A spectacular 7:32 talk by Adam Savage on TED, on how simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries.
Black Friday, animal style [Video]
A pretty accurate description of Black Friday or Boxing Day sales.
Handle with Care [Article]
New research is looking at questions about the complex effects of antibiotics — on bacteria, on individual children and on populations — building on a greatly increased awareness of how powerful antibiotics can be, and how important it is to use them judiciously, writes Dr. Peri Klass
Learning Language [Article]
An English-woman in Maryland (with apologies to Sting) shares her embarrassments while learning to speak American.
Little acts of kindness [Video]
“Big” brother helps his little sister. Of course the (my) adult (I can’t be too sure of that either) brain screams why don’t you do something a lot more common-sensible, but that’s the whole point of this video!
Hot Chick [Updated]
The link I pasted in yesterday was in error. Updated.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? A difficult question to answer, made worse by this hen who gave birth to a live chick, in Sri Lanka.
I’ll be watching over you [Letters of note]
Astronaut Jerry Linegar wrote nearly everyday to his one-year old son during his time on-board the Mir Space Station. I’ll be watching over you.
A reminder
Self-limitations [Excerpt]
We begin by worrying we aren’t good enough, smart enough or talented enough to get what we want, then we voluntarily live in this paralyzing mental framework, rather than confront our own role in this paralysis, says Debbie Millman.
Thai cuts [article]
“The Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Thailand are exacerbated by women publicly encouraging and inciting other scorned women to commit this act. The vast majority of worldwide reports of penile replantation, to this day, are a result of what became a trendy form of retribution in a country in which fidelity is a strongly appreciated value ” says this article. Links to the research papers in that article.