Made way, way too much oatmeal today.

I want to start packing breakfast and lunch for my mother, but she's hopeless when it comes to bringing back containers. I need more disposables for her, I think, things I don't mind losing. I should hit up friends and freecycle for used Chinese food containers, the plastic type. Wash, and you can use them again.

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As subway homeless population grows, new $6M outreach effort by city and MTA to launch in July

http://nydn.us/1biSwBk

Jewish associations expect 3.5 million Sephardic Jews to apply for Spanish citizenship after Spain's Justice Ministry approved a draft law which will allow them to return to the country their ancestors were kicked out of more than 500 years ago.

http://bit.ly/Nsrb4T

Delhi’s Air Has Become a Lethal Hazard and Nobody Seems to Know What to Do About It

http://world.time.com/2014/02/10/smog-in-new-delhi/

French Jews Migrate To Israel Citing Rising Anti-Semitism

http://huff.to/1npmeEs

China spending more than Europe on science and technology as GDP percentage, new figures reveal

http://bit.ly/1iFLXYZ

Americans eat too much sugar, and our collective sweet tooth is killing us.

http://bit.ly/1oam7zK

Todd Starnes, whoever he is, is really, really annoyed that neither the NFL nor the Olympics are currently advancing his cultural agenda. That's not how he put it, but that's absolutely what he meant, so let's just say it.

http://on.fb.me/1glRm5o

It sounds radical, but the ‘guaranteed basic income’ almost became law in the United States—and it’s having a revival now, with some surprising supporters.

http://b.globe.com/1f2HbAw

Report: Iran sending warships toward U.S. maritime borders

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/08/world/meast/iran-navy/index.html

Why global water shortages pose threat of terror and war

http://bit.ly/1iJfvV5

Washington Republican wants to weaken minimum wage law

http://bit.ly/1eht3m1

Sugar is key ingredient to evolutionary success of ants, researchers find

http://bit.ly/1lVpEDr

150+ Household Uses for Vinegar

http://www.rd.com/home/150-household-uses-for-vinegar/

Using 3-D printing to treat children's heart defects

http://bit.ly/1h3GwWu

The Sochi scandal no one’s talking about: How Russia is silencing its environmentalists

http://bit.ly/1loO5Wm

Charles Halton reads Melissa Mohr’s Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing and questions modern Bible translations

http://themarginaliareview.com/archives/3156

Attack on electric grid raises alarm

http://lat.ms/NbFhr7

Estonia: The Little Country That Cloud

http://www.bhorowitz.com/estonia_the_little_country_that_cloud

Is Your Brain Truly Ready for Junk Food, Porn, or the Internet?

http://www.sparringmind.com/supernormal-stimuli/

Whoops, sorry about that.

Well, deleting all those extra posts does give me an excuse to cram in just one more link that I saw too late to reasonably add in to the last post.

Bioprinting cartilage into people is doctor's goal

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/feb/07/dlima-cartilage-bioprinting-scripps/

Edit: and maaaaaybe two more, courtesy of the same person who told me I'd screwed that one up, fiddlingfrog.

One on a very pretty glow-in-the-dark bike path!

http://bit.ly/LPVJvJ

The Hidden History Of Same-Sex Marriage In Asia

http://bzfd.it/1eJH2r0