Links for you. Science:
Seven myths about scientists debunked
Tropical fire ants traveled the world on 16th century ships
Museums: The endangered dead
What pushes scientists to lie? The disturbing but familiar story of Haruko Obokata
A Mosquito Solution (More Mosquitoes) Raises Heat in Florida Keys
Other:
One Thousand and One Mights (interesting rebuttal to the ISIS Atlantic article)
Feminist writers are so besieged by online abuse that some have begun to retire
Obama’s war-powers farce: If you want to limit presidential power, don’t start illegal wars
Boston’s Winter From Hell (we really don’t have any disaster response protocols for slow-moving disasters. It also doesn’t help when people think this kind of weather might be kind of fun, not economically devastating)
New York Fashion Week Designer steals from Northern Cheyenne/Crow artist Bethany Yellowtail
Thousands ticketed for not removing snow from property
DEAR SILICON VALLEY: Here’s your wake-up call (the one problem is that Apple can light $5 billion on fire and it doesn’t mean anything)
Shocking incentive failure rate in North Carolina
“The Idea Was to Create a Modern Gold Standard”
Bill O’Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem (AND DID WE GIVE UP WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR? HELL NO!)
Metro failed to notify fire officials that radio alarms weren’t working (again, this is a managerial problem)
YES, LET’S TALK ABOUT UPBRINGING, RUDY
We Put A Falcon And A Rabbit In The Same Room Together. What Happened Will Not Surprise You.
You Had One Job, Lenovo. And it didn’t involve sneaking malicious adware onto your customers’ computers.
Baraka and Rice to meet with feds, demand action on schools
mikethemadbiologist
I’m no expert, and getting into the car business would be extremely expensive, but if there’s truth to it my guess is that it’s overwhelmingly about battery tech—that Apple thinks it needs to do so much battery research that it may as well make an electric car on the side.
Ive is a car guy, but I like to think that Tim Cook could keep a lid on him if needed.