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Let's ring in the new calendar year with caves containing bioluminescent organisms in New Zealand, which makes for an interesting light show in the darkness. If you go, these methods may help with packing small and light.
Dr. King is not a safe historical figure, no matter what textbook history says. And no matter how much students are discouraged from seeking that history in the places where it happened. Or how much memorials may fade into the distance because their participation hasn't been as high before. This year may have more focus, but this year is not unique in any special way - these things must be done at all times, not just when it rises high enough in the collective conscious.
To promote and maintain harmony among cats, try to encourage a group scent by brushing each cat sequentially, so they all get each other's scent. Additionally, persistence is key in retraining a cat to accept a new configuration of foodstuff. And you can use a cat attractant as mosquito repellent.
Surprising very few of the people who have read the actual tales, the Grimm fairy tales, in their first edition, had more of the dark content they are known for today, due to new knowledge from a translation of a first edition.
The offices of the publication Charlie Hebdo were attacked by gunmen, killing many of the staff, and three policemen, at least one Muslim (because the attacks were apparently motivated by some philosophy claiming to be Islam), as well as attacks in a Jewish market. A Belgian arms dealer confessed to selling the weapons to the suspects. And things are not yet done - Some suspects are still sought in relation to all the attacks.
Charlie Hebdo has the right to say provacative and scandalous things in the name of satire. We also have the right to call them out on it. But not the right to kill anyone over it. So we wonder what Anonymous will do in revenge for the attack.
If you intend to overthrow a dictator, check to make sure your country is at war with them, unless you want to be charged with crimes in your home nation for an unsuccessful attempt.
The Twitter account for United States Central Command was hacked for a short amount of time to display pro-ISIS propaganda.
The current House majority whip for the Republican party was the guest of white supremacists in 2002. Nobody appears to have a problem with this, nor the lack of women in leadership positions I'm this Congress.
Memo to Kirby Delauter: Being a public figure means newsmedia can use your name without begging your permission when reporting on what you do as a public figure.
Governor Cash and Prizes was sentenced to two years in federal prison after a conviction on more than sixteen federal corruption charges, significantly under the minimum recommended sentence for hits crimes, apparently receiving such a reprieve after the testimony of many character witnesses. Which should mean precisely dick in relation to the bribes and favors he did while in office. His wife is due for sentencing on her own charges after Governor McDonnell is to report to prison.
New things to know about the web this year, which are entirely familiar to those that have been here. For actual progress, take time to document the accessibility features of your event and post them. If for no other reason than to get you thinking about how to make things better. And then you can budget for accessibility, possibly using a service like LinguaBee to contract interpreters.
Because her parents could not provide unconditional love, a teenager committed suicide. Because her parents insisted their reality was more real than hers, and only allowed her to exist in their world. This is a critical failure, and one that will be replicated many times over until we understand what needs to be done. Medical students are starting to get the training they need to get it right, so hopefully the next generation of physicians can help, but we still need more for parents and laypeople. Under-eighteen teenage women may be your best bet for a starting point, as they are likely already hip-deep in the relevant issues and conversations.
An article about how some people are naturally highly sensitive to stimuli, and that knowing this may be helpful in interacting with the world.
Remember: When you are invited to the table, do not go and sit at the high place.
There are still some aspects of Japanese culture and topography forbidden to women for some flimsy-seeming reasons. Culture is tricky to say aye or nay to completely, though, as a prominent dictionary of the Japanese language has removed heteronormative language from definitions such as love or carnal desire.
Infographics on various healthy foods and preparations, along with methods to maintain a healthy kitchen, although the last bit about cast iron skillets may be bunk. Additionally, using spice mixes has advantages, no matter what the nose-in-the-air snob says.
The United Kingdom Home Secretary believes it a good idea to send them students back to the country they came from immediately, instead of trying to retain them for a while to see if they will find employment.
