http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/best-science-fiction-books-of-2015#.my1pm09ed5
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Thursday, December 31, 2015
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Monday, December 28, 2015
Movie review: “Spotlight” « Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/12/28/movie-review-spotlight/
pervasive priestly pedophilia,
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pervasive priestly pedophilia,
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Sunday, December 27, 2015
GOP Debates: The Wild Ideas You Missed While Donald Trump Was Talking - POLITICO Magazine
The good news for Republicans, arguably, is that their rhetoric has been so consistently over-the-top that it has started to sound routine; academics call this "shifting the Overton window," the range of what's considered politically acceptable. I've watched all the debates as well as the undercards live, but when I reviewed the transcripts, I was amazed how many radical statements had slipped under my radar. Ted Cruz called for putting the United States back on the gold standard. Marco Rubio accused President Barack Obama of destroying the U.S. military. Huckabee said Bernie Madoff's rip-offs weren't as bad as what the government has done to people on Social Security and Medicare. Lindsey Graham said his administration would monitor all "Islamic websites," not just jihadist ones. I had even forgotten Trump's claim that vaccines caused autism in a 2-year-old girl he knew.
Vaccines do not cause autism. Goldbuggery is crackpot economics. The U.S. military is still by far the strongest in the world. And what the government has done to people on Social Security and Medicare is give them pensions and health care. But none of those statements drew any pushback from the other Republican candidates, or, for that matter, the media moderators. Neither did Ben Carson's assertion that if the United States had set a goal of oil independence within a decade, moderate Arab states would have "turned over Osama bin Laden and anybody else you wanted on a silver platter within two weeks," which is wackadoodle on multiple
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/republican-debate-wild-ideas-donald-trump-213463#ixzz3vXRasNdZ
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Saturday, December 26, 2015
The Washington Post: Genetic engineering’s new frontier
Genetic engineering's new frontier
The Washington Post
Valentino Gantz and Ethan Bier. (Peggy Peattie/Tribune News Service) By Bradley J. Fikes | December 21 at 5:36 PM Humanity's ability to alter nature, a characteristic of our species for thousands of years, has taken a big step forward. The ability to change the genetics of life to our liking was previously confined to domesticated creatures such as livestock and crops. It now extends throughout much of the biosphere, including ourselves. Genetic engineering on a planetary scale used to be the Read the full story
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The Wall Street Journal: How to Perfect Your Martini Recipe
How to Perfect Your Martini Recipe
The Wall Street Journal
With so many new gins, vodkas and vermouths on the market, you can keep the cocktail classic (and classy) and still find a formula just right for you, from extra dry to dirty and everywhere in between. Read the full story
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Friday, December 25, 2015
The North Korea Regime Change Debate | The Diplomat
http://thediplomat.com/2015/01/the-north-korea-regime-change-debate/
the history of the last hundred years has taught that peace cheaply bought can lead to war dearly waged
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the history of the last hundred years has taught that peace cheaply bought can lead to war dearly waged
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Binge watch
What to binge-watch this holiday season
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/23/entertainment/holiday-binge-watch-feat/index.html
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http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/23/entertainment/holiday-binge-watch-feat/index.html
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Thursday, December 24, 2015
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
New study indicates that metformin has the potential to prevent and treat preeclampsia | EurekAlert! Science News
Preeclampsia affects 5-8% of all pregnant women and is diagnosed by the new onset of high blood pressure and the presence of protein in the urine after 20 weeks of gestation. This condition is a leading cause of maternal death; approximately 100 maternal deaths and 400 perinatal deaths worldwide occur per day. Thus far, the only treatment for preeclampsia is delivery.
Feller power law fits
Theories of this nature are short-lived because they open no new ways, and new confirmations of the same old thing soon grow boring. But the naive reasoning as such has not been superseded by common sense, and so it may be useful to have an explicit demonstration of how misleading a mere goodness of fit can be." Feller (1940)
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Top 10 Arizona hikes
Check out this article from azcentral:
Top 10 Arizona hikes
http://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/road-trips/2015/10/29/best-arizona-hikes-roger-naylor/74244862/
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Top 10 Arizona hikes
http://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/road-trips/2015/10/29/best-arizona-hikes-roger-naylor/74244862/
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Addiction and golden flow
Vietnam, heroin and the lesson of disrupting any addiction
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/21/health/vietnam-heroin-disrupting-addiction/index.html
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http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/21/health/vietnam-heroin-disrupting-addiction/index.html
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Monday, December 21, 2015
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Friday, December 18, 2015
Study tracks the evolution of pro-creationism laws in the U.S. - LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-evolution-of-creationism-in-schools-20151217-story.html
Evolution can even explain the content changes in unconstitutional anti-evolution religious laws...
