Link. Butte Montana EPA extremophile cleanup site

Link. Romney and Trump: is he working for us?

Link. a “goldilocks” civilization with low adaptive capacity.

Link. a terrible mess explained

Link. “it is the president who has reserved to himself the final moral calculation”. He does not hide from this.

Link. It will take about five years.

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Link. “I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money. I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.”

Link. Does Cook understand what’s wrong?

Link. “Apple’s software quality is declining.” Lion is a mess.

Link. recapitulating the evolution of the cell

Link. talking of tianamen. interesting

Link. great science story

Link. Muppets lack choices. Recently I read a respected VC saying that he felt the market was a rigged game.

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Link. get 100 points. “impugning China’s honor”.

Link. old still neat

Link. “It’s way easier to cut Medicaid than it is to cut agricultural subsidies.”

Link. interesting S3 v Google interaction

Link. “damn’ fool European Commission directive that confused a goal (securing web users’ privacy) with a technology (cookies)”. idiots.

Link. really stupid

Link. I want what hes drinking

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Link. “pseudo-innovation — a technology that increases costs without improving patients’ health.” checklists vs DaVinci robot. ACA is a win for reason.

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Link. Trillion dollar failure

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Link. Emily and I had a lot of fun with this one.

Link. Aging, cancel, immune activity.

Link. Understatement: “The causes of the killing – global warming, acid rain, ocean acidification – sound eerily familiar to us today. Perhaps we can learn something from these ancient events.” (This isn’t the more modest non-avian dinosaur extinction, this is pre-Triassic)

Link. distrust confidence.

Link. nobody for 475 days

Link. daily kos

Link. rational paranoia

Link. Hope quietly building

Link. singularity was 1800

Link. “We weren’t the first troops going in. They all died. Seven out of sixteen of my platoon survived the war. That’s much better than the ones who were first in, or the ones who were last out.”. still a patriot.

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Link. Stealing women. Fruits of gender-selection abortion.

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Link. time travel

Link. “Shall we gather at the river?”

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Link. Our causally ordered reality as a parasitic ecosystem running atop a substrate exposed by quantum entanglement.

Link. the triumph of being average

Link. lawyers.

Link. his fingers at play