The 24 Best Science Fiction Books Of 2015

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/best-science-fiction-books-of-2015#.my1pm09ed5


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Win10 Spy Disabler 1.2 free download - Software reviews, downloads, news, free trials, freeware and full commercial software - Downloadcrew

http://www.downloadcrew.com/article/33968-win10_spy_disabler


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FastStats - Injuries

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm


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Guns vs. Cars (and Drugs) | RealClearPolicy

http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2015/12/21/guns_vs_cars_and_drugs_1500.html


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Movie review: “Spotlight” « Why Evolution Is True

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/12/28/movie-review-spotlight/
pervasive priestly pedophilia,

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The Incredible Shrinking Sex Chromosome | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151201-the-incredible-shrinking-sex-chromosome/


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The Incredible Shrinking Sex Chromosome | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151201-the-incredible-shrinking-sex-chromosome/


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GOP Debates: The Wild Ideas You Missed While Donald Trump Was Talking - POLITICO Magazine

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/republican-debate-wild-ideas-donald-trump-213463

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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GOP Debates: The Wild Ideas You Missed While Donald Trump Was Talking - POLITICO Magazine

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/republican-debate-wild-ideas-donald-trump-213463


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The truth about Will Smith’s Concussion and Bennet Omalu.

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2015/12/the_truth_about_will_smith_s_concussion_and_bennet_omalu.html


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Shared from Twitter: Digital Rights Battles in 2015: NSA Reform, Net Neutrality, CISA and Beyond | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Digital Rights Battles in 2015: NSA Reform, Net Neutrality, CISA and Beyond | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Syria’s Humanitarian Crisis: What’s to Be Done? | Center for Strategic and International Studies

http://csis.org/publication/syrias-humanitarian-crisis-whats-be-done


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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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Orthorexia nervosa: How becoming obsessed with healthy eating can lead to malnutrition | Health News | Lifestyle | The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/orthorexia-nervosa-how-becoming-obsessed-with-healthy-eating-can-lead-to-malnutrition-10479149.html


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Shared from Twitter: The Most Notable Medical Findings of 2015 - The New Yorker

The Most Notable Medical Findings of 2015 - The New Yorker

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Antibiotic resistance: myths and misunderstandings – Aetiology

http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2015/09/10/antibiotic-resistance-myths-and-misunderstandings/


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Machines that learn like people: Gabor filters

http://www.deepstuff.org/machines-that-learn-like-people/


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Bridging the gap: from biometrics to forensics | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1674/20140254


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Review: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ Blends Verbiage and Violence - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/25/movies/review-quentin-tarantinos-the-hateful-eight-blends-verbiage-and-violence.html?_r=1


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10 Unusual Facts About the Flu From a Nobel Prize-Winning Pandemics Expert | Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/04/10-facts-bird-flu-pandemic-expert-nobel-prize-peter-doherty?9


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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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Is Anxiety the Price We Pay For Freedom? | The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/article/fear-itself-2/


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QuietComfort® 25 Acoustic Noise Cancelling® headphones — Apple® devices

https://www.bose.com/products/headphones/over_ear_headphones/quietcomfort-25-acoustic-noise-cancelling-headphones-apple-devices.html#v=qc25_black


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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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Flagstaff snow routes

http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5341618.pdf

New study indicates that metformin has the potential to prevent and treat preeclampsia | EurekAlert! Science News

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/ehs-nsi122015.php

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.

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Science in 2016: Separating the hype from the promise

http://www.statnews.com/2015/12/23/2016-science-hype-and-promise/?s_campaign=stat:rss


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Feller power law fits

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jdinardo/lawsofgenius.pdf

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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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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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


---Steve

A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: On the Juniper backdoor

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/12/on-juniper-backdoor.html?m=1


---Steve

A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: On the Juniper backdoor

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/12/on-juniper-backdoor.html?m=1


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Why being vegetarian can kill more animals than eating meat | Measure of Doubt

http://measureofdoubt.com/2011/06/22/why-a-vegetarian-might-kill-more-animals-than-an-omnivore/


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Neural networks and deep learning

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap1.html


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A world by design – even atheists intuitively think the natural world has a designer

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/epiphenom/2015/10/a-world-by-design-even-atheists-intuitively-think-the-natural-world-has-a-designer.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BhaScienceGroup+%28Blog+-+Epiphenom%29


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46,471: Drug Overdoses Killed More Americans Than Car Crashes or Guns

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/dea-drug-overdoses-kill-more-americans-car-crashes-or-firearms


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DEA Releases New Drug Overdose Death Figures: Guns Safer than Prescription Drugs | Mises Wire

https://mises.org/blog/dea-releases-new-drug-overdose-death-figures-guns-safer-prescription-drugs


---Steve

Aircrack-ng

http://www.aircrack-ng.org/


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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...

---Steve

Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw - Bloomberg Business

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-18/humans-are-slamming-into-driverless-cars-and-exposing-a-key-flaw


---Steve

Snowflake formulas, dice odds and other satisfying m...

https://aeon.co/videos/snowflake-formulas-dice-odds-and-other-satisfying-maths-of-the-everyday#


---Steve

Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6217/78


---Steve

Cancer studies clash over mechanisms of malignancy : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/news/cancer-studies-clash-over-mechanisms-of-malignancy-1.19026


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Relatively Interesting 20 Years of Computing: Comparing 1995's tech to 2015's - Relatively Interesting

http://www.relativelyinteresting.com/20-years-computing-comparing-1995s-tech-2015s/


---Steve

Happy Hitchmas — Think for Yourself

http://www.hitchmas.com/


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Are These 10 Lies Justified? - The New York Times

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/can-you-justify-these-lies/?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=1


---Steve

Shared from Twitter: These Are the 10 Best Restaurants in the World | TIME

These Are the 10 Best Restaurants in the World | TIME

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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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OpenAI

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/


---Steve

Mississippi River Music Cruises

http://www.americancruiselines.com/cruises/special-theme-cruises/mississippi-river-music-cruise


---Steve

Machine Learning Works Great—Mathematicians Just Don't Know Why | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/machine-learning-works-greatmathematicians-just-dont-know-why/?mbid=social_twitter


---Steve

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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The Little-Known Recording Trick That Makes Singers Sound Perfect | Motherboard

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-little-known-recording-trick-that-makes-singers-sound-perfect?utm_source=mbfb


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New Help for Back Pain - WSJ

http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-help-for-back-pain-1448311243?mod=776578645&kwp_0=73877&kwp_4=413784&kwp_1=239544


---Steve

City of Sedona : Code Enforcement

http://www.sedonaaz.gov/your-government/departments/community-development/development-services/code-enforcement


---Steve

NIHCM - health spending distribution charts

http://www.nihcm.org/health-spending-distribution-charts


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460 foothills

http://www.sedonaaz.gov/home/showdocument?id=28102

July

Permit Class: Permit Type: Permit Status:

App No

043488 LITTLE ROUND TOP DEVELOPERS LLC 460 FOOTHILLS SOUTH DRIVE SEDONA AZ 86336

Customer Name

HAAS, RUTH

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Article 9 DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS

http://www.codepublishing.com/AZ/sedona/html/SedonaLDC/SedonaLDC09.html

22 feet

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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.


