhaps the most subtle: Even when it appears beneficial—inspiring people to gather in beautiful buildings to contemplate the mystery existence and their ethical commitments to one another—religion conveys the message that there is no intellectually defensible and nonsectarian way to do this. But there is. We can build strong communities and enjoy deeply moral and spiritual lives, without believing any divisive nonsense about the divine origin of specific books.
---Steve
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Sunday, September 07, 2014
Saturday, September 06, 2014
Slate: Judge Posner’s Gay Marriage Opinion Is a Witty, Deeply Moral Masterpiece
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Judge Posner's Gay Marriage Opinion Is a Witty, Deeply Moral Masterpiece
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/09/05/judge_richard_posner_s_gay_marriage_opinion_is_witty_moral_and_brilliant.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/09/05/judge_richard_posner_s_gay_marriage_opinion_is_witty_moral_and_brilliant.html
---Steve
Friday, September 05, 2014
Thursday, September 04, 2014
Victor Stenger, atheism's 'fifth horseman,' dies at 79 | The Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/58369338-80/stenger-religion-science-atheism.html.csp
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
---Steve
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
---Steve
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
Like A What???
http://www.bersachat.com/forums/showthread.php?28806-Like-A-What
When she tried to sing, it sounded like a walrus giving birth to farm equipment.
---Steve
When she tried to sing, it sounded like a walrus giving birth to farm equipment.
---Steve
Slate: The Science of Truthiness
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---Steve
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
Kinky
Saw this on a "Traces of Texas" FB post, immediately thought of your quote server: "There is a fine line between fiction and non-fiction, and I believe I snorted it in 1976."
----- Kinky Friedman
---Steve
----- Kinky Friedman
---Steve
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Slate: The Longform Guide to Modern Las Vegas
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The Longform Guide to Modern Las Vegas
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/longform/2014/08/las_vegas_hunter_s_thompson_britney_spears_and_zappos.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/longform/2014/08/las_vegas_hunter_s_thompson_britney_spears_and_zappos.html
---Steve
Friday, August 29, 2014
On the hazards of significance testing. Part 2: the false discovery rate, or how not to make a fool of yourself with P values
It is difficult to give a consensus of informed opinion because, although there is much informed opinion, there is rather little consensus. A personal view follows. Colquhoun (1970),Lectures on Biostatistics, pp 94-95.
---Steve
Inky Fool: Shuffle
http://blog.inkyfool.com/2014/07/shuffle.html
I have a strange fondness for frequentatives, frequentative being verbs that happen frequently. So if you spark once, you spark. But if you spark frequently, you sparkle. If you crack once, you crack. But if you crack frequently you crackle. If you charge into somebody once wearing full armour and carrying a lance, you joust. If you do it all the time, you jostle. Burst, bustle. Jog, joggle. Tramp, trample. Scuff, scuffle. Prate, prattle. Wade, waddle.
---Steve
I have a strange fondness for frequentatives, frequentative being verbs that happen frequently. So if you spark once, you spark. But if you spark frequently, you sparkle. If you crack once, you crack. But if you crack frequently you crackle. If you charge into somebody once wearing full armour and carrying a lance, you joust. If you do it all the time, you jostle. Burst, bustle. Jog, joggle. Tramp, trample. Scuff, scuffle. Prate, prattle. Wade, waddle.
---Steve
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Monday, August 25, 2014
Slate: The Ice Bucket Challenge Isn’t Going Away
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The Ice Bucket Challenge Isn't Going Away
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/08/als_ice_bucket_challenge_giving_money_to_disease_specific_charities_is_a.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/08/als_ice_bucket_challenge_giving_money_to_disease_specific_charities_is_a.html
---Steve
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Friday, August 22, 2014
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Slate: Our Curiosity
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---Steve
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Slate: What Makes People Look Like Their Pets?
Cool experimental design..
What Makes People Look Like Their Pets?
