Friday, October 3, 2014

Friday Links (with super science)!

It's Friday! The first Friday in October, a month which contains one of my favorite holidays, birthdays of several people I love, an anniversary, and some of my favorite weather.

In honor of this first Friday in October, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

Cyber harassment study reveals the unsurprising!

OMFG Teach Your Kids Accurate Names for Body Parts Already.

Look: Harlem Hate Pastor Posts Violent New Anti-Gay 'Biblical' Message.

Consumer Reports tests suggest iPhone 6 ‘bend-gate’ a bit overblown.

Bendgate Unbent: Apple And Viral iPhone 6 Plus Bender Are Both Right.

No, you probably can’t bend the iPhone 6 Plus. Unless you’re a bodybuilder.

The Death Of The Saturday Morning Cartoon Is Complete.

R.I.P. Buster Jones. The voice behind some of your favorite Saturday morning cartoon characters.

The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes. "no one feels individually accountable for financial crisis mistakes because management is through consensus."

High School football death is 3rd in recent days. Ebola has killed zero people in America this week, while High School football has killed three. So, what should we be worried about?

Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It: Why Is This Widely Denied?

Strange New Type of Brain Cell Discovered.

Calif. governor signs bill prohibiting ‘gay panic’ defense in murder charges. And that's not all: Four Exciting New Laws Protecting Gay and Trans People Passed in California!

Man exonerated after 10 years in prison will get $500,000.

Video: Late-night octopus-watching off West Seattle’s shore.

The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times.

The War Nerd: Let’s put Islamic State’s menacing advance into perspective by… looking at a map.

Why the genetic code is not universal.

Building an Ark for the Anthropocene.

Alaska actually wants to use the Jim Crow approach in defending its gay marriage ban.

Weird 'Island' on Saturn Moon Titan Puzzles Scientists (Video, Photos).

The Babylonian map of the world sheds light on ancient perspectives.

How American parenting is killing the American marriage.

Adorable Alligatorellus.

Rejected Princesses: HYPATIA: THE MARTYR MATHEMATICIAN.

The Unexceptional Devil’s Hole Pupfish.

The Enemy Of Archaeology Is Not People, It's Salt.

Rumor calls out Windows 95 as the reason Microsoft skipped version 9.

Republicans Angry that a Republican Attorney General Who has been caught having registered to vote in multiple states, has been removed from the ballot in accordance with state law. The irony meter is exploding...

Republicans In ‘Republicans Are People Too’ Ad Are Not Actual Republican People. The entire lame campaign is stock photos.

5 public health threats in Texas scarier than Ebola.

Lost ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Film Discovered After Almost a Century.

‘Science’ Center Teaches Boys Rocketry, Girls Makeup. Internet Certain To Be Pleased. (Updated).

Supernova! --"Are They the Reason the Milky Isn't Crawling with Biological and Machine Intelligence" (Or Is it?).

Lies of the Devil Talkers.

…and a sonic screwdriver!

Lesbian Misogyny #YesAllWomen:



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Pharrell Williams - It Girl:



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At Long Last, An Invisibility Cloak We Can Believe In:



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Hollysiz - The light (you may need a whole box of kleenex):



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Handsome Man ~ Matt Alber (Official):



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