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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Wait wait... don't tell me!
April 25. 2014 on NPR
Carl reads three news-related limericks: Now Someone Else Can Cause Forest Fires; Snooze and Lose; The Surly Years.
Taken from the official website
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David Goodsell of the Scripps Research Institute does amazing illustrations portraying various organisms and biological molecules. Top: Overall structure of an Mycoplasma mycoides, a bacteria that causes lung disease in ruminants. Bottom Right: Cross section of Escherichia coli, a common bacteria that sometimes causes food poisoning, showing a flagellum, ribosomes/tRNA, miscellaneous enzymes and the nucleoid. Bottom Left: HIV in blood serum being attacked by antibodies.
source: http://mgl.scripps.edu/people/goodsell/illustration/index.html
blessphemy said: 私もへブルーを読めたらいいな…きれいな書言葉だし。
אני קצת מבולבלת. התרגום מגוגל היה… מוזר. אולי את מתכוונת לתעתק את המילה ״עברית״ (כי ״כחול״ זה לא שפה)? אם כן, אני מסכימה; היא שפה ממש יפה. יפנית גם שפה מעניינת מאוד. האם יפנית שפת האם שלך?
My 9-year-old son: Mom? Why couldn’t women be scientists?
Me: In the Cosmos episode we just watched, you mean?
Him: Yeah.
Me: That’s hard to answer… during that time, women were seen by many men as inferior (that means they thought women weren’t as good as men) and...
The FCC sided with Comcast and decided to let ISPs censor the internet. The Internet needs to stop this from happening: http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/tellfcc/
Last Wednesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced a proposal for new rules that would allow for a “ fast lane” of Internet traffic for content providers who are willing (and able) to pay a fee. [1] The proposal reverses the FCC’s previous commitment to net neutrality and open internet and allows ISP’s like Comcast or Verizon to slow down and censor services that don’t pay the toll.
We have to be totally honest, this situation is seriously grim. But there is still hope. The FCC already knows that the Internet community wants net neutrality, but they think they can put their spin on these new rules and sneak them through. If we can prove them wrong right now with a massive public outcry, we can literally save the Internet once again.
We need to stop the FCC now. Big business groups are already ramping up lobbying efforts with the FCC in swarms since Wednesday’s announcement in support of censoring the open Internet and to ensure this dangerous proposal moves forward. [2]
This is a critical moment. In the last few weeks more than 65,000 people have taken action with us. Can you help us get to 80,000 by the end of the day today?
[1] Gautham Nagesh. “FCC to Propose New ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules”. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304518704579519963416350296
[2] Edward Wyatt. Edward Wyatt. “Lobbying Efforts Intensify After F.C.C. Tries 3rd Time on Net Neutrality” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/business/lobbying-efforts-intensify-after-fcc-tries-3rd-time-on-net-neutrality.html?hpw&rref=politics
- Fight For The Future