Cirith Ungol meets Charlotte's Web from xkcd
Road Trippers! http://roadtrippers.com/ Awesome site helps you plan future or dream road trips!
Science fiction used to be the genre that asked the huge questions, about who we are and where we're going. But somehow, people say, the genre lost its appetite for deep thoughts.
Here are 10 great science fiction novels, published since 2000, that raise huge, important questions.
Meet the runner with no country from CNN Christiane Amanpour
One of the so-called “Independent Olympic Athletes” is Marathon runner Guor Marial. His country of South Sudan is so new – just over one year – that it doesn’t yet have an Olympic team.
At age seven, he left his home and was forced to work for Sudanese soldiers, earning just a dollar per month. He was a “lost boy” – part of a generation of Sudanese boys captured and enslaved during a two-decade-long civil war. “When the sun came up, we started running,” Marial said. “And we walk, we ran, we walk, we ran.”OLYMPIC GYMNAST ELSA GARCIA RODRIGUEZ BLANCAS USED A LEGEND OF ZELDA MEDLEY IN HER FLOOR PERFORMANCE from The Mary Sue
Mexican gymnast Elsa Garcia Rodriguez Blancas‘ floor routine is set to music from The Legend of Zelda.
Human Ancestors Were Nearly All Vegetarians from MetaFilter with apologies to my Paleo loving friends
"An entire class of self-help books recommends a return to the diets of our ancestors...big, bad, hunters, who supplemented meaty diets with the occasional berry “chaser.”...[But] which paleo diet should we eat? The one from twelve thousand years ago? A hundred thousand years ago? Forty million years ago? If we want to return to our ancestral diets, the ones we ate when most of the features of our guts were evolving, we might reasonably eat what our ancestors spent the most time eating during the largest periods of the evolution of our guts...fruits, nuts, and vegetables—especially fungus-covered tropical leaves." [via SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN BLOG]
Man Stabbed After Shushing Group Of Women On Subway Train from Gothamist: non-Librarians out there, leave the shushing to the experts!
A 63-year-old man was stabbed on the subway early this morning on the 6 train after he told a group of women to quiet down.
THINGS WE SAW TODAY: EVERY HARRY POTTER CHAPTER ILLUSTRATION IN ONE PLACE from The Mary Sue
AWESOME HARRY POTTER FAN DECODES WIZARDING GENETICS: IT’S ALL ABOUT TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS from The Mary Sue again
Biology major Andrea admits she was not a biology major yet when she read the Harry Potter books. So it is only recently that she’s come across J.K. Rowling‘s statement that the wizarding gene is dominant (that is, it’s much more likely to be passed from parent to child, and much less likely to be present in the genome unexpressed). Andrea also noticed the confusion surrounding Rowling’s statement, with a lot of folks seeming to think that the author had gotten one of the basic foundations of genetics wrong. If the wizarding gene was dominant, how could you explain muggle-borns, wizards born to non-wizard parents? And how to explain squibs, the rare non-magical offspring of wizard parents?
Andrea wants Rowling to know that she’s got her back, and sent her a six page scientific paper supporting her claim.
A vast labyrinth of 250,000 books, entitled aMAZEme, was installed on The Clore Ballroom in the Royal Festival Hall between 31 July – 25 August, as part of Southbank Centre's Festival of the World with MasterCard.
The project was created by Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo, in collaboration with production company Hungry Man. Inspired by the writer and educator JL Borges, the maze will form the shape of Borges' unique fingerprint, covering over 500 square metres, with sections standing up to 2.5 metres high.
On the Chic-fil-A / 'Traditional Marriage' Controversy
Chick-fil-A in New Hampshire Goes Rogue, Announces Plans to Sponsor Gay Pride Festival from Jezebel
Chick-fil-A at Pheasant Lane Mall has gay employees and serves gay customers with honor, dignity and respect. We also don't discriminate in giving back to the Nashua community, donating to a wide variety of causes. I would challenge people to come have a conversation with me before they make assumptions or boycott my restaurant. Come to my restaurant and see for yourself that my team and I only have one mission: To serve exceptional experiences to all.John Goodman Stars as Colonel Sanders in a Pro-Gay Ad for KFC from Gawker
Pic: Funny at the Chik-fil-A from The Maddow Blog
Josiah Bartlet @Pres_Bartlet Mitt Romney realizes whenever he uses the phrase 'traditional marriage', the traditional marriage in his family was polygamy, right?
My words inspired by a religious leader friend of mine:
The First Amendment ONLY protects you from Congress passing any law that would restrict *your* speech or practice of religion. It does NOT protect you from the consequences of your actions, namely how other citizens respond to your choices.
If you call yourself Christian, for the love of God DO NOT:
1. Call Jesus, God or the Bible "yours." You do not own spiritual deities or their words.My words inspired by my friend in Business PR:
2. Call yourself oppressed. You have no idea what it is to be oppressed having grown up in the land of entitlement: America. If you want to know what actual religious oppression looks like, read some history on the Roman empire, or Archbishop Desmond Tutu or Nelson Mandela's lives.
3. Use the phrase "traditional marriage." The "marriage" type you are referring to has only been around for about 100 years. Before that we had dowries and class restrictions on marriage. Most Biblical marriage is a business arrangement between fathers. And do not forget that Christian faith is based in part on the arranged marriage of a man in his thirties to a knocked up, early-teenage girl.
Chick-fil-A is not a victim. They could not possibly be unaware of the potential consequences of sponsoring anti-gay organizations. It is their choice to do so, and it is the consumer's choice whether or not to give them their money.
170 LAW PROFESSORS DEBUNK ‘RELIGIOUS FREEDOM’ ARGUMENT IN CONTRACEPTION DEBATE from Think Progress
In response to complaints that the [Obamacare] rule supposedly infringes on religious freedom, more than 100 law professors wrote to President Obama and congressional leaders to express their concern about the lopsided argument. “In this cramped and one-sided view of religious freedom, supervisors are entitled to decide, based on their religious sentiments, whether their employees will be permitted to enjoy essential health benefits without the slightest concern for their religious beliefs,” they write.
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