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New Kansas abortion bill lets doctors lie to patients, withhold cancer treatment Using gestures to interact with surfaces that don't have screens Portraits of apes Reddit's TestPAC is campaigning to defeat Lamar Smith, SOPA's daddy Climate change denier billboard featuring Unabomber Chris Bathgate's machined-metal sculpture book: the making of beautiful, abstracted, stern but inviting forms Caturday: watch these live nude kittens on the internet (video) Nathan Myhrvold's modernist cooking tome wins top Beard award China wants to name Dalai Lama's successor. Dalai Lama: "LOL!" Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys, by photographer Glen E. Friedman: "why A you see H" Armenian political rally ends in tragedy when political hydrogen balloons burst into flames New Kansas abortion bill lets doctors lie to patients, withhold cancer treatment
By Cory Doctorow on May 06, 2012 12:00 pm The Kansas House of Reps passed one of the most draconian and awful abortion bills imaginable last week. Among other things, it allows doctors to lie to their patients to keep them from getting abortions, even if the mother's health demands it, and mandates that doctors lie about health risks from abortion. It also allows ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 06, 2012 09:22 am A joint Disney Research and CMU team have produced a demo showing gesture controls on a variety of everyday, non-computer objects. The system, called Touché, uses capacitive coupling to infer things about what your hands are doing. It can determine which utensil you're eating your food with, or how you're grasping a doorknob, or even ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 06, 2012 03:06 am Photographer James Mollison took portraits of more than 50 apes. "I decided against photographing in zoos or using 'animal actors' but traveled to Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia to meet orphans of the bush meat trade and live pet trade," he said. Mollison compiled the series, titled James and Other ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 06, 2012 01:43 am TestPAC, the PAC founded on Reddit to carry on the momentum from the SOPA fight earlier this year, is in the midst of its inaugural campaign: seeking to oust long-term Texas congressman Lamar Smith, who authored the bill and attempted to ram it through his committee without any substantive debate, after taking large campaign contributions ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 06, 2012 01:41 am Climate change deniers Heartland Institute funded this lovely billboard in Chicago and took it down after one day. They say it was "always intended to be an experiment. And after just 24 hours the results are in: It got people's attention." From the press release announcing the billboard: The billboard series features Ted Kaczynski, the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 05, 2012 05:57 pm Sculptor Chris Bathgate writes, "I have just self-published my first book of sculptures that features all of my machined metal sculptures from 2007-2011 as well as technical drawings and process images." We've written about Chris's work before. He produces some of the most beautiful machined-metal pieces I've seen, somehow stark and embellished at the same ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 05, 2012 05:06 pm Livestream video link. Do you know what I'm going to do this weekend? Sit here and watch ALL OF THE KITTENS, for ALL OF THE WEEKEND. Sometimes the mommy cat is there, sometimes not. The cute little squeaky kitten sounds are the best part. (thanks, Antinous!)
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By Xeni Jardin on May 05, 2012 04:59 pm "Modernist Cuisine," the six-volume, 2,438 page, 46 pound whopper of a culinary tome by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, snapped up top honors yesterday at the annual James Beard Foundation cookbook awards. The book is fantastic. $625 list price, but only $455 on Amazon today. Hey, that isn't so bad when you compare it to ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 05, 2012 04:52 pm Snip from a Globe and Mail article quoting HH the Dalai Lama: "It is quite strange – as non-believers, totally non-believers, atheists – showing interest about reincarnation. I jokingly tell them: In order to be involved in my reincarnation, firstly, they should accept Buddhism. Or religion. Or Buddhism. Then they should recognize Chairman Mao Zedong's ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 05, 2012 04:45 pm Photographer Glen E. Friedman, widely known for his work chronicling the intersection between punk rock and hiphop in the 1980s, has posted some beautiful shots of MCA, Ad-Rock, and Mike D from that era: "why A you see H". Remembering Adam Yauch: Polly Wog Stew 1993 interview with Adam Yauch from bOING bOING #13 Adam ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 05, 2012 02:56 pm 144 people were burned at a political rally in the Armenian capital of Yerevan last Friday when bunches of hydrogen balloons bearing political slogans burst into flames. An Agence France-Presse story without a byline reports: "The balloons exploded and caught fire after people holding the bunches released them from their hands into the air," a ...
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