linkspam is tired of meetings
The new Curiosity Rover lands on Mars this coming Sunday, and the event will be streamed live. I hope I can find time to watch it (I'll be traveling for a family thing).
I've been watching a bit of the Olympics, just having the Tivo record during the day and then fast-forwarding through nine hours of sports til I find something interesting. Which is how I saw a woman from Kazhakstan win the 63kg clean-and-jerk gold medal last night. That was awesome.
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Wow. There are people out there who think The Truman Show was a documentary, and they're living in it. That's... fascinating.
A nonreligious university, Penn State, has demanded more accountability of football coaches and administrators than the [Roman Catholic] church has of its spiritual leaders. The National Catholic Reporter on the hypocrisy of the American bishops.
Bruce Scheier talks about risk analysis in the aftermath of the Aurora mass murder.
As of today, any American woman with health insurance will get a number of preventive health services for free, as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
"No is a disfavored response": this post talks about communication and sexual assault. (I wonder if the behaviors are probably generalizable only to Americans or other westerners, but I'm not sure.)
Linked by way of BoingBoing: strategies for social isolation on the bus. I have totally used some of these techniques.
There's always another new study about exercise and weight loss. This one challenges some long-held assumptions about metabolic rate.
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Check it out (via B.org): a penguin power walk. Can't you just hear the swelling music?
Also, now I know about bat-eared foxes I might have to write them into a Narnia story. Hmmm.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
I've been watching a bit of the Olympics, just having the Tivo record during the day and then fast-forwarding through nine hours of sports til I find something interesting. Which is how I saw a woman from Kazhakstan win the 63kg clean-and-jerk gold medal last night. That was awesome.
*
Wow. There are people out there who think The Truman Show was a documentary, and they're living in it. That's... fascinating.
A nonreligious university, Penn State, has demanded more accountability of football coaches and administrators than the [Roman Catholic] church has of its spiritual leaders. The National Catholic Reporter on the hypocrisy of the American bishops.
Bruce Scheier talks about risk analysis in the aftermath of the Aurora mass murder.
As of today, any American woman with health insurance will get a number of preventive health services for free, as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
"No is a disfavored response": this post talks about communication and sexual assault. (I wonder if the behaviors are probably generalizable only to Americans or other westerners, but I'm not sure.)
Linked by way of BoingBoing: strategies for social isolation on the bus. I have totally used some of these techniques.
There's always another new study about exercise and weight loss. This one challenges some long-held assumptions about metabolic rate.
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Check it out (via B.org): a penguin power walk. Can't you just hear the swelling music?
Also, now I know about bat-eared foxes I might have to write them into a Narnia story. Hmmm.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.