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They found that many of the links the slime mould made bore a striking resemblance to Tokyo’s existing rail network.

Economy

2010-01-25T11:26:00.000-08:00

2010-01-25T01:38:00.000-08:00

Spontaneous improvisation was in each case associated with a highly congruous pattern of activations and deactivations in prefrontal cortex, sensorimotor and limbic regions of the brain. In addition, the majority of these regions showed functionally reciprocal patterns of activity. That is, activations during improvisation were matched by deactivations during the control tasks, and vice versa, when each condition was compared to the resting baseline.

2010-01-24T18:14:00.000-08:00

There is a really great piece over at BOING BOING by guest blogger Stephen Worth called "Adventures in Music".

Here are a few of fourteen great ones.

2009-12-19T02:01:00.000-08:00

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2009-12-14T12:17:00.000-08:00

Under President George W. Bush, the United States withdrew from its decades-long role as a global leader in supporting family planning, driven by a conservative ideology that favored abstinence and shied away from providing contraceptive devices in developing countries, even to married women.

Bush's mammoth global anti-AIDS initiative, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, poured billions of dollars into Africa but prohibited groups from spending any of it on family planning services or counseling programs, whose budgets flat-lined.

2009-12-07T15:37:00.000-08:00

Over the past decade, oil giant Exxon Mobil has paid millions to organizations and "think tanks" in an attempt to deceive the public about the science behind global climate change.

2009-12-07T15:29:00.000-08:00

Rogue Wave:

03-01 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
03-02 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
03-03 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
03-04 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church Sanctuary
03-05 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
03-06 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
03-08 Atlanta, GA - The Loft
03-09 Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
03-10 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
03-13 Orlando, FL - The Social
03-15 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
03-16 Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
03-17 Dallas, TX - The Loft
04-07 Santa Cruz, CA - Rio Theatre
04-09 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
04-10 Seattle, WA - Neumos
04-13 Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
04-14 Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck
04-15 Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Café
04-16 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
04-17 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
04-20 Columbia, MO - Mojo's
04-21 Tulsa, OK - Bob's at Cain's
04-23 Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
04-24 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
04-27 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up
04-29 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
04-30 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore

2009-11-11T17:29:00.000-08:00

Quick quiz: according to the chart, are global temperatures rising, or falling? If you are the average 9th grader, you'd say they're rising. But not if you're George Will. In his column in this week's Newsweek, Mr Will says temperatures are falling,...

2009-11-11T01:07:00.000-08:00

One of the impressive things about paranoid literature is the contrast between its fantasied conclusions and the almost touching concern with factuality it invariably shows. It produces heroic strivings for evidence to prove that the unbelievable is the only thing that can be believed.....Respectable paranoid literature not only starts from certain moral commitments that can indeed be justified but also carefully and all but obsessively accumulates "evidence." The difference between this "evidence" and that commonly employed by others is that it seems less a means of entering into normal political controversy than a means of warding off the profane intrusion of the secular political world. The paranoid seems to have little expectation of actually convincing a hostile world, but he can accumulate evidence in order to protect his cherished convictions from it.... - Richard Hofstadter

via Boing-Boing.

2009-11-09T14:50:00.000-08:00

America will someday come to recognize the broad social and economic benefits of a not-for-profit, single-payer health care system, which is good for the American people and good for America’s businesses...

2009-11-03T16:43:00.001-08:00

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For Fox Sake!

He also found that the 20th century had the largest rate of warming of any century...

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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation... - Charles Darwin.

"How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic," a series by Coby Beck

2009-10-29T18:39:00.000-07:00

I love him and hope he's wrong about us.

2009-10-28T11:52:00.001-07:00

Thanks Pete.

2009-10-27T14:49:00.000-07:00

image originally found here.

2009-10-26T16:58:00.000-07:00

2009-10-22T17:01:00.000-07:00

...the cosmos of chords consists of weird, multidimensional spaces, known as orbifolds, that turn back on themselves with a twist, like the Möbius strips math teachers love to trot out to prove to students that a two-dimensional figure can have only one side.

2009-10-14T14:36:00.000-07:00

People, in other words, need people: We are the glue holding ourselves together.

2009-10-09T00:11:00.000-07:00

2009-10-08T14:29:00.000-07:00

"In California, we have divided our systems along funding lines. It should be about their health and well-being, not their incomes."

2009-10-08T01:23:00.000-07:00

2009-09-30T15:33:00.000-07:00

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Nonetheless, it seems clear that the majority of U.S. physicians support using both public and private insurance options to expand coverage. A majority of physicians also support the expansion of Medicare. Support for the public option is consistent across physician specialties, practice settings, and regions of the country, and therefore should be carefully considered by lawmakers as they finalize legislation to reform health care and provide coverage for 47 million uninsured Americans.

