Today’s question/mega-long response has been postponed, partly due to a sandstorm.
Reading List- Social Networking and the National Movement to “Know Your IX”I absolutely love this photograph of a collage on the wall of an activist in the rather new national movement to hold colleges and universities accountable for sexual assault. Referencing Title IX and the “bigger picture,” it documents cross-college efforts to use the amendment to ensure that sex crimes on campuses don’t interfere with women’s rights to equ […]Lisa Wade, PhD
- In the Box: A Tour Through the Simulated Battlefields of the U.S. National Training Center[Image: Photo courtesy of Venue]. (This post originally published on Venue). Fort Irwin is a U.S. army base nearly the size of Rhode Island, located in the Mojave Desert about an hour's drive northeast of Barstow, California. There you will find the National Training Center, or NTC, at which all U.S. troops, from all services, spend a twenty-one day rot […]Geoff Manaugh
- SkyfallAlthough the Earth itself will be coming to its fiery and magmatic end in 7 billion years' time, its nighttime skies will be undergoing an extraordinary slow-motion light-show: the merging of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies. An animation released last summer by NASA, called "What the Night Sky Will Look Like Over the Next 7 Billion Years" […]Geoff Manaugh
- Eyeball[Image: The throwable eyeball from Bounce Imaging]. A throwable building-mapping sphere from Bounce Imaging was recently chosen by PopSci for a 2013 Invention Award. The "throwable, expendable, baseball-size probe," in PopSci's words, "has a shock-absorbing shell embedded with six cameras, plus clusters of near-infrared LEDs to light up d […]Geoff Manaugh
- Social Class and the College Choices of High School ValedictoriansCross-posted at The Huffington Post. Sociologist Alexandria Walton Radford has some new research that is rather disheartening. Radford was interested in the college choices of ambitious and high-performing high school students from different class backgrounds. Using a data set with about 900 high school valedictorians, she asked whether students applied to […]Lisa Wade, PhD
- Social Networking and the National Movement to “Know Your IX”
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- sacred-profane:
Rotor Finerats
sacred-profane: Rotor Finerats
- tytodiem:
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SNOWFLAKES (1863)
tytodiem: ILLUSTRATIONS OF SNOWFLAKES (1863)
- "those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could..."“those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but the pain, nothing but sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing but the joy, nothing but gold.” - anna karenina - leo tolstoy (via scribble-scribbles)
- "It has occurred to me that this picture-taking might in some ways be an excuse to touch and pet and..."“It has occurred to me that this picture-taking might in some ways be an excuse to touch and pet and hold the iPhone itself, which has a weirdly calming effect on people, as though it were an amulet or maybe a small living animal. I am guilty of all the smartphone sins—in essence, staring at the phone when you should be staring at life. It’s possible that th […]
- richiedcruz:
Cool stuff: A flint knapped colorless bottle base...richiedcruz: Cool stuff: A flint knapped colorless bottle base I found. Hey, cool. I wrote a paper about expedient knapped glass tools used by lepers in Hawaii.
- carlbeanlarson:
Laundry Characters / Sunset
carlbeanlarson: Laundry Characters / Sunset
- stuckwithpins:
James Ehlers
stuckwithpins: James Ehlers
- John Conway's Log: Palaeontological Illustration, a Tell-All ConfessionJohn Conway's Log: Palaeontological Illustration, a Tell-All Confession: nyctopterus: I got an email a couple of months ago, asking my advice on how to study, and get into palaeontological illustration as a career. My first impulse was to try to seem like a pro, and make up some bullshit. But I reconsidered, and answered honestly. Palaeontological illus […]
- solifemaycontinue:
true nomads.
almeh:
Afghan nomads in...solifemaycontinue: true nomads. almeh: Afghan nomads in Pakistan travel back to Afghanistan B.K. Bangash
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- sacred-profane:
Rotor Finerats
Great, I’m glad to hear this because it meant that I found some time to write a contribution for you. See: http://mickmorrison.com/?p=583
If I’m too late though that’s ok!
Thanks