Went to the SI Homeschooler Field Day

[conuly]

That was fun, and a nice end to the school year. I mean, except for the fact that we're homeschooling through the summer too... just, you know, with less stuff.

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Gum Arabic: Sudan's Miracle Commodity

Eating air, making fuel: Scientists engineer bacteria to create sugar from the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide

If We Wrote Men Like We Write Women (The MeFi thread has by now become 50% book recs and critiques, but well worth it.)

Cockatoos make economic decisions about tool use depending on the current 'market' situation

Tortie Tomcats: Chimeras

14 Secrets of U.S. Postal Carriers

How Quantum Mechanics Could Be Even Weirder

Colorado's Teen Marijuana Usage Dips after Legalization

Leaving the Pediatrician? Not at 26

Parents Lie to Children Surprisingly Often

After escaping its creators a second time, Russian robot’s final destination may be scrap heap

The New Panama Canal: A Risky Bet

EU referendum: Scotland backs Remain as UK votes Leave

Itchy inflammation of mosquito bites helps viruses replicate

With tears and resolve, immigrants vow to keep fighting

Overdose deaths overwhelm medical examiner, coroner offices

Afghanistan's dwindling Sikh, Hindu communities flee new abuses

My Four Months as a Prison Guard

Judge rules Texas prison must provide inmates with safe drinking water

Does New York City’s ‘broken windows’ policing work? New report says no.

Entire islands disappear as violent gangs steal sand amid global shortage

A Turkish man has been found guilty of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for depicting him as the Gollum character from the Lord of the Rings. A court in the south-western Antalya province gave Rifat Cetin a suspended one-year jail sentence and stripped him of parental custody rights.

'Coral zombies' may spell doom for coral reefs around world

Refugee life, as seen by children fleeing war

Conflict among U.S. allies in northern Syria clouds war on Islamic State

‘We are desperate’: Iraqis flee Fallujah, only to find another nightmare

Islamic State militants push back in Syria, Iraq and Libya

With refugees here to stay, hosts get help to make them an asset

Comments

[alatefeline]

Good links as always.

Though I'll have to come back to at least one of them that is simultaneously relevant to an ongoing project of mine and kinda overwhelming. I do read selectively as a conscious choice. The internet is just too big.

[conuly]

The internet is just too big.

It helps if you can read really, really fast. I blame my parents - they used to steal my books when I was a child! I'd find them reading them in bed if I came in for cuddles after a nightmare!

[alatefeline]

That absolutely helps. My limit is not how many words I can read, in any practical sense, but how many depressing news articles I can process without wanting to literally knock myself unconscious.

I can read science ALL DAY! And fanfiction. And stories about people's pets. Watch me!

Have you been here yet?
https://www.sciencenews.org

Heh, *my* mom left the child psychology books lying around on purpose and then got reviews from me on how wrong they were about how my brain worked, and occasionally some positive feedback.

[conuly]

My limit is not how many words I can read, in any practical sense, but how many depressing news articles I can process without wanting to literally knock myself unconscious.

I understand, and yet... I hate feeling ignorant even more. I guess I'm just another depraved masochist.

Ooh, sciencenews. But... if I add another feed, I think my reading page will explode. What to do, what to do...?

[alatefeline]

Yep. Wanting to have up-to-date information and useful facts and interesting perspectives, gosh, that's terrible.

The masochist says "Hurt me" and the sadist says "No..."

Sorry-not-sorry...guess I'm not much of a sadistic personality.

[alatefeline]

PS: The cockatoos are clearly on my side here (not that there's really sides, but there can totally be sides if I get to hang out with cockatoos), as they used logic to solve problems but stopped when brain overload hit.