Michael Moore

2009-09-29T11:32:00.000-07:00

2009-09-21T19:20:00.000-07:00

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In terms of finance, we force 700,000 Americans into bankruptcy each year because of medical bills. In France, the number of medical bankruptcies is zero. Britain: zero. Japan: zero. Germany: zero.

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2009-09-21T10:09:00.000-07:00

thanks prospiracy

2009-09-20T21:51:00.001-07:00

Montipora (long version) from Delrious on Vimeo.

2009-09-17T16:07:00.000-07:00

"We spend billions of dollars trying to understand the origins of the universe," Helbing says, "while we still don't understand the conditions for a stable society, a functioning economy, or peace."

"music" happened.

2009-09-16T00:27:00.000-07:00

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

2009-09-14T14:13:00.000-07:00

"Ultimately the Objectivist movement failed for the same reason that communism failed: it tried to make its people live by the dictates of a totalizing ideology that failed to honor the realities of human existence."

2009-09-11T15:02:00.000-07:00

For those who don’t speak crazy, let me translate: ...you establish that conclusion and proceed backwards to any evidence that supports it.

2009-08-28T01:32:00.000-07:00

Thanks BoingBoing.

2009-08-27T16:50:00.000-07:00

read the comments to...

2009-08-26T16:28:00.000-07:00

Briefly, the expectations on the modern president are far greater than the powers of the office. There is an “Expectations Gap” wherein the public expects President Obama to fix a lot of things he lacks the power to fix. The president’s control over the economy is indirect at best and his role in the legislative process is extremely limited. When Candidate Obama promises health care reform, what he does is paint himself into a corner from which he must find some way to get Congress to provide reform. He can’t just do it himself.

2009-08-24T02:43:00.000-07:00

2009-08-11T21:07:00.000-07:00

“I’ve met a lot of other people in creative fields, and it is interesting to see how the same things drive them: The sense that there’s something missing, that there’s more to be done, that there’s more to be known.”

2009-08-05T18:42:00.000-07:00

2009-08-03T00:53:00.000-07:00

Last May, CNN's Jessica Yellin said that when she was at MSNBC, "the press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this [the Iraq War] was a war that was presented in a way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation"; "the higher the president's approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives ... to put on positive stories about the president"; and "they would turn down stories that were more critical and try to put on pieces that were more positive." Katie Couric said that when she was at NBC, "there was a lot of undercurrent of pressure not to rock the boat for a variety of reasons, where it was corporate reasons or other considerations" not to be too critical of the Bush administration. MSNBC's rising star, Ashleigh Banfield, was demoted and then fired after she criticized news media organizations generally, and Fox News specifically, for distorting their war coverage to appear more pro-government. And, of course, when MSNBC canceled Phil Donahue's show in the run-up to the Iraq war despite its being that network's highest-rated program, a corporate memo surfaced indicating that the company had fears of being associated with an anti-war and anti-government message.

thanks M-A

2009-08-03T00:40:00.000-07:00

2009-07-21T18:25:00.000-07:00

Barton plays dumb.

"That is the cold reality of big-money politics," he said.

2009-07-17T22:20:00.000-07:00

To convert some of the remaining wild areas into state and national parks, however, is only part of the answer. Even public parks are not what nature created over the eons of time, working with wind and wave and sand. Somewhere we should know what was nature’s way; we should know that the Earth would have been had not man interfered. And so, besides public parks for recreation, we should set aside some wilderness area of seashore where the relations of sea and wind and shore—of living things and their physical world—remain as they have been over the long vistas of time in which man did not exist. For there remains, in this space-age universe, the possibility that man’s way is not always best.”

2009-07-15T23:09:00.000-07:00

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The French mathematician Henri Poincaré once wrote about how he struggled for two weeks with a difficult mathematical proof. He set it aside to take a bus to a geology conference, and the moment he stepped on the bus, the solution came to him.

Jeff Goldblum

2009-07-15T15:08:00.000-07:00

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2009-07-11T20:12:00.000-07:00

"By 2008, a barrel of oil was traded 27 times, on average, before it was actually delivered and consumed."

Above is Matt Tiabbi's latest research on the financial crisis. Unfortunately, his fairly well researched article (it could have used more links to resources) is slightly undermined by his overly populist writing style clearly geared for the average Rolling Stone reader. However, if you can put up with that, you might find it interesting.

2009-07-01T19:12:00.000-07:00

2009-06-30T16:50:00.001-07:00

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