Get your comedy fix on Friday with 420 Comedy Night, hosted by Gina Bernstein. The lineup includes comics from famed comedy schools such as the Groundlings and Second City. Curtains go up at Archway Studio and Theatre at 9 p.m. and…
Acquiring The Knowledge changes the brains of London cab drivers | Not Exactly Rocket Science
discovermagazine.comLondon is not a good place for fans of right angles. People who like the methodical grid system of Manhattan will whimper and cry at the baffling knot of streets of England’s capital. In this bewildering network, it’s entirely…
Guest Contributor, racialicious.com
By Guest Contributor Liz Dwyer, cross-posted from Los Angelista
“Why’d you give that n***** your eraser?”
I send my two sons to school to learn, not so that they can be called racial slurs. But on Wednesday, a boy in 10-year-old M…
Yeah, even if there’s some prompting from adults, I think kids can in fact speak truth to power of their own volition.
More unpopular than bin Laden?
By BYRON TAU | 12/07/11 10:09 AM Updated: 12/07/11 10:48 AM, politico.comGOP strategist Rick Wilson recently asked a focus group of Republican voters whether they would rather “kill Obamacare” or have killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden:
If Democrats suffered through “Bush Derangement Syndrome” during the l…
Really? They rather prevent millions of Americans from getting affordable health care and let OBL roam the world free? Those are some evil motherfuckers right there.
Open Access
Research Article
Fan Ding1¤, Dante S. Zarlenga2, Yudong Ren3, Guangxing Li1, Jin Luan4, Xiaofeng Ren1*
1 College of Veterinary Medicine, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China, 2 Animal…
Certazidime-resistant E. coli?!? Dang. I wonder if they’re also piperacillin/tazobactam-resistant as well?
by Matthew Cobb
This excellent abstract found at boingboing. If only I could be so succinct…
Via @Myrmecos on Twitter. Full article available here.
Science in a Twitterized world
“I have been working as an ER doctor for over a decade, and in that time I have come to recognize that there are certain complaints, and certain patients who bear these complaints, that are very challenging to take care of. I’m trying to be diplomatic here. What I really mean is that there are certain presentations that just make you cringe, drain the life force out of you, and make you wish you’d listened to mother and gone into investment banking instead.”
