Basics of paleontology Case study in false balance in journalism Cure for hiccups Dick Cheney empathy test Donald Rumsfeld: poet Dying language and identity Ethics of drug development Exhibition as social dominance Experience Is the Product Feynman on k-12 textbook acquisition Inside 48-hours magazine James Frey: sweatshop proprietor Justin Long: good guy Nabokov: insightful lepidopterist The appeal of Mad Men The end of men Verifying info online What movie titles are most often adapted in scientific titles? What's happening to my body: a book for cortez wrasses Wonderful review of the plight of isolated South American tribes
Found on the shelf or coastal pelagic on various bottoms (sand, mud, rocks and seaweeds). Gregarious, ascending to the surface mainly at night. Omnivorous, feeding mainly on crustaceans, also planktophagous. Hermaphroditic, generally protogynous.
Design Sponge is a home and product design blog. It features reviews, DIY projects, and city and product guides as well as the expected examples of beautiful stuff. And it demonstrates over and over that a cat elevates a place from a mere dwelling to a home.
Sneak Peek: Best of Cats collects cat-containing classics from Design Sponge’s Sneak Peek category, which takes a look into wonderful living spaces.
In light of these findings for positive wellbeing, as well as of the complex conceptual content of sense of humor, it is possible that sense of humor is best conceived of as one aspect of a broader psychological characteristic that facilitates a general state of wellbeing, rather than a specific emotional state of mirthfulness.
In an endearingly not particularly funny article, Mark Crislip at Science-Based Medicine explores laughter as medicine and sense of humor as a marker for health (and touches on something I’ve always suspected: the more you complain, the harder you are to kill).
… they’re keeping this out.
Taryn Simon shot a set of 1,075 photographs over five days last year for the book and exhibition, ‘‘Contraband.’’ They show items detained or seized from passengers or express mail entering the United States from abroad at the New York airport.
Gorgeous Purina ad:
I think my cat’s going to get bed envy when he sees some of the great snoozing places these kitties get.
As the crew, which also included a radio operator, a chief engineer and two mechanics, climbed on board, Simon picked up a stray cat that had been living in the America’s hangar. Like many sailors, he was superstitious. ‘We can never have luck without a cat on board,’ he wrote.
More at The Telegraph, and written up at Purr n Fur Famous Felines and Why Evolution Is True.
The net has seen a remarkable flourishing of companies that are interested in building businesses around aggregating information. One of them has recently published an algorithm for matching bits of information about a specific person. This company explicitly seeks to connect legal identities to online handles.
Something to keep in mind if you’re using a pseudo and have happened to attach some accurate-to-your-legal-identity information to it.
I was reminded of this delightful short recently. It contains analysis of all kinds of useful contextual information for LRRH’s journey, including aerodynamic information about a passing VW van.
Rated PG for hunter violence.
