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Terror on Mars

Posted on 2012-07-31 by GaryJuly 31, 2012
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From today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, NASA and JPL go dramatic, presenting a description of the Curiosity rover’s landing process as something like the trailer for a suspense film. Not bad, actually: The Curiosity rover, about the size of … Continue reading →

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Rise and fall in American violence

Posted on 2012-07-29 by GaryJuly 22, 2012
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As Steven Pinker pointed out in his recent book The Better Angels of Our Nature (previously reviewed here), violence worldwide has been trending down over the centuries, but not uniformly. An interesting set of graphs from Kieran Healy shows that … Continue reading →

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Britt’s donuts

Posted on 2012-07-25 by GaryJuly 25, 2012
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I spent my childhood in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, where every summer everyone looked forward to donuts from Britt’s, a small shop in the small boardwalk area that served what I’ve always suspected are the best donuts on the planet. … Continue reading →

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Interesting 10 minutes on population growth

Posted on 2012-07-23 by GaryJuly 22, 2012
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This is a nifty short video on population growth that’s fast-moving and interesting and blessedly doesn’t stray into politics or alarmism, though it does make some points that ought to provoke some sober thought. Some might find it a little … Continue reading →

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Doing magic on too much coffee

Posted on 2012-07-22 by GaryJuly 18, 2012
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These people might need to switch to decaf: I wonder if this is the same guy as the one in the airplane restroom yesterday. by … Continue reading →

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Testing Android’s voice search feature versus Siri

Posted on 2012-07-22 by GaryJuly 19, 2012
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Starting at 3 minutes and 15 seconds there’s an interesting (and at times amusing) face-off between the voice search features of the latest versions of Google’s Android OS and Apple’s iOS (the latter called Siri): (My own experience is that … Continue reading →

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What just happened here?

Posted on 2012-07-21 by GaryJuly 18, 2012
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Here is a video clip shot by a passenger illustrating that TSA agents in special yellow uniforms are now performing backup security screenings on board aircraft. Well, that’s my guess anyway. (Thanks to Failblog and SenorGif.) by … Continue reading →

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Clarifying an important tax point

Posted on 2012-07-20 by GaryJuly 18, 2012
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At the start of last week Greg Sargent made an important point on taxes that bears repeating, since many people (apparently including many journalists) seem unclear on it: The proposal backed by President Obama and most Democrats in Congress would … Continue reading →

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No lawyers in that county?

Posted on 2012-07-20 by GaryJuly 18, 2012
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A near-accident but nobody gets mad: by … Continue reading →

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Congressional leadership also not releasing tax returns

Posted on 2012-07-19 by GaryJuly 19, 2012
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Mitt Romney has been taking a lot of criticism, from fellow Republicans as well as Democrats, for refusing to make public his tax returns before 2010. As he’s correctly pointed out, there’s no legal requirement for him to do so. … Continue reading →

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