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Sea Turtle Comeback: Giant Leatherback Numbers Rebound In Parts Of Caribbean – The Huffington Post.

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http://nyti.ms/10fYeJ9 NYTimes: Ray Manzarek, Doors Keyboardist, Dies at 74 Mr. Manzarek, who founded the band with Jim Morrison, died on Monday afternoon at a clinic in Rosenheim, Germany.

http://nyti.ms/11699d1 NYTimes: Barbara Brenner, Breast Cancer Iconoclast, Dies at 61 Ms. Brenner, who led the group Breast Cancer Action for 15 years, took on the medical establishment and industrial companies as she crusaded for research into causes of the disease.

http://nyti.ms/16KDMXS NYTimes: Boruch Spiegel, Fighter in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Dies at 93 Mr. Spiegel was one of the last surviving fighters of the 1943 uprising, in which 750 Jews held off German soldiers for over a month with crude arms … Continue reading →

Facebook, One Year Later: What Really Happened in the Biggest IPO Flop Ever – Atlantic Mobile.

http://nyti.ms/116uYmX NYTimes: The Ultimate Have-Nots in a Society of Have-Nots Haiti is estimated to have 250,000 restaveks — children working as unpaid servants after their parents, who cannot afford to raise them, give them away.

Reblogged from Why Evolution Is True: A person named Don Flood conributes this bit of apologetics to one of my posts, “Catholics claim that lies are truer than truth”, which dealt with the inability to comport the results of genetics … Continue reading →

First look: The Coens’ marvelous folk-music odyssey – Salon.com.

The Smaller Majority by Piotr Naskrecki | Creative Nature Photography Blog by Piotr Naskrecki.

Reblogged from Why Evolution Is True: This is one of those times when scientists discover a structure whose function is absolutely mysterious.  Piotr (Peter) Naskrecki, an entomologist, photographer and author working the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, is currently … Continue reading →

MY GOD PROBLEM | Edge.org.

Mysterious Poop Foam Causes Explosions on Hog Farms | Mother Jones.

Reblogged from Why Evolution Is True: “Crypsis,” as you should all know by now, is just a fancy scientific word for “camouflage.”  Often cryptic animals will hide from predators by mimicking their background, but here’s a case in which one … Continue reading →

Reblogged from Why Evolution Is True: One goal of the young science of “Darwinian medicine” is to understand how infectious microorganisms might actually manipulate the host’s behavior to facilitate the microorganisms’ own transmission. This is nothing new to evolutionists—we have … Continue reading →

::: Reconnaissance Survey for the Alaska Railroad: James L. McPherson’s Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Collection. :::.

Alaska’s Digital Archives.

TED Home : The Editor’s Desk : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A Letter from John Boehner : The New Yorker.

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art inside me.

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‘Stories We Tell,’ Written and Directed by Sarah Polley – NYTimes.com.

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The world through a newborn’s senses – latimes.com.

Scientists create human embryos to make stem cells – latimes.com.

“I will Survive” the Muslim Brotherhood: Leftist Egyptian Youth Music Video | Informed Comment.

The Lotto Symbolizes the False Promises of Barracuda Capitalism, and it Won’t make you Happy to Win | Informed Comment.

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A Vine Lesson on How To Wake Up Your Dog.

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Obama Denies Role in Government : The New Yorker.

New Yorker launches tool by Aaron Swartz to protect leaks – Salon.com.

Temple Grandin on DSM-5: “Sounds like diagnosis by committee” – Salon.com.

Alex Gibney: Julian Assange has become like “those he despises” – Salon.com.

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How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled by Paul Krugman | The New York Review of Books.

Ben Faccini – Street children.

Everest Maxed Out.

Was well-known lawyer’s demand letter ‘extortion’? Appeals court to hear arguments on judge’s ruling.

The Cicada’s Love Affair With Prime Numbers : The New Yorker.

The Smith/Klein/Kalecki Theory of Austerity – NYTimes.com.

Targeting Texas – NYTimes.com.