After two years of heated debate on how to protect animal welfare without scuppering scientific research…
Science
APODtastic – Space Shuttle Tribute Poster: Endeavour
The poster shows the link between Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour and the shuttle that commemorates its voyages. This is only one in a series of new posters showing the Shuttles and the missions they have flown.
Tipping points, non-renewables and a postcapitalist future
Kim Stanley Robinson (KSR) published this article last year, but it’s worth looking at again in light of ever more data showing that we are running out of planet, or at least running out of the non-renewable resources needed to continue growing the classic capitalist economy:
Ozblogistan spats: this time it’s climate change
However, the reason that critics at LP and on her own blog were so harsh about LE’s stance on climate change science, while virtually ignoring her points on inequitable outcomes of climate change mitigation policies? Because of how she wrote her article…
Minor blogfart
The problem appears to now be resolved: so should I stick with this look for the blog or revert to the previous theme?
WTF, YouTube? Documentaries about rape victims are not Unsafe Content
I don’t expect to be confronted with suggested videos with rape fetish titles in the sidebar when I go to look at a trailer for a documentary about rape victims. How the hell can your system not have been tweaked to prevent shit like this happening?
Cutting through the 24/7 news cycle / soundbite culture
to recast election campaign news coverage away from the horse-race and inside-baseball paradigms that currently masquerade as informing the public
How to turn off Facebook “Places”
You will need to edit your personal Privacy Settings AND your approved Application Settings to ensure that your location information can’t be inadvertently shared with FB apps your friends are using.
Data roaming bill nightmares – any tips?
am about to google my arse off to find out how I should configure my iPhone before heading overseas later this year to avoid huge bills. Obviously turn off push notifications and turn off roaming and use local wireless wherever possible: what else?
The data screams that the world is warming
Climate so-called skeptics need to properly engage with just how huge these mountains of data are. It simply is not possible for all these measurements to have been fudged by a cabal of scientists with some nebulous agenda.
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