http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/what-data-can-do-to-fight-poverty.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=1
---Steve
Friday, January 29, 2016
Interesting quote from "The Martian: A Novel"
Hi - I'm reading "The Martian: A Novel" by Andy Weir and wanted to share this quote with you.
"Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped."
Start reading it for free: http://amzn.to/1RRxwoR
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---Steve
"Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped."
Start reading it for free: http://amzn.to/1RRxwoR
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---Steve
Thursday, January 28, 2016
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U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Review One of the Most Extreme Abortion Bans in the Nation | Center for Reproductive Rights
http://www.reproductiverights.org/press-room/us-supreme-court-refuses-to-review-one-of-the-most-extreme-abortion-bans-in-the-nation-0&s_src=16SOC0116&s_subsrc=datasync&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=16SOC0116
women have a constitutional right to decide whether to end or continue a pregnancy and states cannot ban abortion prior to viability
---Steve
women have a constitutional right to decide whether to end or continue a pregnancy and states cannot ban abortion prior to viability
---Steve
Shared from Twitter: The total value of all the property in the world is $217 trillion - 2.7 times the world's GDP | City A.M.
The total value of all the property in the world is $217 trillion - 2.7 times the world's GDP | City A.M. from Izabella Kaminska's Tweet
Add up all the property in the entire world, and you get $217 trillion (£152.2 trillion) of assets, a new report has suggested - that's 2.7 times the world's GDP.
---Steve
---Steve
Friday, January 22, 2016
Shared from Twitter: Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief - The New York Times
Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief - The New York Times from The New York Times's Tweet
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---Steve
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Shared from Twitter: The Hidden Goods of 2015 by Peter Singer - Project Syndicate
The Hidden Goods of 2015 by Peter Singer - Project Syndicate from Peter Singer's Tweet
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---Steve
Shared from Twitter: The beauty of imbalance | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
The beauty of imbalance | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard from Broad Institute's Tweet
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---Steve
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Shared from Twitter: Eric Lander CRISPR "history" and (lack of) disclosures of conflicts of interest (with images, tweets) · phylogenomics · Storify
Eric Lander CRISPR "history" and (lack of) disclosures of conflicts of interest (with images, tweets) · phylogenomics · Storify from PZ Myers's Tweet
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---Steve
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Climatarians’ Crusade: Stop Eating Meat & Save the Planet
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429966/climatarians-crusade-stop-eating-meat-save-planet
Nor is organic farming better for the environment. An analysis of USDA data by agricultural scientist Steve Savage shows huge yield gaps between conventional and organic crops. In comparing the two farming methods, yields were lower in 84 percent of organic crops. For fruit crops, the yield for organic strawberries was 61 percent lower than conventional strawberries, 49 percent lower for organic grapes, and 26 percent lower for organic oranges. For vegetables, yields for organic spinach were 71 percent lower, 49 percent lower for organic carrots, and 30 percent lower for organic potatoes. "To have raised all U.S. crops as organic in 2014 would have required farming of 109 million more acres of land," Savage said. "That is an area equivalent to all the parkland and wildland areas in the lower 48 states or nearly twice as much as all the urban land in the nation." The science simply doesn't support either the nutritional or environmental claims of climatarians who want to rig our diets for political purposes. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressed concern during legislative hearings last year; Congress is now asking for a top-down review of the USDA dietary guidelines, which have never been subject to peer reviews. The recently passed budget bill included $1 million set aside to conduct such a study. "Questions have been raised about the scientific integrity of the process in developing the dietary guidelines and whether balanced nutritional information is reaching the public," lawmakers wrote when proposing the study. "The entire process used to formulate and establish the guidelines needs to be reviewed before future guidelines are issued."
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429966/climatarians-crusade-stop-eating-meat-save-planet
---Steve
Nor is organic farming better for the environment. An analysis of USDA data by agricultural scientist Steve Savage shows huge yield gaps between conventional and organic crops. In comparing the two farming methods, yields were lower in 84 percent of organic crops. For fruit crops, the yield for organic strawberries was 61 percent lower than conventional strawberries, 49 percent lower for organic grapes, and 26 percent lower for organic oranges. For vegetables, yields for organic spinach were 71 percent lower, 49 percent lower for organic carrots, and 30 percent lower for organic potatoes. "To have raised all U.S. crops as organic in 2014 would have required farming of 109 million more acres of land," Savage said. "That is an area equivalent to all the parkland and wildland areas in the lower 48 states or nearly twice as much as all the urban land in the nation." The science simply doesn't support either the nutritional or environmental claims of climatarians who want to rig our diets for political purposes. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressed concern during legislative hearings last year; Congress is now asking for a top-down review of the USDA dietary guidelines, which have never been subject to peer reviews. The recently passed budget bill included $1 million set aside to conduct such a study. "Questions have been raised about the scientific integrity of the process in developing the dietary guidelines and whether balanced nutritional information is reaching the public," lawmakers wrote when proposing the study. "The entire process used to formulate and establish the guidelines needs to be reviewed before future guidelines are issued."