---Steve

Sam Harris’s Quantum Universe (or, How to Say One Thing While Meaning Another)

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/09/sam-harriss-quantum-universe-or-how-to-say-one-thing-while-meaning-another/


---Steve

Shared from Twitter: Very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet v. low-fat diet for long-term weight loss: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. - PubMed - NCBI

Very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet v. low-fat diet for long-term weight loss: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. - PubMed - NCBI

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Road Scholar National Parks Hub

http://np.roadscholaradventures.org/?so=PEY-D-NP-FB


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Bowen technique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowen_technique


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See key features of the app and device. | Canary

http://canary.is/how-it-works/?utm_medium=banner&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=Holidays_2015&utm_content=1a


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Choosing an HTTP Status Code — Stop Making It Hard | Racksburg

http://racksburg.com/choosing-an-http-status-code/


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Dr. Amber L. Randall, MD - Flagstaff, AZ - Orthopedic Surgery | Healthgrades.com

http://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-amber-randall-2jxx3


---Steve

Must See JavaScript Dev Tools That Put Other Dev Tools to Shame — JavaScript Scene — Medium

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/must-see-javascript-dev-tools-that-put-other-dev-tools-to-shame-aca6d3e3d925?imm_mid=0dd220&cmp=em-web-na-na-newsltr_20151202#.ahfbfs2b5


---Steve

Growl Class - A Workshop Demo for Reactive Dogs

https://www.udemy.com/dunbar-growl-class/?utm_term=Growl-Class-Lookalike-Ian-Dunbar-LAL-iOS&utm_medium=udemyads&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=Growl-Class-Growl+Class+-+A-1046920515348012-9ym9B2&utm_campaign=Growl-Class-Mobile&k_clickid=c3d9e39a-f304-49db-80f0-25d9281a43b9_75152792&couponCode=827355b4-bacf-43a2-83e7-c568774a81f7


---Steve

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.

---Steve

The dopamine switch between atheist, believer and fa...

https://aeon.co/essays/the-dopamine-switch-between-atheist-believer-and-fanatic


---Steve

How Hard Is New York’s Algebra Exam? - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/20/nyregion/algebra-quiz.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0


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Shared from Twitter: How Hard Is New York’s Algebra Exam? - The New York Times

How Hard Is New York's Algebra Exam? - The New York Times

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2015’s Best & Worst Cities for Wallet Wellness | WalletHub®

https://wallethub.com/edu/best-cities-for-wallet-wellness/2862/


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'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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'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


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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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BBC - Future - The cyborg chess players that can’t be beaten

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151201-the-cyborg-chess-players-that-cant-be-beaten?ocid=global_future_rss


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End the Gun Epidemic in America - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/opinion/end-the-gun-epidemic-in-america.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0


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User Guide — Let's Encrypt 0.2.0.dev0 documentation

https://letsencrypt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/using.html#installation


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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."



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Hip exercises

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/PDFs/Rehab_Hip_3.pdf





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'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/


---Steve

Standards vs research in energy

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2015/12/bill_gates_isn_t_a_climate_savior.html


---Steve

Combating crime with large-scale face-search technology | MSUToday | Michigan State University

http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2015/combating-crime-with-large-scale-face-search-technology/


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A Wealthy Governor and His Friends Are Remaking Illinois - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/us/politics/illinois-campaign-money-bruce-rauner.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=2


---Steve

Climate Change Will Not Be Dangerous for a Long Time - Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-will-not-be-dangerous-for-a-long-time/


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How an F Student Became America’s Most Prolific Inventor — Bloomberg Business

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-americas-top-inventor-lowell-wood/


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PLOS ONE: Copper Bracelets and Magnetic Wrist Straps for Rheumatoid Arthritis – Analgesic and Anti-Inflammatory Effects: A Randomised Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Crossover Trial

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0071529

Wearing a magnetic wrist strap or a copper bracelet did not appear to have any meaningful therapeutic effect, beyond that of a placebo, for alleviating symptoms and combating disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis.


---Steve

Shared from Twitter: The tardigrade genome has been sequenced, and it has the most foreign DNA of any animal - ScienceAlert

The tardigrade genome has been sequenced, and it has the most foreign DNA of any animal - ScienceAlert

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Moral Dispute or Cultural Difference? - The New York Times

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/moral-dispute-or-cultural-difference/?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=1


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Shared from Twitter: Your grain-free diet isn’t natural, good for you or good for the planet - The Washington Post

Your grain-free diet isn't natural, good for you or good for the planet - The Washington Post

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The Doomsday Invention - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/doomsday-invention-artificial-intelligence-nick-bostrom


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Adam Shatz · Magical Thinking about Isis · LRB 3 December 2015

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n23/adam-shatz/magical-thinking-about-isis


---Steve

Intel hires Qualcomm exec Venkata Renduchintala - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/intel-hires-qualcomm-exec-venkata-renduchintala-2015-11?op=1


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CNN reporter suspended after tweet on refugees - POLITICO

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2015/11/cnn-elise-labott-suspended-refugee-tweet-216089


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Intel Says Not Dependent on PCs for Growth, Raises Dividend - Bloomberg Business

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-19/intel-sees-2016-sales-growing-in-mid-single-digits-percent-range


---Steve

Video: NOAA Software Engineering for Novel Architectures (SENA) Project - insideHPC

http://insidehpc.com/2015/10/video-noaa-software-engineering-for-novel-architectures-sena-project/


---Steve

Who is Responsible for U.S. immigration policy?

http://www.americanbar.org/publications/insights_on_law_andsociety/14/spring-2014/who-is-responsible-for-u-s--immigration-policy-.html


---Steve

Why GPS Almost Always Overestimates Distances | Motherboard

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-gps-almost-always-overestimates-distances#


---Steve

Why is English so weirdly different from other langu...

