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Writing and Mortality — Rachel Swirsky on a topic a bit close to home for me, also the myth of compulsion.
The true cost of publishing on the Amazon Kindle — Interesting information regarding periodicals on Kindle. (Via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=1){kind=small}
danjite.)
Happy Burger, Mr. President — The American presidency in hamburgers. (Thanks to garyomaha.)
Ecuadorean Villagers May Hold Secret to Longevity — This is a curious story about mutation, growth factors and cancer.
Record Melting in Greenland during 2010 — This image, made from microwave measurements, maps Greenland’s melt season in 2010, which lasted 50 days longer than average. Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. Global warming, though, that’s a liberal plot that’s only supported by the data.
In Defense of Elites — Yes, I would like my political leaders to be smarter and better informed than me, thank you very much. That isn’t threatening to a rational human being, that is reassuring.
Agnotology — Culturally induced ignorance or doubt. My view is that Quiggin is right as far as right-wing politicians are concerned: for the most part they know that Obama was born here, that he isn’t a socialist,that there are no death panels, and so on, but feel compelled to pretend to be crazy as a career move. (From @RivetNZ via danjite.)
?otD: Would you Tri-Cities?
2/18/2011
Writing time yesterday: 1.5 hours (2,500 words on a short fiction project, WRPA)
Body movement: 30 minutes on stationary bike
Hours slept: 7.0 hours (interrupted)
Weight: n/a (away from home)
Currently reading: Dead Iron by Devon Monk
Posted: 8:15 am Fri February 18 2011 |
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Cora
February 19th, 2011 at 4:53 pmI thought we were a bit better than the US regarding intelligent and well informed politicians, since we did not put someone like Sarah Palin into public office and our chancellor was a working physicist before her political career. But considering that 75% of our population don’t think it’s a big deal that the secretary of defense plagiarized his PhD thesis, because he is such a charismatic person and all who disagree are just jealous, I am not so sure.