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MERS coronavirus has potential to cause pandemic: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Monday urged health workers around the world to be on the alert for symptoms of the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS), which

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We aren’t too cool for poetry; it’s the other way around. At least that’s the impression I took from public school. The fact that these feelings would remain into adulthood is ridiculous. We all have the right to poetry!

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What do [great] poets have in common? They don’t write sycophantic, roman-numeral-volumed postcards to God. They don’t get all “love-ity-love-love” either. I get the sense they imagine their audience and want to comfort them. They are so good at it they even have the ability to comfort us with scariness. Sadness too. I think that is a powerful magic. … How can we help them out? I guess we keep on needing them … .

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Neko Case on poetry. Complement with James Dickey on how to enjoy poetry and Edward Hirsch on how to read a poem. (via explore-blog)
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good: Snoop Lion on Gun Control: End the Violence, Move Forward in Peace and Love- Snoop Lion wrote in Living, Music and Creativity Growing up in the streets of Long Beach, I’ve seen lots of homies fall victim to gun violence. Whether they were the ones behind the barrel or in front, in the end it never worked out. As I hear more and more stories in the news about violent acts of terror and school shootings that leave innocent kids dead, it makes me upset to live in a world full of negativity. Now more than ever, I feel the need to speak up and encourage our youth to come together to stop gun violence. That’s why I started my “No Guns Allowed” movement, inspired by my song of the same name that features my nephew Drake and my daughter, Cori B. Continue reading on good.is

good:

Snoop Lion on Gun Control: End the Violence, Move Forward in Peace and Love
- Snoop Lion wrote in Living, Music and Creativity

Growing up in the streets of Long Beach, I’ve seen lots of homies fall victim to gun violence. Whether they were the ones behind the barrel or in front, in the end it never worked out. As I hear more and more stories in the news about violent acts of terror and school shootings that leave innocent kids dead, it makes me upset to live in a world full of negativity. Now more than ever, I feel the need to speak up and encourage our youth to come together to stop gun violence. That’s why I started my “No Guns Allowed” movement, inspired by my song of the same name that features my nephew Drake and my daughter, Cori B.

Continue reading on good.is

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kqedscience: The Gamma Delphinids Are Coming: ‘Elusive’ Meteor Shower Tonight“The gamma Delphinids are coming to Earth tonight, +NASA says, as it predicts that the early hours of Tuesday, June 11, will bring the best visibility of the meteors since they were first observed in 1930. People in North and South America may be able to spot them in areas with dark skies, the agency says.”

kqedscience:

The Gamma Delphinids Are Coming: ‘Elusive’ Meteor Shower Tonight

“The gamma Delphinids are coming to Earth tonight, +NASA says, as it predicts that the early hours of Tuesday, June 11, will bring the best visibility of the meteors since they were first observed in 1930. People in North and South America may be able to spot them in areas with dark skies, the agency says.”

"A lot of the time when you tell someone that you’re bisexual, they ask for your credentials. They ask how many men have you dated? How many women have you dated? Which one do you prefer? Which one have you had more sex with? These are incredibly personal questions that you wouldn’t ask a straight or gay person, but bisexuality has “less validity” so we get asked all these stupid, intimate questions. And if you don’t want to answer then someone will make assumptions about you but if you do answer, and the fact is out of the three people you fucked two of them are one gender and one of them is the other then people will decide whether you are gay or straight, they’ll make the decision for you."

Bisexual Credentials-RitchandFamous (via rainbowbreathingbisexual)

mexicankitsch:

#same

#same

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moneyisnotimportant:

Duke Grad Student Secretly Lived In A Van To Escape Loan Debt

He took out the back row of seats, which left plenty of room for “furnishings.” He used a plastic bin to store food, supplies and school materials.

That’s pretty awesome.  I once spent a good part of two weeks living out of an Isuzu Rodeo on a road trip, and that was enough for me.  Kudos to Ken for his creativity.

(Fuente: retaking-america)

"You get to eat. You get to fuck. You get to read “To Kill A Mockingbird”. It’s a great life!"

Louie C.K. (via rsussman)

"Since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in December, more people have been killed by guns than the total number of American troops killed in the Iraq War."

(Aviva Shen, reporting on the Santa Monica shooter for Think Progress)
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jungleindierock: Band of Horses gig poster by Jermaine Rogers

jungleindierock:

Band of Horses gig poster by Jermaine Rogers

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witstream: And the Tony Award for Best Tony In An NBA Game goes to…

witstream:

And the Tony Award for Best Tony In An NBA Game goes to…

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reuters: Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee working as a contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency, leaked details of a top secret U.S. surveillance program, acting out of conscience to protect “liberties for people around the world.” Both the Washington Post and Britain’s Guardian newspaper - to whom he gave the documents he had purloined - published Snowden’s identity on Sunday after he sought to be identified. “I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things … I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under,” he told the Guardian, which published a video interview with him on its website.  “The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife’s phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards,” Snowdown said. The Guardian published revelations last week that U.S. security services had monitored data about phone calls from Verizon and Internet data from large companies such as Google and Facebook. Photo of Edward Snowden courtesy of the Guardian

reuters:

Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee working as a contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency, leaked details of a top secret U.S. surveillance program, acting out of conscience to protect “liberties for people around the world.”

Both the Washington Post and Britain’s Guardian newspaper - to whom he gave the documents he had purloined - published Snowden’s identity on Sunday after he sought to be identified.

“I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things … I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under,” he told the Guardian, which published a video interview with him on its website. 

“The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife’s phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards,” Snowdown said.

The Guardian published revelations last week that U.S. security services had monitored data about phone calls from Verizon and Internet data from large companies such as Google and Facebook.

Photo of Edward Snowden courtesy of the Guardian

paleoillustration:

Aurochs

illustrated by phan-tom:

“In case anyone is wondering what an Aurochs is, it’s the wild ancestor of modern day cattle. They went extinct in 1627.

I was reading about them on the internet a few years ago and one of the things I was surprised by is they were actually larger than almost all domestic cattle breeds. They came close to six feet at the shoulder.

There was a theory that the Aurochs could be selectively bred back into existence, since their genes are still in the domestic cattle, and a couple of German zoo keepers tried it back in the 1930’s 1940’s. They declared success after 12 years, but the animals didn’t have the height, and the horns weren’t pointed forward like an aurochs, along with a few other traits that were missing. People are still breeding, what became known as Heck cattle, today trying to come closer to the appearance of the aurochs. The tallest one so far is five foot three at the shoulder.

In January I read that a group of scientist in Holland were going to try the breeding back experiment again, but this time they have a map. A genome map to be exact. Maybe they’ll succeed this time.”

TED conference about bringing back extinct species