"while it's not surprising that Martin's epic has spawned fan websites (even exhaustive ones like Garcia's Westeros.org), what's remarkable is that when George R.R. Martin wants to know some detail about the ASoIaF universe, he fucking asks Garcia. By virtue of having maintained an exhaustive database of every single character, location, and event in the series over the last 17 years, he's become the man Martin calls when he's forgotten some element of his own goddamned story:
"[Martin calls] when [he] has an idea and he wants to make sure that he hasn't used this character before, or he hasn't mentioned this particular detail previously, because he doesn't want to contradict himself or trap himself."" Cracked
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"In the last 10 months, dozens have been arrested and at least 18 homosexual and transgender people have been jailed under the country’s draconian legislation criminalizing “sexual deviance,” “debauchery” and “insulting public morals.” The prison sentences have ranged from 3 to 12 years...
Abdel-Hamid thinks it’s part of a PR campaign by new President Abdel-Fattah Sisi’s administration, to prove it is more “Islamic than the Islamists” and to curry favor with the population, that sees homosexuality as a sin. It’s also a handy tactic to distract people during election time." Daily Beast
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Interesting piece about the off-label use of misoprostol as a safe abortion drug in Latin America and now in areas of Texas where abortion access has been cut off.
"As miso became more popular, Latin American doctors from Peru to Brazil started noticing a trend: They were seeing, it seemed, a dramatic decrease in abortion-related complications. Fewer women were carted through hospital doors with gruesome infections from back-alley botched abortions, and ob-gyns saw a reduction in the grisly abortion complications that had so frequently plagued providers, including perforated uteruses, heavy bleeding, and fallen intestines, according to a 2012 study by the global health organization Ipas.
The only explanation “was the mass distribution of miso at the community level,” concluded a Colombian ob-gyn in the Ipas study. In the same report, other doctors note that the discovery and circulation all took place outside hospital walls. Word of misoprostol spread at the grassroots level, working its way up from Brazil and snaking from one Latin American country to another." Atlantic
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I lack the expertise to evaluate this intelligently...
"In a groundbreaking experiment, the Paris researchers used the droplet setup to demonstrate single- and double-slit interference. They discovered that when a droplet bounces toward a pair of openings in a damlike barrier, it passes through only one slit or the other, while the pilot wave passes through both. Repeated trials show that the overlapping wavefronts of the pilot wave steer the droplets to certain places and never to locations in between — an apparent replication of the interference pattern in the quantum double-slit experiment that Feynman described as “impossible … to explain in any classical way.” And just as measuring the trajectories of particles seems to “collapse” their simultaneous realities, disturbing the pilot wave in the bouncing-droplet experiment destroys the interference pattern." Wired
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Unbelievable that the speaker allowed things to escalate to this point. Is it really intolerable to just let the EFF have a minor propaganda victory?
"The EFF still refused to budge, so police officers spoke to them, but the MPLs vowed to stage a sit-in and even sleep there overnight if necessary.
A scuffle broke out when the police tried to physically remove the offending MPLs, with one EFF member shouting “Let them do what they did in Marikana”." IOL
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Single female non-celebrities were turned away from the lounge of the New Yorker hotel, even if they were paying guests, and “hen parties” attracted horrified disdain from the guardians of glamour. Women could meet their female friends in dull, obscure restaurants, but they couldn’t hunt in “Sex and the City”-style packs. So what was a single girl to do when the best tables were behind closed doors? ... Ted Peckham, a foppish Midwestern arriviste in his early twenties, spotted this opening in the market soon after he arrived in New York. In 1935, he founded the Guide Escort Service—essentially, a way for women to rent out men." New Yorker
"[Martin calls] when [he] has an idea and he wants to make sure that he hasn't used this character before, or he hasn't mentioned this particular detail previously, because he doesn't want to contradict himself or trap himself."" Cracked
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"In the last 10 months, dozens have been arrested and at least 18 homosexual and transgender people have been jailed under the country’s draconian legislation criminalizing “sexual deviance,” “debauchery” and “insulting public morals.” The prison sentences have ranged from 3 to 12 years...
Abdel-Hamid thinks it’s part of a PR campaign by new President Abdel-Fattah Sisi’s administration, to prove it is more “Islamic than the Islamists” and to curry favor with the population, that sees homosexuality as a sin. It’s also a handy tactic to distract people during election time." Daily Beast
>>><<<
Interesting piece about the off-label use of misoprostol as a safe abortion drug in Latin America and now in areas of Texas where abortion access has been cut off.
"As miso became more popular, Latin American doctors from Peru to Brazil started noticing a trend: They were seeing, it seemed, a dramatic decrease in abortion-related complications. Fewer women were carted through hospital doors with gruesome infections from back-alley botched abortions, and ob-gyns saw a reduction in the grisly abortion complications that had so frequently plagued providers, including perforated uteruses, heavy bleeding, and fallen intestines, according to a 2012 study by the global health organization Ipas.
The only explanation “was the mass distribution of miso at the community level,” concluded a Colombian ob-gyn in the Ipas study. In the same report, other doctors note that the discovery and circulation all took place outside hospital walls. Word of misoprostol spread at the grassroots level, working its way up from Brazil and snaking from one Latin American country to another." Atlantic
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I lack the expertise to evaluate this intelligently...
"In a groundbreaking experiment, the Paris researchers used the droplet setup to demonstrate single- and double-slit interference. They discovered that when a droplet bounces toward a pair of openings in a damlike barrier, it passes through only one slit or the other, while the pilot wave passes through both. Repeated trials show that the overlapping wavefronts of the pilot wave steer the droplets to certain places and never to locations in between — an apparent replication of the interference pattern in the quantum double-slit experiment that Feynman described as “impossible … to explain in any classical way.” And just as measuring the trajectories of particles seems to “collapse” their simultaneous realities, disturbing the pilot wave in the bouncing-droplet experiment destroys the interference pattern." Wired
>>><<<
Unbelievable that the speaker allowed things to escalate to this point. Is it really intolerable to just let the EFF have a minor propaganda victory?
"The EFF still refused to budge, so police officers spoke to them, but the MPLs vowed to stage a sit-in and even sleep there overnight if necessary.
A scuffle broke out when the police tried to physically remove the offending MPLs, with one EFF member shouting “Let them do what they did in Marikana”." IOL
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Single female non-celebrities were turned away from the lounge of the New Yorker hotel, even if they were paying guests, and “hen parties” attracted horrified disdain from the guardians of glamour. Women could meet their female friends in dull, obscure restaurants, but they couldn’t hunt in “Sex and the City”-style packs. So what was a single girl to do when the best tables were behind closed doors? ... Ted Peckham, a foppish Midwestern arriviste in his early twenties, spotted this opening in the market soon after he arrived in New York. In 1935, he founded the Guide Escort Service—essentially, a way for women to rent out men." New Yorker
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