Acculturation

California, USA: All-Alaskan Pig Racing

According to the report, three major factors have been present in the handful of mass extinctions that have occurred in the past: an increase of both hypoxia (low oxygen) and anoxia (lack of oxygen that creates “dead zones”) in the oceans, warming and acidification. 

State Of The Ocean: ‘Shocking’ Report Warns Of Mass Extinction From Current Rate Of Marine Distress

It’s a nonfiction nerd’s fantasy: a database of nearly 30,000 feature stories, meticulously organized, sleekly presented, and fully searchable — by author, by publication, by topic.

Byliner.com, which launches today, wants to be the Pandora of narrative nonfiction. It offers users a recommendation service that suggests new authors they might like, as well as automatic Facebook updates whenever a favorite writer publishes a new story. It also offers writer profile pages that gather their long-form stories from across the web together with links to the Amazon pages of their published books.

The site is already large and impressive. It has the “follow me down the rabbit hole” appeal of Wikipedia (one page leads to another, and suddenly you’ve spent an hour on the site), paired with the ambience of a gentleman’s club: elegant design, good service, a certain tone — like the rustle of electronic pages as Serious People Read.

mango muttered something about auto emissions and then flicked a second cigarette butt into the woods

Remi wanted to produce a series of workout videos. Dude was going to make all these connections and like some kind of Hollister-clad angel, make us all rich as fuck; Lee Ann was gonna work on it too; Remi was going to talk to his buddy’s dad, who I guess produced the Insanity workout videos and...

On the Bro'd = On the Road (every sentence) translated into "bro speak."

Charlotte’s Weblog by David Schwen

The littlest library advocate

Ada Xie, 9, holds a petition calling on Mayor Michael Bloomberg not to cut library funding. (photo: Ian Duncan)

scotthensley:

If this doesn’t blow your mind, you’re not paying attention. 

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