The Three Big Physics Experiments
In this episode of the SciShow, Hank Green tells us about the three physics experiments that changed how we see the world.
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Call Me Stormy
Finding righteous currents in turbulent times
Archive for the month “December, 2012”
Fiscal Cliff, Oh Noes!!
Steven Crowder surveys bystanders to find out just how much the public understands the pending Fiscal Cliff. He discovers many people identifying themselves as siding with the Democrats when they actually voice support for the tax and spending reform positions taken by the Republicans.
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China, India at Odds Over Oil
Tensions are mounting between China and India over rich oil and natural gas deposits below the South China Sea. China stakes claim to most of the energy resources, but India has acquired rights to some territories from Vietnam, and vows to defend its holdings and economic interests. RT, the Russian global TV network, reports.
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The Death Drop
Welcome to Chapter Seven from Manhunt of Mystery Island, our current Saturday Matinee serial. In this chapter, Captain Mephisto has captured Claire Forrest and attempts to escape from the warehouse, but Lance Reardon is hot on the villain’s trail. Enjoy and return next Saturday for Chapter Eight: Bombs Away.
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A Gangnam Christmas
It took Kym Illman of Perth, Australia more than 200 hours to string the 41,000 light bulbs to transform his home into a Gangnam Style Christmas. The display was such a big hit, though, that the local council ordered Illman to pull the plug after just three days. Next year, Illman plans to resurrect the display and move it to a commercial space, with plenty of parking, to accommodate larger crowds without posing a safety risk to kids in his neighborhood. H/T Blazing Cat Fur
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Go! Girl! Go!–Treinta y Siete
Sonia Braga in the 1978 Brazilian TV novela Dancin’ Days. This was Disco at its peak, after Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, but before Hollywood discovered her, casting Braga in Kiss of the Spider Woman or The Milagro Beanfield War.
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McAfee Faces Deportation
His long run from the law having come to a close, fugitive John McAfee faces deportation from Guatemala to Belize, where the software magnate is wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of an American expatriate. Next Media Animation takes a humorous look at his case.
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Day of Infamy
On this date, in 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor — one of the darkest days in American history. Pundit Dick Morris examines what led up to Pearl Harbor and the fallout from the surprise attack.
On a side note, we read where Fox News programming chief Bill Shine has issued a memo to producers limiting Morris’ on-air time, as well as pushing Karl Rove to the backburner. Shine’s excuse for his knee-jerk call: “The election’s over.” Maybe so, but if Shine thinks the razor-thin election results justify a purge, we beg to differ. Those of us who watch that channel can boycott Fox just as easily as MSNBC. If Shine doesn’t adjust his attitude, we should go on the offensive to teach that pinhead a lesson he won’t soon forget.
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How Do Cancer Cells Behave?
How do cancer cells grow? How does chemotherapy fight cancer (and cause negative side effects)? The answers lie in cell division. George Zaidan, host of Pocket Science, explains how rapid cell division is cancer’s “strength” — and also its weakness. H/T TEDed
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Colleges: Hotbeds of Censorship
“The…idea that if you just let people talk, it will be this pit of racist pandemonium…is sort of childish and it oversimplifies. But it is a great justification for having a lot of power over speech,” says Greg Lukianoff, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
Lukianoff spoke with Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie about his new book Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, where he details the slow and steady withering of free expression on America’s college campuses.
In some ways, the modern on-campus free-speech movement dates back to 1993’s “water buffalo incident” at the University of Pennsylvania, where a student was brought up on racial harassment charges for using the term “water buffalo” as an insult. That case led directly to the founding of FIRE, which “defends free speech, due process and basic rights on campus.”
A Stanford Law-trained liberal who blogs at the Huffington Post, Lukianoff insists that by restricting controversial or potentially offensive speech, “you’re putting people into echo chambers” where they only interact with people with whom they already agree. That sort of groupthink is dangerous to a free society, says Lukianoff, but it’s particularly appalling to see it instituted at the nation’s colleges and universities, where the free exchange of ideas is supposed to be the whole point of higher education.
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