Originally shared by Lissette Carlo

Originally shared by Lissette Carlo

I'll go with what Bill Maher said the other day which I'm totally behind.

You have a choice between the fish or the chicken.

If the fish isn't available then you opt for the chicken.

Because no matter what #Hillary2016 or #Bernie2016 is a whole lot better than the #GOP choices.

And if we get Hillary, that's 2 for the price of one. Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton

Originally shared by James Allan

Originally shared by James Allan

Kinkaku-iji Temple, Kyoto January 2015 during the heaviest snowfall for 60 years

Originally shared by Andrew Pam

Originally shared by Andrew Pam

Great article on the pervasive issues of the "attention economy".
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-block-ads/

Originally shared by Susan Stone

Originally shared by Susan Stone

quote: I don't know how Clinton would be as a public President, with all the mix of engagement, charisma and circumspection that involves. But showing how she might be as a private president, a Situation Room president, I think it was perhaps a transformative performance. When I watched my thought was, Wow, she'd be rock solid. Granular and detailed is seldom spell-binding. But over the course of the endless testimony, anyone who had the slightest sense that Clinton had been some sort of figurehead Secretary of State who left the key work to subordinates would have been thoroughly disabused of that notion.

Clinton's time under questioning sent a number of messages. One was simply the scope of her knowledge and experience that made her questioners look increasingly insipid and small. But there was also a simple toughness and resilience under pressure. She knows her stuff and she's a pro. You could not watch that testimony and not come away with that conclusion. This engagement gave her a live telecast opportunity to demonstrate that fact, which is almost invaluable. It is very difficult to imagine any of the Republican presidential candidates - even the ones serving in the Senate - able to roll with that kind of questioning or show the range of knowledge and clarity that was required to do so.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/long-twilight-struggle

Originally shared by Isaac Kuo

Originally shared by Isaac Kuo

This is the first evidence I trust showing Jeb's campaign truly is crumbling. I had thought that the continuous flow of "establishment" money would keep his campaign going like the Energizer Bunny until most of the rest simply ran out of steam.

But the inability of that money to shift poll numbers is evidently taking its toll.

What does this mean, in the big picture? What if Trump or Carson continue to ride high into the nomination, despite the fact that the big money donors hate them? Maybe this heralds a new era of democracy, where big money and TV ads don't have the sway they used to.

Who is driving this? I think it's the right wing base of primary voters who are highly engaged in political news. These are not "low information" voters, but rather voters who lap up "information" from right wing media such as WND, Drudge, Blaze etc...people who may often find even Fox News too "liberal" or "lamestream media". Fox News can try to push the establishment candidate onto them, but they now trust alternate political news sources more than FNC...alternate sources which are harder for the establishment elite to control.

I think we're seeing a demonstration of what an "informed" electorate can do. That these voters are basically living in a weird reality denial bubble makes for an interesting experiment (albeit one which we can't just dispassionately observe because the consequences are dire).

I am generally skeptical of the idea that the Internet is capable of radically changing the balance of power when it comes to money in politics. But I'll be delighted to be proven wrong about that...

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/jeb-bush-orders-across-board-pay-cuts-on-campaign-215106
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/jeb-bush-orders-across-board-pay-cuts-on-campaign-215106

Originally shared by ****

Originally shared by ****

Yay science:

Bernie and Hillary are friends

Bernie and Hillary are friends

http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/30/4-reasons-to-think-hillary-clinton-got-bernie-sanders-to-run-in-2016/
http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/30/4-reasons-to-think-hillary-clinton-got-bernie-sanders-to-run-in-2016

Originally shared by Stephen Hemminger

Originally shared by Stephen Hemminger

Help Dave Taht fix wifi like he helped fix #bufferbloat  https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi
https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi

Love this program

Love this program

Originally shared by ****

More true every day
https://youtu.be/4WVn2ubwIVM

Clavichords are famously difficult to record, but the tone here is captured beautifully.

Clavichords are famously difficult to record, but the tone here is captured beautifully.
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=TWt7US7DM5I&u=/watch?v%3DfF1MRROM1jY%26feature%3Dshare

Originally shared by annarita ruberto

Originally shared by annarita ruberto

What Happens When Your Brain Can’t Tell Which Way is Up?

In space, there is no “up” or “down.” That can mess with the human brain and affect the way people move and think in space. An investigation on the International Space Station seeks to understand how the brain changes in space and ways to deal with those changes.

Previous research and first-hand reports suggest that humans have a harder time controlling physical movement and completing mental tasks in microgravity. Astronauts have experienced problems with balance and perceptual illusions – feeling as if, for example, they are switching back and forth between right-side-up and upside down.

The Spaceflight Effects on Neurocognitive Performance: Extent, Longevity, and Neural Bases (NeuroMapping) study is examining changes in both brain structure and function and determining how long it takes to recover after returning from space.

Researchers are using both behavioral assessments and brain imaging. Astronauts complete timed obstacle courses and tests of their spatial memory, or the ability to mentally picture and manipulate a three-dimensional shape, before and after spaceflight. The spatial memory test also is performed aboard the station, along with sensory motor adaptation tests and computerized exercises requiring them to move and think simultaneously. Astronauts are tested shortly after arriving aboard the station, mid-way through and near the end of a six-month flight.

Structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain are done pre-flight and post-flight.

► Read the whole article for knowing more>>
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/neuromapping

► Left image explanation: This illustration shows the configuration for conducting neurocognitive assessments for the Neuromapping study aboard the International Space Station.
Credits: NASA
► Right image explanation: These slides show changes in volume in certain areas of the brain that occur with long-duration, head-down tilt bed rest. The Neuromapping Flight Study examines whether similar changes occur with spaceflight.
Credits: University of Michigan

#NASA #neuroscience #brain #NeuroMapping #space #InternationalSpaceStation

Originally shared by ****

Originally shared by ****

I'll bet you don't see this on the news.
http://climatecrocks.com/2015/10/12/more-mike-mann-its-worse-than-we-thought/

Originally shared by Pierce Arner

Originally shared by Pierce Arner

Well, FUCK. Here's to hoping that this absolutely doesn't happen, and hopefully there's an ability for us to make significant noise about it and be meaningful in doing so.

Also, here's a link to the wikileaks page with a bunch of other analyses on the shitty TPP: https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/


#TPP
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared

Originally shared by Rugger Ducky

Originally shared by Rugger Ducky

"There is no doubt that this senseless violence is breathtaking," Carson wrote, "but I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away."

And that is it in a nutshell. He is a sociopath. It's not that uncommon in surgeons, especially in neurosurgery. The field draws them in. Its the perfect fit for a narcissistic person who has no empathy and believes themselves above other people.

Ask yourself if someone who has such callous disregard for human life is the person you want in charge of the US Armed Forces and our nuclear arsenal. I know the idea terrifies me.


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/ben-carson-body-with-bullet-holes-preferable-to-gun-control-20151006