Recommended browsing from The Walrus Blogroll for the weekend of August 22-23
“Video from Shuttle booster falling back to Earth” by Rob Beschizza (Boing Boing) 
Skip ahead to 1:50, then sit back and enjoy the ride from the edge of space to splashdown.
“For all its problems, the first 10 years of the 21st century were in fact humanity’s finest, a time when more people lived better, longer, more peaceful, and more prosperous lives than ever before.” From a new Foreign Affairs article by economic development analyst Charles Kenny, spotted by Ronald Bailey at Hit & Run (“Best Decade Ever? Hell, Yeah!”).
“Antidepressant has ‘magic’ properties” by Bill Hathaway (Futurity) A team of researchers from Yale has discovered that ketamine — a.k.a. the party drug Special K — has “magic” properties. Am I the only one who thinks these geniuses could have saved themselves a lot of time and money if they had skipped the science and just asked high school kids for the score?
“Palin Entreats Dr. Laura to ‘Reload’” by Erik Hayden (The Atlantic Wire)” Reload what? The racism gun?
“Many people do fear change, and it’s often easier to hold onto what you have — even if you know it isn’t working — than to embrace new ideas. But beyond the scientific predictions, it’s getting more difficult every day to deny the very real and immediate impacts of climate change. Environmental damage from climate change is already killing 300,000 people a year, with an economic impact of $125 billion a year.” David Suzuki and Faisal Moola, “The Environmentalist as Caveman” (The Mark News)
“Joaquin Phoenix mockumentary trailer released” by Andre Mayer (Things That Go Pop!) With the impending release of I’m Still Here, we may finally get an explanation for Joaquin Phoenix’s bizarre 2009 meltdown, in which the actor grew a wild beard, got fat, and claimed to be launching a career in rap music.
“‘Bed Intruder’ Rant Earns Family a New Home” by Robert Mackey (The Lede) Huntsville, Alabama’s Antoine Dodson became an internet sensation after a local news clip of his justifiably angry (and uncomfortably funny) rant at the man who attempted to rape his sister went viral. Millions of hits later, Dodson (with the help of YouTube’s brilliant Gregory Brothers) has parlayed this unfortunate incident into a money-making means for his family to escape the projects. Welcome to the future, folks.
“Three firms own 89% of your sugar water.” David McCandless, “Pseudovariety in Soft Drinks” (Information is Beautiful)
“WND Calls Ann Coulter Too Liberal” by Mark (Slap Upside the Head) I barely believe this: ultra-conservative firebrand Ann Coulter has been labelled a “liberal” by the even more conservative website WorldNetDaily. Reason? She spoke at Homocon, a conference of gay Republicans. Oh, now I understand.
“The Breathing Earth: Interactive Map Tracks Global Emissions in Real Time” by Ben Jarvey (GOOD Blog) According to David Bleja’s interactive, animated Breathing Earth map, in Canada, one person is born every minute and a half, one person dies every two minutes, and 1,000 tonnes of CO2 are emitted every 56.3 seconds. So, how long have you been reading this for?
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