The legal system does not provide clear avenues by which those subjected to online harassment can stop or prosecute their assailants, nor has it adequately trained people to correctly respond to those complaints. Additionally, avenues outside the legal system are often ineffective and/or place the burden of stopping harassing behavior on those being harassed.
Police officers have many ways of getting people to give up their constitutional rights, including intimidation, attempting to instill fear, and lying. Anything to get consent to the search.
Dystopia and revolution do not function normally as young adult novels suggest they do. They are far messier.
Effective editing requires context awareness, just like effective writing. For writers, context may mean having to thoroughly understand and write the world from someone else's viewpoint. Or to turn the nitpick off long enough to enjoy what is good about a story and to be willing to tell any supposed rules of writing to go fuck off if they don't work for you.
Because sometimes all the shameless self-promotion pays off.
Because certain countries in north Florida have decided they won't allow all people to get married, the mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, had said anyone denied their license at home can get married in his city.
Some excerpts describing the increasing pressure in World War II to stigmatise gay and lesbian relationships among soldiers, and the ways those soldiers fight back. Not to mention the long history of drag shows.
Feminism helps men, too, by providing them with an alternative to the worldview of MRAs and others who see the power struggle as zero sum, instead of absurd.
Rum + Coke fashion creates sizes for all sizes and shoots their fashion exclusively on plus-size models, although in this case, it seems like using plus-size is wrong, because the point isn't to stigmatize any body type.
When it comes to feminism or other issues that disproportionately affect minorities, prioritizing feels over reals, or even treating them equally, is a bad approach to solving the issues. Once we're solid there, if someone from a minority says something is so, odds are it is so, and you should believe them. Their reals are still more important than your feels. Because they live in a reality with an entirely different set of questions about life, one where no matter what they do to respond to a compliment, it reflects negatively on them, and you have to adjust to that. Because they can't yet tell you off as firmly as they want to. And they also get to deal with products that aren't different, except that they're more expensive when marketed to them.
So one of the best things you can do is indicate you can be talked to about issues, but also that you will listen instead of trying to talk over them. And not using offensive language. Additionally, figuring out how to avoid making someone else's narrative all about you.
And no, there's no equivalent thing oppressing the privileged as there is privilege oppressing others. There are intersections that might make someone who seems privileged not so, though. And people who should be allies in feminism instead have to fight lies.
Nearly three million gallons of a toxic brine spilled into a North Dakota river right after a large oil spill into the Yellowstone River. Tell me again why we shouldn't be accelerating the production of energy that doesn't foul the environment?
I could have used this bibliographic instruction when I went into a degree concentration that required a senior thesis. Instead, I ended up bouncing ideas and functions off my advisor and peers, but it probably would have been much more awesome had I made time with a librarian. (Yes, I became a librarian, so now I wish people would make time with me.) Because, as you should know by now, librarians are awesome. We can recommend you other resources than your favorite search engine that will help with your inquiries, show you apps that can make your daily life a little easier, get your Gmail experimentally powered up, and point you at tips and underused features for your Google products, or suggest contrasting colors to use so that your calendars and their appointments are not confused for each other.
Jessamyn West is entirely correct - librarians have incredible treasure troves of knowledge regarding what you can do with technology and the things you own, but because copyright cabals continue to find new ways of screwing their consumers, the "right" way to do things like borrow library materials are privacy-invasive and require hoops to jump through that direct purchasing doesn't. Since those cabals see any use that isn't paid for as piracy, libraries are increasingly being subjected to ridiculous restrictions. And those same cabals have so messed things up that nothing can be definitively added to the public domain in the United States until 2054. Examine what United States audiences are missing it in being able to build on, while others enjoy the newfound public domain material.
It is incredibly difficult to tell whether or not the deceased in a cemetery got there by normal attrition or by catastrophe if all you have to study are the bones. What you would need would be things like the accounts of those that survived, as one might get by studying the records of a cult leader and his settlement.
A tautology: Biblical literalism is a-historical. Elsewhere, mindfulness without its context is mindless, and therefore much less useful than it could be.
