Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- We Need to Stop Executing People – Dana echoes my thinking (and its evolution over time) perfectly.
- On Neutrinos and the Speed of Light – Looking forward to hearing more results from other experiments!
- Over-Paid Flea Bite, Rush Limbaugh Calls Elizabeth Warren a ‘Parasite’ – He just signed a deal with Clear Channel for another 8 years, $400MM, a quarter of that up front. Yeesh.
- ‘Powers’ Deena Pilgrim And The Critique Of ‘Strong Female Characters’ – I can’t say that I like Deena Pilgrim, the character. But, then, I’m not supposed to simply like her. And I respect her characterization in was that seem wildly in contrast to some of the crap going on at DC these days.
- Booing Gay Soldiers and Expressing Faith in the Public Square | Religion Dispatches – “At the core of the legalistic arguments conservatives make against LGBT equality is that civil rights for LGBT people infringe on the religious freedom of Christians who believe homosexuality is sin. Therefore they insist the government shouldn’t give them, in Santorum’s words, ‘special privileges.’ Conservatives frame this as a free exercise, or religious freedom issue, and, like Bachmann, skirt the church-state separation issue. Because these conservatives believe that the government should endorse their religion and govern accordingly, even if it’s to the detriment of other people’s freedom.”
- US net neutrality rules finalized, in effect November 20 – Something’s better than nothing.
- Faith in the free market – This is why we can’t have a Nice Economy.
- A Big-Government Republican Governor? – Can you imagine the uproar if Michelle Obama proposed doing this?
- Rick Santorum: Unless We Honor God, He Won’t Protect Us – We honor God (and I presume Rick here is talking about God as understood by Christianity), not by plastering His name all over the place or demonizing those who disagree with the party line on orthodox beliefs, but by doing His will — feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, caring for the sick and prisoners. That’s actual honoring. And if we do those things, we’ll have a better country, which, perhaps, might reflect what Rick’s looking for in God’s “protection.”
- Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC – Jason Palmer – BBC News – Science & Environment – This is one of the better written (or at least better headlined) versions of this story. And, yes, it demonstrates some awesome stuff about science — that it’s a continuous revision of explanations based on looking at data that’s collected, sometimes leading to some radical revisions. That’s what makes science so successful at understanding the real world — because, overall, it keeps its eyes open.
- No evidence that single-sex schools are better than coed – As someone who spent a couple of years at a (Catholic) boy’s high school, this doesn’t surprise me.
- We’ll have a long wait for 2012’s Doctor Who episodes – Sigh.
- Amazing video shows us the actual movies that play inside our mind – That is awesomely cool. I can think of eleventy-dozen dystopian problems with it (starting with “Hook the prisoner to the Neural Probe …”), but there’s some amazing possibilities here, too.
- A mysterious structure in the Vaults under London Bridge train station – London is cool.
- Ohio Becomes First State To Sell Off A Prison, Giving It To Prison Director’s Former Private Employer | ThinkProgress – People behind bars for fun and profit! Oh, also, justice, if we have margin to afford it.
30 view(s)