Waarom de milieubeweging het ggo-dossier mag loslaten | Stijn Bruers, one world activist
Wat ik ook al een tijd volhoud: "Ik besloot hetzelfde te doen als wat de milieubeweging doet in verband met de klimaatopwarming: kijken of er een wetenschappelijke consensus bestaat die gebaseerd is op de meest betrouwbare wetenschappelijke studies zoals systematische reviews en meta-analyses gepubliceerd in toonaangevende peer reviewed topvakbladen zoals Nature en Science. Binnen een paar uur brokkelde mijn anti-ggo houding volledig af. Het ene na het andere bezwaar tegen ggo’s dat ik ooit van de milieubeweging hoorde, werd weerlegd. En ik kwam tot het inzicht dat de strategie en de houding van de milieubeweging op het vlak van ggo’s beangstigend sterk lijkt op de strategie en de houding van klimaatontkenners, net de groep waar de milieubeweging zich zo sterk tegen verzet."

Sounds of the Bodleian
You are listening to the sound of the Bodleian Old Library Upper Reading Room

Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins wrap-up
The jury has returned and Kleiner Perkins is not guilty of sex discrimination. How is it possible to lose a lawsuit like this in one of the most plaintiff-friendly jurisdictions in the world?

Wat is het verschil tussen N-VA en CD&V? – Mark Eyskens
Vlaamse nationalisten hebben nog steeds niet de intellectuele moed om aan de bevolking een evidentie uit te leggen. Het begrip ‘volk’ wordt steeds meer onwerkelijk en dient vervangen door het concept en de realiteit van multiculturele ‘bevolking’. De multiculturaliteit is een feit en dat feit is onomkeerbaar. De grote, ingewikkelde opdracht is multiculturaliteit om te zetten in interculturaliteit. Het is de interculturaliteit, die discriminaties en irrationele angsteffecten voor de vreemdeling moet onmogelijk en overbodig maken.

Being Andre the Giant – CBSSports.com
The third of Boris and Marianne Roussimoff's five children, Andre was born in the French town of Coulommiers on May 19, 1946, reportedly weighing 11 pounds. The Roussimoffs raised their family in Molien, a small village less than 40 miles east of Paris. Life began to change for Andre in early adolescence. He grew substantially, reaching six feet tall by the time he was 12, seven feet by age 18. He was physically enormous, immensely strong and distinctly charming. His voice was ultra-deep. People were drawn to him. Word of mouth spread fast about young Andre, the giant.

Obituary: Terry Pratchett: Of gods and men | The Economist
The Economist: wreed, wreed schoon gedaan.

Comic Papyrus Font – FINALLY! ~ Sans Serif Fonts on Creative Market
Presenting Comic Papyrus. You heard right — COMIC FREAKIN' PAPYRUS! Your two most favoritest fonts ever have FINALLY been smooshed together typographically, just as Darwin intended. Cross-bred. Cross-awesomified.

Pourquoi la techno c’est devenu de la merde et que maintenant ça n’intéresse que les enculés – Je t’encule Thérèse
La techno est morte, écoute du rock d’il y a 20 ans et de la musique plus sympa, change ton style de merde et va te faire enculer.

The Art of the Diva Quit | Wikipediocracy
The danger always exists that one’s allies may drift away and be less than fully attentive to one’s needs; after all, they have their own POVs to push. It is important to find ways to consolidate their support so that it is there when you need it most. These alliances will undergo stresses and trials, and should you come under major attack, such as with an Arbitration Committee case, some may jump ship in order to save their own skins. If things are not going your way under exigent circumstances, you may wish to consider the option of a Diva Quit.

BBC News – The men who uncovered Assyria
There are hundreds of ancient sites now in the hands of IS. But beneath the rubble of Nebi Yunus is a stretch of ground untouched by archaeologists – ground that holds the palace of the Assyrian King Esarhaddon, and that might might contain some of the great artistic or literary treasures of the ancient world. In all likelihood, we'll never know.

De rechtse show | Jan Blommaert (en z’n gedachten)
Auwtsj. "De socialisten hebben alles opgegeven wat ze hadden als verhaal: hun geschiedenis, hun traditie, hun cultuur, hun kritiek en hun analyse. Ze hebben dat allemaal ingeruild voor de troep die hen door reclamemakers wordt aangenaaid. Ze zijn dan ook al lang geen ‘socialisten’ meer, ze noemen zich ‘progressief’ – net als Verhofstadt dat deed, en, geloof het maar, bij gelegenheid zelfs Filip Dewinter. ‘Progressief’ staat hier dan gewoon voor ‘iets anders willen’ of – getuige de slogan “Ja” – gewoon voortdoen zoals gisteren, lekker progressief."

Oxford Study Shows HIV Originated Around 1920 | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
't Is allemaal de schuld van de Belgen! De schuld van het APENland BelZIEK à papa! "The virus is believed to have jumped species through people hunting primates and handling bush meat. In fact, this is believed to have happened on at least 13 occasions. What set the Kinshasa incident apart from other transmissions was the city’s size and rapid urban growth, the heavily used railway network during Belgian colonial rule, and a flourishing sex trade in a city with a high proportion of men. There was also a very active water transport system. Kinshasa was a hub for the country’s railway network, and by the late 1940s an estimated one million people passed through the city using the rail network each year. This led to the virus being spread to other cities such as Mbuji-Mayi and Lubumbashi in the south of the country, and to Kisangani in the north by the end of the 1930s. These cities in turn were well connected to neighboring countries and the virus began to take off."

12-minute Mandelbrot: fractals on a 50 year old IBM 1401 mainframe
Heerlijk! "One complex feature of the IBM 1401 is Editing, which is kind of like printf implemented in hardware. The Edit instruction takes a number such as 00123456789 and a format string. The computer removes leading zeros and inserts commas as needed, producing an output such as 1,234,567.89. With the optional Expanded Editing feature (just $20/month more), you can obtain floating asterisks (******1,234.56) or a floating dollar sign ($1,234.56), which is convenient for printing checks. Keep in mind that this formatting is not done with a subroutine; it is implemented entirely in hardware, with the formatting applied by discrete transistors."

John Urschel, Ravens Offensive Lineman, Publishes Math Paper : The Two-Way : NPR
I love hitting people. There's a rush you get when you go out on the field, lay everything on the line and physically dominate the player across from you. This is a feeling I'm (for lack of a better word) addicted to, and I'm hard-pressed to find anywhere else.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Disgrace in Victory | TIME
An Israeli soldier asked for my papers; I gave her my passport. “You’re American!” she said, not very officially. “I love America. Where are you from?” New York, I said. “Wow,” she said, with a big smile. And then she turned serious. “What were you doing in there,” she asked, nodding toward the Palestinian side, “with those animals?” And that, of course, is why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “won” the Israeli election. That is how he won the election even though there was a strong economic case against him, and people were tired of his ways, and about 200 former Israeli military and intelligence leaders publicly opposed his dangerously bellicose foreign policy. He won because he ran as a bigot.

New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function – Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques via reddit.com
The team reports fully restoring the memories of 75 percent of the mice they tested it on, with zero damage to the surrounding brain tissue. They found that the treated mice displayed improved performance in three memory tasks – a maze, a test to get them to recognise new objects, and one to get them to remember the places they should avoid. "We’re extremely excited by this innovation of treating Alzheimer’s without using drug therapeutics," one of the team, Jürgen Götz, said in a press release. "The word ‘breakthrough’ is often misused, but in this case I think this really does fundamentally change our understanding of how to treat this disease, and I foresee a great future for this approach."