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/08/pets_look_like_their_owners_dog_and_their_people_have_similar_eyes.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/08/pets_look_like_their_owners_dog_and_their_people_have_similar_eyes.html
---Steve
Slate: Did I Say 30 Billion Tons of CO2 a Year? I Meant 40.
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Did I Say 30 Billion Tons of CO2 a Year? I Meant 40.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/08/20/atmospheric_co2_humans_put_40_billion_tons_into_the_air_annually.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/08/20/atmospheric_co2_humans_put_40_billion_tons_into_the_air_annually.html
---Steve
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Plane emergency landing psychology study: People with PTSD have irrelevant memories.
Plane emergency landing psychology study: People with PTSD have irrelevant memories.: "What did vary among the accounts was the number of details that had nothing to do with Air Transat Flight 236 at all. After transcribing the memories, the researchers went back and coded statements as “internal” (“directly related to the main event … specific to time and place … conveying a sense of episodic re-experiencing”) and “external” (“factual information or extended events that did not require recollection of a specific time and place,” “tangential … autobiographical details,” editorializing, repetitions, metacognitive claims like “I can’t remember”). They found that passengers with PTSD produced far more external details than those without. This held true for the nonflight memories too: A survivor with PTSD was more likely to surround her nonemotional recollection with semantic data, repetition, and unrelated noise. "
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Slate: A Memorable Flight
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---Steve
Monday, August 18, 2014
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Saturday, August 16, 2014
SEDONA CITY CODE
SEDONA CITY CODE:
'via Blog this'
8.25.100.E
Domesticated or caged nonfarm animals may not bark, squeal, crow, howl or make any other such noises for more than five minutes if continuous or more than 15 minutes if intermittent. At all times, the limits set forth in Table I do not apply.'via Blog this'
Friday, August 15, 2014
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Saturday, August 09, 2014
Why do flamingos stand on one leg? [Zoo Biol. 2010 May-Jun] - PubMed - NCBI
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19637281
Results strongly suggest that unipedal resting aids flamingos in thermoregulation.
---Steve
Results strongly suggest that unipedal resting aids flamingos in thermoregulation.
---Steve
Thursday, August 07, 2014
Wednesday, August 06, 2014
Slate: The Secret Rules of Adjective Order
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The Secret Rules of Adjective Order
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_good_word/2014/08/the_study_of_adjective_order_and_gsssacpm.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_good_word/2014/08/the_study_of_adjective_order_and_gsssacpm.html
---Steve
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Scientia Salon
http://scientiasalon.org/
Many of my Leftist friends don't seem particularly bothered when people from the Right get offended. We all watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert with relish, and our cars sport bumper stickers that loudly proclaim "If you don't like abortion, don't have one." As it should be. But the other side also has a right to feel under attack and respond in kind, regardless of whether we think their feelings are justified or not. Yes, it is certainly ludicrous for Christians in the US to consider themselves under assault in the same sense in which other religious or ethnic minorities are. But it is certainly the case that the world has become increasingly uncomfortable for your typical southern white male fundamentalist (fortunately, I will add), which explains the vehemence of some of the reactions coming from those quarters. Again, the proper liberal progressive response to such reactions is targeted humor and continued rational engagement, not an embracing of the same culture of taking offense and attempting to silence one's opponents for which we justly criticize the Right.
---Steve
Many of my Leftist friends don't seem particularly bothered when people from the Right get offended. We all watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert with relish, and our cars sport bumper stickers that loudly proclaim "If you don't like abortion, don't have one." As it should be. But the other side also has a right to feel under attack and respond in kind, regardless of whether we think their feelings are justified or not. Yes, it is certainly ludicrous for Christians in the US to consider themselves under assault in the same sense in which other religious or ethnic minorities are. But it is certainly the case that the world has become increasingly uncomfortable for your typical southern white male fundamentalist (fortunately, I will add), which explains the vehemence of some of the reactions coming from those quarters. Again, the proper liberal progressive response to such reactions is targeted humor and continued rational engagement, not an embracing of the same culture of taking offense and attempting to silence one's opponents for which we justly criticize the Right.
