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Bruce Schneier has a link to a long-term study on the psychological effects of terrorism.
Chalk another victory up for the success of public health care: the World Health Organization has announced that Guinea worm disease is about to be completely eradicated. (Beware a seriously disturbing photo at the top of that page! Ewww!) It's been accomplished through government programs addressing clean water, health education, and behavioral changes.
Public services also include libraries; here is the American Library Association's yearly report on funding.
The New Inquiry (a site I need to investigate further) has a first-person tale from an investigator for the civilian agency that looks into complaints about New York City police behavior. It's pretty depressing.
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There's not much I can say to top Jessa Crispin on the economics of starting a publishing empire. Heh.
The Oxford American has a piece on what it's like to be a fact-checker for a national magazine. Odes to fact-checking ... tend to focus on how checkers improve a piece of writing, or save a writer's ass. But, just so we're clear, magazines pay for research departments because research departments keep magazines from getting sued for libel. That's why we triple-verify lines that you'd think were commonly accepted as truth.
A 14th-century illuminated manuscript of the story of Gawain and the Green Knight is now available online. (H/t to Bookslut)
I really enjoyed Born to Run, Christopher MacDougall's book about, among other things, minimalist running. Brain Pickings today has a video inspired by the book.
Oooh, I've never seen any commentary on these, so I'm happy to see that Jo Walton is reviewing R.M. Meluch's Merrimack novels. They're space opera with a fairly slashy tone and some fairly dodgy gender and racial issues, but the space opera elements are fantastic, including aliens which are constructed so as to require the use of swords onboard the military spaceships.
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The parenting behaviors of my two brothers with kids could not be more different: one family is extremely regimented, the other incredibly loose. I have no idea which kid will end up most well-adjusted, but I am pretty sure that neither of my SILs would have agreed to take a ten-month-old infant on a river rafting trip. (Although I did once meet a child of similar age being bike-trailored down the Pacific coast by her parents. They said the hardest bit was getting around the Olympic Peninsula, because they couldn't find any baby food and were reduced to feeding her hot dogs.)
OK, yes, they're cute, but I'm mostly posting this link because I love the name "Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat".
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
Chalk another victory up for the success of public health care: the World Health Organization has announced that Guinea worm disease is about to be completely eradicated. (Beware a seriously disturbing photo at the top of that page! Ewww!) It's been accomplished through government programs addressing clean water, health education, and behavioral changes.
Public services also include libraries; here is the American Library Association's yearly report on funding.
The New Inquiry (a site I need to investigate further) has a first-person tale from an investigator for the civilian agency that looks into complaints about New York City police behavior. It's pretty depressing.
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There's not much I can say to top Jessa Crispin on the economics of starting a publishing empire. Heh.
The Oxford American has a piece on what it's like to be a fact-checker for a national magazine. Odes to fact-checking ... tend to focus on how checkers improve a piece of writing, or save a writer's ass. But, just so we're clear, magazines pay for research departments because research departments keep magazines from getting sued for libel. That's why we triple-verify lines that you'd think were commonly accepted as truth.
A 14th-century illuminated manuscript of the story of Gawain and the Green Knight is now available online. (H/t to Bookslut)
I really enjoyed Born to Run, Christopher MacDougall's book about, among other things, minimalist running. Brain Pickings today has a video inspired by the book.
Oooh, I've never seen any commentary on these, so I'm happy to see that Jo Walton is reviewing R.M. Meluch's Merrimack novels. They're space opera with a fairly slashy tone and some fairly dodgy gender and racial issues, but the space opera elements are fantastic, including aliens which are constructed so as to require the use of swords onboard the military spaceships.
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The parenting behaviors of my two brothers with kids could not be more different: one family is extremely regimented, the other incredibly loose. I have no idea which kid will end up most well-adjusted, but I am pretty sure that neither of my SILs would have agreed to take a ten-month-old infant on a river rafting trip. (Although I did once meet a child of similar age being bike-trailored down the Pacific coast by her parents. They said the hardest bit was getting around the Olympic Peninsula, because they couldn't find any baby food and were reduced to feeding her hot dogs.)
OK, yes, they're cute, but I'm mostly posting this link because I love the name "Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat".
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.