MARTIAN LOLS
When you’re drunk… by reddit: LOLOLOLOL
Street Art (oh you fancy huh?)
unurth’s best of august (continued). by unurth: who: Iemza location: Reims, France who: jaz location: buenos aires, argentina who: ABCNT location: San Francisco, Cali cool
Humans Going Green Moments
Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear. by MNN: Imagine: no more dirty coal power, no more mining deaths, no more nuclear disasters, no more polluted aquifers as a result of fracking. Our entire society powered by the quiet “woosh” of a wind turbine. Kyushu University’s wind lens turbine is one example of the many innovations … Read more
Random Human Stuff
Study shows sex with Neanderthals and Denisovans gave healthy boost to human genome. by Physorg: Sex with Neanderthals and another close relative — the recently discovered Denisovans — has endowed some human gene pools with beneficial versions of immune system genes, report researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in an article to be … Read more
Health
U.S. expert panel finds vaccines largely safe. by Reuters: The report, issued on Thursday by the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies of Sciences, is the first comprehensive report on vaccine side effects since 1994. Fears that vaccines might cause autism or other health problems have led some parents to skip vaccinating their … Read more
MATHEMATICA!
IU math professor uncovers flaws in highly publicized ‘obesity is contagious’ study. by Medical Xpress: In their original paper, Nicholas Christakis of Harvard and James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego claimed to have provided evidence of a “three-degrees-of-influence rule of social contagion” within networks such as families and friend groups where obesity characteristics could … Read more
I like it.
Indian activist Anna Hazare agrees to end fast for reform talks. by Time Magazine: After 10 days of subsisting on nothing but water, the Indian anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare relented Thursday evening, agreeing to end his fast on the condition that the Indian government would promise, in writing, to include the main points of his … Read more
Today I learned,
Stanford offers free courses online in probability and programming. by OpenClassroom: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction Design Learn the fundamentals of human-computer interaction and design thinking, with an emphasis on mobile web applications. Web Applications Learn how to develop web applications. Topics include markup languages, scripting languages, network protocols, interactive graphics, event-driven programming, and databases, and how … Read more
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