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"How are you?" "I'm fine." "Are you lying?" "Yes." [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 8:24 PM PST - 29 comments

Alaska is Having Its Hottest Year Since Records Began - "After a spring that was a full ten degrees hotter than normal, the northern state is on track for the most sweltering year on record." (via) [more inside]
posted by kliuless at 6:54 PM PST - 82 comments

July 11, 2014. The Polyphonic Spree. Central Presbyterian Church. Austin City Underground.[1h40m]
posted by hippybear at 5:49 PM PST - 12 comments

Our Wonderful Nature - The Common Chameleon In a world where a single chameleon has no natural enemies, this one of a kind creature is destined to hunt for prey.
posted by Confess, Fletch at 3:49 PM PST - 18 comments

The Lesser Bot of Solomon offers you endless pages from a text in the style of Ars Goetia and the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum. [more inside]
posted by Elementary Penguin at 2:57 PM PST - 20 comments

"There’s no way to know whether Kitty is feeling something or simply manipulating her audience into feeling something, and whether that distinction even matters becomes arguable at a certain point—precisely what Infamous is about. " - for Scene Routes, Mike D'Angelo talks about the opening scene to Infamous.
posted by The Whelk at 2:06 PM PST - 14 comments

A new way to control oxygen for electronic properties They built a two-layer material: an indium oxide crystal layer on top of a block of yttria-stabilized zirconia. When the researchers applied a small electric field, they watched the electrical conductivity skyrocket by two orders of magnitude along the boundary where the two layers meet.
posted by Michele in California at 10:53 AM PST - 14 comments

(All links very NSFW.) From audiobook mashup artist Tootleg Boy (previously), who brought you The Lord of the Books of the 55 Arse-Hymens of Stone and Pride and Prejudice and 367 Pages of Balls and Young Men, comes the inspirational, patriotic, and incredibly juvenile American Soldier (With A Sniper)
posted by GenericUser at 10:17 AM PST - 4 comments

A couple of days later, I stood in front of a mirror and slowly unbuttoned my shirt. When I looked down, what I saw turned out to be just a flat chest with fresh scars on their way to looking healed. My stitches had dissolved. I took my shirt off and stared at myself, thinking, “Lake was right, I can do this.” - Tig Notaro on luck, love, family, friends, fame, stand up, her new book, and life after breasts
posted by nadawi at 9:07 AM PST - 11 comments

Will we ever realize the dream of everyone having access to all of human knowledge? Glyn Moody summarizes the open access movement. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo at 8:01 AM PST - 23 comments

This Week In Fiction: Discovering An Unpublished Story by Langston Hughes [The New Yorker] “Seven People Dancing” is a story by Langston Hughes that was written, most likely, in the early sixties, but was never published. [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 6:51 AM PST - 5 comments

Recent research suggests that PTSD may be more of a physical issue than a psychological issue.
posted by COD at 5:55 AM PST - 39 comments

But let’s assume SpaceX, or an international coalition led by NASA, or China’s space agency eventually figure out the engineering and financing of a Mars colony. Let’s also assume the biology of reproduction in space, and on foreign worlds, is a solvable problem. After homo sapiens becomes a multi-planet species, the question becomes, would we remain a single species of humanity?
posted by veedubya at 5:19 AM PST - 48 comments

Oops. In 2012 a study was published that linked liberalism with social desirability, and conservatism with psychosis. A series of papers were published, some in high profile outlets. Now, they have been retracted. Why? The codings in the data were reversed--liberals were coded as conservatives, and vice-versa. [more inside]
posted by MisantropicPainforest at 4:27 AM PST - 34 comments