A nice, sunny Saturday. If you're stuck inside, and you don't feel like calling up Anita Hill and harassing her for no good reason, here are some links for you. Science:
Curious controversial case of colony collapse disorder afflicting bees in U.S.
Royce Murray and Caveat Emptor
50 More Urban Species #42: Phidippus audax
A hot bed of germ-y journalism (aka germs on gadgets)
Other:
TheDC OP-ED: One nation, under fraud (a good, if long summary, of the foreclosure mess. Notable as it occurs in a conservative publication)
This teacher reacts to seeing "Waiting for Superman"
Foreclosure Fraud: We Need to Fix the Banks Again
Capitalism Would have Killed the Chilean Miners: a Reply to Mr. Henninger
A New Study Shows that Americans are Idiots
More like this
It’s probably no surprise that people who experienced foreclosures during the Great Recession may have also experienced symptoms of depression. However, researchers have found that the mental health effects of foreclosure go beyond the individual to the community at-large.
Why, yes, I did.
Google maps has a foreclosure map, of the entire United States.
h/t CR
map, which is apparently not entirely current, shows houses in foreclosure, owned by banks, or under notice of default.
Apparently, you get to volunteer for council duty, and then the representatives are chosen by lot. I don't know how Jrette was selected to chair the thing next term. From what I've heard, she's been one of the most outspoken members of the school's environmental group since daycare days. Maybe she's simply been selected for being talkative.