---Steve
Monday, August 04, 2014
Slate: The Fishy Origins of the Fish Oil Craze
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The Fishy Origins of the Fish Oil Craze
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/08/does_fish_oil_prevent_heart_disease_original_danish_eskimo_diet_study_was.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/08/does_fish_oil_prevent_heart_disease_original_danish_eskimo_diet_study_was.html
---Steve
Sunday, August 03, 2014
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Skepticblog » Smarter than thou?
http://www.skepticblog.org/2014/07/30/smarter-than-thou/#more-26067
We already tried that experiment with a president who was a cheerleader and a "C" student, and was a "good ol' boy you could drink a beer with", who prided himself on making decisions "from the gut" rather than by careful thought and weighing evidence, who actively encouraged science deniers in his administration and endorsed creationism—and look where that got us!
---Steve
We already tried that experiment with a president who was a cheerleader and a "C" student, and was a "good ol' boy you could drink a beer with", who prided himself on making decisions "from the gut" rather than by careful thought and weighing evidence, who actively encouraged science deniers in his administration and endorsed creationism—and look where that got us!
---Steve
Monday, July 28, 2014
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How Much Do Our Genes Influence Our Political Beliefs? - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/opinion/thomas-edsall-how-much-do-our-genes-influence-our-political-beliefs.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=1
---Steve
---Steve
Language Log » Critical take-downs
John Mason Brown's review of an actor playing King Lear: He played the King as if afraid someone else would play the Ace.
Friday, July 18, 2014
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Slate: Sweden’s School Choice Disaster
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
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16 metro Phoenix restaurants on Guy Fieri's show
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16 metro Phoenix restaurants on Guy Fieri's show
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---Steve
16 metro Phoenix restaurants on Guy Fieri's show
http://azc.cc/1moFtS2
---Steve
Slate: RIP, Charlie Haden
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Thursday, July 10, 2014
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When Beliefs and Facts Collide - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/upshot/when-beliefs-and-facts-collide.html?_r=2
The deeper problem is that citizens participate in public life precisely because they believe the issues at stake relate to their values and ideals, especially when political parties and other identity-based groups get involved – an outcome that is inevitable on high-profile issues. Those groups can help to mobilize the public and represent their interests, but they also help to produce the factual divisions that are one of the most toxic byproducts of our polarized era. Unfortunately, knowing what scientists think is ultimately no substitute for actually believing it.
---Steve
The deeper problem is that citizens participate in public life precisely because they believe the issues at stake relate to their values and ideals, especially when political parties and other identity-based groups get involved – an outcome that is inevitable on high-profile issues. Those groups can help to mobilize the public and represent their interests, but they also help to produce the factual divisions that are one of the most toxic byproducts of our polarized era. Unfortunately, knowing what scientists think is ultimately no substitute for actually believing it.
---Steve
Hobby Lobby's Not Alone: Here Are 4 of the High Court's Biggest Science Blunders | Mother Jones
In a paper in the Harvard Law Review dissecting the case, Yale law professor Dan Kahan eviscerated Scalia's dissenting opinion (which was joined by Justice Thomas), calling it "a species of cynicism toxic to reasoned self-government."
Discovery Institute Moves into Abortion Debate | The Sensuous Curmudgeon
The deeper problem is that citizens participate in public life precisely because they believe the issues at stake relate to their values and ideals, especially when political parties and other identity-based groups get involved – an outcome that is inevitable on high-profile issues. Those groups can help to mobilize the public and represent their interests, but they also help to produce the factual divisions that are one of the most toxic byproducts of our polarized era. Unfortunately, knowing what scientists think is ultimately no substitute for actually believing it
Slate: 7 Of The Best Dialect Quizzes
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---Steve
Monday, July 07, 2014
Wandering attention
"Voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will."
