Daily Archives: June 9, 2012

The Gates of Hell located in Kyzylgar, Turkmenistan | Atlas Obscura | Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations.

Scandals of Classic Hollywood: That Divine Gary Cooper | The Hairpin.

The Long, Fake Life of J.S. Dirr: A Decade-Long Internet Cancer Hoax Unravels.

Mark Warren My Father’s Last Words – Words My Father Said – Esquire.

The Horace Mann School’s Secret History of Sexual Abuse – NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/magazine/the-horace-mann-schools-secret-history-of-sexual-abuse.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all

The Consequences of Caring http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8026268/the-consequences-caring

Studying the Brain Can Help Us Understand Our Unscientific Beliefs : The New Yorker http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06/brain-experiments-why-we-dont-believe-science.html

m.guardian.co.uk http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/09/did-republicans-deliberately-crash-us-economy?cat=commentisfree&type=article

The world’s most unusual beaches – travel tips and articles – Lonely Planet.

Alcatraz escape nears 50th anniversary http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2012%2F06%2F09%2FMNQ61OV4QK.DTL

Goldman Sachs Hires Single Morally Decent Human Being To Work In Separate, Enclosed Cubicle | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source.

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From the Chicago Tribune: Children’s hospital move under way Just after 6 a.m., 5-month-old Emiliano Vazquez became the first of nearly 200 patients to leave Children’s Memorial Hospital in Lincoln Park for the hospital’s new downtown facility, his sleepy eyes … Continue reading →

Neuroscientists could help people see with their “mind’s eye”.

Grass-o-s « Now I Know Archives.

It took child welfare officials four months after hotline call to find 23-pound starved girl – Chicago Tribune.

Reading William Faulkner: Closely and repeatedly, ideally | The Economist.

America’s Class War: Billionaires Against the Unions : The New Yorker.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life. Ray Bradbury

Here are what I see as foundational principles of evolution: Evolution (genetic change in populations) occurred. Life originated about 3.5 billion years ago and the original lineage and its descendants split many times, leading to the millions of species alive … Continue reading →

Edge: MY GOD PROBLEM By Natalie Angier.

Numbers 15: 32 – 36 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and … Continue reading →

I’m watching Red-tailed Hawk Nest LIVE on my iPhone. http://www.livestream.com/

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