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MotherJones: 12 Ways the Sequester Will Screw the Poor

MotherJones: The Sequester, Explained

ONTD_Political: Obama Calls Sequester Cuts 'Dumb' And 'Arbitrary,' Blames GOP For Inflexibility

Ingenuity Cleveland is pleased to announce the area’s first Mini Maker Faire in collaboration with the Cleveland Public Library. The event will take place on Saturday, April 13 from 10 am – 6:00 pm at the Library’s downtown branch (325 Superior Ave., N.E. Cleveland, OH 44114.) This free event will allow people of all ages to learn, discover, create, and play along with “makers” and creators from the region’s business, non-profit, and scholastic sectors. -- This looks really cool. Sadly, I don't think we'll have Kidlet that weekend; I'd love to take him.

NYTimes: We Found Our Son in the Subway -- AWWWWWWW!!!


ONTD_Political: Man sentenced to read lynching essay in ‘peace circle’ for attacking black teen with noose -- *rage* Gee, nothing "racial" at all about attacking a black teen with a noose and knife because he was talking to a white girl. Nothing at all. That judge...

Alternet: What’s Worth Learning?
Schools are sending kids on their way with a solid grasp of the Common Core State Standards but ignorant of powerful ideas.

IO9: Computers are better at diagnosing and treating patients than doctors -- not surprising, really. It's the same reason Best Practices enforcement makes a difference in outcomes for a population. Humans don't think statistically very well, and make certain types of errors especially regularly.

IO9: Here’s the first pics of Doctor Who’s new-and-improved Ice Warriors

Slate: Their software needed no prior knowledge to discover this law. It wasn’t familiar with gravity, energy, geometry, or anything else. It simply did what human scientists have done since the time of Newton. It looked at the world, came up with theories about how it works, tested them, and then produced a law. -- Fascinating stuff.

IO9: Are Women Having Too Many C-Sections in the United States? -- none of this is new, but it's a surprisingly good write-up.

IO9: How NASA might build its very first warp drive -- *WANT*

The Arecibo message was broadcast into space a single time via frequency modulated radio waves at a ceremony to mark the remodeling of the Arecibo radio telescope on 16 November 1974.[1] It was aimed at the globular star cluster M13 some 25,000 light years away because M13 was a large and close collection of stars that was available in the sky at the time and place of the ceremony.[2] The message consisted of 1679 binary digits, approximately 210 bytes, transmitted at a frequency of 2380 MHz and modulated by shifting the frequency by 10 Hz, with a power of 1000 kW. The "ones" and "zeros" were transmitted by frequency shifting at the rate of 10 bits per second. The total broadcast was less than three minutes -- I found out about this (sorta; knew generally of it, but not the date or details) in a book I'm currently reading. Our biggest shot so far at intentionally sending out a message, and it happened the day I was born! Love that! This is my new favorite thing about my birthday.

IO9: And the award for most obscene title of a peer-reviewed scientific article goes to…

IO9: One of the best places to search for alien life is the last that you’d expect

Neatorama: A Long, Strange Trip

Time: Cosmic Fuggedaboudit: Dark Matter May Not Exist At All

Skepchick: Spider-Man’s Penis and Science Communication