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firecatBacteria are building major metropolitan areas in my sinuses, so this linkspam is fluffier than usual.
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Epigenetics is a new way to blame mothers! But the article goes further than that to examine how people's values and sense of "how things ought to be" influence how they use the concept of causality.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/08/25/343121679/using-science-to-blame-mothers-check-your-values
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Captain Awkward sums up in one post 90% of what I've learned about social interaction in 52 years.
http://captainawkward.com/2014/09/01/618-my-ex-is-pushing-me-out-of-our-friend-group/
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Ganked fromjae. What would happen if a rock musician's guitar were suddenly replaced with a giant slug?
http://slugsolos.tumblr.com/
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Erik Kwakkel, a medieval book historian, posted about some medieval books that were bound in complicated ways.
In a way that's hard to explain, these make me think about the Burgess Shale, a bunch of fossils from a period when animal body plans were even more diverse than they are now. I guess it's something like "When [life | bookbinding] was young, we still had the resources to experiment with outlandish designs." Click the second link to get an animated gif of a binding that included six different books.
http://erikkwakkel.tumblr.com/post/58806441078/siamese-twins-the-bookbindings-above-are-as-odd
http://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dos-a-dos.gif
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Animals will eat almost anything, and veterinary X-ray technicians will photograph it and send it in to a contest sponsored by Veterinary Practice News.
content warning: animal suffering discussed.
spoiler: all animals recovered.
Favorite quote: "This patient recovered fine, but the $1.29 did not go toward her bill."
http://veterinarypracticenews.com/2014-X-Ray-Contest-Winners/
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A cheetah gives birth to four cubs (article and edited highlights video of the birth). One of my responses was "aww, kawaii" and another was "this whole 'live-bearing of young' idea could use some tweaking."
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/08/05/birth-of-rare-king-cheetah-cubs-captured-on-video/
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It's about time that heavy metal got mashed up with J-Pop.
The article goes on about how "traditional" metal has these rigid genres. When did that happen? It was all pretty fluid back in the 70s.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2014/09/04/345778225/deal-with-it-headbangers-babymetal-is-here
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Epigenetics is a new way to blame mothers! But the article goes further than that to examine how people's values and sense of "how things ought to be" influence how they use the concept of causality.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/08/25/343121679/using-science-to-blame-mothers-check-your-values
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Captain Awkward sums up in one post 90% of what I've learned about social interaction in 52 years.
http://captainawkward.com/2014/09/01/618-my-ex-is-pushing-me-out-of-our-friend-group/
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Ganked from
jae. What would happen if a rock musician's guitar were suddenly replaced with a giant slug?http://slugsolos.tumblr.com/
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Erik Kwakkel, a medieval book historian, posted about some medieval books that were bound in complicated ways.
In a way that's hard to explain, these make me think about the Burgess Shale, a bunch of fossils from a period when animal body plans were even more diverse than they are now. I guess it's something like "When [life | bookbinding] was young, we still had the resources to experiment with outlandish designs." Click the second link to get an animated gif of a binding that included six different books.
http://erikkwakkel.tumblr.com/post/58806441078/siamese-twins-the-bookbindings-above-are-as-odd
http://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dos-a-dos.gif
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Animals will eat almost anything, and veterinary X-ray technicians will photograph it and send it in to a contest sponsored by Veterinary Practice News.
content warning: animal suffering discussed.
spoiler: all animals recovered.
Favorite quote: "This patient recovered fine, but the $1.29 did not go toward her bill."
http://veterinarypracticenews.com/2014-X-Ray-Contest-Winners/
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A cheetah gives birth to four cubs (article and edited highlights video of the birth). One of my responses was "aww, kawaii" and another was "this whole 'live-bearing of young' idea could use some tweaking."
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/08/05/birth-of-rare-king-cheetah-cubs-captured-on-video/
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It's about time that heavy metal got mashed up with J-Pop.
The article goes on about how "traditional" metal has these rigid genres. When did that happen? It was all pretty fluid back in the 70s.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2014/09/04/345778225/deal-with-it-headbangers-babymetal-is-here
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Date: 7 Sep 2014 03:24 am (UTC)Blaming the mother goes back a lot further than that
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Date: 7 Sep 2014 06:19 pm (UTC)Re: Blaming the mother goes back a lot further than that
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