"Two bald eagles locked together by their talons in a midair battle survived a crash landing onto a runway at a northeastern Minnesota airport. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officer Randy Hanzal says the adult eagles couldn't separate Sunday before slamming into the tarmac at the Duluth International Airport."
- ronin
from Bookmarklet
Whenever I try to capture a gorgeous sunset, the end result is inevitably a pale imitation of reality. Did you do anything special to get this shot?
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
A rainstorm had passed through about 20 minutes before this, so the road was reflecting the awesome pink glow. Even this did not do it justice...the pink seemed to explode in the sky as the sun was setting. Only lasted about 5 minutes. Just an auto adjust on color, but to the naked eye it was even more colorful than this. I messaged my local friends to get outside as soon as they could to witness it, because it doesn't look like this very often.
- DJ Stevie Steve
The bizarre nature of this season continues. Major wet snowfall ten days ago, frequent rain in the in intervening timespace, and now there are rapidly spreading wildfires ~50 miles north of here. If only the could take water from the swollen rivers to quench the flames.
The problem with the phrase "left behind" is that it assumes life is a linear process. If you actually believe that complex phenomena like life is a linear process, then you have far more epistemological problems than anyone who doesn't own the newest technology.
I dare say a Mongolian farmer has 99 problems but a pair of Google Glass ain't one. The "quality" of his life verse a modern day city dweller is open for debate
- Johnny
from iPhone
I'm not left behind kids I'm standing here enjoying that sunset....
- WarLord
I assume that life is like the stock market. Compound interest is a bitch.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Heh. Well, a lot of people see the stock market as a linear process over the long term, with (sometimes quite large) fluctuations caused by error (which is why some people talk about "corrections.")
- Victor Ganata
It's funny how just about everything we've talked about today has a lot to do with viewpoint. If you look at the markets over a long term, they seem linear, but if you pay attention to it on smaller intervals, daily or smaller, they are anything but.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
We *approximate* things as linear. It doesn't necessarily mean that they are in fact linear.
- Victor Ganata
We also use devices like log scales to make things that aren't linear appear to be so. I guess we like to feel like the universe is a nice tidy place even though it's anything but.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The logarithmic function is still a linear equation. One of the conceits of reductionism is the idea that everything can be reduced to a set of linear equations, which can be solved exactly to completely understand the past and to perfectly predict the future.
- Victor Ganata
Yeah, but if something scales logarithmically, that is definitely not linear, at least not to my way of thinking, unless you are saying that curves are somehow linear if they are based on a simple formula.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I suppose the proper terminology is really linear system vs non-linear system.
- Victor Ganata
neurosciencestuff: Grammar errors? The brain detects them even when you are unaware Your brain often works on autopilot when it comes to grammar. That theory has been around for years, but University of Oregon neuroscientists have captured elusive hard evidence that people indeed detect and process grammatical errors with no awareness of doing so.... - http://silas216.tumblr.com/post...
"The committee was not asked to specify an optimal amount of sodium and did not make any recommendations about how much people should consume. Dr. Strom said people should not eat too much salt, but he also said that the data on the health effects of sodium were too inconsistent for the committee to say what the upper limit of sodium consumption should be."
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Damn you Eric! You know how open to the power of suggestion I am!
- MoTO #TeamMonique
*pretends to eat a half dozen soft pretzels, the kind with giant salt crystals on them*
- Hieronymous Boosh
I wouldn't say "no benefit". They also found eating more than 7,000 mg of sodium a day will probably kill you. It's just that the 1,500 mg/day limit is kind of an ass-pull, and there's evidence that not eating enough salt will kill you too.
- Victor Ganata
"That CNN's news coverage has been nothing but comedy-(and cringe-)worthy for the past several years, should not be news to anyone by now: perhaps there is no better testament to a society in which a network that breaks news based on fake twitter rumors is still held in high regard. However, in the spirit of reverse psychology memes, does the fact that Jon Stewart is now constantly poking fun at CNN's "news-slaughter", mean that it may be, paradoxically, time to start taking CNN - "the most busted name in news" seriously again? (... that's obviously rhetorical). When CNN reports via satellite uplink from the same parking lot, funny things happen."
- Harold
from Bookmarklet
socialismartnature:
Minutes ago, hundreds of minimum wage fast food and retail workers all over Chicago walked off their jobs.
Share this and join the Fight For 15: http://bit.ly/142eDr9 - http://silas216.tumblr.com/post...
What if we could send functioning human brains directly into space, using them as intelligent storage devices capable of beaming images and data — in dream form — back to Earth? That's the premise of this unusual sci-fi short, which fakes being a documentary about humanity's first steps into interstellar travel The short, directed by special effects artist Hasraf "HaZ" Dulull, alternates documentary-style interviews with scientists with space footage. The result is a 14-minute space film that feels a lot like the Robert Zemeckis 1997 classic Contact. In other words, don't expect explosions and alien wars. But with a budget of just $4,000, the visuals of the film are definitely impressive Read more... More about Science Fiction, Sci Fi, Entertainment, and Film
- Johnn Luevanos
I like sitting in front of our fireplace but I am happy to say that it is too warm here for a fire.
