Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
The Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of A Special Education Student
School districts must give students with disabilities the chance to make meaningful, “appropriately ambitious” progress, the Supreme Court said Wednesday in an 8-0 ruling.
Nice to have some precedent established, especially considering the current nominee.
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/know-nothing-authentication/ Great until you type left handed holding a sandwich, break a finger, get carpal tunnel or arthritis, have a stroke…
If the free market was enough to ensure treatments worked, there would be no big supplement or homeopathy industry https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/donald-trump-versus-the-fda-part-2/
Science is Not the Enemy via @MadArtLab
Hundreds of companies have signed an open letter to Trump & Congress encouraging the US to honor its Paris climate commitments, as in the long run it will be better for our economy (not to mention the ball of rock that we live on). It's not just the companies you'd expect like Ben & Jerry's. Several of the giant agribusiness conglomerates like Unilever, Mondelez and General Mills and Mars are on the list as well.
A Statement from the CEO of FARE
The recent concerns raised about epinephrine pricing practices have led to questions on FARE’s relationship with commercial organizations. As CEO of FARE I think it’s important to address these questions.
Careful not to name Mylan specifically, but good to know: “We have therefore decided that until meaningful competition exists in the epinephrine auto-injector space we will no longer accept donations from companies marketing these devices.”
Meet the worst ants in the world
Why it’s so hard to get rid of Argentine ants. Also some interesting insights on how founder-effect genetic bottlenecks can change the behavior of species as they move into new ecosystems. In their original habitat, each colony fights each other ruthlessly. But when a colony hitches a ride on a ship or train and expands in a new region, all that region’s ants descend from the same colony and read each other as friends, not foes.
Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
One of the driest countries on Earth now makes more freshwater than it needs
An interesting look at desalination in the Middle East and how to deal with drought in lands that are already dry to begin with. Israel and Jordan are also working on a joint project on the Red Sea with the intent of sending the brine discharge to the Dead Sea.
Interesting perspective: IoT has given the internet “hands and feet.”
Anticrepuscular Rays over Colorado (II)
Nice photo from APOD. The sun is behind the camera, and the shafts of light appear to converge on the other side of the sky.
Wow, that’s messed up: Comodo, TLS certificates and business ethics
My comment on GeekDad’s Demonizing Rent’s Benny vs. Lionizing Hamilton’s Alexander.
Great analysis! I recently picked up the Rent soundtrack again after letting it sit for a while and found that my perspective has changed over the years.
I was thinking about Benny vs. Aaron Burr the other day: Benny’s the designated villain because he’s on the other side of the conflict from the rest of the main cast. Personal flaws aside, he’s not evil, he just has different priorities. But the show clearly presents him as the bad guy.
Hamilton literally has Aaron Burr *call himself* the villain, but the show does so much to humanize him that it’s hard to read him that way. (At least as far as the cast album goes.) Antagonist, yes. Opponent, absolutely. But he’s presented much more sympathetically than Benny, even though he actually kills the hero.
Water Conservation Saves Energy in California
Reducing water use saved as much energy last year as the biggest electricity utilities’ conservation efforts. Double-win!