This letter, signed by Einstein, paved the way for the atom bomb. Except it's not Einstein's letter. It was actually written by a man named Leó Szilárd.
    
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14 Oct 00:20
The nuclear physics letter that was ghost-written for Einstein
by Esther Inglis-Arkell
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14 Oct 00:20
NYCC: Petersen Prepares "Mouse Guard" for a "Weasel War"
Archaia's "Mouse Guard" panel brought creator David Petersen to New York Comic Con to discuss his creative process, mouse-scale merchandise, and the upcoming "Weasel War of 1149" storyline.
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14 Oct 00:12
Cure For Infant Dehydration Is The Latest Hangover Cure Rage
firehoseoh, you mean the cure for infant dehydration called "drinking water"
In the search for a foolproof and proven cure for the hangover, a new highly unlikely candidate has emerged, but many experts are skeptical.
14 Oct 00:12
NYCC ’13 | Cooke to illustrate ‘Parker’ prose novels
by JK Parkin
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14 Oct 00:10
Where there’s a will, there’s a way
by Warboy1982
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when warboy breaks saved games, he breaks them with _guile and class_
Yaml 5 may have taken away the best of my ability to break your saves, but i’ve managed it anyway!
i’ve altered grenade behaviour, and the roll-on effect of that is that now all the grenades in your saved loadouts and battlescape games will be primed to go off immediately.
in the interest of public health and safety, please double check all pre-equipped grenades before your next battle after you update to the latest nightly.
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14 Oct 00:09
AbiWord 3.0 Released With Many Changes, GTK3
firehose"We still need a Windows developer to change the version of the MSVC project and build for us 3.0 for Windows," but very good news for office suite haters
AbiWord 3.0 is finally out with support for the GTK+ 3.x tool-kit and a significant number of other new features to the GNOME-focused multi-platform open-source word processor...
14 Oct 00:06
From Scientific American, “The Smallest and Deadliest...
firehosespiders of the sea
From Scientific American, “The Smallest and Deadliest Kingslayer in the World.”
Several years back, my father was stung by a jellyfish while on vacation. It nearly killed him. It took him 18 months to fully recover.
I do not like jellyfish. I want them to go back to their planet and leave us alone.
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14 Oct 00:04
TV: TV Club: Vanilla Ice Goes Amish
by Phil Dyess-Nugent
firehose"The only man in the music industry whose fantasy episode of This Is Your Life might include appearances by Suge Knight. Madonna, the Insane Clown Posse, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
The great thing about being Vanilla Ice is that you take chances and try different things without worrying about embarrassing yourself and becoming a punch line, because that ship has sailed. (David Kellogg, the director of our hero’s 1991 movie debut Cool As Ice, must look wistfully at Tommy Wiseau and think, “What does he have that I don’t have?”) The only man in the music industry whose fantasy episode of This Is Your Life might include appearances by Suge Knight. Madonna, the Insane Clown Posse, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ice reportedly became seriously involved in the lucrative fields of home improvement and real estate in the late ‘90s, which, as he delicately put it in a recent interview, is “how I didn’t end up like Hammer.” For the past three years, Ice has been demonstrating his handyman skills on The Vanilla Ice Project, a ...
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14 Oct 00:00
.mattfraction: arcaneimages: Woke up at 6am to water rushing into the house. Already...
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Woke up at 6am to water rushing into the house. Already ankle deep by the time we saw it. We got as much as we could off the ground and tried to block but there wasn’t much we could do. The worst was trying to get to Gil. It was waist deep almost and strong enough to throw around logs. I reached him and he was submerged and freaking out. Don’t remember much more then lifting him and carrying him all the way back to the house. Looking back I can see how scary it was.
We are securing the house as much as we can and going through the damage. A scrapbook full of original art I’ve kept for 30 years is gone. A lot more.
Our friends Belinda and Steve are setting up a fund to help. I feel terrible about this but once things settle I’ll have to face up that we need help. I just wish I could catch my breath for 5 minutes and I can make my own money. Austin has had other ideas I guess.
We’ll keep you posted. We’re sort of trapped here for right now. Going to pack and move as much as we can before the next storm hits.
Thank you guys so much.
Steve Niles is one of the most generous, talented, and boundlessly-creative guys in comics; he was the first guy to get me paying work in the field, letting me be the first outside writer to play in his 30 DAYS OF NIGHT sandbox. Quite frankly without Steve, I dunno where I’d be today.
This kind of thing is awful anytime, anywhere it happens, to anyone. And usually it’s Steve who opens up his mouth and wallet to help out first — Sandy, Aurora, you name it… or even the forgotten and mistreated giants of comics all-too-recent history.
As per Mike Mignola, who sat next to me and Steve in Aurora raising money:
Paypal address is HelpSteveNiles@gmail.com
If you’ve ever enjoyed Steve’s work — hell, if you’ve ever, like me, had your day made by some rarity he’s found on arcaneimages.tumblr.com — maybe toss a little love his way.'
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Woke up at 6am to water rushing into the house. Already ankle deep by the time we saw it. We got as much as we could off the ground and tried to block but there wasn’t much we could do. The worst was trying to get to Gil. It was waist deep almost and strong enough to throw…
13 Oct 23:57
NYCC: Superior Spider-Man Panel - New "Captain Marvel" and More Announced
firehoseyay
Another announcement, this one paying off the "Higher" teaser -- "Captain Marvel" is returning in March with a new #1. "Higher, literally," DeConnick said, "We're taking it cosmic," where Carol Danvers will show why she's the best at what she does, using her skills as an American pilot in outer space.
The first arc of the new series is called "Higher, Faster, Further, More," a reference to the previous series. "Carol is always trying to move up, and we're going to let her go," DeConnick added.
Marvel's final panel of New York Comic Con put the spotlight on "Superior Spider-Man" and related books, with announcements of new "Captain Marvel," "Elektra," "Punisher" and "New Warriors" series.
13 Oct 23:54
Meet The 31-Year Old Strategist Behind The Shutdown
firehose' "We just spent the last three months talking about nothing else but ObamaCare. It has been on the front page of every newspaper. The polls show ObamaCare's more unpopular than ever. People are starting to wake up that it isn't going to work at all," he says. "Even Jon Stewart of 'The Daily Show' is making fun of the law." On Monday, Mr. Stewart had Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as a guest, Mr. Needham notes, and the host "bet that he could download every movie ever made before she could log on to the ObamaCare website."
Has the House GOP strategy gone at all awry? Mr. Needham says no. "If conservative groups like Heritage Action hadn't raised the stakes on ObamaCare," he says, "we'd be debating on their side of the football field talking about tax increases, gun control, more spending and amnesty for illegal immigrants." He notes that in addition to remaining steadfast on defunding ObamaCare, he and his allies are also supporting conservative goals such as preserving the spending caps and budget sequester.'
The 31-year-old Stanford business grad explains how he outmaneuvered GOP leaders and why he thinks House Republicans can defund ObamaCare.
13 Oct 23:53
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13 Oct 23:50
Records show NY Police will spy on practically anyone
by Greg Sandoval
Records show NY Police will spy on practically anyone | The Verge
By Greg Sandoval on October 13, 2013 05:03 pm
The New York City Police Department sent spies to infiltrate Islamic youth groups and mosques, but also deployed them to such organizations as Occupy Wall Street and Critical Mass, the people who advocate for the rights of bicyclists, according to a report in The New York Times. For some reason, the city saw a need to covertly collect information on Occupy Sandy, a group that handed out food and other supplies to victims of last year's disaster.
The Times reports that there was even an undercover cop riding with the crew of motorcyclists who attacked the driver of an SUV a week ago. The officer, who was arrested for allegedly participating in the attack, also had posted to Twitter as a pseudo member of Occupy Sandy. The paper draws a parallel between the expansion of New York's spying to that of the federal government's.
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13 Oct 23:49
Scientific American In Blog Removal Controversy
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Lasrick writes "Danielle N. Lee, Ph.D, the Urban Scientist blogger at Scientific American, has been mistreated twice: once by the blog editor at biology-online.org and now by SciAm itself. The blog editor asked Dr. Lee to contribute a blog post at Biology-Online, and when she declined (presumably for lack of monetary compensation), the blog editor asked her whether she was 'an urban scientist or an urban whore.' Then, SciAm deleted her blog post, in which she wrote about the incident." 
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13 Oct 23:49
Banksy hits New York City, but the city hits back
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Banksy hits New York City, but the city hits back | The Verge
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By Verge Staff on October 13, 2013 06:30 pm
Acclaimed street artist Banksy has crossed the pond from his native UK, and is now leaving his marks all around New York City. Since October 1st, he's created upwards of 10 pieces as part of his monthlong "residency" (to borrow a term from the professional art world), titled "Better Out Than In." Banksy's playful work often offers social or political commentary, and he hasn't limited himself to sidewalks and walls in New York — he's already created two mobile pieces on trucks. Many of the New York pieces include mock audio guides that poke fun at the recorded messages offered to museum-goers, which are also available online.
Banksy's work by its very nature is ephemeral — property owners often paint it over it, or opportunistic looters extract it from the streets and sell it for vast sums, sometimes even chiseling it out of exterior walls. The short shelf-life of Banksy's work has never been more visible than here in New York. A little less than halfway through his tour of the Big Apple, local graffiti artists and property owners have already altered his first few pieces dramatically with their own marks. See the biggest transformations below. — Photography by William Mansell.
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The Street Is In Play
The first work Banksy threw up on October 1st at Allen and Canal Street in Manhattan. It's since been tagged over several times. See the original here.
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Westside
Completed October 2nd at 25th Street between 10th and 11th Avenue, the piece known as "Westside," started out as white on gray, but has acquired an explosion of color from local graffiti artists. See the original here.
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Occupy, The Musical
Painted October 4th at Stanwix and Melrose in Bushwick, Brooklyn. It's since been painted over, but the faded outline of his work is still visible, just barely. The original is much clearer.
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Brooklyn
This painting of a heart-shaped balloon was completed October 7th, then tagged over by local graffiti artists, before someone put a plastic barrier up to prevent further scrawls. It's located at King Street and Van Brunt Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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Lower East Side
This simply titled work that was completed October 9th, located as it's name suggests in Manhattan's Lower East Side on Ludlow Street, between Stanton and Rivington Streets, is one of Banksy's most elaborate yet, spreading from the wall onto a car nearby. The accompanying audio comes from 'Collateral Murder,' the military footage showing soldiers gunning down civilians in Iraq from a helicopter, first posted online in 2010 by Wikileaks.
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You Complete Me
Completed October 3rd at 24th Street and 6th Avenue, Midtown Manhattan. There were some tags already on the wall before Banksy marked it, but more have been added since. See the original here.
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Greenpoint
On October 8th, Banksy originally painted a satirical quote, deliberately misattributed to Plato, on this door in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, between Provost Street and McGuinness Boulevard. Someone painted it over completely and offered their own satirical retort.
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Concrete Confessional
Banksy's latest work, completed October 12th, is "Concrete Confessional," a stencil of a priest peering through an actual concrete window cutout, located at East 7th Street and Cooper Square in Manhattan's East Village. It has yet to be defaced.
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13 Oct 23:47
Kansas City Chiefs claim world record for loudest sports fans
by Vlad Savov
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By Vlad Savov on October 13, 2013 06:30 pm
There's plenty of reason for Kansas City residents to be exultant these days — from Google's Fiber internet service to an unbeaten NFL team — and today they've expressed that joy in the most classic of ways: by shouting about it. This Sunday's tussle between the hometown Chiefs and the arch-rival Raiders generated a crowd roar of 137.5 decibels, according to the home team's sound engineers. That's just that extra bit louder than the Seattle Seahawks who've held the record for just under a month. In the spirit of good sportsmanship, the Seahawks' official Twitter account has congratulated the Chiefs, but promised to redouble its own efforts to better the newly set mark.
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13 Oct 16:49
Mike Ditka on the ‘Biggest Mistake I’ve Ever Made’: Not Running Against Obama - ABC News
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The former Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints coach conceded this week that his decision to not run against Barack Obama in the Illinois 2004 Senate race was the “biggest mistake I’ve ever made.”
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13 Oct 16:34
Terms of Service update – Policies & Principles – Google
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We want to give you – and your friends and connections – the most useful information. Recommendations from people you know can really help. So your friends, family and others may see your Profile name and photo, and content like the reviews you share or the ads you +1’d. This only happens when you take an action (things like +1’ing, commenting or following) – and the only people who see it are the people you’ve chosen to share that content with. On Google, you’re in control of what you share. This update to our Terms of Service doesn’t change in any way who you’ve shared things with in the past or your ability to control who you want to share things with in the future.
Feedback from people you know can save you time and improve results for you and your friends across all Google services, including Search, Maps, Play and in advertising. For example, your friends might see that you rated an album 4 stars on the band’s Google Play page. And the +1 you gave your favorite local bakery could be included in an ad that the bakery runs through Google. We call these recommendations shared endorsements and you can learn more about them here.
When it comes to shared endorsements in ads, you can control the use of your Profile name and photo via the Shared Endorsements setting. If you turn the setting to “off,” your Profile name and photo will not show up on that ad for your favorite bakery or any other ads. This setting only applies to use in ads, and doesn’t change whether your Profile name or photo may be used in other places such as Google Play.
13 Oct 15:59
NYCC: Every Teen Is Wearing The 'Attack On Titan' Costume - Business Insider
by gguillotte
firehosewhat, it's not homestuck anymore
A new cult-like fandom is sweeping the Javits Center, where Comic Con is held through Sunday, October 12. These teenage attendees are obsessed with "Attack on Titan," a Japanese manga comic that spun into an online television program in April.
13 Oct 15:56
Millennials’ Biggest Enemy: The AARP
by gguillotte
For current workers, 6.2% of every dollar made goes toward Social Security (in addition to the other 6.2% your employer pays on your behalf). In effect, the check your grandmother gets every month comes directly out of your salary.
And it's likely that you need that money far more than your grandmother. In the US, the older you are, the less likely you are to live in poverty. As an age bracket, just 12% of seniors live in poverty; among children under the age of 18, the rate is more than double -- a full 27%.
Wealth, too, is heavily concentrated in the hands of the old. According to Pew Research, households headed by a senior were 47 times more wealthy than those headed by someone under the age of 35. To some extent, this seems intuitive: as you age, you accumulate assets and wealth. However, transfer programs have, over time, exaggerated this difference -- back in 1980, the wealth disparity was only 10-to-1.
Older Americans may inclined to fire back, alleging that they "paid for it" -- except, no, they didn't. The Urban Institute estimates that an elderly couple that turned 65 in 2010 paid about $122,000 worth of Medicare taxes throughout their life, but that same couple is on pace to receive $387,000 in benefits.
13 Oct 15:53
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Reid rejected the plan -- which calls for funding the government for six months and increasing the federal debt limit through January -- purportedly, in part, because the spending level of $967 billion next year was too low, despite it providing more flexibility in administering the federal budget cuts under sequester.
Collins’ plan also calls for a two-year delay on ObamaCare's medical device tax and requires income verification for Americans seeking subsidies for ObamaCare.