Friday 12 October 2012

Friday Links 20


India


Why the BJP-Shiv Sena is silent on the mega NCP-Congress irrigation scam in Maharashtra - http://www.tehelka.com/story_main54.asp?filename=Ne061012Coverstory.asp


Education



Philosophy

Pervez Hoodbhoy on Neutrinos and Angels -  http://tribune.com.pk/story/318468/on-neutrinos-and-angels/


On Thomas Jefferson and slavery - http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Little-Known-Dark-Side-of-Thomas-Jefferson-169780996.html

World freehand circle drawing champion - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2012/09/world-freehand-circle-drawing-champion.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+3quarksdaily+%283quarksdaily%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Woman operated for tapeworm in brain - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/09/06/tapeworm-in-her-brain/

How the fatwa changed a writer's life - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2012/09/the-disappeared-how-the-fatwa-changed-a-writers-life.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+3quarksdaily+%283quarksdaily%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Superb narrative on fascinating subculture - http://bandrabuggers.blogspot.in/

Woman had to be held upside down to be conscious - http://io9.com/5938154/this-is-one-of-the-weirdest-medical-cases-weve-read-about-in-a-long-time

Man at cafe meets inventor of the pixel - http://joelrunyon.com/two3/an-unexpected-ass-kicking

Doctor in Antarctica who removed his own appendix - http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/antarctica-1961-a-soviet-surgeon-has-to-remove-his-own-appendix/72445/

Music

Korean drummer steals show - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2012/08/korean-drummer-steals-the-show-my-way.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+3quarksdaily+%283quarksdaily%29

Animals

Octopus steals food and casually wrestles shark - http://deepseanews.com/2012/10/octopus-steals-food-and-casually-wrestles-shark/

Leopard catches impala in flying leap - http://io9.com/5948692/holy-heck-this-leopard-just-body+slammed-its-dinner

A note on zoos - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d4579a10-06fd-11e2-92ef-00144feabdc0.html#axzz27xqGTeu2

The Amboseli project is the longest running elephant research project in history - http://elephanttrust.org/node/1

Regrown lizard tails aren't perfect copies of the original - http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528824.200-inferior-lizard-tails-weaken-hopes-of-regrowing-limbs.html

Alternative theory on canine dominance and learning - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/my-puppy-my-self/201209/does-dominance-adversely-affect-learning

Virgin births among wild snakes - http://io9.com/5942952/virgin-birth-has-just-been-discovered-in-wild-snakes-cue-jurassic-park-theme-music

Time-lapse video of tarantula molting - http://io9.com/5942753/this-time+lapse-video-of-a-tarantula-molting-will-give-you-spontaneous-arachnophobia

Mites living on your face - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/31/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-the-mites-that-eat-crawl-and-have-sex-on-your-face/

Whale vomit is valuable - http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/29/13552161-boy-finds-a-bonanza-in-whale-vomit?lite

Video of stick insect hatching - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/08/27/watch-this-a-gigantic-stick-insect-pries-itself-out-of-a-tiny-egg/

Science

On the failed biosphere projects - http://io9.com/5938855/why-we-should-reboot-the-biosphere-projects

Zoos discussing climate change - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/science/earth/zoos-and-aquariums-struggle-with-ways-to-discuss-climate-change.html?_r=3&partner=rss&emc=rss&

Collection of Liam heneghan articles - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/MondayMusings.html/#Liam

On security flaws in Apple and Amazon - http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/

We're getting fat because we eat too much, not because we're sedentary - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/opinion/sunday/debunking-the-hunter-gatherer-workout.html?_r=1&hpw

News

Canadian cheese smugglers are earning $2,000 per trip - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/09/21/niagara-police-cheese-smuggling-allegations.html

Travel

The Guadalupe-Nipomo dunes - http://atlasobscura.com/place/guadalupe-nipomo-dunes

History

WW2 technically ended in 1990 - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_extended_by_diplomatic_irregularity#

Politics

Did the US over react to 9/11? - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/09/10/did-the-u-s-overreact-to-the-911-attacks/

TV

100 TV series finales in under 7 minutes - http://www.jest.com/video/198411/100-series-finales-in-under-7-minutes

Fun

Separate eggs with a plastic bottle - http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/howto-separate-eggs-with-a-pla.html

Giant cartoon paper sculpture in New Zealand - http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/08/10/158560857/giant-crumpled-paper-drops-from-the-sky-lands-on-hill-in-new-zealand

A website dedicated to the guillotine - http://www.guillotine.dk/default.html

Humour


Jesus and Mo cartoons - http://www.jesusandmo.net/

I like these -




When Gotham is ashes, you have my permission to Gangnam style - http://9gag.com/gag/5377864

If you thought those '18 Again' ads were weird - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U4zemqaq68&feature=player_embedded

Did you hear the one about the building and the barometer? - http://io9.com/5942429/at-last-the-field-of-physics-has-its-own-version-of-the-urban-legend


Dramatic entrance fail - http://i.imgur.com/cXbHK.gif






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