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Books I've read recently: Krugman's Return to Depression Economics, Terry Pratchett's Nation, Bujold's Sharing Knife books. All good. The Pratchett isn't Discworld, or even particularly like Discworld; it's in a story-convenient alternate Earth, where history is almost the same, up to Darwin making a fuss, but there's been a really nasty flu, a tsunami in the Indian ocean (that might be historical), and a touch of subtle fantasy and some different biology (tree-climing octopus yay).
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* Retail medicine; possibly an option for the uninsured, or for avoiding overworked hospitals let alone ER, for a lot of simple diagnoses and treatments.
* Screenshot essay on Asian influence in Avatar. Came up because of the live action casting.
* Brief review of Freefall, the webcomic.
* Rick Warren, the anti-gay evangelical preacher Obama tapped for the inauguration, who was supposedly positive on poverty and AIDS issues, turns out to push "abstinence only" in Africa.
* RNA world links I haven't read yet.
* 1000-word Silmarillion
* Black voters extonerated on passing Prop 8
* Someone's map of Second Age Middle-Earth
* The low-wages party resists unions.
* Analysis of Heinlein's predictions, and of Clarke's. Wright had actually mentioned Heinlein, but this guy reprints enough that I can see how much Wright was riffing off Heinlein's predictions and language.
* Bush administration by the economic numbers.
* Mississippi has the highest teen birth rate, 60% above national average; New England gets as low as half o the average. Family values!
* Men given oxytocin recall familiar faces better.
* Alternate Death Note ending
* Buried in this TVTropes page is a claim that Titanic is wildly popular in Kyrgyzstan, one of the furthest places from the ocean.
* Miyazaki interviews. I mostly noted his view that machines, rather than being heartless, have dog's hearts. We make them to be slobberingly loyal, if somewhat stupid.
You may note my icon is much nicer now, thanks to
lpetrazickis and Photoshop, bicubic algorithm instead of nearest neighbor scaling. Contrast with * Retail medicine; possibly an option for the uninsured, or for avoiding overworked hospitals let alone ER, for a lot of simple diagnoses and treatments.
* Screenshot essay on Asian influence in Avatar. Came up because of the live action casting.
* Brief review of Freefall, the webcomic.
* Rick Warren, the anti-gay evangelical preacher Obama tapped for the inauguration, who was supposedly positive on poverty and AIDS issues, turns out to push "abstinence only" in Africa.
* RNA world links I haven't read yet.
* 1000-word Silmarillion
* Black voters extonerated on passing Prop 8
* Someone's map of Second Age Middle-Earth
* The low-wages party resists unions.
* Analysis of Heinlein's predictions, and of Clarke's. Wright had actually mentioned Heinlein, but this guy reprints enough that I can see how much Wright was riffing off Heinlein's predictions and language.
* Bush administration by the economic numbers.
* Mississippi has the highest teen birth rate, 60% above national average; New England gets as low as half o the average. Family values!
* Men given oxytocin recall familiar faces better.
* Alternate Death Note ending
* Buried in this TVTropes page is a claim that Titanic is wildly popular in Kyrgyzstan, one of the furthest places from the ocean.
* Miyazaki interviews. I mostly noted his view that machines, rather than being heartless, have dog's hearts. We make them to be slobberingly loyal, if somewhat stupid.
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