Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
:32 A killer planet is rapidly heading towards earth Scientists believe that they have discovered an as-of-yet unnamed planet, currently being referred to as Planet 9. Unfortunately, this might not be great news, since the planet’s orbit might cause asteroids to come shooting at the Earth. :35 Cop body slams 12-year-old girl on camera A…
2. Cormit Avital, a first-time mother in Australia, discussed her baby daughter Eva’s ordeal in a video for Gold Coast Health, her local health authority. Avital said she had been offered the vaccine for pertussis, or whooping cough, in her 28th week of pregnancy, but turned it down. “Being the healthy, fit, organic woman I…
Huffington Post Media Group Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington predicts that nap rooms in offices are going to be “as common as conference rooms” in the next two years. Huffington’s mission: to eliminate the stigma long associated with sleeping at work. Napping on the job used to “mean [that employees were] not as dedicated, not as hard-working,” she…
There is no national holiday. People do not get a day off work. But for a certain type of person, there are fewer more exciting days than the fourth of April 2016. The date so written – 4/4/16 – represents just one of nine so-called Square Root Days every century. The last was celebrated on…
Richard Conniff When people talk about natural history museums, they almost always roll out the well-worn descriptive “dusty,” to the great exasperation of a curator I know. Maybe he’s annoyed because he’s spent large sums of his museum’s money building decidedly un-dusty climate-controlled storage sites, and the word implies neglect. (“Let me know,” the curator…
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton went off on an environmental activist on Thursday, after being asked about the large sums of fossil fuel-linked cash she has received. At a Clinton rally on the State University of New York at Purchase campus, Eva Resnick-Day, an activist with the environmental justice group Greenpeace, asked Clinton, “Will you…
If you’re a woman in science you are probably aware of what seems like a recent outbreak of harassment scandals in the scientific community. There was the shocking outspoken misogyny of Noble laureate Tim Hunt in June of last year, the two extremely alarming cases, nearly one right after the other, of male astronomers harassing…
Dreamin’ of a matriarchal society… Photo: JGI/Tom Grill/Blend Images Loughborough University’s Sleep Research Center recently conducted a study that found women need more sleep than men. About 20 more minutes of sleep per night, to be precise. Why? The director of the Sleep Research Center told the New York Post: “Women’s…
People with relatively minor health problems—say, the flu or a deep cut—aren’t the only ones getting relief from growing walk-in “urgent care” companies such as CityMD and PM Pediatrics. These companies also are providing a little tonic to retail landlords. In the last four years, more than 20 of these centers have opened in the…
At the Javits Center in Manhattan last Saturday, hundreds of teenagers milled about in sneakers and safety goggles, tinkering with the robots they had brought to the FIRST Robotics Competition New York City Regional. Requests for parts (dowel rods, PVC pipe) boomed out over the PA system. Parents lingered near each team’s staging area, sporting…