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-from-other-languages


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Kimpton faces hotel shake-up, loses most of its San Francisco hotels - San Francisco Business Times

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2015/07/kimpton-loses-hotels-san-francisco-unions-manage.html


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Is Kimpton abandoning San Francisco? - TravelSkills

http://travelskills.com/2015/07/29/is-kimpton-abandoning-san-francisco/


---Steve

How to Make an Ethernet Cable - Cat5, RJ45 Connectors - VSAT Installation Training

http://www.groundcontrol.com/galileo/ch5-ethernet.htm


---Steve

Rosin Cerate: Killing microbes with copper and silver

http://www.rosincerate.com/2015/11/killing-microbes-with-copper-and-silver.html


---Steve

40 years of a changing American diet, in one massive chart - Vox

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/11/8529217/40-years-of-a-changing-american-diet-in-one-massive-chart


---Steve

Research Blog: TensorFlow - Google’s latest machine learning system, open sourced for everyone

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/11/tensorflow-googles-latest-machine_9.html


---Steve

Best slate comments are science comments

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/slate_plus/2015/11/comments_on_science_stories_are_smart_meta_and_funny.html

What annoys me about this debate is that the people who hold this anti-GMO view also tend to be staunch environmentalists. So if you were to say, "What if we had a way of increasing farm productivity so we can use less land, reduce the water needs of crops so we can use less water, make crops disease and pestilence resistant so we can use less harmful pesticides, and increase the nutritional value of crops so we can feed the poor more cheaply." They would respond, "YES! What is this magical technology?!"

But when you ask them, "Are you in favor of the development of GMO's?" they would say, "No, I want to buy 'pure' food, not to enrich corporations!" The two thoughts are seemingly incompatible.

---Steve

Flu

https://www.gsksource.com/pharma/content/dam/GlaxoSmithKline/US/en/Prescribing_Information/Flulaval/pdf/FLULAVAL.PDF

Chemical Carcinogenesis

http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/120/suppl_1/S76.full


---Steve

M4.1 - 11km NNE of Black Canyon City, Arizona

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000419p#general_summary


---Steve

Ben Carson completely embarrassed by atheist Richard Dawkins, he's a 'disgrace' | Examiner.com

http://www.examiner.com/article/ben-carson-completely-embarrassed-by-atheist-richard-dawkins-he-s-a-disgrace


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How did science come to speak only English? – Michael D Gordin – Aeon

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/how-did-science-come-to-speak-only-english/


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SAP Two-Tier Standard Sales and Distribution SD Benchmark: SPARC T7-2 World Record 2 Processors (BestPerf)

https://blogs.oracle.com/BestPerf/entry/20151025_sap_sd2tier_t7_2


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Cisco Blog

http://blogs.cisco.com/tag/sap-sd-benchmark


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Librarian of Congress grants limited DRM-breaking rights for cars, games, phones, tablets, and remixers / Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2015/10/27/librarian-of-congress-grants-l.html


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Northrop Grumman wins Long Range Strike Bomber contract - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/pentagon-to-award-long-range-strike-bomber-contract-tuesday/2015/10/27/7f299748-7cc3-11e5-beba-927fd8634498_story.html


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X86 harmful

http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf





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TechRepublic: Q&A: A powerful look at the future of AI, from its epicenter at Carnegie Mellon

Q&A: A powerful look at the future of AI, from its epicenter at Carnegie Mellon
TechRepublic

The dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science spoke to TechRepublic about the future of AI, ethics, incredible job opportunities, and how women make up 40% of CMU's incoming class. Read the full story

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Shared from Twitter: Countering libertarian arguments against science funding | Science | The Guardian

Countering libertarian arguments against science funding | Science | The Guardian

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Shared from Twitter: Countering libertarian arguments against science funding | Science | The Guardian

Countering libertarian arguments against science funding | Science | The Guardian

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The best God joke ever - and it's mine! | Stage | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/sep/29/comedy.religion?CMP=share_btn_fb


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Stolen moments jazz

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/10/23/learning_to_love_jazz_a_two_year_quest_to_find_a_mystery_song.html

Oliver Nelson's The Blues and the Abstract Truth) stolen moments

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Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2010/01/13/ajcn.2009.27725.abstract

Conclusions: A meta-analysis of prospective epidemiologic studies showed that there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD. More data are needed to elucidate whether CVD risks are likely to be influenced by the specific nutrients used to replace saturated fat.

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Boot Camp for Your Ear: Detecting Intervals with Song Associations - Tuts+ Music & Audio Article

http://music.tutsplus.com/articles/boot-camp-for-your-ear-detecting-intervals-with-song-associations--audio-4118


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Stephen Pinker on the genealogy craze in America | The New Republic

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/77729/strangled-roots


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Shared from Twitter: How a creationist instinct stops us seeing evolution everywhere | New Scientist

How a creationist instinct stops us seeing evolution everywhere | New Scientist

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Decide the Future

https://www.decidethefuture.org/#corporate


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Shared from Twitter: HotWhopper: The IPCC climate message is clear based on the evidence: The fundamental flaws of Hollin & Pearce

HotWhopper: The IPCC climate message is clear based on the evidence: The fundamental flaws of Hollin & Pearce

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Shared from Twitter: Essential medicines are still essential - The Lancet

Essential medicines are still essential - The Lancet

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Lets the Science Deniers Have It: 'The Beginning of the End of an Informed Democracy' | Alternet

http://www.alternet.org/belief/neil-degrasse-tyson-lets-science-deniers-have-it-beginning-end-informed-democracy

Yes, but it requires enlightened governance for that opportunity to arise. Science doesn't happen in the abstract. It pays to have science done. Frontier science, historically and in modern times, is generally paid by government-based sources – the NIH, the National Science Foundation, the research arms of the Department of Energy, even the science arms of the Department of Defense. Someone is paying for research. You can't just say, "Well, the science will save us." No, enlightened governance enabling the science will save us. Scientific solutions to society's challenges, historically, have been the most potent ways to solve problems.

