Posts filed under “linklog”
Recent Reading
Philippine political dynasties. Al Gore. The Great Gatsby. Millenials. Angelina Jolie’s mastectomy and the BRCA1 mutation. Bird watchers. Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey. God and psychotherapy. Paul Miller’s year without the internet. The Smithsonian Castle’s red stone. DC immigration activism Introversion. Neanderthal and and Denisovan ancestry. Animal consciousness. Los Angeles cars and transit. Scope creep. [...]
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The Touch-Screen Generation. Young children—even toddlers—are spending more and more time with digital technology. What will it mean for their development? (The Atlantic) In the Passover haggadah, enigmatic bunnies multiplied like rabbits (Washington Post, Menachem Wecker — a former coworker at US News) As employers push efficiency, the daily grind wears down workers. Many businesses [...]
Recent Reading
More space-related reading from recent weeks: Why can Hubble get detailed views of distant galaxies but not of Pluto? (Emily Lakdawalla for Planetary Society) Because galaxies are really big and planets are really tiny by comparison and Hubble was made to look at big things. Up: the story behind Richard Branson’s goal to make Virgin [...]
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“Sell Out,” a story by Simon Rich: Part One, Two, Three, Four. (New Yorker) DuckTales invented a new animated wonderland — that quickly disappeared. (Onion AV Club) The extraordinary science of addictive junk food. (NYT) Your fat has a brain. Seriously. And it’s trying to kill you. (Outside Online) Sunk: The Incredible Truth About the [...]
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My article queue has been space-heavy lately: lots of space history, and a few recent developments which highlight what an exciting time we are in for human spaceflight potential. “For the Tenth Time”: the story of Soyuz 4 and 5 — Part 1, Part 2: The first Russian orbital docking and EVA transfer mission in [...]
Trampoline
Video shows a trampoline rolling by a window in high winds. Recorded as Hurricane Bawbag hit Scotland in December of 2011. A true classic of internet.
Recent Reading
Subcompact Publishing. Predictions and proposals for the fresh new field of internet-distributed portable-device publications, of which Marco Arment’s The Magazine is a prime example. Google’s Lost Social Network. I am not on board with the term “sharebros,” but I still use Google Reader, and have found Google Plus to be mostly bitter disappointment. America’s Real [...]
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What journalists should know about school shootings and guns — The good news is that school violence in general is in decline. In Rust Belt, a teenager’s climb from poverty — Also see the followup letters, and Tab’s own Twitter account. A Eulogy for #Occupy — I found the “bullet for Ganesha” part to be [...]
Party Princess
“The Princess for Hire”: excerpts from a very long and fun SomethingAwful forum thread about being a professional party princess, by AssassinSparkle (aka AssassinPrincess on SA forums). Her stories are a simultaneously hilarious and profound glimpse into a world of princess-worship among little girls, of which I had only been peripherally aware before now. She’s [...]
Recent Reading
Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (Philippines) IAEA, July 2008: IAEA Advises Philippines on Next Steps for “Mothballed” NPP NYT, Feb 2012: A Nuclear Plant, and a Dream, Fizzles Wikipedia entry Post-Superstorm Sandy Recovery The Verge: Into the vault: the operation to rescue Manhattan’s drowned internet NYT: As Coasts Rebuild and U.S. Pays, Repeatedly, the Critics Ask [...]