In attempting to blame technology and multitasking for decreased cognitive performance, neuroscientist makes a strong case for social changes that demand instant and immediate answers to all queries as the proper culprit for cognitive exhaustion, as it is quite possible to treat all those apparent problems as the tools they are and not engage them excepting on one's own terms.
When executive function is impaired, victory means completing a step (or more) along the path.
Architecture still fails to construct bathrooms in such a way that women do not have to wait in line while men sail on through. And retrofitting over buildings, even governmental ones, is a slow process marred by many years of institutional sexism.
Possible approaches to collecting and analyzing gender data, with commentary on the ethics of using those methods.
Hair care suggestions that can appear counter-intuitive.
A mirrored surface on a teacup reflects the pattern of the saucer beneath it to create a complementary pattern on the cup.
How two twins, separated and adopted at birth, found each other, thanks to one being semi-prominent and the other having a social media account. Or, a solution to a small world problem.
The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retrocomputing - coming to terms with loss by replicating the past and then realizing that the past lives on in new forms, as the foundations of the now, and sometimes as the way things get done in the now. As the traffic report of Night Vale puts it: We are eternal. We will not last.
Even so, every now and then, something survives past us, waiting for the future to return it to life. (Several tracks of that revived sound can be listened to.)
The virtues of the Kitty character I'm the show Elementary.
Forty-three methods to lace up shoes, skates, or other footwear.
A selection of the newest members of the identified species club, many of which are tiny, but very important. Considering how a single unit in the universe can inspire significant in-depth study, there will be a lot of information to come on these matters.
When reading about science in anything other than a research paper, it's best to check the source. If in a research paper, check the source all the same.
Common confusions about intellectual property and its use, including what it means when you license your work permissively though schemes such as Creative Commons.
In tech, methods by which someone can batch-convert documents in a Microsoft Word-compatible form to the Portable Document Format.
Tips for staying less discoverable while on a public network, which can help protect from intruders on your side of a connection.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but most popular freeware material includes bundles of things you really don't want on a computer, and your antivirus software may not stop them from installing.
Using an Arduino and a smartphone, a dancer can use their pointe shoes to leave traces of their moves on a recording of their dance.
As technology advances, the technology to fool that technology advances as well. But also technology makes a process like bone marrow donation much less painful. And some experimental features allow you to undo what you have already pressed send to.
Vintage advertisements from John Cleese selling Compaq computers.
A significant portion of games from the DOS era can now be played in modern web browsers, thanks to the Internet Archive. So if you want to try games you never owned or get some nostalgia going on, here's a possible way.
Speaking of nostalgia, how the film Clue bombed at the box office and then became a cult hit on par with the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Also, drawing on the web with tools much like the Spirograph art toy and the beginning of a Twitter-type choose your own adventure game.
A translation matrix between common client comments and what it means to web designers.
An excellent analysis of fanfiction purposes, weights of story, and what fanfic does well that paid work does not. Which can then be paired with recommendations for stories and books where disabilities are done well (although the comments suggest that some of the recommendations are not actually done well) and reflections on horror writing and the expectations that come with it.
In praise of Wonder Woman, who has, by being Wonder Woman, spent many decades telling great stories. Along with this, ways to design better women in games, as both protagonists and antagonists, and to make the supposedly gender-neutral not read male.
1.5 billion pixels is still only one third of the Andromeda galaxy. I wonder how the computers back on Terra will be able to process the image so that it can be studied for interesting things to zoom in on. As I wonder, I'll examine panoramic time-lapses of the sky, captured by an array of fisheye lenses.
Advanced X-ray techniques may provide a method of reading the text on scrolls burned in the Vesuvius eruption. That would mean the possibility of new primary sources, which would be awesome.
Last for today, Pigeons. And animals in snow. Also, the Grand Canyon covered in snow, all the way to the bottom.
