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26.Radiation-loving fungi (www.cosmosmagazine.com)
"Deep in the radioactive bowels of the smashed Chernobyl reactor, a strange new lifeform is blooming."
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27.
Apparently the pirating of college textbooks is on the rise.
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28.The Illogic of Farm Subsidies, and Other Agricultural Truths (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
Long Q & A with agricultural economist Daniel Sumner. Interesting.
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29.Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce (www.ted.com)
Apparently there was a latent demand for extra chunky for many years.
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30.How Tiny Tim Became a Pitching Giant (sportsillustrated.cnn.com)
As fascinating an article about a baseball pitcher as I've ever read. Someone should hire his dad as a pitching coach.
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31.No Babies? - Declining Population in Europe (www.nytimes.com)
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32.Does Having Children Make You Happy? (www.newsweek.com)
"The most recent comprehensive study on the emotional state of those with kids shows us that the term "bundle of joy" may not be the most accurate way to describe our offspring"
I didn't read all of this, but it's worth at least knowing about.
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33.
How does he find the time for Family Feud?
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34.Colombia's Cocaine Cartels Now Using Homemade Submarines (www.spiegel.de)
They cost up to $1 million to build and are promptly sunk at the end of their voyage.
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35.Collapsing Colonies: Are GM Crops Killing Bees? (www.spiegel.de)
Could be scary. There is a killer Einstein quote:
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man. -
36.Inconspicuous Consumption (www.theatlantic.com)
A new theory of the leisure class
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37.DailyLit: Read books by email and RSS. (www.dailylit.com)
Books in daily installments. Awesome.
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38.
I love breakfast so much.
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39.Big fat lie (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Interesting take on what makes people fat. It would be nice if he had done some research of his own.
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40.Monkeys Control a Mechanical Arm With Their Thoughts (www.nytimes.com)
It's on now. I wonder if the monkey's are sitting there eating their marshmallows wonders what the fuck we are thinking. When a species clearly has it's eye on global domination*, probably don't go strapping robotic things to them that are connected to their brains.
* We are talking about monkeys here. The kind of hubris is takes to start winging your feces around can't be that far off from taking over a continent and begrudging the erstwhile residents casinos or riding to over the Alps on elephants.
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41.Why Iceland has the happiest people on earth (www.guardian.co.uk)
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42.Chart comparing food consumption per person by type. (graphics8.nytimes.com)
The U.S. eats a shit load of corn, on the back of which our total food per person is much, much higher.
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43.Biofuel Comparision Chart (seattlepi.nwsource.com)
Interesting. The upshot is that no biofuel is fully ready.
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44.
Fascinating. I guess it's dirtfoot all around.
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45.Amazingly creative clock (www.christiaanpostma.nl)
It's actually 150 clocks. The hands of each are oriented so that every hour some subset of them spell out the name of the hour.
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46.Too many choices -- good or bad -- can be mentally exhausting (www.physorg.com)
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47.Developing Intelligence : When Noise Helps: Stochastic Resonance and ADHD (scienceblogs.com)
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48.Ben Stein's Expelled: No Integrity Displayed (www.sciam.com)
I used to think I respected Ben Stein. It's not easy to squander all your Ferris Bueller's Day Off cred in one swoop.
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49.Henry Rollins 'Ember of Rage' (youtube.com)
Getting kind of political and length here, but Rollins can be pretty impressive.
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50.Japan's Shrinking Work Force Turns to Robots (www.npr.org)
Mostly fluff, but I liked the title.
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