Cavalcade of Mammals

Don’t Talk to Cops. Mr. James Duane, a professor at Regent Law School and a former defense attorney, tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police.
10 Rules for Dealing with Police
The RIGHT Way to Handle a Police Stop
A feminist Analysis of Die Hard

Start Making Children Happy With Math
Mandelbrot Fractals
10 Ways to Cover a Trump Rally

John Kenneth Galbraith (1963): Wealth and Poverty: “The modern conservative… not even especially modern… is engaged… in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness… link

Warriors books
Megatons To Megawatts: Russian Warheads Fuel U.S. Power Plants
First World Problems, BBC

Scanner frequencies for Chicago, 1, 2, 3
Baofeng UV-5R info

Stability of Active Ingredients in Long-Expired Prescription Medications

Stupid Rightwing memes: “The United States is not a ‘democracy,’ it is ‘a Republic.'”. I don’t quite get the point of this one. Impress the rubes?

Bullseye Bore–laser circle shows if drill is held at 90 degrees

West Nile virus incidence
CCR5Δ32 allele common in Europeans, loss prevents HIV infections, makes carriers more susceptible to West Nile

Bradley Foundation’s Efforts to Build Right-Wing “Infrastructure” Nationwide
The first transient climate projections using GCMs are 30 years old this year, and they have stood up remarkably well.
Trump aide Stephen Miller, meet your great-grandfather, who flunked his naturalization test. Resistance Genealogy

Cellular Landscapes: Photo-realistic renderings of various cellular structures with interactive features.
Stock Grant Sizes In Pre-IPO Tech Companies
NASA’s 1970s space colony artwork

Data display: Visual Vocabulary

fusee singing bird box “internal bird explained”
How Its Made: Mechanical Singing Birds
Reuge Byzance Crystal singing bird box
Beer Styles – Original Gravity and Final Gravity Chart
Hummingbird automata 1, Hummingbird automata 2, maker site w/ plans

How DNA Testing Botched My Family’s Heritage, and Probably Yours, Too

Maurice Hilleman, vaccine pioneer
Beluga Mimicking a Person
Investigating postdoctoral salaries in the United States

Guns are traced using paper records because of the NRA
Jeffrey C. Hall, interview on leaving academic science. 2017 Nobel Prize winner.
Sam Zeloof blog, home vacuum lab and semiconductor fab

Global Sea Ice Area (will this year repeat the huge drop last year?)

Joe Arpaio’s evil reign: lawless abuses of power, torture and death of inmates in his jails. More evil stuff his did.

Republican voters are getting bored with the Trump show

Civil War diaoramas done with cats
How the very rich legally avoid paying taxes
Hugo winners 2017

Best Novel
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit Books)
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Books / Titan Books)
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager US)
Death’s End by Cixin Liu (Tor Books / Head of Zeus)
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris Books)
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Tor Books)

Kamikara pop up penguin by Haruki Nakamura website
America seized the traitor Lee’s plantation

Daniel Davies: One Minute MBA