November 14, 2015

Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal. Exactly why I paste everything into a text editor first.



The World’s Largest Mining Operation Is Run by Fungi.



There is something wrong with everything.



Georgia O’Keefe. Note that shaved armpits did not become popular until the 1920s. No feminist statement.



Unravelling the great mystery of our times.



Sessile.



What I Wish Everyone Knew About Sylvia Plath.



The Continued Relevance of How To Suppress Women’s Writing.



Nutrient Density of Crops Over Time.



The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence.



Note to Village planners: If your charming village’s main selling point is charm then doing things that subtract from the charm is not a good idea.



Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC.



Sometime between when we were children and when we had children of our own, parenthood became a religion in America.



CIA Director Documentary: ‘The Attacks Will Be Spectacular.’



Animal Hair Could Inspire Self-Cleaning Technologies.



First Interstellar Weather Forecast: Gusty as Hell.



A new study suggests that programs like food stamps and housing vouchers cut poverty by almost twice as much as we thought they did.



November 13, 2015

The TPP trade deal is just as evil as you think it is. The TPP is appallingly, shockingly bad.



Here’s How Much The World’s Biggest Economies Spend On Fossil Fuel Subsidies.



Death by a thousand likes: How Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web. Well to be fair both are only proxies for fucking morons.



UK becomes only G7 country to increase fossil fuel subsidies.



Interspecies love-ins and the offbeat history of our species.



Yep, science confirms that quitting Facebook makes people happier.



Worth the Risk?



Scientists have begun to identify the symphony of biological triggers that powered the extraordinary expansion of the human brain.



America’s obesity problem just keeps getting bigger.



Eighty million U.S. jobs at risk from automation, central bank official says. No risk. Risk implies possibility of not happening.



Weight controlled by what we put in our mouths, not exercise. In my experience, you have to work out hard ~4 hours a day to truly eat whatever you want.



November 12, 2015

Death rates have been increasing for middle-aged white women, decreasing for men.



In short, if your demonstrations don’t win public sympathy, you are shooting yourself in the foot and hurting your cause more than helping it.



The Three Industries That Love The TPP: Hollywood, Big Pharma & Wall St.



Going Off Fossil Fuels Would Boost Disposable Income And Create A Million Jobs. Probably a bit exaggerated, but would be a huge net benefit.



Forget Shorter Showers.



The Supreme Court could soon deliver a crushing blow to the Sixth Amendment.



Resist and Thrive.



Reproducibility Crisis: The Plot Thickens.



Why Don’t We “Like” Our Neighbors?



November 11, 2015

Jim Balsillie fears TPP could cost Canada billions and become worst-ever policy move. Will cost the US trillions over the next few decades, too.



Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn’t Come Cheap. But is easy for execs/accounting to point at something to “reduce expenses.”



Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells?



If one of Pluto’s moons spins any faster its surface might fly off.



Animals Rely on Hair to Keep Clean, Study Finds.



Obesity could rob you of 20 years of health.



If your child is fat then you are a bad parent.



The enemy of utopia isn’t dystopia, but oligarchy.



Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name.



How Could You Like That Book?



November 10, 2015

“A life sentence to poverty”: How our laws deny ex-offenders a true second chance.



Imagine months without electricity, and you start to get an idea of how disastrous this can be.



It’s going to get worse #policeshootings. If you like hunting humans legally, become a cop.



UPS Continues Its “Wreck the Post Office” Campaign, Presses for Increases on Parcel Prices.



Apocalyptic Environmentalism: It Works.



Own a Vizio Smart TV? It’s watching you. Pervasive surveillance is now the default.



Americans over 30 are more miserable than they’ve ever been.



That Time When People Lived Alone in Caves for Science.



November 9, 2015

Earth to cross 1°C warming marker this year for the first time. Let the wild rumpus start.



The Rising Death Rates of Middle-Aged Non-Hispanic White Americans: More Food For Thought.



Of course, this is the same universe that forced….



Real Estate Shell Companies Scheme to Defraud Owners Out of Their Homes.



The Scientific Method is a Myth.



My First Year On The “Rural” Side of the Digital Divide. Mesh networks cannot work well for technical reasons. False dream.



The Economist’s anti-ad-blocking tool was hacked and infected readers’ computers.



Blairism vs the left.



TPP Is the Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History.



Where the Money is at in America.



Why the world economy as we know it is about to be turned on its head. Automation, AI and global warming almost certainly means this is wrong.



“It’s a bizarre act of self-mutilation to say that ‘I don’t get on with science fiction and fantasy, therefore I’m never going to read any,’” Mitchell says.



English Names for fungi.



A Texas Utility Offers a Nighttime Special: Free Electricity. Yet I was absolutely assured that renewable power was impossible.



November 8, 2015

Know Your Risks, but Meat Still Isn’t the Enemy.



Cancer survivors less likely to receive callbacks from potential employers.



Caitlyn Jenner identifies as a woman, Rachel Dolezal as black. Why should one be legitimate and the other condemned?



The clock is ticking on a time bomb that could blow up a free internet: the TPP. The agreement poses a grave threat to our basic right to access information and express ourselves on the web.



More Than Half of Every Dollar Spent Online Goes to Amazon or Google.



Fat is the new normal in America.



Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months.



The European Commission is preparing a frontal attack on the hyperlink. Only a matter of time till that happens everywhere.



Attention Shoppers – Internet Is Open. From 1994. Seems charmingly quaint now.



November 7, 2015

See a cruise ship get chopped in half and extended.



Leaked Comcast Doc Admits: Data Caps Have Nothing To Do With Congestion. Any network engineer in the fucking world knows data caps ain’t how you prevent congestion. (Actually increase it, btw.)



But what I find strangest of all is not Ben Carson’s pyramids beliefs, but rather the notion that we should selectively pick on some religious claims rather than others.



The Popularity of Music Genres, 2005-present.



Birds saved centuries old documents in their nests.



Scientists Discover Why High Intensity Interval Training Can Match Endurance Training. (That’s probably olive oil on her shoulder to simulate sweat, by the way.)



Why does obesity promote cancer? Epidemiology, biology, and open questions



How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained.



November 6, 2015

In 2016, a driver’s license may not be enough ID to board a plane.



New York City’s Mail Chutes are Lovely, Ingenious and Almost Entirely Ignored.



Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers.



Those security images on your bank log-in pages? They’re useless. I said that 10 years ago.



TPP Has Enforcement Provisions for Drug Companies and Entertainment Industry, Not for Labor Rights or Currency Intervention.



Too many women gain too much weight during pregnancy, CDC says.



Weeks After Mass Shooting, Oregon County Votes To Nullify Gun Control Laws.



High-End Approach To Homelessness Freaks People Out About What The Poor “Deserve.”



November 5, 2015

Make no mistake: A vote for Hillary is a vote for war.



Naomi Bettis called 911 after spotting her neighbor, 33-year-old Noah Harpham, armed with a rifle on the street. She says a dispatcher explained Colorado allows public handling of firearms. Harpham went on to kill three people.



Man Dies After Tapeworm Inside Him Gets Cancer.



The Foods That Are Linked With Childhood Weight Gain. I avoid potato chips because they are complete garbage food.



Why DMCA Rulemaking Is an Unsustainable Garbage Train.



Hillary Clinton Pretends to Be “Progressive”, She’s Actually “Conservative.”