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
i sometimes wish we could have a fire circle in our back yard. we'd probly only use it Nov-Feb at most. burn bans, tho.
- Hieronymous Boosh
Well, truth be told, Joe, I'm probably pushing the limit as far as what's legal without a permit. The fire dish isn't much wider than most grills, so I rationalize it that way, but when you're throwing branches, etc. on top of the flames, the height of the flames can get pretty high pretty fast if you're not careful, so I only burn the sawed up trunk sections. The branches full of pine...
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- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
todayinlaborhistory: Today in labor history, May 12, 1902: Nearly 150,000 anthracite coal miners go on strike in Eastern Pennsylvania for higher wages, better working conditions, and recognition of their union: the United Mine Workers of America. After months of an extreme coal shortage, President Teddy Roosevelt intervened, a commission was set... - http://silas216.tumblr.com/post...
Random thought after watching a Law & Order episode: the "stop snitching" movement is cut from the same cloth as states' rights and opposition to government regulation and is the way day-to-day microoppression is maintained.
I see it this way: Stop snitching is a way to subvert government oppression of people of color, namely black people. States' rights is a way to subvert government suppression of white supremacy.
- Anika
Well, yeah, of course a police procedural is going to spin it a certain way. And, yeah, "stop snitching" arose as a form of resistance, and there's the fact that police tend not to treat suspects and witnesses who happen to be people of color that differently and they can't guarantee the safety of witnesses who step up anyway. But it's also a way to keep things like domestic violence, rape, and child abuse under wraps in minority communities.
- Victor Ganata
As far as that's concerned, I think that minority communities have a different way of viewing those things. White people, in general, think everyone is a special snowflake to be treated with kid gloves. What I view as "normal" (to a certain extent), they think is jail-worthy. Whereas many of my Asian or Latino friends would think it's getting off easy. So, to that point, I understand...
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- Anika
I dunno. It's pretty terrible to watch someone who wants to say something, or who at least wants thing to stop, struggle because the code forces them to stay silent. And it's compounded because authorities can't or even won't do anything.
- Victor Ganata
Or to put it in bleaker terms: If you were beating me on the street, I'm pretty sure no one would bat an eye. However, if I were beating you, chances are a white person would call the police. I don't think many black people would call, but maybe some Asian people would. That's how I see Stop Snitching vs. States' Rights.
- Anika
Well, yeah, I get that the existence of structural racism and sexism is the underlying rationale for the whole stop snitching idea. But the parallel I'm making is that a state claiming states rights is basically telling its people not to snitch to the feds even as the state is abusing its people. Yeah, there are a lot of good reasons to distrust authority, but, well, it seems like a really double-edged sword, is all.
- Victor Ganata
RT @smileforme_xx: The spoon theory is a good way to explain to people how we have to pace our life and the difficulties involved. http://t.co/ZRdORYZObm
In what could be the largest strike of its kind, hundreds of fast food workers in Detroit walked off their jobs on Friday, echoing the rallying cry heard (or not?) across the country that the currently underpaid workers deserve $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation. Friday's strike in Detroit comes on the heels of similar actions in other cities—Wednesday and Thursday inSt. Louis, and in Chicago and New York City last month.
- Johnn Luevanos
"Three-quarters of our driving is powered by electricity. Even with the addition of the Volt, which we charge every night, we still don’t have an electric bill. We’re at the point where we’re much closer to using all of the electricity our panels produce, but we’re not there yet. And we’ve cut down on our gasoline expenditures as a direct result of both the car and the solar panel system, saving around $200 per month that we used to spend. That works out to $2,400 a year in gasoline savings and when added to the $2,500 in electricity bills we’re no longer paying each year, you get $4,900 in net cash flow savings. Divide that figure in to the net cost of the solar panel project and it works out to 5.96 years before break-even. Best of all, the payment for the Volt is slightly less than the Acura payment was, but I don’t consider that as part of the solar panel payback. There was a recent intangible benefit gained by the solar investment, as well. Just before we bought the Volt, we...
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- Todd Hoff
from Bookmarklet
Man I wished I lived in a place where an EV made sense. Local energy production + EV = win
- Todd Hoff
3D printing is like having a small-scale manufacturing device right in your home or office. 3D printers are devices that can create three-dimensional objects. Most 3D printers create objects in plastic. Some use ceramic, metal or other materials. There’s even a 3D printer that forms items out of chocolate or cheese. How does 3D printing work? In a way, the term “3D printing” is misleading. It sounds like a 3D printer somehow folds ordinary paper into objects – like origami.Read More The post What is 3D Printing? appeared first on Small Business Trends.
- Johnn Luevanos
Strange craving for a grilled peanut butter, banana, and bacon sandwich. How does that happen? The only ingredient I even have for it is butter, for the frying.