Okay, I know an obvious April Fool's joke when I see one.

So no, I don't really believe that there are more potential cannibals than potential vegans.

I didn't want to include this one with a list of more legitimate links.

On that note, April is Autism Awareness month!

And also poetry month. Ahem:

Autism aware?
Good! I love autism speaks.
No, wait - April fools!

And that is the last I will mention of them for hopefully quite some time. Honestly, they're like an April fools joke all on their own. (I considered "autism speaks disbanded" in the middle, but I thought the letdown might be too cruel.)

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Migrants face 'living hell' in Greek detention
Médecins Sans Frontières reveals outbreaks of scabies and TB and human waste seeping through the floor

http://bit.ly/1pErbwg

Google is paving the way for the universal voice translator, formerly a thing of science fiction. But will they actually help us communicate?

http://bit.ly/1iW0pMV

Tired of wasting leftover toothpaste, a student invents a new origami-inspired design that leaves nothing behind

http://bit.ly/1jw1dJt

One-Third of Texas Was Running on Wind Power This Week

http://bit.ly/1dDtNZu

Take heart Republicans. You've kept millions of kids from getting health coverage

http://bit.ly/1i9WL08

8 reasons you should be worried about the UN's latest climate report.

http://bit.ly/1jOBYol

Ukraine Descending into ‘Gestapo Times,’ Russian Politician Says
Prominent Russians harp on claims of bandits and U.S. ‘militarization.’

http://bit.ly/1i9WzOv

Climate change responses to shape Asia’s future

http://wapo.st/1mvIqxV

Germany returns art stolen by Nazis in 1939 to Poland

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26829148

How to Raise Americans' Wages
Eight proposals to jump-start the incomes of workers.

http://prospect.org/article/how-raise-americans-wages

Major Flight 370 Discovery: Our Oceans are Filled With Trash!

The enormous amount of ocean debris has frustrated those searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.

http://bit.ly/1gkNIab

Nation's metropolitan areas continue to surge, while rural areas shrink

http://bit.ly/1mHLuKi

Oxygen depletion in the Baltic Sea is 10 times worse than a century ago

http://bit.ly/1e85HAR

We can’t stop global warming unless we start eating a lot less meat

1. I guess cannibalism is off the table after all.
2. I thought I read somewhere that cows (and, presumably, other mammals) produced less methane when fed a natural (grass) diet instead of one of largely soy and wheat and corn?

http://bit.ly/1lkUpOQ

Senate Report: CIA Lied Repeatedly About Its Interrogation Program

http://nym.ag/1heMg9p

6 Mysterious 'Dracula' Ant Species Discovered in Madagascar

http://www.livescience.com/44479-new-dracula-ant-species.html

Why the 1% always wins

http://bit.ly/1ofYiJu

Dating website OkCupid is breaking up with Firefox

I had to badger my sister into sending me a version of this link. For some reason, she labors under the delusion that you can't send a link from Facebook, that individual Facebook pages have no URLs or something. Indeed, when it took me five seconds to track down how to copy the URL to paste it into an email to me on her phone, she went "well, you can see that's on Facebook, right?" Like all the stuff after the .com didn't exist!

The URL worked just fine, but this news article is more complete.

http://wapo.st/1mHNvG7

Ukraine crisis: No sign of Russian troop pullout - Nato

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26830336

Ebola toll rises in 'unprecedented' outbreak

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/31/health/africa-ebola/index.html

Scientists grow self-healing muscles which could replace real ones

The future, guys, we are living in it.

http://bit.ly/1lzYam8

Saga of the black and white cat.

As I was walking home from the dentist today with Eva, I heard a cat mrowing piteously and there was a black and white cat! A different one, though. For one thing, this one had a collar, and for another he had testicles, and worst of all he has a badly infected eye. Poor thing has clearly been in a fight.

Happily, years of living here have taught me just what to do. I picked him up and walked him over to my neighbor's house, the one who feeds strays and usually has cat meds at cost. Another neighbor mentioned that he's the other one's littermate, and they used to belong to the people who lived in the house that had a fire, but now that they had to move they aren't taking the cats. So I have no worries about rehousing them, once I find somebody. With luck, I can find somebody who wants two, but luck isn't something I'm expecting.

Marian gave the poor boy some ointment and food, which he devoured, and told me that she took the girl cat to get fixed, but girl cat slipped out of the house Friday and hasn't been seen since. That's a little bit of a worry, but she's probably just holed up somewhere and will reappear when she gets hungry enough.