Robert Reich (State of Disaster)

http://robertreich.org/post/120390360985


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A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite

https://read.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite?no-overlay&preview


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What is mathematics about? – James Franklin – Aeon

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/what-is-left-for-mathematics-to-be-about/


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Article: Asimov - The Relativity of Wrong

Asimov - The Relativity of Wrong
http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

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Google’s Project Vault Is A Secure Computing Environment On A Micro SD Card, For Any Platform | TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/29/googles-project-vault-is-a-secure-computing-environment-on-a-micro-sd-card-for-any-platform/#.pxefym:I1hE


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Thirty Meter Telescope update and background : University of Hawaiʻi System News

https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2015/03/31/thirty-meter-telescope-update-and-background/

There have been inaccurate claims made about the project recently. The most common is that TMT is a danger to the Maunakea aquifer and drinking water on Hawaiʻi Island. Comprehensive research by expert hydrologists confirms that TMT and the existing 13 telescopes pose no such danger.

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Site Information: FAQs | Thirty Meter Telescope

http://tmt.org/observatory/site-information/frequently-asked-questions


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Case studies: A hard look at GM crops : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/news/case-studies-a-hard-look-at-gm-crops-1.12907


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USDA ERS - Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops by U.S. Farmers Has Increased Steadily for Over 15 Years

http://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2014-march/adoption-of-genetically-engineered-crops-by-us-farmers-has-increased-steadily-for-over-15-years.aspx#.VWkvz3BHaK0


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Environmental Sciences Europe | Full text | Impacts of genetically engineered crops on pesticide use in the U.S. -- the first sixteen years

http://www.enveurope.com/content/24/1/24


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Which fruits, vegetables, and other crops have the smallest environmental footprints?

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_green_lantern/2009/11/sustainable_salads.html


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Calories per acre for various foods

http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Calories_per_acre_for_various_foods/


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Article: Intel's $15B deal for chipmaker Altera heats back up

Intel's $15B deal for chipmaker Altera heats back up
http://www.cnet.com/news/intels-15b-deal-for-altera-heats-back-up/#ftag=CADf328eec

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US Route 89-Border to Border Road Trip on The West's Most Western Highway

http://us89society.org/


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Restaurant Review: Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html?_r=0


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You've met Hillarynomics. Now meet left-of-Hillarynomics. - Vox

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/27/8670749/stiglitz-report-rent-seeking


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The female mathematician who changed the course of physics—but couldn’t get a job | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/the-female-mathematician-who-changed-the-course-of-physics-but-couldnt-get-a-job/1/


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The Illusion of Free Markets — Bernard E. Harcourt | Harvard University Press

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674066168


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Training Young Doctors: The Current Crisis by Lara Goitein | The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jun/04/training-young-doctors-current-crisis/


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Myth busting on pesticides: Despite demonization, organic farmers widely use them | Genetic Literacy Project

http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/05/18/myth-busting-on-pesticides-despite-demonization-organic-farmers-widely-use-them/


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There is no bee apocalypse - Matt Ridley

http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/there-is-no-bee-apocalypse.aspx


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Research Upsetting Some Notions About Honey Bees -- ScienceDaily

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061211220927.htm


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CONTRARY BRIN: So Do Outcomes Matter More than Rhetoric?

http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/06/so-do-outcomes-matter-more-than-rhetoric.html


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The new pirate era: 6 charts that reveal how piracy has changed and grown in recent years - Africa - World - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/the-new-pirate-era-6-charts-that-reveal-how-piracy-has-changed-and-grown-in-recent-years-10267161.html


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The Duggars’ dangerous cult of purity - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2015/05/22/the-duggars-dangerous-cult-of-purity/


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Is cosmology having a creative crisis? – Ross Andersen – Aeon

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/has-cosmology-run-into-a-creative-crisis/


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Powerhouse Museum | Museum Of Applied Arts And Sciences

http://maas.museum/powerhouse-museum/


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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) - Trivia - IMDb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082694/trivia


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8 Maps That Will Change the Way You Look at Africa | TakePart

http://www.takepart.com/photos/maps-africa-population-income-electrification-water-food/energy-poverty?cmpid=tp-ptnr-upworthy


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Advert

http://www.antarctic-circle.org/advert.htm

"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success."

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Proceedings: CVPR. - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Computer Society - Google Books

https://books.google.com/books?id=LwFWAAAAMAAJ&q=friedman-rafsky&dq=friedman-rafsky&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gEVdVdGsCIqfsAXI-oLYBw&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBQ


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Logjam: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice

https://weakdh.org/


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Logjam: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice

https://weakdh.org/


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A Curious Property of 82000 The number 82000 in base 10 is equal to 10100000...

https://plus.google.com/101584889282878921052/posts/Fni6x2TTeaS


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Anders Breivik’s Inexplicable Crime - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/25/the-inexplicable


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Anders Breivik’s Inexplicable Crime - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/25/the-inexplicable


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Momofuku's Soy Sauce Eggs Recipe on Food52

http://food52.com/recipes/35930-momofuku-s-soy-sauce-eggs


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IBM's Watson can now do in minutes what takes cancer doctors weeks - Business Insider

http://uk.businessinsider.com/r-ibms-watson-to-guide-cancer-therapies-at-14-centers-2015-5


