This is a pretty neat story. The where’s george website is also pretty great….cd f By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer Wed Jan LOS ANGELES – Scientists think they may have found a better way to predict how diseases like a global flu epidemic could spread: Follow the money. Using the popular “Where’s George?” Web…
Campaign to seize US judge's home
When I saw this story, I thought that the idea of activists trying to seize someone’s home was frightening and that the activists were going too far. Then I figured out what they were responding to (and that “seize” didn’t mean “storm and occupy”)… The government can now seize homes for “public benefit” – like…
Liberia gets first traffic lights
I have not been to Monrovia, but Freetown, the capital of neighboring Sierra Leone, sounds very similar – in a city of almost one million (bigger than Honolulu), there was almost never electricity and the traffic lights had not been functioning in many years. There was no shortage of drivers, however, and the gridlock was…
Nude scenes of Katie Holmes mysteriously disappear at Sundance! Tom Cruise suspected.
The biggest mystery at this year’s Sundance Film Festival: Who gave Katie Holmes the snip? At a sold-out screening for his new satirical comedy, Thank You for Smoking, rookie filmmaker Jason “Son of Ivan” Reitman was shocked–shocked!–to discover that a 12-second scene of a hookup between Holmes’ journalist character and a tobacco lobbyist played by…
Mental Conditioning
As adults, virtually all our actions are conditioned responses. That is, we generally react to whatever happens (a stimulus) in our daily life in the same way each time. This is largely because we live in the same environment day after day, and nearly all of our daily activities are a pattern. We’re programmed to…
Omigod, it's a rabbit!!!!!!!
I CAN NOT stop laughing!!! This woman raises angora rabbits. Yes, rabbits. And, not surprisingly, sells things made out of their fur!! In breeder parlance, the unbelievably fluffy parts around the face are referred to as “furnishings.” (Thanks, neatorama by way of boingboing, for pointing this out!) BEFORE…. AFTER….. Betty Chu’s English Angora, Home of…
Japanese nurse jailed for cruelty
This creeped me out so much that I am going to impose it on all of you…… A Japanese nurse who tore off patients’ toenails and fingernails because of a work grudge has been jailed for three years and eight months. A court imprisoned Akemi Sato after she admitted tearing 49 nails from six female…
Who Owns Seydou Keïta? – New York Times
I remember hearing about Seydou Keita when the 1997 show opened – the buzz I remember was about an African photographer working in essential isolation with minimal equipment about 40 years earlier producing striking modern images that rivaled anything produced by contemporaries that had the “benefit” of being part of the “Art World.” The full…
The Village Voice: Power Plays
As a guy that often has to veer into traffic on my bike because someone is talking on their cellphnone in the bike lane, I love this story…as a guy that sometimes parks in the bike lane and talks on his cell phone…I love this story.. cd The Village Voice: Power Plays Peaceful Gnome Clowns…
Chinese Astrology – 2006, the Fire Dog
As a metal pig born born into the birth chart of the fire dog, I am looking forward to this year…promises to be the best year of my life…that is, unless a tsunami wipes out my little town of Kailua…seems that natural disasters involving water are somewhat common in fire dog years….The last year of…