Monday, November 4, 2013

the nice pretty pink tint becomes a boring off-white blur, but if the colour is secondary to you, and you've ever wondered, then the answer is yes: as they are of similar acidity and texture, kiwis can be used to replace strawberries in smoothies.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/16/us_eases_rules_on_exporting_military
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/18/journalists_find_12_year_old_girls
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/23/prisoners_of_profit_despite_widespread_abuse
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/1/court_blocks_nypd_stop_and_frisk
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/10/the-preposterous-removal-of-judge-scheindlin.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1m-PMMCxS4
http://recomposition.info/2013/10/30/what-happened-in-edmonton-this-week/#more-1230
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/as-mohamed-morsi-goes-to-trial-general-sisi-should-remember-egypt-is-a-dangerous-place-to-rule-8919862.html

http://www.nature.com/news/air-movement-pattern-portends-us-heatwaves-1.14033

i think that when you understand what 'chance' actually means the question becomes meaningless. p(life happened) = 1.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=life-on-earth-was-not-a-fluke&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

http://phys.org/news/2013-10-quantify-toxic-ocean-conditions-major.html
http://www.nature.com/news/spectacular-flyover-of-mars-1.14041?WT.mc_id=FBK_NPG_1310_NatureNews
http://phy.so/302018016
http://phy.so/302109881
http://www.nature.com/news/black-holes-shrink-but-endure-1.14051?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/1028/Clouds-break-on-Saturn-s-moon-revealing-vast-lakes-salt-flats
http://plos.io/16jFFty

sssssssso....i'm not one to believe in the ether. it's back to the drawing board...
http://www.nature.com/news/no-sign-of-dark-matter-in-underground-experiment-1.14057

http://phy.so/302351406

it all depends on if there's space between space.
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131031-physicists-eye-quantum-gravity-interface/

it was kind of a ridiculous idea in the first place
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lux-dark-matter-null-result&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

http://www.nature.com/news/supercharged-antibodies-fight-hiv-related-virus-in-monkeys-1.14060

i don't know why they're producing hydrocarbons, though. getting it to work just produces another dirty energy source. the hydrogen production techniques may have questions about net energy, but at least it's clean....
http://bit.ly/16rvtz6

i don't doubt this actually, but where is fracking ever going to be properly run and regulated? in theory, nuclear is safe if properly run and regulated. pipelines don't spill if upkept, etc.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=shale-gas-fracking-a-low-risk-to-public-health&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

i still don't see what basis exists to assume we met neanderthals as competitors rather than as collaborators.
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/09012013/article/resourceful-neanderthals-in-france

i still claim you can't seriously do this classically.
http://phy.so/302541945

http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/pt.5.2004
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/nov/01/uncertainty-reigns-over-heisenbergs-measurement-analogy
i think it might be nice to have a study that rules out any serious link between intelligence and genetics.
http://www.nature.com/news/root-of-maths-genius-sought-1.14050

i mean, what's the evolutionary pressure producing excellence in algebra? how does that increase reproductive success rate?

the idea makes no sense. but, people are still attached to the creationist myth. s'ok, that's what science is for.
wow.

i've written here a bit about turkey having difficulty finding a greater trade bloc to work with - rejected by racist europeans and racist arabs alike, with impossible historical tensions to the north and east.....and hundreds of kilometres from "home" in central asia....

if turkey is shifting to the sco, this is a major blow to us/nato hegemony in the region.

http://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/2013/10/28/without-precedent-turkey’s-chinese-missile-defense-system