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Cool service for whistleblowers.

This.

All three scandals are turning out to be mid-level bureaucratic stupidity, not anything nefarious. You can almost hear the disappointment.

My senator calls the Republicans on their crap - they don't like a federal organization, but can't change the law, so they just hold up nominees.

Great critique of Sullivan's recent points on academic inquiry into supposedly racially correlated intelligence.

Really excited for this show. Hopefully they do it at least on par with Avengers.

Very well edited, and a cool mix of day/night shots. Dubai looks like a modern paradise, but of course it's all funded by oil and has a problematic human rights record.

Pretty cool. I like how they have keyframes matching real telescopic observations.

This must have taken a long time.

Text encoding on the web feels like this sometimes.

Cmdr. Hadfield's cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity", one of my favorite songs, from actual space.

Descriptivism will always make more sense.

Algebra! You can't say 'sh' in Spanish, so after translation, we got x.

I wonder if you could simulate language evolution?

Handy reference card, not that I know many climate deniers.

Microgravity continues to produce surprising science results.

This must be by the same guy that did that gun death visualization?

Very cool live mixing with a Launchpad of some great songs.

MINNEAPOLIS—Setting his sights on a point five minutes into the future, snooze button time traveler Brent Conley, 31, engaged the launch initiation switch on his temporal teleportation device at precisely 7:30 a.m. this morning, immediately sending himself hurtling through time.

This is pretty amazing. I don't normally go for crossover ads, but... two Spocks!

This is such an important issue, but this struck me as a poorly written op-ed. The accusation of Swat monitoring email seems crazy to me, but if it is going on, that's very disturbing.

And this is where I end up sounding squishy-liberal on the future: "And that’s precisely what the founders left us: the power to adapt to changing times. They left us the keys to a system of self-government – the tool to do big and important things together that we could not possibly do alone. To stretch railroads and electricity and a highway system across a sprawling continent. To educate our people with a system of public schools and land grant colleges, including Ohio State. To care for the sick and the vulnerable, and provide a basic level of protection from falling into abject poverty in the wealthiest nation on Earth. To conquer fascism and disease; to visit the Moon and Mars; to gradually secure our God-given rights for all our citizens, regardless of who they are, what they look like, or who they love."

Crazy background. Reminds me of when Emery and I used to discuss culinary engineering as a possible major.

Men should never stay silent. That peer pressure to not rat is huge, and that's what we need to work on.

Ugh. Fear! Fear the gamer! I used to have more respect for Couric.

I'd speculate the enlightened neocolonialism doesn't appeal broadly.

Big Brother wants to watch, and marketers have done most of the work for them.

Yet another disparity caused by income - vocabulary development.

Seems like the key to radicalization is some kind of social disconnectedness related to modernity.

It strikes me that Paul was expecting some kind of bildungsroman epiphany, which he got in the short term, before reverting to his old habits in a different form. He now has the unusual experience of aspects of his mid-20s crisis being played out in front of everyone.