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Could This Drug Cure Alcoholism? - The Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/22/could-this-injection-cure-alcoholism.html


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Congressional Research Service Releases Study of Mass Shootings - Hit & Run : Reason.com

https://reason.com/blog/2015/08/03/mass-shootings-study


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Companion Animal Psychology: A New Approach to Dog Bite Prevention

http://www.companionanimalpsychology.com/2015/10/a-new-approach-to-dog-bite-prevention.html


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Bipartisan Support for Expanded Background Checks on Gun Sales | Pew Research Center

http://www.people-press.org/2015/08/13/continued-bipartisan-support-for-expanded-background-checks-on-gun-sales/


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Let's Encrypt is Trusted

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/10/19/lets-encrypt-is-trusted.html


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Shared from Twitter: BLOGS ON COMPUTER SCIENCE | CS SECTION 6B 2013

BLOGS ON COMPUTER SCIENCE | CS SECTION 6B 2013

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Common organic pesticides (biopesticides) found 'acutely toxic' to honey bees | Genetic Literacy Project

http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/10/06/common-organic-pesticides-biopesticides-found-acutely-toxic-honey-bees/


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Explorers Connect : Adventure shared

http://www.explorersconnect.com/


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Serotonin, tryptophan metabolism and the brain-gut-microbiome axis — ScienceDirect

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432814004768


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Microbiology: Microbiome science needs a healthy dose of scepticism : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/news/microbiology-microbiome-science-needs-a-healthy-dose-of-scepticism-1.15730


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Puppet master gutmicrobes

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/bies.201400071/asset/bies201400071.pdf;jsessionid=6ADBB9F5F2C13CA2BBE4410C268A78C1.f03t01?v=1&t=ifwpvf62&s=deea80527d212bdce7af380d7a1d40f74a9afc90

Do gut bacteria rule our minds? | University of California

http://universityofcalifornia.edu/news/do-gut-bacteria-rule-our-minds


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Glamping in Moab - Luxury Accomodation In Moab

http://www.moabundercanvas.com/


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October 15 wired conference (slide share)

http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/Xammamax/october-15-wired-conference-slide-share?utm_source=a16z+newsletter&utm_campaign=cf735002da-weekly_10_17_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6da14709cd-cf735002da-144352209


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AZ Distilling Co

http://www.azdistilling.com/


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Ty Bollinger’s Cancer(un)Truth, AKA: cancertruth.net | I fucking hate pseudoscience

http://hatepseudoscience.com/2014/03/07/ty-bollingers-canceruntruth/


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Intel has 1,000 people working on chips for the iPhone | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Mark Sullivan

http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/16/intel-has-1000-people-working-on-chips-for-the-iphone/


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Bridging the gap: from biometrics to forensics | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1674/20140254#sec-6


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Appeals court rules that Google book-scanning is fair use | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/appeals-court-rules-that-google-book-scanning-is-fair-use/

Google's use is indeed transformative, they held, citing caselaw involving other "full-text searchable database[s]" as a "quintessentially transformative use."

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Where Did Colleges Go Wrong? | Psychology Today

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/nation-wimps/201510/where-did-colleges-go-wrong


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Shared from Twitter: Read "Skullpocket," One of the Year's Best SF Stories—And One of the Creepiest Stories in Years

Read "Skullpocket," One of the Year's Best SF Stories—And One of the Creepiest Stories in Years

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Ben Carson Is Wrong on Guns and the Holocaust - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/opinion/ben-carson-is-wrong-on-guns-and-the-holocaust.html

If the United States is going to arrive at a workable compromise solution to its gun problem, it will not be accomplished through the use of historical analogies that are false, silly and insulting.

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Introduction to SMART Recovery®

http://www.smartrecovery.org/intro/


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Shared from Twitter: Matt Ridley: By the Book - The New York Times

Matt Ridley: By the Book - The New York Times

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Easy. The Bible. Not even the fine translations of William Tyndale, largely adopted by King James's committee without sufficient acknowledgment, can conceal the grim tedium of this messy compilation of second-rate tribal legends and outrageous bigo
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The Lanyard by Billy Collins | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2008/01/26


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Tweet by Bryan Donaldson on Twitter

	Bryan Donaldson (@TheNardvark)
10/9/15, 2:51 PM "Can I get 2 boxes of Sudafed?" "Sorry, by law you can only buy one at a time." "Okay then just the one box of Sudafed and these 7 guns."

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Shared from Twitter: Encryption Is More Important, and Easier, Than Ever - The New York Times

Encryption Is More Important, and Easier, Than Ever - The New York Times

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Dish hopper manual

http://www.dish-systems.com/products/pdfs/HopperUserGuide_user1.pdf





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Shared from Twitter: What YOU can do about gun violence – Greg Laden's Blog

What YOU can do about gun violence – Greg Laden's Blog

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Shared from Twitter: The History of the Blues in 50 Riffs: From Blind Lemon Jefferson (1928) to Joe Bonamassa (2009) Open Culture

The History of the Blues in 50 Riffs: From Blind Lemon Jefferson (1928) to Joe Bonamassa (2009) Open Culture

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Intel’s Results Reflect Move to Cloud Computing - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/technology/intels-results-reflect-move-to-cloud-computing.html?_r=0


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Shared from Twitter: Don’t Know Social Security Rules? You Could Take a Big Hit – AARP

Don't Know Social Security Rules? You Could Take a Big Hit – AARP

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Clarkston woman charged after firing gun at Home Depot in Auburn Hills, Michigan

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2015/10/13/clarkston-woman-charged-firing-gun-home-depot/73862066/


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Shared from Twitter: Wrong, wrong, wrong: The anti-science bullsh*t which explains why the right gets away with lies — and why the mainstream media lets them - Salon.com

Wrong, wrong, wrong: The anti-science bullsh*t which explains why the right gets away with lies — and why the mainstream media lets them - Salon.com

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The Second Amendment Is a Gun-Control Amendment - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-second-amendment-is-a-gun-control-amendment


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The GOP’s scariest candidate - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-scariest-candidate/2015/10/12/370444f2-710d-11e5-9cbb-790369643cf9_story.html


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The Asian Advantage - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/the-asian-advantage.html


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Shared from Twitter: A Cockeyed Optimist - NYTimes.com

A Cockeyed Optimist - NYTimes.com

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The Atlantic: From Guns to Migrants: Not Everything Is Like the Holocaust

From Guns to Migrants: Not Everything Is Like the Holocaust
The Atlantic

Ben Carson is wrong to say armed Jews could have stopped Hitler. But so are those who compare Europe's refugee crisis to the same period. Read the full story

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Shared from Twitter: What liberals don’t want to admit about gun control - The Washington Post

What liberals don't want to admit about gun control - The Washington Post

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The reluctant king of the hidden internet – Henry Farrell – Aeon

http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/on-the-high-seas-of-the-hidden-internet/


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Scientists find DNA differences between gay men and their straight twin brothers - LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-genetic-homosexuality-nature-nurture-20151007-story.html


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Climate pause: Nope.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/11/05/climate_pause_nope.html


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Multi-Use for sale in Sedona AZ - CIMLS Mobile

http://www.cimls.com/mobile/view_listing.php?type=sale&id=626512

Lot Size: 4.42 acres
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Eversull bankruptcy

http://bankrupt.com/misc/azb14-13080.pdf




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With Ben Carson, the Doctor Is Always Out - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/opinion/with-ben-carson-the-doctor-is-always-out.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0


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www.nytimes.com: If Your Wi-Fi Is Terrible, Check Your Router - The New York Times

If Your Wi-Fi Is Terrible, Check Your Router - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com

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Why some people don't get the flu - Health - Cold and flu | NBC News

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44275043/ns/health-cold_and_flu/t/why-some-people-dont-get-flu/#.VhWu2JRHaK0

It's certainly possible that people who came in had a very high level of antioxidant precursors in their blood, and this may what protected them, but we're not saying that because we don't know. You can't go beyond the data to make these hypotheses."

