The McGurk Effect: Watch your ears lie to you — This is cool and strange. Psychology and linguistics meet. (Via
willyumtx.)Pink Cigarettes — Cancer humor. Hahahah. (Via
goulo.)Two-mile-high mountains discovered in Saturn's rings — Who wants to go climbing?
Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense — For some reason, I find this very funny.
Why isn't science doing better under Obama? — Shorter answer: conservative political interests. When your worldview is inherently not fact-based, it's pretty damned easy to feel quite reasonable in dismissing inconvenient parts of reality.
Fox & Friends Offended That People Think Stewart/Colbert Are Real 'Newspeople' — Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.
?otD: Are you happy with the US elections?
11/3/2010
Writing time yesterday: 1.25 hours (some WRPA 2,200 new words)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 5.75 hours (interrupted)
This morning's weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday's chemo/post-op stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy, emotional distress)
Currently reading: I Wonder by Marian Bantjes