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Man, LJ seems slow the last couple of days. And I'm a paying member. Also, what's this big leaf doing at the top of my posting screen?
Link catchup:
* HIST: ancient Egyptian travelogue and fiction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report_of_Wenamun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_Sinuhe
Shunga: Edo period porn
Kingdoms of Africa. Probably conflating various times. But note they don't connect much.
* ECON: Another graph of income growth in America. Over the past 15 years, median income has gone up 13%, top 400 income has gone up 400% -- stagnation vs. quintupling.
* China's unloaded water pistol of debt
* US manufacturing: not dead yet
* Black women and wealth: "median net wealth is $5."
* BIO: Gut bacteria may affect or cause metabolic syndrome. Contagious obesity?
* Metabolic syndrome might be adaptive? Or depression?
* SCI: Bleeding glacier
Synthetic photosynthesis foam
This year's global warming
* EDU: Building better teachers
* RPG: Blue Rose and democracy
* MED: Medical-legal partnerships for the poor
* MONEY: how car dealers try to rip you off
* SKEPTIC: debunking in India
* POLI: Waterboarding details, even worse than before
Iraqis may experience sadness when friends, family die
New national standard for schools? Surprised the wingnuts haven't been on this more.
Prison rape, and more. I haven't actually read these.
* Canada's PM Stephen "I want to be American" Harper decides to not fund birth control abroad
Bernie Madoff assaulted, prison officials lie about it
Peter Watts conviced of 'noncompliance' after being beaten by border officials
* BOOK: Interview with Baen about e-books
Hodgell's fifth, Bound in Blood, is out. Pat did a promotional twitter version. In reverse order, and weak spoilers. Also not permanent, but twitter wasn't searching on the #Kencyrverse tag anymore. Starts on March 2nd.
* Strange and Norrell FAQ
* Stross on how the Family Trade books got written
POLI: Evan Bayh interview
"My take on that was, I'm reasonably confident that there are no death panels in this bill, but if there are, that's an appointment I want. That's power. Forget Finance. Forget Appropriations. I want the death panel."
"how many cents do you believe are wasted? Some people said 100, some people said zero. The average was something like 44, 45 cents on the dollar. That's not even possible! A lot of it is just transfer
payments, the government doesn't hold onto it long enough to waste that amount. But if that's what people believe, that's the notion we've got to get to."
Misc
me: Yeah, I wondered the same thing [how they know Gobekli Tepe was a temple]. Lay perception is that archaeologists tend to label anything they can't explain as temples or ritual artifacts. I have an apocryphal story saved about a little girl wandering into her father's office, with lots of small-sized tools around, and asking "Daddy can I play with the toys?" with the father going "...oh."
someone else: Here's a true story: We have a tremendous amount of knowledge about the location of Roman-era olive oil presses (and by extension olive plantations) in North Africa due to an exhaustive survey undertaken by a Victorian archaeologist. Unfortunately for him, he undertook the survey believing the olive oil presses were actually sacrificial altars.
Link catchup:
* HIST: ancient Egyptian travelogue and fiction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report_of_Wenamun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_Sinuhe
Shunga: Edo period porn
Kingdoms of Africa. Probably conflating various times. But note they don't connect much.
* ECON: Another graph of income growth in America. Over the past 15 years, median income has gone up 13%, top 400 income has gone up 400% -- stagnation vs. quintupling.
* China's unloaded water pistol of debt
* US manufacturing: not dead yet
* Black women and wealth: "median net wealth is $5."
* BIO: Gut bacteria may affect or cause metabolic syndrome. Contagious obesity?
* Metabolic syndrome might be adaptive? Or depression?
* SCI: Bleeding glacier
Synthetic photosynthesis foam
This year's global warming
* EDU: Building better teachers
* RPG: Blue Rose and democracy
* MED: Medical-legal partnerships for the poor
* MONEY: how car dealers try to rip you off
* SKEPTIC: debunking in India
* POLI: Waterboarding details, even worse than before
Iraqis may experience sadness when friends, family die
New national standard for schools? Surprised the wingnuts haven't been on this more.
Prison rape, and more. I haven't actually read these.
* Canada's PM Stephen "I want to be American" Harper decides to not fund birth control abroad
Bernie Madoff assaulted, prison officials lie about it
Peter Watts conviced of 'noncompliance' after being beaten by border officials
* BOOK: Interview with Baen about e-books
Hodgell's fifth, Bound in Blood, is out. Pat did a promotional twitter version. In reverse order, and weak spoilers. Also not permanent, but twitter wasn't searching on the #Kencyrverse tag anymore. Starts on March 2nd.
* Strange and Norrell FAQ
* Stross on how the Family Trade books got written
POLI: Evan Bayh interview
"My take on that was, I'm reasonably confident that there are no death panels in this bill, but if there are, that's an appointment I want. That's power. Forget Finance. Forget Appropriations. I want the death panel."
"how many cents do you believe are wasted? Some people said 100, some people said zero. The average was something like 44, 45 cents on the dollar. That's not even possible! A lot of it is just transfer
payments, the government doesn't hold onto it long enough to waste that amount. But if that's what people believe, that's the notion we've got to get to."
Misc
me: Yeah, I wondered the same thing [how they know Gobekli Tepe was a temple]. Lay perception is that archaeologists tend to label anything they can't explain as temples or ritual artifacts. I have an apocryphal story saved about a little girl wandering into her father's office, with lots of small-sized tools around, and asking "Daddy can I play with the toys?" with the father going "...oh."
someone else: Here's a true story: We have a tremendous amount of knowledge about the location of Roman-era olive oil presses (and by extension olive plantations) in North Africa due to an exhaustive survey undertaken by a Victorian archaeologist. Unfortunately for him, he undertook the survey believing the olive oil presses were actually sacrificial altars.