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Solutions to Peto's paradox revealed by mathematical modelling and cross-species cancer gene analysis | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1673/20140222


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Why Free Markets Make Fools of Us by Cass R. Sunstein | The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/oct/22/why-free-markets-make-fools-us/


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Did George Washington offer support for individual gun rights, as meme says? | PolitiFact

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/feb/20/facebook-posts/did-george-washington-offer-support-individual-gun/


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Will digital books ever replace print? – Craig Mod – Aeon

http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/why-have-digital-books-stopped-evolving/


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Shared from Twitter: Senate candidate in Florida admits drinking goat blood - BBC News

Senate candidate in Florida admits drinking goat blood - BBC News

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Article: The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong

The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/battle-genome-editing-gets-science-wrong/

Related topics: Scientific Research, Biology, Life Sciences

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The New York Times: Patti Smith, Survivor

Patti Smith, Survivor
The New York Times

In her new memoir, "M Train," the punk elder makes peace with her ghosts and finds solace in a century-old bungalow in the Rockaways. Read the full story

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Sway of N.R.A. Stymies Firearms Research, Scientists Say - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/us/26guns.html?_r=1


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A New Way to Tackle Gun Deaths - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-a-new-way-to-tackle-gun-deaths.html?_r=0


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The Simple Truth About Gun Control - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-simple-truth-about-gun-control


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The Simple Truth About Gun Control - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-simple-truth-about-gun-control

the central insight of the modern study of criminal violence is that all crime—even the horrific violent crimes of assault and rape—is at some level opportunistic. Building a low annoying wall against them is almost as effective as building a high impenetrable one. This is the key concept of Franklin Zimring's amazing work on crime in New York; everyone said that, given the social pressures, the slum pathologies, the profits to be made in drug dealing, the ascending levels of despair, that there was no hope of changing the ever-growing cycle of violence. The right wing insisted that this generation of predators would give way to a new generation of super-predators.

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Michael Kinsley | Vanity Fair

http://www.vanityfair.com/contributor/michael-kinsley


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Hundreds share their favourite one-liners online | Features | Culture | The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/hundreds-share-their-favourite-one-liners-online-a6676811.html


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Cybersecurity Legend And Presidential Candidate John McAfee Takes On The Republican Frontrunners - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemorgan/2015/10/02/cybersecurity-legend-and-presidential-candidate-john-mcafee-takes-on-the-republican-frontrunners/?ss=Security


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Shared from Twitter: Hundreds share their favourite one-liners online | Features | Culture | The Independent

Hundreds share their favourite one-liners online | Features | Culture | The Independent

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Religion Book Review: After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age by Stephen Batchelor. Yale Univ., $28.50 (408p) ISBN 978-0-300-20518-3

http://publishersweekly.com/pw/reviews/single/978-0-300-20518-3#path/pw/reviews/single/978-0-300-20518-3


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US anti-abortion activist Troy Newman to be deported from Australia after losing legal bid | World news | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/02/anti-abortion-activist-troy-newman-deportation-losing-legal-bid

Another pro-lifer's contempt for the law.

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11 essential facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/18/11-essential-facts-about-guns-and-mass-shootings-in-the-united-states/


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The 10 most influential billionaires in politics - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/21/the-10-most-influential-billionaires-in-politics/


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The Atlantic: What Isn’t for Sale?

What Isn't for Sale?
The Atlantic

Market thinking so permeates our lives that we barely notice it anymore. A leading philosopher sums up the hidden costs of a price-tag society. Read the full story

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Bill Nye and abortion – Pharyngula

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/10/01/bill-nye-and-abortion/


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Parkinson's disease may begin in the gut: Parkinson's disease begins in the gastrointestinal tract, large study indicates -- ScienceDaily

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150623103609.htm


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Study links Parkinson's disease to gut bacteria - Medical News Today

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/286912.php


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Culture - Why Be Good? | Center for Humans & Nature

http://www.humansandnature.org/culture-why-be-good


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Center for Bio-Ethical Reform promotes illegally taped video of perineum and premature delivery | Dr. Jen Gunter

https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/the-center-for-bio-ethical-reform-promotes-illegally-taped-video-of-perineum-and-premature-delivery-and-fiorina-supports-them/


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Banker Insulation Services | Residential & Commercial Insulation Installation

http://www.insulationestimates.com/


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Parkinson’s May Begin in Gut and Spread to the Brain Via the Vagus Nerve | Neuroscience News

http://neurosciencenews.com/parkinsons-gastrointestinal-tract-neurology-2150/


---Steve

Jeb Bush on Poverty, Economic Growth

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/09/jeb-bush-on-poverty-economic-growth/


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Planned Parenthood and Mammograms

http://www.factcheck.org/2012/10/planned-parenthood-and-mammograms/


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It’s sleazy, it’s totally illegal, and yet it could become the future of retirement - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/09/28/this-sleazy-and-totally-illegal-savings-scheme-may-be-the-future-of-retirement/?tid=sm_tw


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Ben Carson's Scientific Ignorance - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ben-carsons-scientific-ignorance?intcid=mod-latest


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The Implications of Defining When a Woman Is Pregnant

https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/08/2/gr080207.html
Between one-third and one-half of all fertilized eggs never fully implant. A pregnancy is considered to be established only after implantation is complete.

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VW scandal highlights irony of EPA opposition to vehicle software tinkering | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/vw-scandal-highlights-irony-of-epa-opposition-to-vehicle-software-tinkering/


---Steve

Stonewall Movie: 22 Hilarious Excerpts From Scathing Reviews

http://www.autostraddle.com/22-epic-comparisons-from-scathing-reviews-of-stonewall-308868/

Somehow, director Roland Emmerich has made a movie even less historically accurate than 10,000 BC, the one depicting Egyptian-style pyramids being constructed with the help of woolly mammoths.

