February 2012
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“How can our country, with a President who knows discrimination in his core, how...”
– Vermont resident Frances Herbert • Discussing the issues her wife, Takaka Ueda, is facing. Herbert is legally married to Ueda — a native of Japan and her partner of 13 years — and in shock, after the Department of Homeland Security sent a letter denying Ueda’s request to stay in the country. Ueda...
Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 18th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 4th
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“The host tells the guest his dream, and then the guest tells his dream. These...”
– “Song for Three Dreams,” Chunghur Hyujung, trans. Won-Chung Kim & Christopher Merril
Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
30 posts
“In a profession which specialises in hypocrisy, Mr Gingrich’s performance stands...”
– Newt Gingrich harried Bill Clinton for having sex with an intern 27 years his junior when he was having sex with a staffer 23 years younger than himself. His arrogance, meanwhile, verges on monomania. He once wrote of himself as the “definer of the forces of civilisation”. (via theeconomist)
Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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“Many [right-wingers] (and neoliberals) love to argue that the marketplace is the...”
– Occupy Innovation: Neither the Military Nor the Market Does Yet another example, LA Liberty, of why we need government funding of scientific research. (via ryking)
Jan 24th
Stunning view of a bloom from space - Phil Plait -... →
atheistfeed: Almost exactly one year ago, I posted a beautiful picture of a phytoplankton bloom as seen from space. And here’s another one, and it’s way, _way_ more spectacular! This shot of a bloom in the southern Atlantic Ocean was taken by the ESA’s Envirosat, which — duh — is designed to observe our…
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Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Cat Women of the Moon →
wagesandrevenge: “Two-part [BBC Radio] programme exploring the popular motif in science fiction of an all-women society surviving without men. Presented by writer Sarah Hall.”
Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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If my last name is Logue, should its adjectival form be Logian, Loguesque, or Loguish? The final is the only one with an English precedent (rogue, roguish), but is my least favorite; the middle is the most pleasing to my eye and preserves the nominal form within it; the first has a certain intellectual quality which I enjoy as it is analogous to most eponymous scholarly adjectives (Cartesian...
Jan 9th
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Jan 7th
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the leading tone: You know the fermata: watch the... →
leadingtone: You know the fermata: watch the conductor, if any; ponder dinner plans; await sniffles, coughs, and candy wrappers from the audience. But did you know it is one of the most ancient musical symbols, bearing a distinguished pedigree hardly warranting its prosaic ‘birdseye’ nickname? It was already in use by the time of Dufay, in the early 15th Century. It appears twice here in a...
Jan 7th
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