Friday, September 09, 2005
- Some very unusual knitted sculptures [at left, "Accident III: Shark"] by Patricia Waller [via BoingBoing, who are doing some excellent mobile blogging from the Katrina Zone]
- They don't hate our freedom, they just hate our cholesterol
- Provocative, scathing reading: international readers' comments on allegations of racism in the aftermath of Katrina, on Aljazeera.
- "Why do people from 'Nawlins talk like dat?" [Slate]
- The amazing tale of the lawyer and his onion-scented handkerchief [Overlawyered]
- Could planet Earth survive the Sun's demise? [New Scientist] Perhaps that's a little too far-fetched to concern ourselves with, since no human civilization has lasted more than a few thousand years continuously at best (and they all thought they'd last forever).
- On a related note, MeFi features a link to analysis of a recent Katrina-like urban response to a natural disaster, the Chicago Heat Wave of 1995: "a city, in its decision to operate like a corporation, experienced the breakdown of massive social services" and the resulting "widening cracks in the social foundations of America's cities."
- Evacuation resistance and psychology: why are people still refusing to leave New Orleans? [Begging to Differ]
- AP: Unlike 9/11, country shows no signs of unification after Hurricane Katrina
- University of Chicago researcher Bruce Lahn finds evidence that the human brain is still an evolving structure [FuturePundit]
- Gizmodo has news about the Uturn, a small Bluetooth-enabled ultrasound device that tells you when your bladder is full, and Papero, the food-tasting robot. The NEC PaPeRo series is more than a novelty at this point - the Japanese manufacturer has bold plans to make PaPeRo robots a common household device. As someone once joked about the need for creating robots to supply a cheap workforce: it's easier and more fun to make them the old-fashioned organic way.
- The legacy of Chicago Joe Danno and the Bucket O' Suds [ChicagoIST]
- "The Only Thing We Have to Fear is The Chupacabra" - The Onion
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