---Steve

The Modern Temperature Trend

https://www.aip.org/history/climate/20ctrend.htm


---Steve

Nothing False About Temperature Data

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/02/nothing-false-about-temperature-data/


---Steve

Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/technology/smaller-faster-cheaper-over-the-future-of-computer-chips.html


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The Real Roots of ’70s Drug Laws - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/opinion/the-real-roots-of-70s-drug-laws.html?_r=2


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U.S. foreign-born population nears high

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

U.S. foreign-born population nears high

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/28/us-foreign-born-population-nears-high/72814674/


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Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2011

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6311a1.htm


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CDC - Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System - Maternal and Infant Health - Reproductive Health

http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/pmss.html

Since the Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System was implemented, the number of reported pregnancy-related deaths in the United States steadily increased from 7.2 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1987 to a high of 17.8 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2009 and 2011.

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Abortion safer than giving birth: study | Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/23/us-abortion-idUSTRE80M2BS20120123

Researchers found that women were about 14 times more likely to die during or after giving birth to a live baby than to die from complications of an abortion.

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Preemie Outcomes by gestational age

http://preemiehelp.com/about-preemies/preemie-facts-a-figures/preemie-outcomes/outcomes-by-gestational-age


---Steve

Tweet by Tom Morello on Twitter

	Tom Morello (@tmorello)
9/25/15, 10:58 AM Wow. Pope Francis visits Washington and John Boehner steps down. It's like an exorcism.

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Wandering Gaia | Dispatches from the Anthropocene

http://wanderinggaia.com/


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Big lie fiorina

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/09/carly_fiorina_lied_about_planned_parenthood_video_gop_debate_fact_checking.html


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CRISPR Natural History in Bacteria | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150206-crispr-dna-editor-bacteria/


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If Pope Francis Really Wanted to Fight Climate Change, He’d Be a Feminist | The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/article/the-popes-blind-spot/


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This guy travelled to every country in the world before turning 40 -- here are the countries he thinks everyone should visit | Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/gunnar-garfors-recommended-countries-2015-9#/%23uruguay-12


---Steve

London Zoo: What’s up with giraffe necks?

http://azdailysun.com/lifestyles/pets/london-zoo-what-s-up-with-giraffe-necks/article_df82a0e6-24d0-51a1-ba08-0595c2d7be59.html

The giraffe neck is comparable to the peacock's tail in that it promotes more mating success while also exposing the males to dangers and physical challenges.

---Steve

Hacking the Random Walk Hypothesis

http://www.turingfinance.com/hacking-the-random-walk-hypothesis/


---Steve

12 Rules for Professional JavaScript in 2015 — Medium

https://medium.com/@housecor/12-rules-for-professional-javascript-in-2015-f158e7d3f0fc


---Steve

The Atlantic: How Rand Paul Misunderstands the Fourteenth Amendment

How Rand Paul Misunderstands the Fourteenth Amendment
The Atlantic

The Kentucky senator points to its author's intent to justify his opposition to birthright citizenship—but the clause in question has no clear author. Read the full story

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In speech to Congress, Pope Francis urges action on immigration, climate

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/09/24/pope-congress-speech-historic-climate-change-republicans-democrats/72706718/

"We must be especially attentive to every type of fundamentalism, whether religious or of any other kind. A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners."

---Steve

Which Alan Turing Movie Really Captures The Father Of Computer Science?

http://io9.com/which-alan-turing-movie-really-captures-the-father-of-c-1671009693


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Study highlights which fruits and vegetables can aid weight loss - Medical News Today

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/299982.php

• 34.9% of Americans are classed as obese
• Obesity runs at 39.5% among 40-59 year-olds, but 30.3% among those aged 20-29
• An obese person costs the public health services on average $1,429 per person per year compared with a non-obese person.

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Cactus permit

https://agriculture.az.gov/sites/default/files/remove.pdf




---Steve

Coconino National Forest - Abineau/Bear Jaw Trails, #127 / #26

http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/coconino/recreation/recarea/?recid=55058&actid=104


---Steve

Looney-tune Carson

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/09/24/ben_carson_anti_science.html


---Steve

mike's blog

https://mikedillon.wordpress.com/


---Steve

8 rights of pregnant women at work July 28 - CNNMoney

Other examples of reasonable accommodations may include letting a worker sit on a stool rather than stand during her shift, changing her work schedule if she has severe morning sickness, or allowing her to keep a water bottle at her work station.

Check out this story on CNNMoney:

http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/25/news/economy/rights-pregnant-workers/


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The Soft Bigotry of Ben Carson - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/opinion/charles-blow-the-soft-bigotry-of-ben-carson.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur
whisper-soft purveyor of hyperbolic hucksterism

---Steve

10 common myths about evolution | The Logic of Science

http://thelogicofscience.com/2015/08/31/10-common-myths-about-evolution/


---Steve

GRAPHIC: Diver Attacked By Shark Takes Gruesome Selfie

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/braxton-rocha-shark-attack-selfie_56008922e4b0fde8b0cf821f


---Steve

What is mathematics about? – James Franklin – Aeon

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


---Steve

Carly Fiorina's Ex-Husband: "She's The Ultimate Clown."

http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/09/carly-fiorinas-ex-husband-shes-the-ultimate-clown/

In the clown car that is the Republican Party, she's the ultimate clown.

---Steve

Intel iQ – Hacking a self-driving car is worryingly easy (but there’s a plan to stop it)

http://iq.intel.co.uk/hacking-a-self-driving-car-is-worryingly-easy-but-theres-a-plan-to-stop-it/?linkId=17051696


---Steve

National Geographic: ‘It Wasn’t the Bear's Fault’: Grizzly Attack Survivor Stories

'It Wasn't the Bear's Fault': Grizzly Attack Survivor Stories
National Geographic

Survival rates for bear attacks are high. And those who have been mauled are often forgiving. Read the full story

Shared from Apple News

---Steve

Carly Fiorina suggested marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol. She's wrong. - Vox

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/21/9363395/alcohol-vs-marijuana


---Steve

Carly Fiorina 2016: Why I Still Think Carly Fiorina Was a Terrible CEO - POLITICO Magazine

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/carly-fiorina-ceo-jeffrey-sonnenfeld-2016-213163


