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POPSA scientist and a mother on plastic baby bottles Ursinus College biologist Rebecca Roberts writing on the presence of the compound bisphenol-A in many plastic products for babies. An excellent, reflective article on the dilemmas involved with integrating science in everyday concerns. From PubMed.
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POPSInstinctual eye styles in stock herding dogs A typology of instinctual eye styles: strong-eye, sticky-eye, medium-eye, roving-eye, and anti-eye. Explains how various dogs use eye contact and gaze styles to control herds. A totally random find, but fascinating.
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POPSAuto-generate an immunization schedule for your child Getting the right immunizations, at the right times and in the right sequence, is important for your kid's health. This tool from the Centers for Disease Control will auto-generate a schedule for any child's shots based on birthdate. Share this!
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POPSHow to wreck $100,000,000 worth of cars Mazda Corp. decides to destroy almost 5000 new vehicles after an almost-sinking freighter exposes them to unknown environmental stresses. Turns out wrecking a lot of new cars isn't as easy as it sounds: they created a "disassembly line."
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POPSZiauddin Sardar on the Quilliam Foundation for ex-jihadis Sardar, whose writing I am only a little bit familiar with, is highly critical of any "lionizing" of former members of Islamic extremist groups, since it implicitly devalues the commitment to peace and pluralism exhibited by most "ordinary" Muslims.
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POPSIs your lawn making you sick? Organic Gardening has a feature on all the health and environmental dangers connected with the extensive use of chemicals for lawn care, which are common in the U.S. These include weed killers, pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers.
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POPSArgument to Beethoven's Fifth Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray doing classic live comedy. Five minutes. No cursing, no bodily functions, no cynicism, no humiliation... Amazingly, it's brilliantly funny anyway!
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POPSStudy military history at USMA West Point A three-week summer fellowship with a basic introduction to the fundamentals of the work of a military historian. I think military history is very underrepresented in today's academy; I'd love to do this someday.
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POPSA LifeStatus badge for your page will inform your visitors if you're dead This is frankly something it never occurred to me to think about. This is a badge that tracks your logins. If you fail to log in for a specified amount of time, the status changes: Alive, Possibly Alive, Probably Dead, etc. After a certain amount of time, it sends a "death notice" via email to the person or people you specify, informing them of, say, where your will is kept.
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POPSTransgendered Oregon man is pregnant (he says) Thomas Beatie, who has undergone sex-change surgery and is legally male and legally married, has conceived a child via a home insemination from a sperm donor. He plans to carry the child to term. Others, however, are skeptical of his claims.
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POPSRepRap: the self-replicating rapid prototyper A "3D printing" device (rapid prototyper) made from parts that the machine itself can make; thus, it can "copy" itself. This project is still under development, but it seems likely that it will be built in the not-too-distant future.
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