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July 19, 2015

The Myth That Academic Science Isn’t Biased Against Women.

In short, people with A.D.H.D. may not have a disease, so much as a set of behavioral traits that don’t match the expectations of our contemporary culture.

Harper Lee Announces Third Novel, ‘My Excellent Caretaker Deserves My Entire Fortune.’

July 18, 2015

Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 Updates Cannot Be Stopped. Fuck that. I have this thing that can stop them. It’s called a firewall.

Research shows Joshua trees not doing well.

Social Media Actually Works In Direct Opposition to Psychological Well Being.

Cataclysmic Variable.

What did the Ignore button do in Windows 3.1 when an application encountered a general protection fault?

Hillary Clinton Declines To Support A National $15 Minimum Wage. Shocker. Oh, wait, it’s totally not.

Our Kids Are Fat, But They Don’t Know It.

If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious. I know thought experiments aren’t “cool” these days, but I still find them very useful.

July 17, 2015

Out-of-network costs lurk even at in-network hospitals.

Most Women Who Have Abortions Don’t Regret It.

Plants prepare to defend themselves when they “hear” threatening sounds.

It’s official: Workplace rudeness is contagious.

When Upward Mobility Becomes a Health Hazard.

Watch Angela Merkel Tell a Crying Teenage Refugee Why She Has to Leave Germany.

Fix slow amazon under Firefox without losing function.

The Life of an Auschwitz Guard.

July 16, 2015

The Maunder Minimum is back! (Maybe. And we probably won’t notice).

Cutting the liberal arts undermines our cultural traditions.

Miraculous WIMPs.

Binomial and Poisson Confidence Intervals.

Three Dead Protocols.

The Magnus Effect is why a Ball With a Bit of Backspin Goes Like This.

Parents Dedicate New College Safe Space In Honor Of Daughter Who Felt Weird In Class Once.

Are GMOs safe? Yes. The case against them is full of fraud, lies, and errors.

Potato paradox. I suspect this is super-obvious to math people, but is completely non-obvious to me.

July 15, 2015

If it becomes possible to safely genetically increase babies’ IQ, it will become inevitable.

The plot to marginalize Bernie Sanders: The shared agenda that links Fox News and Hillary Clinton surrogates.

When millennials talk wistfully about “getting their own place.”

July 14, 2015

I’m done with the media-debate spectacle of “defending” women’s sports. It’s exhausting, like debating with some ham-faced think-tank goon about whether global warming is real or having to argue whether that name of the Washington football team is honestly and truly racist.

Scott Walker Campaigns Against Unions, Wages, and Weekends.

An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.

Media Reports The World Will Enter A ‘Mini Ice Age’ In The 2030’s. The Reverse Is True.

If you’re the kind of person who does things like punch people or destroy property when you get angry we should be much more worried about you having a gun than some college kid who’s depressed.

From Pluto to the Sun: A Field Guide to the Solar System.

▶Americans Guess What 100 Calories Looks Like.

July 13, 2015

Firefox, you’re supposed to be in my pocket, not the other way around.

Huge population of “Ultra-Dark Galaxies” discovered.

It appears that Europe (especially the Germans and the Dutch) will accept nothing but Greeks immolating themselves and them jumping off a cliff en masse to atone for the temerity of failing to be proper working drones.

Pro-fat Feminism Is Identity Politics Gone Wrong.

You Don’t Treat A Health Problem With Acceptance.

Caterpillars of the US northeast – in pictures.

Isn’t It Ironic?

July 12, 2015

If you’ve got nothing to hide….

Greek debt is not an economic problem, Greek debt is a racism problem.

Democracy is only for rich white guys. “The negative line for women is particularly troublesome. For more than half of the United States population, supporting a policy actually means policymakers are less likely to pass it.”

How to Pose Like a Man .

Innovators are killing us: Instead of reinventing housing or transit, they bring us companies like Airbnb and Uber.

Bankruptcy Looms For Moldova.

Keywords for the Age of Austerity 19: Resilience.

Women in the Medieval Guilds.

Zombie Operating Systems and ASP.NET MVC.

What It’s Like to Face a 150 M.P.H. Tennis Serve.

July 11, 2015

Even liberals seem to be rather laissez faire when it comes to women’s rights. (Certainly on a political level, they’re always the first to be traded away for something really “important.”)

A Map of the U.S. by Property Value Instead of Land Area.

A solar future isn’t just likely — it’s inevitable.

How the Biggest, Most Expensive Oil Spill in History Changed Nothing at All.

Behind the Mask: The Myth of the Psychopath.

Nearly Half of Black and Latina Scientists Mistaken for Janitors or Assistants.

Single family zoning: social engineering.

In the absence of a proper understanding of mental illness, the various disorders, syndromes and character traits that are labelled as such are really just thoughtful descriptions of changeable symptoms.

Genetics Emphatically Deny Playing Any Part In Area Man’s Body.

July 10, 2015

“Tsipras Has Just Destroyed Greece.”

The indeterminacy of word segmentation and the nature of morphology and syntax.

Sea Levels Have Risen 20 Ft With Only Slight Warming.

Confronting New Madrid.

Diving dolphins are exhalation champions.

The Pros And Cons Of Flying The Confederate Flag.

July 9, 2015

Thomas Piketty: ‘Germany Has Never Repaid its Debts. It Has No Right to Lecture Greece.’

Jeb Bush: People Need to Work Longer Hours.

Misunderstanding the genome: A (polite) rant.

Why we’re so scared of GMOs, according to someone who has studied them since the start.

Kids of Helicopter Parents Are Sputtering Out. Well, that was easy to predict.

An Ocean Mystery in the Trillions.

Archer Khatuna Lorig.

July 8, 2015

Unhealthy lifestyle can knock 23 years off lifespan. HAES ain’t lookin’ too good. Unless you’re in the processed food industry, that is.

UI Fail: How Our User interfaces Help to Ruin Lives. Such a great piece.

Google’s algorithm shows prestigious job ads to men, but not to women.

Dear Mom, Your Child’s Better Off If You Go To Work.

Word of the Week: Jiggery-Pokery.

Would an artificial intelligence “grow old”?

Insurers are seeking rate hikes of 20 to 40 percent for next year because they think they already have enough economic and political clout to get them.

4 Ways Hollywood Is Hard on Female Filmmakers.

The Right Time.

July 7, 2015

Those Who Aspire to Solaria.

5 good reasons to think Jesus never existed.

If you turned on US cable news at any point last week, you might have thought this July 4 holiday would be our last weekend on earth – the supposed terrorist masterminds in Isis and their alleged vast sleeper cell army were going to descend upon America like the aliens in Independence Day and destroy us all.

Just cos something’s counterintuitive, doesn’t mean it’s correct! I blame Malcolm Gladwell.

Study: Floating Heap Of Trash Now Ocean’s Apex Predator.

Back in the Day, Lesbian Drag Kings Worked for the Mafia.

Who eats spiders?

De-Industrialisation, ‘New Speenhamland’ and Neo-Liberalism: Government Subsidies to Low Wage Employers.

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