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While you’re waiting for the bus
A semi-weekly list of stuff worth reading Fungal fruit mummies Fungi do strange things to the organisms they parisitize Bill Gates is naive, data is not objective Your data set is only a very tiny piece of the world. Harvard professor has it right: U.S. climate push requires intense grassroots support around ‘cap-and-dividend’ bill Don’t […]
Not good enough
I went to a computery workshop recently. I was a little nervous about going, sure I couldn’t possibly know enough to keep up. But I could have taught a lot of the material they presented on the first day and had no problems on the second day – I even had some ideas for improving […]
While you’re waiting for the bus
Semi-weekly list of interesting stuff Anthropocene good for arachnids Add giant spiders to your climate change apocalypse story. How urban design affects our health Building for cars makes people sick. Lotus 1-2-3 is 30 years old Shared for what might be the best ad in the history of software. Being Visible This happens A LOT […]
While you’re waiting for the bus
Weekly-ish list of stuff interesting enough I think it’s worth sharing. Awaiting a New Darwin After so many years thinking about and studying evolution, I’d forgotten how bizarre and unintuitive it can seem to even well educated, intelligent people. Also, I love the illustration that accompanies this article: Still trying to read “Sex at Dawn” […]
While you’re waiting for the bus
Weekly-ish list of stuff interesting enough to share. The High Price of Being Single in America. This should be changed. In the meantime, will you marry me? Portraits of Albanian Sworn Virgins Gender, constructed House GOP shafts rural America, still gets their votes For many in rural America, dems are too associated with patronizing urbanites […]
What to watch if my ranting put you in a bad mood
Why should taxpayers be responsible for your unicorn research?*
My advisor was in the news recently talking about a cool project our lab is working on. The piece did a great job of laying out some of the practical applications of the project, so I sent it around to some of my relatives. One of my aunts, who used to be an out and […]