Haven't voted yet, but going soon!

[conuly]

Not sure how "let's make something for dinner that involves using these leftovers and those things I need to cook" turned into a $30 dollar trip to the grocery store....

I better also do some cleaning before I head out. Busy day!

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Increasing medical researcher gender diversity found to increase gender related factors in results

The Big Stories Behind Small Seeds: This Man Wants To Save Them All

How a 'flipped' gene helped butterflies evolve mimicry

Move over, dodgeball: Schools pump up phys ed with choices

Why Riding An Elevator Is Like Changing Gravity (I have always enjoyed the weightless feeling you get when you jump up in a downward elevator.)

Photos of the 1939 New York World's Fair

T. rex arms, wiggly beluga heads, and tentacle-nosed moles: smart evolution sometimes looks stupid

Unraveling an Ancient Code Written In Strings

This Startup Thinks It Can Train Crows to Clean Up Cigarette Butts. Here’s What Experts Say.

After the NYC marathon, where does all the poop go?

On tampon and pad advertising

How YA Literature Is Leading the Queer Disabled Media Revolution

Pissarro's Picking Peas returned to Jewish owners

Alexa, Are You Safe For My Kids?

As America’s rural communities stagnate, what can we learn from one that hasn’t?

Bringing back large herbivores to the steppes

Solving the Mystery of an Ancient Roman Plague

16th-Century Shipwreck Off Florida Is Causing an International Dispute

Thirty Years After My Adoption, I Found Out I Wasn’t a US Citizen

FEMA rethinking ban on disaster aid to church buildings (Unusually, I think that I might agree with the churches etc. here.)

Two children sue over Trump effort to roll back Clean Power Plan

Hospitals are helping make us all sick

Trump Pick for Top Civil Rights Enforcer Has Made a Career of Fighting Discrimination Claims (I can't even read this one. I'm just done today.)

Stop using antibiotics in healthy animals, WHO urges farmers

'I lost everything:' Homelessness surges in Silicon Valley

Republicans push ahead with tax bill as Democrats sharpen attacks

The wealthy men in Trump's inner circle with links to tax havens

The New York attack was labeled 'terrorism.' The Texas shooting wasn't. Here's why

Why are US mass shootings getting more deadly?

Comments

[zesty_pinto]

Any opinions on question 1 on the ballot? I'm noticing people discussing whether it's worth supporting or not.

[conuly]

The convention one? All the unions hate it. That's good enough for me.

[zesty_pinto]

Oh man, your popsci article also means I have to share this with you:


The crow article also made me think of this episode of "China, IL" where the mayor decides to teach crows to become academic savants, outperforming the very professors who taught them. Like most Brad Neely projects, it was appropriately insane and wonderful at once.

[conuly]

Lovely image!

Crows are already savants, they just don't like to share their discoveries with humans.

[larryhammer]

Thirty Years After My Adoption, I Found Out I Wasn’t a US Citizen

Ouch ouch ouch. And this was a family who did everything right, too! (Not all families who adopted internationally back then did.)

*double-checks TBD's adoption papers, certificate of citizenship, and passport are all safe*

ouch

[conuly]

(Not all families who adopted internationally back then did.)

No, apparently a lot of them just sort of assumed it was all handled, according to articles I've read in the past year.

Of course, the real assholes in those stories are the jerks in the US government who think that infant adoptees, now grown, should be deported to their countries of birth.

[moonhare]

Not sure how "let's make something for dinner that involves using these leftovers and those things I need to cook" turned into a $30 dollar trip to the grocery store....

That is truly the Joy of Cooking!

[conuly]

Indeed.

“Unraveling an Ancient Code Written in Strings”

[nodrog]

“What are the implications of a three-dimensional writing system, in which the sense of
touch plays as important a role as sight, and how does this expand our understanding of
what ‘writing’ is?”

Thank you!  Now, see, if I hadn't friended you here I'd have never seen that.  Differing viewpoints must be experienced to achieve perspective - in optics and in politics.

[siderea]

On tampon and pad advertising

I love that this question was answered with musicology.

[conuly]

I love that it was asked by musicology.

[wpadmirer]

I read the one about seeds (which is cool) and the one about the adoptee. E-Verify is just fucking evil, but I now have to use it for all our employees because we have a contract for a grant through the USDA. (sigh)

[conuly]

Sigh indeed.