May 2013
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Honeybees Trained in Croatia to Find Land Mines →
Croatian researchers are training honeybees to find unexploded mines littering their country and the rest of the Balkans.
Hey bees, I know you’ve got a bad case of colony collapse disorder, but we were wondering if we could send a few of you to find some bombs. Oh, don’t worry, it’s fine. You won’t get blown up. It’s fine.
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“Remember: What we talk about when we talk about celebrities is, as ever,...”
– Anne Helen Petersen
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Haruki Murakami and the Art of Japanese... →
Translation is a matter of linguistic technique… which naturally ages as the particulars of a language change. While there are no undying works, on principle there can be no undying translations. It is therefore imperative that new versions appear periodically in the same way that computer programs are updated. At the very least this provides a broader spectrum of choices, which can only benefit...
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One-Third of U.S. Honeybee Colonies Died Last... →
Nearly one in three commercial honeybee colonies in the United States died or disappeared last winter, an unsustainable decline that threatens the nation’s food supply and suggests that something is deeply foul in our environment.
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No More Free Breakfasts →
Another destructive progressive idea
So brave.
Kareem: 20 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Was 30 →
18. Watch more TV. Yeah, you heard right, Little Kareem. It’s great that you always have your nose in history books. That’s made you more knowledgeable about your past and it has put the present in context. But pop culture is history in the making and watching some of the popular shows of each era reveals a lot about the average person, while history books often dwell on the powerful people.
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April 2013
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High income improves evaluation of life but not... →
More money does not necessarily buy more happiness, but less money is associated with emotional pain.
ok.
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Subjective Well‐Being and Income: Is There Any... →
While the idea that there is some critical level of income beyond which income no longer impacts well-being is intuitively appealing, it is at odds with the data.
Bummer.
The Hell of American Day Care →
Shit.
Why Boston's Hospitals Were Ready →
We’ve learned, and we’ve absorbed. This is not cause for either celebration or satisfaction. That we have come to this state of existence is a great sadness. But it is our great fortune.
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Just witnessed someone rewrite the rules of...
bobbyfinger:
1 - Ready for the work day? 2 - Actually, I am! 1 - Haha, I guess we have no choice. 2 - Actually, we do have a choice. We can either greet each day with a sense of fear and hesitation, or with open arms.
NOT GONNA BE A CYNIC TODAY NOSIRREE
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readingbythepool:
“This is not a remake of American Pie, but you never know who is watching and recording.”
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Actual line from a UT crime prevention tip telling students not to sexy-Skype with strangers. UT police really know how to connect to students with their culture.
That movie came out when I was 14. And for some reason I loved it? I saw it 4 times in theaters. This was right after...
With an Act of Kindness, a Delaware Lady Vanishes... →
bobbyfinger:
aminatou:
Read this. If only for the lede
No no, read the whole thing.
Yeah, do that.
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Nuance Thinks Voice Ads Could Be a Mobile Hit →
nope.
March 2013
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Long Night at Today →
And for this he wakes up at 4 a.m.?
Nice hit piece on Matt Lauer, the Jay Leno of morning shows.
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bobby finger: I can't remember if I've told this... →
bobbyfinger:
but soon after I graduated from college a friend of mine drove to Dallas for a job interview. Immediately after, he sent me a text like “The women who interviewed me looked just like Stockard Channing and I almost told her as a way of breaking the ice, but I didn’t. Good idea?” I wrote back…
The only two results in my gmail for “Stockard Channing” are...
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“Q: How can I access for internet because I don’t connect to internet?
A:...”
– a Turkish work-study student here at the library.
(We use a website to track unusual questions/answers. This was posted there last night)
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Lupica: Morbid find suggests murder-obsessed... →
The man paused and said, “They believe that (Lanza) believed that it was the way to pick up the easiest points. It’s why he didn’t want to be killed by law enforcement. In the code of a gamer, even a deranged gamer like this little bastard, if somebody else kills you, they get your points. They believe that’s why he killed himself.
I literally cannot think of a single video game where this is...
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Some Theories on Why Men Don't Do as Many... →
The Epistemic Hypothesis: Perhaps men simply can’t see what needs to be done.
The Motivational Hypothesis: Perhaps men have an inkling of what, supposedly, needs to be done, but they don’t believe the tasks are valuable enough to justify the time it would take to complete them.
The Structural Hypothesis: Perhaps men are attentive, knowledgeable, and willing, but their...
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Scientists say that eating your own poop is... →
Scientists say.
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A shield of poop will protect Inspiration Mars... →
Poop is the best Google News alert.
February 2013
21 posts
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“In 1885 when Frost was 11, his father died of tuberculosis, leaving the family...”
– Jesus Christ, Robert Frost’s life.
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Children swimming in septic tank →
Bogus 911 call about possible drowning
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Children swimming in septic tank →
A child may have drowned while swimming in a septic tank in southwest Houston Wednesday morning.
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Swimmer mauled to death by Great White Shark in... →
nah fuck that
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Creme Puff (cat) →
I think Creme Puff wrote this entry.
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Crossing The Street →
Recently, I found another way to evaluate people that tracks pretty closely with real life.
Ready for it? Watch someone cross the street.
I wait almost all the time because I like to pretend I follow the categorical imperative and that somehow by following rules I’m making the world closer to the place I wish it were, but, you know, sometimes I’m just in a hurry.
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Embroidery Trouble Shooting Guide →
This is art.
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Alabama courts eighth-grader →
Gross.
Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N": How a Wound... →
roxanegay:
Last night’s Oscar ceremony and some of the commentary around the ceremony make the best possible case for why diversity matters. We largely knew what to expect with host Seth MacFarlane—immature sexist jokes that weren’t quite funny but could be if he tried, just a little. And then of course he…
Well written and informative. This is worth a read for those of us who often...
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I listened to Kid Logic (This American Life #188)...
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“My first thought was, ‘Well, why not make a TV series about firewood?’” Mr....”
– The New York Times, obviously.
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“Sadly though, he is believed to have been eaten, possibly by a shark, sometime...”
– Antarctic Penguin Turns Up In New Zealand; Vets Say Condition ‘Touch And Go’
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“I grew up with people who were not lettered people, most of whom couldn’t...”
– Clarence Thomas, sounding downright likable.
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