--William James
---Steve
--William James
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Saturday, July 05, 2014
Friday, July 04, 2014
6 quotes that will remind your conservative family of Abraham Lincoln's liberalism Blue Nation Review
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
- Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins)
---SteveFritinancy
James Wood begins his New Yorker review of Gilbert's novelwith this comment on the unusual title:
---SteveThe stunted title of David Gilbert's second novel, "& Sons" (Random House), does a lot of useful work. It hints at succession but also at severance; at a family tree but also at a broken commercial line. The implied absence gestures toward the great stories of intergenerational struggle: Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons," Gosse's "Father and Son." And then there is that cocky ampersand: slightly offensive in its abstraction, wearily dismissive, the key to the whole coda.
Thursday, July 03, 2014
The Greatest Dietary Guidance? If It Gets Cold, Reheat It! | David Katz, M.D.
But then, inevitably, in a world where diets are embraced with religious zeal and we can't seem to manage a separation of church and plate, there's a group that lets disagreement veer off into disparagement, turning differing opinions into excuses for ad hominem attacks.
---Steve
---Steve
Tuesday, July 01, 2014
The 49-page Supreme Court Hobby Lobby ruling mentioned women just 13 times - The Washington Post
m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/30/the-49-page-supreme-court-hobby-lobby-ruling-mentioned-women-just-13-times?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost
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---Steve
Monday, June 30, 2014
Ernest Hemingway - Wikiquote
http://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
'How did you go bankrupt?' Bill asked.
'Two ways,' Mike said. 'Gradually and then suddenly.'
---Steve
'How did you go bankrupt?' Bill asked.
'Two ways,' Mike said. 'Gradually and then suddenly.'
---Steve
TV Ratings in U.S.-Portugal Tie Show World Cup’s Draw - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/business/media/bigger-than-baseball-us-portugal-world-cup-match-outdoes-world-series-in-ratings.html?_r=0
While not near the totals scored by the N.F.L. playoffs or, certainly, the Super Bowl, the American audience for the World Cup game on Sunday easily eclipsed the N.B.A. finals this year, which averaged 15.5 million viewers, as well as the 2013 World Series, which averaged 14.9 million viewers. The N.H.L. playoffs are not even remotely as popular as the World Cup, having averaged only five million viewers this season.
---Steve
While not near the totals scored by the N.F.L. playoffs or, certainly, the Super Bowl, the American audience for the World Cup game on Sunday easily eclipsed the N.B.A. finals this year, which averaged 15.5 million viewers, as well as the 2013 World Series, which averaged 14.9 million viewers. The N.H.L. playoffs are not even remotely as popular as the World Cup, having averaged only five million viewers this season.
---Steve
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Tweet from Gina Ferrari (@WordYouDontKnow)
 | Gina Ferrari (@WordYouDontKnow) |
Try not to let your mind wander...It is too small and fragile to be out by itself. | |
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---Steve
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
This Internet Millionaire Has a New Deal For You - D Magazine
He looked down at his plate. Bezos had ordered a dish called Tom's Big Breakfast, a preparation of Mediterranean octopus that includes potatoes, bacon, green garlic yogurt, and a poached egg. "You're the octopus that I'm having for breakfast," Rutledge remembers Bezos saying. "When I look at the menu, you're the thing I don't understand, the thing I've never had. I must have the breakfast octopus."
Not until Rutledge had returned to Dallas and related the story to his anxious employees—now Amazon's employees—did he realize just how absurd that explanation sounded. Before it can be eaten, generally, the breakfast octopus must be killed.
---Steve
Thursday, June 26, 2014
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Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson: “One of the biggest problems with the world toda...”
"One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research."
