[links] Link salad sees that morning mists are parting to reveal
The cover art of my German editions of Mainspring and Escapement has been nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis in the Beste Grafik category &mash; Which doesn't really have much to do with me directly, but is still pretty cool. Kudos to illustrator Max Meinzold.
Why Do We Hate Certain Words? - The curious phenomenon of word aversion.
‘I’m Google’ by Dina Kelberman: A Visual Exploration of Google Image Search - A very cool digital art project. Direct link here. (Via threeoutside.)
A Japanese medical blog reports on my Whole Genome Sequencing
End-of-life talks lacking between doctors, patients - I've already begun to have these conversations with my physician.
Cancer Drug That Shrinks All Tumors Set To Begin Human Clinical Trials - Huh. This is a treatment for primary tumors, not for metastases, so it probably isn't relevant to me personally, but it's still pretty damned cool.
Messenger RNAs Could Create a New Class of Drugs - New partnerships could help bring a novel class of biopharmaceutical to patients.
Steampunk iPad: 1922 - Another Shorpy classic. Hahah.
Scientists successfully create living embryo of an extinct species
Collision Course? A Comet Heads for Mars - Could have a significant impact on NASA programs there. (Via threeoutside.)
Melt may explain Antarctica's sea ice expansion - Climate change is expanding Antarctica's sea ice, according to a scientific study in the journal Nature Geoscience. This is what science does. It looks at contradictory evidence and tries to work out the contradiction. Ideology simply says, "If I believe this, it must be true", and ignores contradictory evidence. Guess which view is based in reality?
Oceans continue to warm, especially the deeps - Altered patterns seen over past two decades. Amazing how the liberals can convince the entire planet to join in their climate change fraud. Any good conservative can tell you this is all wrong, no matter the evidence.
A New Map Of The U.S., Created By How Our Dollar Bills Move - Identifying functional regional boundaries through analysis of movements of paper currency. This is cool. (Via AH.)
1,200-year-old Egyptian text describes a shape-shifting Jesus - "Everybody need a mood lifter, Everybody need reverse polarity." (Via shsilver.)
Google and white Christians’ search for ‘persecution’ - Christians will never be happy until they stop being the kind of people who, as TBogg put it, “can’t sleep at night because they can’t wait to see how the world will offend them the next day.”
Elite in China Face Austerity Under Xi’s Rule - Good luck with that. (Via my Dad.)
While GOP Elites Soften On Gay Marriage, Local Leaders Haven’t Gotten The Message - That's what happens when one of your political cornerstones is irrational bigotry with no objective or principled value. I see a principled opposition to abortion, for example, though it's sadly obvious most opponents aren't actually standing on principled objections. I see a principled stance in favor of widespread private gun ownership, though again it's clearly based on willful ignorance, promulgation of bad data and wholesale suppression of the reality of firearms in private hands. But opposition to gay marriage? Nothing but a combination of religious bigotry and personal ick factors. There simply is no principled opposition to be found, other than nicely rationalized versions of bigotry and ick.
New GOP plan: Guns for domestic abusers - As president Obama visits Colorado to discuss guns, state GOP launches fight to protect batterers' gun rights. Because nothing says compassionate conservatism like protecting a violent man's right to a firearm.
Jim Carrey: Fox ‘News’ is “A media colostomy bag… a public health issue” - Well, duh. The polling on how misinformed (strongly in the direction of conservative bias) FOX News viewers are is remarkably consistent. It's almost like media isn't liberal or something.
QotD?: Ever been to the Blue Mountains?
4/2/2013
Writing time yesterday: 2.0 hours (WRPA, specifically critique)
Hours slept: 7.0 hours (solid)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (stationary bike)
Weight: 245.6
Number of FEMA troops on my block building solar arrays to undermine the American fossil fuel industry: 0
Currently reading: Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
Why Do We Hate Certain Words? - The curious phenomenon of word aversion.
‘I’m Google’ by Dina Kelberman: A Visual Exploration of Google Image Search - A very cool digital art project. Direct link here. (Via threeoutside.)
A Japanese medical blog reports on my Whole Genome Sequencing
End-of-life talks lacking between doctors, patients - I've already begun to have these conversations with my physician.
Cancer Drug That Shrinks All Tumors Set To Begin Human Clinical Trials - Huh. This is a treatment for primary tumors, not for metastases, so it probably isn't relevant to me personally, but it's still pretty damned cool.
Messenger RNAs Could Create a New Class of Drugs - New partnerships could help bring a novel class of biopharmaceutical to patients.
Steampunk iPad: 1922 - Another Shorpy classic. Hahah.
Scientists successfully create living embryo of an extinct species
Collision Course? A Comet Heads for Mars - Could have a significant impact on NASA programs there. (Via threeoutside.)
Melt may explain Antarctica's sea ice expansion - Climate change is expanding Antarctica's sea ice, according to a scientific study in the journal Nature Geoscience. This is what science does. It looks at contradictory evidence and tries to work out the contradiction. Ideology simply says, "If I believe this, it must be true", and ignores contradictory evidence. Guess which view is based in reality?
Oceans continue to warm, especially the deeps - Altered patterns seen over past two decades. Amazing how the liberals can convince the entire planet to join in their climate change fraud. Any good conservative can tell you this is all wrong, no matter the evidence.
A New Map Of The U.S., Created By How Our Dollar Bills Move - Identifying functional regional boundaries through analysis of movements of paper currency. This is cool. (Via AH.)
1,200-year-old Egyptian text describes a shape-shifting Jesus - "Everybody need a mood lifter, Everybody need reverse polarity." (Via shsilver.)
Google and white Christians’ search for ‘persecution’ - Christians will never be happy until they stop being the kind of people who, as TBogg put it, “can’t sleep at night because they can’t wait to see how the world will offend them the next day.”
Elite in China Face Austerity Under Xi’s Rule - Good luck with that. (Via my Dad.)
While GOP Elites Soften On Gay Marriage, Local Leaders Haven’t Gotten The Message - That's what happens when one of your political cornerstones is irrational bigotry with no objective or principled value. I see a principled opposition to abortion, for example, though it's sadly obvious most opponents aren't actually standing on principled objections. I see a principled stance in favor of widespread private gun ownership, though again it's clearly based on willful ignorance, promulgation of bad data and wholesale suppression of the reality of firearms in private hands. But opposition to gay marriage? Nothing but a combination of religious bigotry and personal ick factors. There simply is no principled opposition to be found, other than nicely rationalized versions of bigotry and ick.
New GOP plan: Guns for domestic abusers - As president Obama visits Colorado to discuss guns, state GOP launches fight to protect batterers' gun rights. Because nothing says compassionate conservatism like protecting a violent man's right to a firearm.
Jim Carrey: Fox ‘News’ is “A media colostomy bag… a public health issue” - Well, duh. The polling on how misinformed (strongly in the direction of conservative bias) FOX News viewers are is remarkably consistent. It's almost like media isn't liberal or something.
QotD?: Ever been to the Blue Mountains?
4/2/2013
Writing time yesterday: 2.0 hours (WRPA, specifically critique)
Hours slept: 7.0 hours (solid)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (stationary bike)
Weight: 245.6
Number of FEMA troops on my block building solar arrays to undermine the American fossil fuel industry: 0
Currently reading: Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett