Comments on: I've got your missing links right here (08 September 2012)

By: Amelie

Amelie — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:35:08 +0000

“The F word” LOL! Good one by Barbara King. I think it would be fun to compare the titles of these media hype “science” stories to the actual published literature. Unfortunately it’s nearly impossible most days to even find a link within a BBC or NY Times article. I’m sure most people will just read the headlines, scan the story then later I’ll hear in the supermarket “did you read that birds even hold funerals?”

Sigh.

By: Amelie

Amelie — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:28:29 +0000

I agree about avoiding words like crazy and nutjob. However, like other “disabilities”, I think all of us have brain quirks of some kind or another. The point is, I do sometimes describe our neighbors as sociopaths or crazy. It’s nothing to do with mentally ill people in general. It’s just that anyone who throws panes of glass out of a second floor window onto the sidewalk or allows their aggressive dogs to run loose has a serious problem. And it’s pathological. This goes beyond being a jerk. If we want to intergrate the “disabled” into a society where all of us have some sort of disability, we should be allowed to call out certain harmful behaviors as pathological and abnormal.

By: Ed Yong

Ed Yong — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:38:03 +0000

Yep. Here’s the page for the blogs: http://discovermagazine.com/rsspage

And here’s my feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/NotRocketScience

By: S

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 19:42:33 +0000

Hi Ed – your missing links are my favorite weekend reading. I have a general question though. Is it possible to subscribe to individual blogs on the Discover network (on Google Reader and such) without subscribing to ALL the Discover blogs? I don’t have time to read all of them and don’t want them filling up my reader, and as a result I don’t have any of them in there Sorry if this has a super obvious solution.

By: realitycheck

realitycheck — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:26:26 +0000

“Timelapse video of man drawing the Manhattan skyline freehand”

he is tracing. he turns off the lightbox after he traces a bit and shoots a frame.

By: Solitha

Solitha — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 04:54:29 +0000

I call shenanigans on that degree. The dinosaur is NOT riding a laser-equipped shark, as I very well know is the true seal of the University of Awesm.

By: Ed Yong

Ed Yong — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 22:56:16 +0000

@Kyle – What, you can’t read the signature? Doktor Fancypants.

By: Nikolaus Nikkelbok

Nikolaus Nikkelbok — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 22:14:31 +0000

“In a mass knife fight to the death between every American president, who would win and why?”

Wow.

By: Kyle Griffiths

Kyle Griffiths — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:14:11 +0000

who was the president of the university of awesm? cuz i need to know so i can decide whether to click these links or not.

By: tim Rowledge

tim Rowledge — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:09:57 +0000

The xkcd what-if neatly demonstrates just why climate change is so frikkin’ complex and not just simply ‘everywhere gets a little warmer, how nice, Mabel’.