---Steve

PLOS ONE: Abstinence-Only Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates: Why We Need Comprehensive Sex Education in the U.S

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0024658


---Steve

Opposing Religion Isn’t Always the Greatest Good

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/excommunications/2015/09/opposing-religion-isnt-always-the-greatest-good/?ref_widget=gr_trending&ref_blog=grails&ref_post=atheist


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Supreme Court Free-Speech Decision Clobbers GMO Food-Labeling Activists - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2015/09/16/supreme-court-free-speech-decision-clobbers-gmo-food-labeling-advocates-but-they-dont-know-it/2/


---Steve

Kim Phillips-Fein for Democracy Journal: Laissez Prayer

http://www.democracyjournal.org/38/laissez-prayer.php?page=all


---Steve

Massage Therapy: Does it Work?

https://www.painscience.com/articles/does-massage-work.php#sec_allen


---Steve

Pope Francis’ fact-free flamboyance - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/pope-franciss-fact-free-flamboyance/2015/09/18/7d711750-5d6a-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html


---Steve

PLOS ONE: The Case of Moulay Ismael - Fact or Fancy?

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0085292

In general, results indicate that the Emperor could have reached his notorious reproductive success with fewer copulations than assumed so far - thus the historic reports could be facts and not fancy. With our simulation we could also provide evidence that the harem size is of lesser importance for the achievement of the reported reproductive success than thought so far. A breeding pool of 65 to 110 women leads to the maximum reproductive outcome. This highlights the importance of incorporating cost-benefit calculations – increasing the size of the breeding pool beyond that point increases the costs without additional benefits to outweigh them. Having a harem of 500 concubines might have been due to other considerations than maximization of individual reproductive outcome. For example, it could have been a means to remove the additional women from the reach of other men, thus depriving them of reproductive potential.

---Steve

The Fight for Unplanned Parenthood - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/opinion/gail-collins-the-fight-for-unplanned-parenthood.html?_r=0

If an elected official wants to try to drive Planned Parenthood out of business, there are two honest options: Announce that first you're going to invest a ton of new taxpayer money in creating real substitutes, or shrug your shoulders and tell the world that you're fine with cutting off health services to some of your neediest constituents.

---Steve

When Liars Debate, The Truth Always Loses

http://www.nationalmemo.com/when-liars-debate-the-truth-always-loses/


---Steve

Iq

http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2015/09/19/iq_and_success_can_a_test_score_determine_later_outcomes_in_life.html


---Steve

The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-real-lesson-of-the-stanford-prison-experiment


---Steve

Second Republican Debate Filled With Lies

http://reverbpress.com/politics/second-republican-debate-filled-with-lies/


---Steve

50 Years After the Moynihan Report, Examining the Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/the-black-family-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration/403246/


---Steve

Ig noble 2015

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/09/18/ig_nobel_prize_2015_winners_present_improbable_research_at_harvard.html


---Steve

Science Based Cuisine

http://food.drricky.net/

Most commonly, evolution is discussed in terms of speciation, where a common ancestor's progeny adapt to different environments across generations, and start diverging in traits - thus, the same Prunus will give rise to the cherry and the apricot. But in some cases, evolutionary pressure can take different organisms to evolve similar, or, in this case, identical traits. Coffee and tea, for example, do not have the identical enzymes, but they have evolved to produce the same effect on the raw material xanthosine, in an identical chain of events that produces chemically identical caffeine. Which probably first evolved as chemical protection against insects.
---Steve

Do bigger governments lead to happier people? - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/23/do-bigger-governments-lead-to-happier-people/


---Steve

Favorites

http://sam_k_brown.tripod.com/QoL-APSR.pdf





---Steve

Houdini. Skeptic. (Book Review) | Doubtful

https://idoubtit.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/houdini-skeptic-book-review/

In the conclusion he is startled by the "utter inability of the average human being to describe accurately anything he or she has witnessed." With this tendency, a medium can easily accomplish wonders. These same mediums, he said, deliberately avoid honest investigation. What was not answered in this book was how Houdini managed to get into the audiences he did to make these observations.

---Steve

Ben Carson Doesn't Get It: All Our Vaccines Prevent Death - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2015/09/17/two-doctors-running-for-president-dont-understand-medicines-most-important-advance/


---Steve

Do you want a meaningful or a happy life? – Roy F Baumeister – Aeon

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/do-you-want-a-meaningful-life-or-a-happy-one/

T

his begins to suggest a theory for why it is we care so much about meaning. Perhaps the idea is to make happiness last. Happiness seems present-focused and fleeting, whereas meaning extends into the future and the past and looks fairly stable. For this reason, people might think that pursuing a meaningful life helps them to stay happy in the long run

---Steve

2015’s Most and Least Happy States in America | WalletHub®

http://wallethub.com/edu/most-least-happy-states-in-america/6959/


---Steve

Zion National Park Releases Names of Keyhole Canyon Fatalities - Zion National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

http://www.nps.gov/zion/learn/news/keyholeflashfloodsept17.htm


---Steve

Grand Canyon Place Names! The story behind the name!

http://www.grandcanyontreks.org/place.htm


---Steve

How the political system affects happiness – Benjamin Radcliff – Aeon

http://aeon.co/magazine/society/what-political-system-does-happiness-economics-support/


---Steve

Seneff Claims GMOs Cause Concussions « Science-Based Medicine

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/seneff-claims-gmos-cause-concussions/


---Steve

Donald Trump accused Carly Fiorina of being a terrible businesswoman. Here’s the truth - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/09/16/donald-trump-accused-carly-fiorina-of-being-a-terrible-businesswoman-heres-the-truth/?tid=sm_tw

Arianna Packard, the granddaughter of HP's founder, commented when discouraging voters from supporting Fiorina in her 2010 senatorial run, 'I know a little bit about Carly Fiorina, having watched her almost destroy the company my grandfather founded.'"

---Steve

It’s finally out–The big review paper on the lack of political diversity in social psychology | HeterodoxAcademy.org

http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/09/14/bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity/


---Steve

Mass incarceration is about way more than the war on drugs - Vox

http://www.vox.com/2015/7/16/8978579/war-on-drugs-mass-incarceration


---Steve

We Need to Talk About Islam’s Jihadism Problem - The Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/15/we-need-to-talk-about-islam-s-jihad-problem.html?via=desktop&source=twitter


---Steve

The Elmore Leonard Story by Joan Acocella | The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/sep/24/elmore-leonard-story/

I'm sorry, Jack, but I can't shoot you." 

"You just did, for Christ's sake." 