And something very vulgar - a discussion of the proper spelling of the vulgarity suggesting ejaculate or ejaculation.
Dr. King is not a safe historical figure, no matter what textbook history says. And no matter how much students are discouraged from seeking that history in the places where it happened. Or how much memorials may fade into the distance because their participation hasn't been as high before. This year may have more focus, but this year is not unique in any special way - these things must be done at all times, not just when it rises high enough in the collective conscious.
To promote and maintain harmony among cats, try to encourage a group scent by brushing each cat sequentially, so they all get each other's scent. Additionally, persistence is key in retraining a cat to accept a new configuration of foodstuff. And you can use a cat attractant as mosquito repellent.
Surprising very few of the people who have read the actual tales, the Grimm fairy tales, in their first edition, had more of the dark content they are known for today, due to new knowledge from a translation of a first edition.
The offices of the publication Charlie Hebdo were attacked by gunmen, killing many of the staff, and three policemen, at least one Muslim (because the attacks were apparently motivated by some philosophy claiming to be Islam), as well as attacks in a Jewish market. A Belgian arms dealer confessed to selling the weapons to the suspects. And things are not yet done - Some suspects are still sought in relation to all the attacks.
Charlie Hebdo has the right to say provacative and scandalous things in the name of satire. We also have the right to call them out on it. But not the right to kill anyone over it. So we wonder what Anonymous will do in revenge for the attack.
If you intend to overthrow a dictator, check to make sure your country is at war with them, unless you want to be charged with crimes in your home nation for an unsuccessful attempt.
The Twitter account for United States Central Command was hacked for a short amount of time to display pro-ISIS propaganda.
The current House majority whip for the Republican party was the guest of white supremacists in 2002. Nobody appears to have a problem with this, nor the lack of women in leadership positions I'm this Congress.
Memo to Kirby Delauter: Being a public figure means newsmedia can use your name without begging your permission when reporting on what you do as a public figure.
Governor Cash and Prizes was sentenced to two years in federal prison after a conviction on more than sixteen federal corruption charges, significantly under the minimum recommended sentence for hits crimes, apparently receiving such a reprieve after the testimony of many character witnesses. Which should mean precisely dick in relation to the bribes and favors he did while in office. His wife is due for sentencing on her own charges after Governor McDonnell is to report to prison.
New things to know about the web this year, which are entirely familiar to those that have been here. For actual progress, take time to document the accessibility features of your event and post them. If for no other reason than to get you thinking about how to make things better. And then you can budget for accessibility, possibly using a service like LinguaBee to contract interpreters.
Because her parents could not provide unconditional love, a teenager committed suicide. Because her parents insisted their reality was more real than hers, and only allowed her to exist in their world. This is a critical failure, and one that will be replicated many times over until we understand what needs to be done. Medical students are starting to get the training they need to get it right, so hopefully the next generation of physicians can help, but we still need more for parents and laypeople. Under-eighteen teenage women may be your best bet for a starting point, as they are likely already hip-deep in the relevant issues and conversations.
An article about how some people are naturally highly sensitive to stimuli, and that knowing this may be helpful in interacting with the world.
Remember: When you are invited to the table, do not go and sit at the high place.
There are still some aspects of Japanese culture and topography forbidden to women for some flimsy-seeming reasons. Culture is tricky to say aye or nay to completely, though, as a prominent dictionary of the Japanese language has removed heteronormative language from definitions such as love or carnal desire.
Infographics on various healthy foods and preparations, along with methods to maintain a healthy kitchen, although the last bit about cast iron skillets may be bunk. Additionally, using spice mixes has advantages, no matter what the nose-in-the-air snob says.
The United Kingdom Home Secretary believes it a good idea to send them students back to the country they came from immediately, instead of trying to retain them for a while to see if they will find employment.
The legal system does not provide clear avenues by which those subjected to online harassment can stop or prosecute their assailants, nor has it adequately trained people to correctly respond to those complaints. Additionally, avenues outside the legal system are often ineffective and/or place the burden of stopping harassing behavior on those being harassed.
