Geeking out on upcoming wildflowers here. It’s the one thing that sort of reconciles me to the end of winter and the upcoming Death Valley-esque summer.
An hourly pictorial update on bluebonnets growing at the Wildflower Center.
Phil Howard - Organic Industry - more charts on page
On one hand, the consolidation of so many independent brands is depressing. Does no one stay independent?
On the other hand, this graph and the others on this page explain the increasing availability and variety of organic food I see in stores.
via Reddit
Nearly choked, I did.
Also - since we’re in Reddit land:
A helium atom walks into a bar. The bartender says, “We dont serve noble gasses here.” The helium atom does not react.
The results are interesting enough …
But the interactive infographics are AMAZING.
This, and the accompanying survey results on Millennials compared to other generations is quite interesting.
I came in, as one might expect from my age, right in between Gen X and Millennial in my choices.
I now feel somewhat predictable and slightly old as well.
“ A Texas Tribune review of nine years’ worth of e-mails and internal documents on the Department of State Health Services’ newborn blood screening program reveals the transfer of hundreds of infant blood spots to an Armed Forces lab to build a national and, someday, international mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) registry. The records, released after the state agreed in December to destroy more than 5 million infant blood spots, also show an effort to limit the public’s knowledge of aspects of the newborn blood program, and to manage the debate around it. ”
DNA Deception | The Texas Tribune
So you’re telling me they turned over blood, without permission from parents, to the military, for unspecified, potentially unlimited, and multiple agency or private future testing and comparison?
Great.
Arabian desert. As I told you before, desert is beautiful.
via Astro_Soichi, whose recent frequent photos from space are worth a look.
Journalists keep blathering on about this Gaga woman, and I keep thinking, “Dude, I saw this movie YEARS ago.”
I don’t care what you say, I don’t think this is a good idea. I’m always amazed antitrust professionals agree to let Microsoft do anything.
They promise to protect user privacy, but my expectations in regard to Microsoft’s ability to implement ethical limitations are quite low.
Glad they’re leaving Flickr alone for the time being.
“the first major company to drop Woods’ endorsement contract in the wake of the scandal that linked the golfer romantically to more than a dozen women.” (via ABC)
I’m not certain it was exactly romantic linking there. I could be wrong.
This journalist is already talking about therapy and infidelity, why wimp out on that terminology? See Carlin, “You can’t be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it’s an unpleasant truth …”
