May 2013
Being a beautiful PoC gets you access to so much, white people will love you. (Bonus points for being educated.)
molecularlifesciences asked: Congratulations! You must be feeling on top of the world. Where and what did you study? Any plans after school?
When did you all give a fuck about nuances? When someone started posting about Greece? White people suck.
White folks on Tumblr care more about Greece than their own hoods.
Like white people you’re all so boring and annoying that a post generalizing all of you is appropriate. Even your Marxism sucks.
Apparently while intoxicated last night, I called my professor and sang Total Eclipse of the Heart from start to finish.
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A Guide for Scientists on Giving Comments to... →
For current or future scientists and (perhaps) journalists.
What are your thoughts?
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Radiolab - Rocked by Doubt →
Geology + Biking + Faith + Doubt = One hell of a story
Hot Off the Press
By way of kohenari and the Terrible Apologies blog:
From President Obama’s speech on drones and national security today:
“It is a hard fact that U.S. strikes have resulted in civilian casualties, a risk that exists in all wars. For the families of those civilians, no words or legal construct can justify their loss. For me, and those in my chain of command, these deaths will haunt us as long as...
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Heretics | This American Life →
From the December 16, 2005 episode,
The story of Reverend Carlton Pearson, a renowned evangelical pastor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who cast aside the idea of Hell, and with it everything he’d worked for over his entire life.
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“The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us,...”
– Pope Francis, proclaiming that even non-believers will be redeemed by Christ, as long as they “do good” (not all Christians subscribe to this theory). source (via shortformblog)
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“Unlike previous forms of blogging, the service has virality built into its...”
– Matt Buchanan, from What Yahoo Bought With A Billion Dollars: Hope [New Yorker | Elements]
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“In short, it is only a humanity which is capable of awe, which will also be...”
– Mathematician Norbert Weiner in 1949, from M.I.T. Scholar’s 1949 Essay on Machine Age is Found [NY Times]
Of note,
Not even the brightest picture of an age in which man is the master, and in which we all have an excess of mechanical services will make up for the pains of transition, if we...
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“The worrisome extrapolations made by researchers — including the one who first...”
– Revisiting the ‘Crack Babies’ Epidemic That Was Not [NY Times]
While I admire the excellent video on the subject by Retro Report (check them out), and that The New York Times admitted that they were responsible for propagating the idea, it’s bittersweet.
The Times revisited the...
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I started tumblr when I was at one of the lowest points of my life way back when in like 07/08. I told myself I’d keep a log of things I did or thought or read until I finished the one thing that was most important to me at the time. I’m about to do that one thing next Wednesday and it’s going to be bittersweet. Life bro. LIFE.
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“The bottom line is that generally in most of the US, there is no legal or...”
– Paul Knoepfler, stem cell researcher at the UC Davis School of Medicine, writes on his blog about the legality of human cloning.
This is the research paper that inspired by the inquiry, and here’s the write up by the journal Nature.
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The Cicada's Love Affair With Prime Numbers →
I can’t get enough of these posts about cicadas.
Check out this Radiolab short on the songs cicadas belch, this Carl Zimmer piece for the New York Times, or this Sir David Attenborough video on the amazing cicada life cycle.
This is why I never miss talks entomology talks on campus.
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When Southern whites saw themselves as a different race than Northern whites,
The South’s leading writer on political economy, James B. D. De Bow, subscribed to this Norman-Cavalier thesis and helped to popularize it in De Bow’s Review. As the lower-South states seceded one after another during the winter of 1860-61, this influential journal carried several long articles justifying...
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What a meaningless study looks like. →
…it would be a big boost for naturopaths, who, Aschwanden pointed out, claim to “work with nature to restore people’s health.” Critics, including the American Cancer Society, say there is little scientific evidence to show that naturopathic medicine is effective. “So if the CMAJ study truly showed that naturopathic medicine was effective for something, this would...
I just want to share this you all from the same Michael Pollan bit,
The problem is that, because the probiotic marketplace is largely unregulated, it’s impossible to know what, if anything, you’re getting when you buy a “probiotic” product. One study tested 14 commercial probiotics and found that only one contained the exact species stated on the label.
But it’s cool because Whole Foods...
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This is what happens when scientists have kids,
Most of the microbes that make up a baby’s gut community are acquired during birth — a microbially rich and messy process that exposes the baby to a whole suite of maternal microbes. Babies born by Caesarean, however, a comparatively sterile procedure, do not acquire their mother’s vaginal and intestinal microbes at birth. Their initial gut...
Bloodchild
When T’Gatoi (insect-like, large, female) impregnates Gan (human, male):
She flowed around me and into my bedroom. I found her waiting on the couch we shared. There was nothing in Hoa’s room that she could have used. She would have done it to Hoa on the floor. The thought of her doing it to Hoa at all disturbed me in a different way now, and I was suddenly angry.
Yet I undressed and lay down...
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Berkeley's Most Lovable Weirdos →
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“The court ruled that Monsanto’s patents cover not just genetically engineered...”
– Elliot Marshall at Science Insider. U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Monsanto Soybean Patents, Rejects Blame-the-Bean Defense. [h/t: protoslacker]
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Important considerations when reading Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed, My Medical Choice, for the New York Times,
More Women Choose Double Mastectomy, But Study Says Many Don’t Need It [NPR]
Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer [New York Times]
Can They Patent Your Genes? [New York Review of Books]
With breast cancer discovered at age 26, a young woman confronts her mortality [Washington...