Police officers have many ways of getting people to give up their constitutional rights, including intimidation, attempting to instill fear, and lying. Anything to get consent to the search.
Dystopia and revolution do not function normally as young adult novels suggest they do. They are far messier.
Effective editing requires context awareness, just like effective writing. For writers, context may mean having to thoroughly understand and write the world from someone else's viewpoint. Or to turn the nitpick off long enough to enjoy what is good about a story and to be willing to tell any supposed rules of writing to go fuck off if they don't work for you.
Because sometimes all the shameless self-promotion pays off.
Because certain countries in north Florida have decided they won't allow all people to get married, the mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, had said anyone denied their license at home can get married in his city.
Some excerpts describing the increasing pressure in World War II to stigmatise gay and lesbian relationships among soldiers, and the ways those soldiers fight back. Not to mention the long history of drag shows.
Feminism helps men, too, by providing them with an alternative to the worldview of MRAs and others who see the power struggle as zero sum, instead of absurd.
Rum + Coke fashion creates sizes for all sizes and shoots their fashion exclusively on plus-size models, although in this case, it seems like using plus-size is wrong, because the point isn't to stigmatize any body type.
When it comes to feminism or other issues that disproportionately affect minorities, prioritizing feels over reals, or even treating them equally, is a bad approach to solving the issues. Once we're solid there, if someone from a minority says something is so, odds are it is so, and you should believe them. Their reals are still more important than your feels. Because they live in a reality with an entirely different set of questions about life, one where no matter what they do to respond to a compliment, it reflects negatively on them, and you have to adjust to that. Because they can't yet tell you off as firmly as they want to. And they also get to deal with products that aren't different, except that they're more expensive when marketed to them.
So one of the best things you can do is indicate you can be talked to about issues, but also that you will listen instead of trying to talk over them. And not using offensive language. Additionally, figuring out how to avoid making someone else's narrative all about you.
And no, there's no equivalent thing oppressing the privileged as there is privilege oppressing others. There are intersections that might make someone who seems privileged not so, though. And people who should be allies in feminism instead have to fight lies.
Nearly three million gallons of a toxic brine spilled into a North Dakota river right after a large oil spill into the Yellowstone River. Tell me again why we shouldn't be accelerating the production of energy that doesn't foul the environment?
I could have used this bibliographic instruction when I went into a degree concentration that required a senior thesis. Instead, I ended up bouncing ideas and functions off my advisor and peers, but it probably would have been much more awesome had I made time with a librarian. (Yes, I became a librarian, so now I wish people would make time with me.) Because, as you should know by now, librarians are awesome. We can recommend you other resources than your favorite search engine that will help with your inquiries, show you apps that can make your daily life a little easier, get your Gmail experimentally powered up, and point you at tips and underused features for your Google products, or suggest contrasting colors to use so that your calendars and their appointments are not confused for each other.
Jessamyn West is entirely correct - librarians have incredible treasure troves of knowledge regarding what you can do with technology and the things you own, but because copyright cabals continue to find new ways of screwing their consumers, the "right" way to do things like borrow library materials are privacy-invasive and require hoops to jump through that direct purchasing doesn't. Since those cabals see any use that isn't paid for as piracy, libraries are increasingly being subjected to ridiculous restrictions. And those same cabals have so messed things up that nothing can be definitively added to the public domain in the United States until 2054. Examine what United States audiences are missing it in being able to build on, while others enjoy the newfound public domain material.
It is incredibly difficult to tell whether or not the deceased in a cemetery got there by normal attrition or by catastrophe if all you have to study are the bones. What you would need would be things like the accounts of those that survived, as one might get by studying the records of a cult leader and his settlement.
A tautology: Biblical literalism is a-historical. Elsewhere, mindfulness without its context is mindless, and therefore much less useful than it could be.
