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January 30, 2012
December 19, 2011
August 25, 2011
KC is #26 on the list of the most dangerous cities for walking in the U.S.
From nytimes.com via www.bookofjoe.com
June 11, 2011
May 25, 2011
March 20, 2011
Radiation Dose Chart from XKCD
Note the caveat that this is "for general education only. If you're basing radiation safety procedures on an internet PNG image and things go wrong, you have no one but yourself to blame."
Thanks, Genesis!
via xkcd.com
January 20, 2011
December 18, 2010
60 Wild Coyotes Patrol Chicago
"Chicago's Cook County now has over 60 coyotes fitted with radio collars (plus a good many uncollared ones) roaming parks, alleys, yards and thoroughfares in one of the biggest cities in America. The animals earn their keep eating small rodents, especially rats and voles. The Cook County, Illinois, Coyote Project calls itself "the largest urban study of coyotes in the world.""
From www.npr.org via Woosk
November 05, 2010
October 05, 2010
Cool Graph/maps: World population by latitude and longitude
created these maps.
[via Nuclear Toast and paul.kedroskey.com]
October 02, 2010
August 21, 2010
July 21, 2010
July 01, 2010
June 23, 2010
If this is class warfare, we're losing!
- “It is wrong for Warren Buffett’s secretary to pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett"
- Occupy: The Original
- CEO pay increased 27 - 40% in 2010
- Pepper Spray Cop joins the parade
- Fox News: Pepper spray is "a food product."
- In Congress Assembled, UC Davis edition
- Perspective on police brutality
- If you're not doing anything bad you have no reason to fear...
- Percentage of Millionaires: Why is tax policy so hard to change?
- We Are The One Percent!
- Batman: "I am the 1%"
- “Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance”
- James Madison spoke against concentrated wealth
- If this is class warfare, we're losing!
- Public perceptions of U.S. income inequality
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- xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
Relentlessly Optimistic Links
- The thoughts of Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Should I be worried that the top Google result (update: in October of 1994) for Relentlessly Optimistic is to the former Iraqi Information Minister? That's somewhat offset by the fact that the #3 link is to Sponge Bob Square Pants. - The Meaning of Optimism
- StatCounter
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- Learned Optimism
optimists and pessimists attribute the reasons for success and failure differently: it's personal for pessimists. - ITMFA
- Does pessimism soften the blow of bad news?
Science says yes, but that it isn't worth it. - Creative Commons
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