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October 11th, 2011
If the median household income had kept pace with the economy since 1970, it would now be nearly $92,000 — not $50,000. Sort of a big difference, no?

If the median household income had kept pace with the economy since 1970, it would now be nearly $92,000 — not $50,000. Sort of a big difference, no?

(Source: motherjones)

October 9th, 2011
Dan: “You know, I am missing my legs. Is that an issue?” Rebecca: “I never dated a guy because he had nice knees. But I do like nice arms.” Love after War  [via washingtonpoststyle :: Photo by Nikki Kahn (TWP)]

Dan: “You know, I am missing my legs. Is that an issue?”

Rebecca: “I never dated a guy because he had nice knees. But I do like nice arms.”

Love after War

 [via washingtonpoststyle :: Photo by Nikki Kahn (TWP)]

(via npr)

October 7th, 2011

(via nutopiancitizen)

Ten Surprising Facts About Steve Jobs

Ten Surprising Facts About Steve Jobs

(via discoverynews)

October 6th, 2011
Is The White House Flunking Science? When President Obama took office, science and environmental journalists were optimistic that they would see an improvement in the Executive Branch’s approach to science and the openness with which it treated that science. The assertion in 2006 by James Hansen, NASA’s leading climate researcher, that the Bush administration had attempted to prevent him from speaking out on the dangers caused by greenhouse gas emissions in many ways crystallized what was often seen as a distinct lack of scientific transparency over the previous eight years, a state of affairs that reporters hoped would be corrected.

Is The White House Flunking Science?

When President Obama took office, science and environmental journalists were optimistic that they would see an improvement in the Executive Branch’s approach to science and the openness with which it treated that science. The assertion in 2006 by James Hansen, NASA’s leading climate researcher, that the Bush administration had attempted to prevent him from speaking out on the dangers caused by greenhouse gas emissions in many ways crystallized what was often seen as a distinct lack of scientific transparency over the previous eight years, a state of affairs that reporters hoped would be corrected.

(via discoverynews)

Worst News of the Day: Obama Approves Arctic Ocean Drilling

The Obama administration said Monday it was moving forward with oil-drilling leases off the coast of Alaska issued by the Bush administration in 2008, a victory for oil companies in the battle over Arctic Ocean drilling.

A particularly devastating decision considering the extremely delicate nature of the Arctic Ocean ecosystem. A single oil spill in this area would have catastrophic consequences — these are mistakes we cannot afford to make.

(via ecoevolution)

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Quasi-Crystals   A type of crystal so strange and unusual that it upset the prevailing views on the atomic structure of matter, leading to a paradigm shift in chemistry, and ridicule for Dan Shechtman, the scientist who discovered them. Dan Shechtman has just been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. (via newshour)

Quasi-Crystals

 

A type of crystal so strange and unusual that it upset the prevailing views on the atomic structure of matter, leading to a paradigm shift in chemistry, and ridicule for Dan Shechtman, the scientist who discovered them.

Dan Shechtman has just been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

(via newshour)

Support for the nation’s biggest institutions (including “the media”) has steadily declined over the last four decades, except for the military (which is silly considering we don’t “win” wars anymore, and we invade countries without moral cause). (via motherjones)

Support for the nation’s biggest institutions (including “the media”) has steadily declined over the last four decades, except for the military (which is silly considering we don’t “win” wars anymore, and we invade countries without moral cause).

(via motherjones)

First Time in History: Scientists Have Successfully Used Cloning Techniques to Induce Human Eggs to Generate Embryonic Stem Cells Containing the Genes of Specific Patients.

(Source: diadoumenos)

Fred Shuttlesworth Dead at 89 — Hard-Charging Civil Rights Figure The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth died Wednesday, a blunt-talking preacher who braved beatings, bombings and fire-hosings to push Birmingham, Ala., to the forefront of the civil rights movement, and advanced the historic fight with a confrontational strategy that often put him at odds with its most charismatic leader. [Shuttlesworth] was the last of the civil rights movement’s “Big Three.” He, along with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. (via ryking)

Fred Shuttlesworth Dead at 89 — Hard-Charging Civil Rights Figure

The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth died Wednesday, a blunt-talking preacher who braved beatings, bombings and fire-hosings to push Birmingham, Ala., to the forefront of the civil rights movement, and advanced the historic fight with a confrontational strategy that often put him at odds with its most charismatic leader.

[Shuttlesworth] was the last of the civil rights movement’s “Big Three.” He, along with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957.

(via ryking)

(Source: diadoumenos)