"You know what I mean." She said, "I want you to know…I never for a minute felt you were too old for me." She said, "I'm afraid, though, thirty years from now I'll feel different about it. I'm sorry, Jack, I really am."

---Steve

John McAfee: McAfee antivirus is one of the worst products on the planet

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/john-mcafee-mcafee-antivirus-one-worst-products-planet-1516462


---Steve

In New York, a Win and a Loss on Health - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/opinion/in-new-york-a-win-and-a-loss-on-health.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=2

The city Health Department has linked metzitzah b'peh to more than a dozen infant herpes cases, and two deaths, since 2000. The Bloomberg administration tried to discourage the practice by requiring mohels to have parents sign a consent form acknowledging the risks. But mohels, citing religious freedom, refused to use the form.

---Steve

USA Homicide Vs Suicide

http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa-homicide-vs-suicide


---Steve

What the Case Against Stephen Harper Is Really About - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/09/parker-donham-response/405067/
Those are his views, he's certainly entitled to them, and I expect he'll cast his vote on October 19 accordingly. That's democracy, and fair enough.

---Steve

Are Western Values Losing Their Sway? - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/sunday-review/are-western-values-losing-their-sway.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=1

But couple the tightening of Chinese authoritarianism with Russia's turn toward revanchism and dictatorship, and then add the rise of radical Islam, and the grand victory of Western liberalism can seem hollow, its values under threat even within its own societies.

---Steve

The Next Genocide - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/opinion/sunday/the-next-genocide.html?action=click&contentCollection=Health&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article

The quest for German domination was premised on the denial of science.

---Steve

Ask IRS to stop favoring churches over other non-profits - Freedom From Religion Foundation

http://ffrf.org/news/action/item/23948-ask-irs-to-stop-favoring-churches-over-other-non-profits


---Steve

Nothing has changed in 25 years to ease my concerns about Islam - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11859029/Nothing-has-changed-in-25-years-toease-my-concerns-about-Islam.html


---Steve

Encrypted Emails Are on the Rise: More Than One Third of Tutanota Emails Are End-to-End Encrypted

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/encryption-percentage


---Steve

Global Study Shows That The Leading Factors For Early Death Are High Blood Pressure And Poor Diets - The Latest News

http://www.thelatestnews.com/global-study-shows-that-leading-risk-factors-for-death-high-blood-pressure-poor-diet/


---Steve

Article: 25 Books Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Other Top CEOs Recommend

25 Books Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Other Top CEOs Recommend
http://www.inc.com/john-rampton/25-books-top-ceos-recommend-you-read.html

Related topics: Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Atlas Shrugged

Shared from Flipboard Picks on Flipboard, your personal magazine.
Get it for free to keep up with the news you care about.

---Steve

There Is No Theory of Everything - The New York Times

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/there-is-no-theory-of-everything/?_r=1


---Steve

Scientists shift medicinal properties from one plant to another | NewsDaily

http://newsdaily.com/2015/09/scientists-shift-medicinal-properties-from-one-plant-to-another/


---Steve

James Blake Wants to Turn Mistaken Arrest Into ‘a Positive’ - WSJ

http://www.wsj.com/articles/james-blake-wants-to-turn-mistaken-arrest-into-a-positive-1442084061


---Steve

Churchgoing has been on the decline for decades in Western nations: here’s why

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/epiphenom/2015/06/churchgoing-has-been-on-the-decline-for-decades-in-western-nations-heres-why.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BhaScienceGroup+%28Blog+-+Epiphenom%29


---Steve

Does belief that God is in control reduce support for government welfare?

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/epiphenom/2015/07/does-belief-that-god-is-in-control-reduce-support-for-government-welfare.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BhaScienceGroup+%28Blog+-+Epiphenom%29


---Steve

Why violent crime is plummeting in the rich world | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530073-200-why-violent-crime-is-plummeting-in-the-rich-world/


---Steve

Ferguson effect

http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_Ferguson_Effect.pdf





---Steve

Why has the murder rate in some US cities suddenly spiked? - BBC News

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32995911


---Steve

What we know about attacks on police - Vox

http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7430943/police-killed-statistics


---Steve

Graphic evidence: Steven Pinker's optimism on trial | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2015/sep/11/graphic-evidence-steven-pinkers-optimism-on-trial?CMP=share_btn_tw


---Steve

All Scientists Should Be Militant Atheists - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/all-scientists-should-be-militant-atheists


---Steve

Dog Waste Bags and Dog Waste Disposal Systems by Zero Waste USA | Biodegradable Pet Waste Bags

http://www.zerowasteusa.com/


---Steve

Teaching Evolution through Human Examples | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program

Teaching Evolution through Human Examples | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program

Download the Twitter app

---Steve

Physics - Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness

http://physics.aps.org/articles/v8/85


---Steve

The Year Humans Got Serious About Climate Change -- NYMag

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/sunniest-climate-change-story-ever-read.html

For human to wean ourselves off carbon-emitting fossil fuel, we will have to use some combination of edict and invention — there is no other plausible way around it. The task before the world is best envisioned not as a singular event but as two distinct but interrelated revolutions, one in political willpower and the other in technological innovation. It has taken a long time for each to materialize, in part because the absence of one has compounded the difficulty of the other. It is extremely hard to force a shift to clean energy when dirty energy is much cheaper, and it is extremely hard to achieve economies of scale in new energy technologies when the political system has not yet nudged you to do so.

---Steve

Voluntary euthanasia: beware of the godly!

https://theconversation.com/voluntary-euthanasia-beware-of-the-godly-47143

Beware of the godly

Religious leaders such as Archbishop Welby have no particular authority - intellectual, moral, or otherwise - in respect of issues that relate to decisions at the beginning and end of life. Religious leaders are experts on the doctrines of their respective organisations, but that sort of expertise should cut no ice with the rest of us.

Bill O’Reilly’s nonsense “nihilism”: Now the Fox News host is even lying about God - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/06/bill_oreillys_nonsense_nihilism_now_the_fox_news_host_is_even_lying_about_god/

far as the United States goes, it is high religiosity itself that correlates with bad crime rates, deadbeat tax payers, poverty, rampant teen pregnancy, low education, a dearth of life opportunities, early death, and so on. Faith is, in short, part and parcel of a congeries of nasty ills every society should strive to extirpate.

---Steve

The correlation of high religiosity in America with everything bad « Why Evolution Is True

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/the-correlation-of-high-religiosity-in-america-with-everything-bad/

The solution is easy: vote out the conservatives and loosen the grip of faith on America.

---Steve