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The relationship between CEO greed and company performance | Lunatic Laboratories

http://loonylabs.org/2015/05/16/greed-ceo-company-leadership/


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More and more conservative thinkers want to tax carbon. Will politicians and activists follow? - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/05/15/more-and-more-thinkers-on-the-right-want-to-tax-carbon-will-politicians-and-activists-follow/


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Carnitas: Braised and Fried Pork Recipe | Epicurious.com

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/carnitas-braised-and-fried-pork-364389


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Physics paper sets record with more than 5,000 authors : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/news/physics-paper-sets-record-with-more-than-5-000-authors-1.17567


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HPV Vaccine Compliance « Science-Based Medicine

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/hpv-vaccine-compliance/#more-37319


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Take off that Fitbit. Exercise alone won’t make you lose weight. - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/05/15/take-off-that-fitbit-exercise-alone-wont-make-you-lose-weight/


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America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-gawande


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U.S. Religious Groups: Demographic Data | Pew Research Center

http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/chapter-3-demographic-profiles-of-religious-groups/
Atheists and agnostics have high levels of education as well, with 43% of self-identified atheists and 42% of agnostics saying they have completed college.

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Skepticism with a smile: 'The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom' | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2015/05/11/Skepticism-with-a-smile-The-Moral-Arc-How-Science-and-Reason-Lead-Humanity-Toward-Truth-Justice-and-Freedom-by-Michael-Shermer/stories/201505090126


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Pew religious study

A better society coming?  Removing the moral totalitarianism of centralized church authority.

"the percentage of Americans who are religiously unaffiliated – describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or "nothing in particular" – has jumped more than six points, from 16.1% to 22.8%"

http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/new-pew-research-center-study-examines-americas-changing-religious-landscape/

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New Pew Research Center Study Examines America’s Changing Religious Landscape | Pew Research Center

http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/new-pew-research-center-study-examines-americas-changing-religious-landscape/


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Make Green Pesto from Just About Anything with These Ratios

http://skillet.lifehacker.com/make-green-pesto-from-just-about-anything-with-these-ra-1704523343/+andyoooo


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Meclizine: Uses, Dosage & Side Effects - Drugs.com

http://www.drugs.com/meclizine.html


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Epley maneuver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canalith_repositioning_procedure


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Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) - Mayo Clinic

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/vertigo/basics/definition/con-20028216


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Favorites

http://m.neurology.org/content/63/1/150.full.pdf

Odd Thursday May 7th 2015:

Vertigo in afternoon followed by emesis in mid-evening.  Down for 12 hours, then spacey on Friday but ok.  Weird.  Unfortunately, ate corn on the cob for dinner. Yuck!

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First Listen: The Mavericks, ‘Mono’ | Bandwidth

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/first-listen-the-mavericks-mono/


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SAP reveals HANA Cloud Platform for IoT and bolsters Intel and Siemens partnerships - IT News from V3.co.uk

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2407267/sap-reveals-hana-cloud-platform-for-iot-bolsters-intel-and-siemens-partnerships


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How horizontal gene transfer shakes up evolution – Ferris Jabr – Aeon

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/how-horizontal-gene-transfer-changes-evolutionary-theory/


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Intel adds more Xeon chips for business analytics, continues with Cloudera deal | ZDNet

http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-adds-more-xeon-chips-for-business-analytics-continues-with-cloudera-deal/


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Open Source History: Why Did Linux Succeed? | Open Source Application Software Companies content from The VAR Guy

http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/050415/open-source-history-why-did-linux-succeed


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23andMe Is Terrifying, but Not for the Reasons the FDA Thinks - Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/23andme-is-terrifying-but-not-for-reasons-fda/


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Changes in Diet and Lifestyle and Long-Term Weight Gain in Women and Men — NEJM

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1014296


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How microbes define, shape — and might even heal us | ideas.ted.com

http://ideas.ted.com/how-microbes-define-shape-and-might-even-heal-us/

But oddly, the two foods most associated with weight loss are yogurt and nuts, even though both can be high in fat. What exactly is going on? Well, microbes might play a role here. We know from studies in mice that particular microbes, or combinations of microbes, are associated with weight gain or weight loss.

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Leisure Time Physical Activity and Mortality: A Detailed Pooled Analysis of the Dose-Response Relationship. - PubMed - NCBI

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25844730


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Why Silicon Valley Will Continue to Rule — Backchannel — Medium

https://medium.com/backchannel/why-silicon-valley-will-continue-to-rule-c0cbb441e22f


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Raw Food SOS | Rescuing good health from bad science.

http://rawfoodsos.com/


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Favorites

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We are not edging up to a mass extinction – Stewart Brand – Aeon

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/why-extinction-is-not-the-problem/


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David Brooks Is Not Buying It, Poor People -- NYMag

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/05/david-brooks-is-not-buying-it-poor-people.html


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Diane Bryant Talks About ‘Swearing Like a Sailor’ and Intel’s Transformation | Re/code

http://recode.net/2015/04/21/diane-bryant-talks-about-swearing-like-a-sailor-and-intels-transformation/


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