Random links
- Video: I Got Blasted by the Pentagon’s Pain Ray — Twice
- Phasers here we come... "That’s because of an imposing device the U.S. military calls the Active Denial System. It’s an energy weapon, commonly known as the “Pain Ray,” that turns electricity into millimeter wave radio frequency. And heat. Lots of heat."
- Can Corals Toughen Up After a Warming Crisis?
- "The researchers therefore propose that once a coral colony is hit by warm waters, it will be more resistant to bleaching in the future. It is only a hypothesis for now, and a controversial one at that, but the results of the study do suggest that branching corals may have a fighting chance in the future."
- Swedish feminists bare pits to 'reclaim the hair'
- "Some forty Swedish women gathered at a Malmö square in the afternoon on Thursday, taking a stand against the recent internet storm vilifying women's hairy armpits."
- Stuff Dutch People Like: No. 19: Mashing their food (the stamppot)
- I'd argue that dairy is the utterly essential ingredient in this sort of thing. Without it, virtually all Dutch food of this sort tastes disgusting, with a small amount of butter added it's not bad.
- The Emergence of Fun Morality
- "The advent of fun morality—and the cultural institutions and artifacts that enabled it—soon meant that not having fun was an occasion for anxiety. As Dr. Wolfenstein observed: 'Whereas gratification of forbidden impulses traditionally aroused guilt, failure to have fun now lowers one’s self-esteem.'"