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429966/climatarians-crusade-stop-eating-meat-save-planet
---Steve
Developing Awareness : 13 Facts Everyone Should Know about Metastatic Breast Cancer
http://mbcn.org/developing-awareness/category/13-things-everyone-should-know-about-metastatic-breast-cancer
7. 20% to 30% of people initially diagnosed with early stage disease will develop metastatic breast cancer.
8. Young people, as well as men, can be diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer.
9. Like early stage breast cancer, there are different types of metastatic breast cancer.
10. Treatment choices are guided by breast cancer type, location and extent of metastasis in the body, previous treatments and other factors.
11. Metastatic breast cancer is not an automatic death sentence. Although most people will ultimately die of their disease, some will live for many years.
---Steve
7. 20% to 30% of people initially diagnosed with early stage disease will develop metastatic breast cancer.
8. Young people, as well as men, can be diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer.
9. Like early stage breast cancer, there are different types of metastatic breast cancer.
10. Treatment choices are guided by breast cancer type, location and extent of metastasis in the body, previous treatments and other factors.
11. Metastatic breast cancer is not an automatic death sentence. Although most people will ultimately die of their disease, some will live for many years.
---Steve
Monday, January 18, 2016
Is Abortion Linked to Breast Cancer?
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/moreinformation/is-abortion-linked-to-breast-cancer
the scientific evidence does not support the notion that abortion of any kind raises the risk of breast cancer or any other type of cancer.
---Steve
the scientific evidence does not support the notion that abortion of any kind raises the risk of breast cancer or any other type of cancer.
---Steve
Sunday, January 17, 2016
The Happiness Code - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/magazine/the-happiness-code.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Hidden&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-11&module=inside-nyt-region®ion=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region&_r=0
---Steve
---Steve
No food is healthy. Not even kale. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/no-food-is-healthy-not-even-kale/2016/01/15/4a5c2d24-ba52-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html?tid=sm_tw
Our food is not healthy; we will be healthy if we eat nutritious food. Words matter. And those that we apply to food matter more than ever.
---Steve
Our food is not healthy; we will be healthy if we eat nutritious food. Words matter. And those that we apply to food matter more than ever.
---Steve
Taken (2008) - Quotes - IMDb
Bryan: I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
---Steve
---Steve
The Dumb and the Restless | Rolling Stone
"Again, these people may be dangerous, but their boundless self-pity, their outrageous sense of entitlement and their slapstick incompetence as rebels and terrorists are absolutely ridiculous. Sure, it may not help, but how can we not laugh?
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-dumb-and-the-restless-20160107#ixzz3xWCX2eXX
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-dumb-and-the-restless-20160107#ixzz3xWCX2eXX
---Steve
Saturday, January 16, 2016
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[From the Archive] | Cowburnt, by Edward Abbey | Harper's Magazine - Part 2
http://harpers.org/archive/2015/02/cowburnt/2/
The rancher (with a few honorable exceptions) is a man who strings barbed wire all over the range; drills wells and bulldozes stock ponds; drives off elk and antelope and bighorn sheep; poisons coyotes and prairie dogs; shoots eagles, bears, and cougars on sight; supplants the native grasses with tumbleweed, snakeweed, povertyweed, cowshit, anthills, mud, dust, and flies. And then leans back and grins at the TV cameras and talks about how much he loves the American West.
---Steve
The rancher (with a few honorable exceptions) is a man who strings barbed wire all over the range; drills wells and bulldozes stock ponds; drives off elk and antelope and bighorn sheep; poisons coyotes and prairie dogs; shoots eagles, bears, and cougars on sight; supplants the native grasses with tumbleweed, snakeweed, povertyweed, cowshit, anthills, mud, dust, and flies. And then leans back and grins at the TV cameras and talks about how much he loves the American West.
---Steve
Saturday, January 09, 2016
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Wednesday, January 06, 2016
Tuesday, January 05, 2016
Shared from Twitter: The real threat from North Korea is the nuclear arsenal built over the last decade | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The real threat from North Korea is the nuclear arsenal built over the last decade | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists from BulletinOfTheAtomic's Tweet
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---Steve
The Atlantic: CRISPR's Most Exciting Uses Have Nothing to do With Gene-Editing
CRISPR's Most Exciting Uses Have Nothing to do With Gene-Editing
The Atlantic
Scientists are using the technology to control genes rather than alter them. Read the full story
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