---SteveThursday, June 19, 2014
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Jay Carney Had The Perfect Response To Dick Cheney On Iraq
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/18/jay-carney-dick-cheney_n_5508390.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
If there's one thing this country does not need, is that we should be taking advice from Dick Cheney on wars," Reid said. "Being on the wrong side of Dick Cheney is being on the right side of history. To the architects of the Iraq War who are now so eager to offer their expert analysis, I say, Mr. President, thanks, but no thanks. Unfortunately, we have already tried it your way and it was the biggest foreign policy blunder in the history of the country."
---Steve
If there's one thing this country does not need, is that we should be taking advice from Dick Cheney on wars," Reid said. "Being on the wrong side of Dick Cheney is being on the right side of history. To the architects of the Iraq War who are now so eager to offer their expert analysis, I say, Mr. President, thanks, but no thanks. Unfortunately, we have already tried it your way and it was the biggest foreign policy blunder in the history of the country."
---Steve
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Quoted: Remaking Silicon Valley’s idea machine | SiliconBeat
"We are not a research center. We think of ourselves as a moonshot factory, and the reasons for using that phrase is the word 'moonshot' reminds us to be audacious, and the word 'factory' reminds us we have to industrialize it in the end."
Slate: Could the U.S. Have Stopped the Collapse of Iraq?
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Could the U.S. Have Stopped the Collapse of Iraq?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/06/14/what_could_the_u_s_have_done_to_prevent_the_rise_of_isis_the_answer_is_in.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/06/14/what_could_the_u_s_have_done_to_prevent_the_rise_of_isis_the_answer_is_in.html
---Steve
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Friday, June 13, 2014
American, Delta, and United just reduced size limits for carry-on bags. Will yours fit? - Boing Boing
http://boingboing.net/2014/06/13/american-delta-and-united-ju.html
better check the size. All three airlines have announced plans to reduce the acceptable maximum size to 22 inches long, 14 inches wide, 9 inches high.
---Steve
better check the size. All three airlines have announced plans to reduce the acceptable maximum size to 22 inches long, 14 inches wide, 9 inches high.
---Steve
Scientia Salon
It is in terms of meta-ethics [21] that I am a quasi-realist (or a bounded instrumentalist). I don't think that moral truths exist "out there," independently of the human mind, which would be yet another example of Platonism (akin to the mathematical / ontic ones we encountered last time). But I also don't accept the moral relativist position that there is no principled way in which I can say, for instance, that imposing genital mutilation on young girls is wrong — in a sense of wrong that is stronger than simply "I happen not to like it," or "I have a strong emotional revulsion to it."
Rather, I think of moral philosophy as a method of reasoning about human ethical dilemmas, beginning with certain assumptions (more or less analogous to axioms in mathematics, or postulates in logic), plus empirical input (from commonsense and/or science) about pertinent facts (e.g., what causes pain and how much, what policies seem to produce the highest amount of certain desiderata, like the ability to flourish, individual freedom, just distribution of resources, etc.), plus of course the basic moral instincts we have inherited from our primate ancestors (on this I'm with Hume: if we don't care about X there is no reasoning that, by itself, could make us care about X).
---SteveSlate: Keeping Up With Dad
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Thursday, June 12, 2014
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Winner, a Lefty Hero, & a Plagiarist. | New Republic
---SteveAbstract words such as glory, honor, courage or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and dates.
Slate: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery
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Slate: David Brat Thinks Economics Is a Sham
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David Brat Thinks Economics Is a Sham
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/06/11/david_brat_thinks_economics_is_a_sham.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/06/11/david_brat_thinks_economics_is_a_sham.html
---Steve
Slate: Read David Brat's Dissertation on Protestantism and Science
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Read David Brat's Dissertation on Protestantism and Science
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/06/11/david_brat_wrote_a_dissertation_on_protestantism_and_science.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/06/11/david_brat_wrote_a_dissertation_on_protestantism_and_science.html
---Steve
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
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