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Evolution can even explain the content changes in unconstitutional anti-evolution religious laws...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Monday, December 14, 2015
Digital Photography School: 6 Photoshop Tools Every Newbie Should Learn
6 Photoshop Tools Every Newbie Should Learn
Digital Photography School
In the days before digital imaging, if you truly wanted to elevate your photography to the level of art, you learned how to process your images in the darkroom. You learned dodging, burning, masking, sandwiching negatives, flashing and fogging – all designed to get the most out of your images, and deliver your artistic vision to your viewers. The finished image after Photoshop, using the tools discussed below. With the advent of digital imaging, photographers have a new way to bring their Read the full story
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Business Standard: Sikka supports open innovation
Sikka supports open innovation
Business Standard
Commits $1 billion for OpenAI, a not for profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company Read the full story
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Sunday, December 13, 2015
You won’t believe what Donald Trump said! (Yes you will. . .) « Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/you-wont-believe-what-donald-trump-said-yes-you-will/
We knew when Trump criticized Cruz it would not be substantive, but we hoped it would be coherent
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We knew when Trump criticized Cruz it would not be substantive, but we hoped it would be coherent
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Saturday, December 12, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
Wednesday, December 09, 2015
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Pro life idiots
"I'm a warrior for the babies. "
-- Robert Lewis Dear
Yes Pro-Life people, this is your murderous idiot.
If you are "pro-life", it is apparently ok to murder people; proving that thugs that spew anti-abortion rhetoric, like @CarlyFiorina, are illiterate, not only literally for obliterating the meaning of what it means to support human life, but scientifically, with no knowledge of human reproductive development, the social impacts of unwanted children, or the basic right of autonomy of women.
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-- Robert Lewis Dear
Yes Pro-Life people, this is your murderous idiot.
If you are "pro-life", it is apparently ok to murder people; proving that thugs that spew anti-abortion rhetoric, like @CarlyFiorina, are illiterate, not only literally for obliterating the meaning of what it means to support human life, but scientifically, with no knowledge of human reproductive development, the social impacts of unwanted children, or the basic right of autonomy of women.
---Steve
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
Monday, December 07, 2015
Sunday, December 06, 2015
The dopamine switch between atheist, believer and fa...
https://aeon.co/essays/the-dopamine-switch-between-atheist-believer-and-fanatic
As 9/11 suggests, the neurological line between the saint and the savage, the creative and the unconscionable, turns out to be razor-thin. Just look at the bounty of evidence showing that families of extraordinarily creative individuals often include members with histories of insanity, sometimes even criminal insanity. Genes that produce brains capable of unusually creative associations or ideas are also more likely to produce (in the same individual or in members of his/her family) brains vulnerable to loose or bizarre associations.
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As 9/11 suggests, the neurological line between the saint and the savage, the creative and the unconscionable, turns out to be razor-thin. Just look at the bounty of evidence showing that families of extraordinarily creative individuals often include members with histories of insanity, sometimes even criminal insanity. Genes that produce brains capable of unusually creative associations or ideas are also more likely to produce (in the same individual or in members of his/her family) brains vulnerable to loose or bizarre associations.
---Steve
Saturday, December 05, 2015
'More Light, Less Heat.' New book debunks myths about gun violence and mental illness | EurekAlert! Science News
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/gumc-ll120215.php
In contrast, restricting firearm access even temporarily to people who are at high risk of fatally harming themselves or others, whether they have a mental illness or not, has been demonstrated to decrease both firearm suicide and homicide rates."
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In contrast, restricting firearm access even temporarily to people who are at high risk of fatally harming themselves or others, whether they have a mental illness or not, has been demonstrated to decrease both firearm suicide and homicide rates."
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The Believer - Anarchy in the USA
http://www.believermag.com/issues/201511/?read=article_sherman
We're destroying the planet, we're killing people in the third world, we're sucking up all the resources of the earth…" The list goes on, yet somehow we manage to get up, go to work, and pretend like nothing's wrong. "That is a magic trick. And Ted Kaczynski couldn't pull it off. And anybody that can't pull off that trick can't live in this society."
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We're destroying the planet, we're killing people in the third world, we're sucking up all the resources of the earth…" The list goes on, yet somehow we manage to get up, go to work, and pretend like nothing's wrong. "That is a magic trick. And Ted Kaczynski couldn't pull it off. And anybody that can't pull off that trick can't live in this society."
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Friday, December 04, 2015
Thursday, December 03, 2015
In laptop reliability survey, one brand trumps all | ZDNet
In laptop reliability survey, one brand trumps all | ZDNet: "Apple, as in year's past, has the most reliable notebooks by far - a 10 percent breakdown rate in the first 3 years - with Samsung and Gateway distant seconds at 16 percent, and the rest of the industry - including Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba, HP, Dell and Asus, at 18-19 percent."
'via Blog this'
'via Blog this'
'Daily News' provokes with cover on Calif. shooting: 'God isn't fixing this'
Check out this article from USA TODAY:
'Daily News' provokes with cover on Calif. shooting: 'God isn't fixing this'
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/02/ny-daily-news-provokes-cover-calif-shooting-god-isnt-fixing/76703060/
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'Daily News' provokes with cover on Calif. shooting: 'God isn't fixing this'
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/02/ny-daily-news-provokes-cover-calif-shooting-god-isnt-fixing/76703060/
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