June 2013
70 posts
i’m starting to reach that point of scifi inebriation again where the thought that i’m actually confined to a single planet is really weird to me
It turns out too many anti-oxidants are bad for you
And this is why we don’t rely on “numerous personal accounts” or other such nonsense in understanding what’s an effective disease treatment or not.
bitterness is a paralytic: Helpful Websites To Learn Languages →
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French
- http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/home - I absolutely love this website. It has everything!
- http://french.speak7.com/
- http://www.elanguageschool.net/
- http://www.learnalanguage.com/
- French word of the day: …
I’d like to add two sites to the Chinese listing:
http://www.nciku.com/ - Dictionary, Handwritten Input, Vocab Builders and many other learning tools.
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php - The best online dictionary I’ve come across, with excellent learning tools for written Chinese. Also has Handwritten Input.
Archaeological News: Lost World Locked in Stone at Fossil Lake →
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With just two inhabited buildings and a population of five, Fossil, Wyo., is all but a ghost town today. But as far as ghosts go, the ones at Fossil are pretty remarkable — 50-million-year-old monitor lizards, stingrays and freakishly long-tailed turtles among them.
Fossil showed promise of…
“Religion and science do not have to be at odds. Science, said Ann Druyan, widow of Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan, can communicate with, learn from and even benefit from religion and vice versa.”
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Carl Sagan and the Dalai Lama found deep connections in 1991-92 meetings, says Sagan’s widow (via ikenbot)
Woops.
(via scinerds)
sagan would weep at your idea of atheism.
Procedures in Human Heart Extraction and Ritual Meaning: A Taphonomic Assessment of Anthropogenic Marks in Classic Maya Skeletons Procedures in Human Heart Extraction and Ritual Meaning: A Taphonomic Assessment of Anthropogenic Marks in Classic Maya Skeletons
Check out this awesome research
I wonder if Nikola Tesla would eat his skittles as neurotically as I eat mine
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
—Agatha Christie, An Autobiography (via larmoyante)
truin right
sometimes, i jes don’ feel like talkin’ in standard english.
and people is wan’ look at yuh funny fa dat like yuh dumb or sumptin
time i been tuh school yinno. i does go to one ov da fanciest schools out.
but bredren, dis me doe!
an’ real talk, if you een undastan’ den you jes een pose tuh undastan’
an’ das YUH wibe daddy, not minez.
bangalang!
Sorry to make this about science but
I LOVE LINGUISTICS
I’m a nerd, but not in the useful “you’ll all be working for me one day when I invent jet packs” way. I’m a nerd in the “I have very strong opinions about history and literature and will yell them at you if you give me even the slightest opportunity” way. And that one does not pay well.
Archaeological News: Southern Parkway road construction unearths ancient ruins →
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ST. GEORGE — The Utah Department of Transportation discovered ancient ruins this month as they paved their way through the Southern Parkway, a 33-mile project that will soon be an eastern belt route for Washington County.
The ruins have been named one of the oldest sites investigated in…