In attempting to blame technology and multitasking for decreased cognitive performance, neuroscientist makes a strong case for social changes that demand instant and immediate answers to all queries as the proper culprit for cognitive exhaustion, as it is quite possible to treat all those apparent problems as the tools they are and not engage them excepting on one's own terms.
When executive function is impaired, victory means completing a step (or more) along the path.
Architecture still fails to construct bathrooms in such a way that women do not have to wait in line while men sail on through. And retrofitting over buildings, even governmental ones, is a slow process marred by many years of institutional sexism.
Possible approaches to collecting and analyzing gender data, with commentary on the ethics of using those methods.
Hair care suggestions that can appear counter-intuitive.
A mirrored surface on a teacup reflects the pattern of the saucer beneath it to create a complementary pattern on the cup.
How two twins, separated and adopted at birth, found each other, thanks to one being semi-prominent and the other having a social media account. Or, a solution to a small world problem.
The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retrocomputing - coming to terms with loss by replicating the past and then realizing that the past lives on in new forms, as the foundations of the now, and sometimes as the way things get done in the now. As the traffic report of Night Vale puts it: We are eternal. We will not last.
Even so, every now and then, something survives past us, waiting for the future to return it to life. (Several tracks of that revived sound can be listened to.)
The virtues of the Kitty character I'm the show Elementary.
Forty-three methods to lace up shoes, skates, or other footwear.
A selection of the newest members of the identified species club, many of which are tiny, but very important. Considering how a single unit in the universe can inspire significant in-depth study, there will be a lot of information to come on these matters.
When reading about science in anything other than a research paper, it's best to check the source. If in a research paper, check the source all the same.
Common confusions about intellectual property and its use, including what it means when you license your work permissively though schemes such as Creative Commons.
In tech, methods by which someone can batch-convert documents in a Microsoft Word-compatible form to the Portable Document Format.
Tips for staying less discoverable while on a public network, which can help protect from intruders on your side of a connection.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but most popular freeware material includes bundles of things you really don't want on a computer, and your antivirus software may not stop them from installing.
Using an Arduino and a smartphone, a dancer can use their pointe shoes to leave traces of their moves on a recording of their dance.
As technology advances, the technology to fool that technology advances as well. But also technology makes a process like bone marrow donation much less painful. And some experimental features allow you to undo what you have already pressed send to.
Vintage advertisements from John Cleese selling Compaq computers.
A significant portion of games from the DOS era can now be played in modern web browsers, thanks to the Internet Archive. So if you want to try games you never owned or get some nostalgia going on, here's a possible way.
Speaking of nostalgia, how the film Clue bombed at the box office and then became a cult hit on par with the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Also, drawing on the web with tools much like the Spirograph art toy and the beginning of a Twitter-type choose your own adventure game.
A translation matrix between common client comments and what it means to web designers.
An excellent analysis of fanfiction purposes, weights of story, and what fanfic does well that paid work does not. Which can then be paired with recommendations for stories and books where disabilities are done well (although the comments suggest that some of the recommendations are not actually done well) and reflections on horror writing and the expectations that come with it.
In praise of Wonder Woman, who has, by being Wonder Woman, spent many decades telling great stories. Along with this, ways to design better women in games, as both protagonists and antagonists, and to make the supposedly gender-neutral not read male.
1.5 billion pixels is still only one third of the Andromeda galaxy. I wonder how the computers back on Terra will be able to process the image so that it can be studied for interesting things to zoom in on. As I wonder, I'll examine panoramic time-lapses of the sky, captured by an array of fisheye lenses.
Advanced X-ray techniques may provide a method of reading the text on scrolls burned in the Vesuvius eruption. That would mean the possibility of new primary sources, which would be awesome.
Last for today, Pigeons. And animals in snow. Also, the Grand Canyon covered in snow, all the way to the bottom.
And something very vulgar - a discussion of the proper spelling of the vulgarity suggesting ejaculate or ejaculation.
