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November 5, 2009
“ Baguette Dropped From Bird’s Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really)
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Alternate to jet or prop. Probably only efficient for small unmanned craft.
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November 4, 2009
Top 10 Mad Science-Worthy Chemistry Experiments (via Top 10 Mad Science-Worthy Chemistry Experiments - Neatorama)
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November 3, 2009
“ Historical Presidential Inaugurations You Can Relive on YouTube While one is depicted, you can actually view the oaths, inaugural speeches, and more from every president dating back to 1933.
Battlestar Galactica LED Toaster, NBC Universal Store Syfy Battlestar Galactica
It is a toaster. Get it?
5 days ago
November 2, 2009
The droids we’re googling for (via Stéfan)
6 days ago
“ Jon’s shtick on The Daily Show Jon_stewart by Manisha Verma On Aug 20 2009, Jon Stewart interviewed Betsy McCaughey - architect of the widely rumored “death panels” idea - that Obama’s health care proposals would create government sponsored draconian consultations imposing conditions upon both patients in end-of-life circumstances and doctors treating said patients to decide which patients were worthy of living. It turned out that the bill actually mandated life-sustaining procedures which were a far cry from demoniac death panels. The tenet is similar in line with Bill Clinton’s health care proposals which were defeated by similar conservative pundits, wherein Betsy was a prominent star icon with her publication of the 1994 health reform critique, rising subsequently to become lieutenant governor of the state of New York. Innuendo reports from angry speakers at town halls basically ideologically opposed to the president, and from anti-abortion conservatives who purport that Obama would pursue a pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia agenda, combined with molded accounts of actual legislative proposals that would provide financing for optional consultations with doctors about “end of life” services, fueled the rumor to the point where it strictly overcame the real debate. After McCaughey’s Daily Show appearance, James Fallows of the Atlantic Monthly described her role in the healthcare debate as: “She has brought more misinformation, more often, more destructively into America’s consideration of health-policy issues than any other individual. She has no concept of “truth” or “accuracy” in the normal senses of those terms, as demonstrated when she went on The Daily Show[1]. Betsy resigned from the board of directors of Cantel Medical Corporation the next day. To be fair to her, she might have had A point about the way the bill could be interpreted by doctors doing what the federal government deems cost-effective. That said, the interview went basically like this: McCaughey would say the bill said something, only it would turn out that different words were used, or that it actually wouldn’t say that at all, and Jon Stewart would gently point this out, and she’d insist otherwise, and then start flipping through the whole bill contained in her binder, not really finding the proof or the documentation she was talking about. Stewart, at one point, contended that McCaughey’s take on the matter was “hyperbolic” and “dangerous”[2]. When he meticulously picked her points apart and demonstrated their inaccuracy, the Columbia PhD who had admittedly spent a considerable worth of her lifetime researching the health care effort was left stumbling and stammering in an attempt to defend her position. By the end of it, he told her, “I like you — but I don’t understand how your brain works.”[3]
The Adventures of Lil Cthulhu (via TheZebu)
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