What Will Humans Look Like in 100,000 Years? Here's a Guess — Callista Flockhart, apparently. And white, totes white.
Paper Dolls: 1960s TV Stars — For all your retro needs.
Virus That Evolved in the Lab Delivers Gene Therapy into the Retina
Does the Big Bang necessarily mean we’re part of a multiverse?
Mapping Color Names — Oooh. Cool.
The Surprising History and Science of Tear Gas
The lost city of Heracleion — Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. (Snurched from Steve Buchheit.)
New York's Sea-Level Plan: Will It Play in Miami? — Once again I am reminded that there is no objective reason for climate change to be a partisan issue. Just reflexive conservative hatred of anything liberals care about, as well as the usual GOP contrarianism, in play over what in retrospect will prove to be the biggest and costliest mistake in the history of human civilization.
To Stop Being the Party of Stupid You Must Stop Being Stupid — If you are not around people who will look at you like you are crazy when you make stupid claims about other people's experiences, then you tend to keep saying stupid things about other people's experiences. It is not enough to pay a political price, or even to be shamed into silence. You have to come to believe -- in your heart -- that sincerity itself is not the same as accurate information. That's the awesome socially engineered glory of the conservative media echo chamber: epistemic closure that keeps its followers from ever needing to question themselves or examine any evidence that contradicts their cherished worldview. As a political strategy, it has been brilliant. As a cultural strategy, it is profoundly toxic and counterproductive, even to conservative interests.
QotD?: What did you do with that book?
6/13/2013
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (too many errands, not enough time)
Hours slept: 4.75 hours (solid)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (stationary bike)
Weight: 246.4
Number of FEMA troops on my block leaking intelligence secrets: 0
Currently reading: Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program by Sharon Salzberg; Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett