December 2010
15 posts
“Hot chili grenade
The Indian military has weaponized the world’s hottest chili...”
– http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/news/top-weird-science-stories-of-2010
“TOP TEN WOULD-BE WORDS SUBMITTED TO MERRIAM-WEBSTER IN 2010
Posted by Larissa...”
– http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/12/top-ten-would-be-words-submitted-to-merriam-webster-in-2010.html
“Revolt of the Elites
On the one hand, colleges, in their role as four-year...”
– http://nplusonemag.com/print-issue-10
“I’m able to make a distinction between you and me without feeling the...”
– http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-sorkin/sarah-palin-killing-animals_b_793600.html
August 2010
12 posts
O’Rourke
If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been… and come back [knowing it all], you’re a reporter
http://tinyurl.com/39m8knh
Photos of the interiors of some dictators’ jets. (From Telegraph.uk) http://tinyurl.com/275ohpa
Cemeteries Hold Parties to Die For
Graveyards Plan Concerts, Sky-Diving, Clowns; ‘Meet Us Before You Need Us’ (WSJ) http://tinyurl.com/2f25q62
Gary Kurtz on his sullied partnership with G. Lucas: he had to protect his toy empire, so the movies suffered. Great read at LA Times (http://ping.fm/FnTdv)
Mathematicians have drawn up an equation that works out how best to skip stones (record is 51 skips) (Telegraph.uk) http://ping.fm/P78ij
Slate follows up with a review of state laws regarding eating your pet. http://ping.fm/wNal6
Recipe for disaster: a “man marinates cat” story. Truly one of the stranger tales I’ve heard this week. http://ping.fm/0RuBW
How Stuff Works explains how swearing works (linguistically and culturally) [with bibliography] http://ping.fm/AuNzP
Video: Korean teacher of English’s lesson on why students should learn to swear in English includes swearing (http://ping.fm/LK9cn)
Mongolian neo-Nazis: Anti-Chinese sentiment fuels rise of ultra-nationalism (?!?) (Guardian UK) http://ping.fm/49mq8
Monkey annoyance experts shed light on Macaque vs. Flying Squirel feud. Worth it for the headline alone (Christian Sci Monitor) http://ping.fm/CaLEp
Healthcare costs affect US prisons with aging inmate population (chickens coming home to roost on a failed penal system?) http://ping.fm/83yOe
July 2010
11 posts
cyber stalking from the POV of the stalker and the stalked (the Guardian) http://ping.fm/X3Qq0
7 Keys to the entire Internet, and somebody in Burkina Faso holds one of them. (Pop Sci) http://ping.fm/iy2fD
Tans that tell a lot about you (gizmodo) http://ping.fm/cbGhW
New TSA procedure means the address you use to book your flight needs to be identical to that on your ID (http://ping.fm/ylUqb)
At last all is lost in scud and vapor, as the overgrown billow bursts like a bomb (Herman Melville on surfing) http://ping.fm/7hTPT
Documentarian received 18Tb of BBC footage (1970-2010) from Afghanistan. Posts some, talks about the rest. http://ping.fm/paSRo
Interview with Bill Murray — he’s done 4 in past 10 years. (GQ) http://ping.fm/Ssxwr
http://ping.fm/KiMh8
Too much self doubt? Try thinking like a creator. (chron of higher ed) http://ping.fm/FqkDe
European football referees more likely to award fouls when an attack is from right to left because of how they read. http://ping.fm/AZ1wr
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio: the German octopus picks world cup winners… and GER is out (NYT) http://ping.fm/mYoyM
June 2010
29 posts
Turnabout is fair play? Male menstruation machine for those who always wondered what cramps and bleeding are all about. http://ping.fm/eGqBx
Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench http://ping.fm/k8nJC
As I previously mentioned (http://ping.fm/Mi8mh) it’s illegal to take pics of on-duty cops: http://ping.fm/o9RfZ
Author and stroke victim teaches himself to read with his tongue (investigation by Oliver Sacks) on NPR: http://ping.fm/SIMZW
Even with all of the advances in technology, there is still art in the practice of medicine. http://ping.fm/jzTWV
We pay a price as a society whenever we make a monetary valuation of a non-market, public societal good. http://ping.fm/AL1VX
However advanced the drugs and technology, they’re only as good as the system of care which delivers them http://ping.fm/qocvf
Mexico City sewer diver - interesting read. http://ping.fm/WugRd
Re: graphical presentation of information—crime levels presented as “elevation” on city map of San Fran. http://ping.fm/dp128
Rather than aid dollars to beat poverty, dysfunctional nations can kick-start development by creating new cities with new rules. http://ping.fm/xeNFN
Yglesias on why the federal stimulus isn’t working: state & local govmts are contracting beyond federal spending http://ping.fm/CAhTt
Madoff from Jail: “Fuck my victims, I carried them for twenty years, and now I’m doing 150 years.” (NY Mag) http://ping.fm/NGNeq