December 2011
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Dec 31st
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A big wet smacker to NYC
Dec 29th
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Here’s a mix of songs I’ve listened to recently. There’s no rhyme or reason to the order, which makes me a bad DJ. Sorry about that. Still, I hope you enjoy them.
Dec 20th
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Call It What You Want!
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October 2011
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The growth of the maras in post-war El Salvador
Alma Guillermoprieto profiles El Salvador and its struggles with the “maras” in this piece from the New York Review of Books. The maras are “ferocious gangs that are El Salvador’s own contribution to the drug trade and the world of transnational crime in which it takes place,” as Guillermoprieto puts it. There’s the Mara Salvatrucha, the better known of the maras with...
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Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights hero, died today.... →
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A wonderful podcast from Radiolab about Richard Holmes, a literature professor known for profiling great poets who came to write The Age of Wonder, a 2009 book that regales readers with stories of scientific development in the 18th and 19th centuries. 
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Oct 3rd
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“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making...”
–  Max Planck (via stoweboyd)
Oct 2nd
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September 2011
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Sep 30th
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Radiolab examines a core part of your brain in this informative, funny, crazy podcast entitled Damn it, Basal Ganglia
Sep 30th
A 4-Track Mind - Radiolab →
The guy they profile is amazing. He can hear four symphonies in his head at a time, and tell researchers exactly where each is to a note.
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HE WON THE EMMY!!!
slavicinferno: #emmy
Sep 19th
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Sep 17th
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The official name of the new planet is Kepler 16b,... →
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thoughts and links: Was David Iglesias really the... →
fbihop: I was working for the New Mexico Independent when the Inspectors General report came out about politically-motivated firings of United States Attorneys during the Bush administration. One of those attorneys was the United States Attorney in New Mexico, David Iglesias. Iglesias was allegedly fired…
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Lapidarium notes: Political science: why rejecting... →
aminotes: Political science: why rejecting expertise has become a campaign strategy “To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.” With that tweet, Jon Huntsman set himself apart from every other candidate in the Republican primary field…. This is an interesting essay on the politics of science in 21st century U.S. The point Huntsman makes...
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For smartphone owners suffering from the vertigo... →
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