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June 1, 2012

theweekmagazine:

Chagas, a life-threatening disease spread by parasitic bugs is being dubbed the “new AIDS of the Americas” by researchers because its initial symptoms are hard to detect. The life-threatening parasite is transmitted by biting beetles, and can cause a person’s heart and intestines to swell and burst. According to a lengthy editorial in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Chagas disease is slowly — and surreptitiously — spreading to the U.S. from Latin America.
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This is a clue: there are too many humans on earth.

Chagas, a life-threatening disease spread by parasitic bugs is being dubbed the “new AIDS of the Americas” by researchers because its initial symptoms are hard to detect. The life-threatening parasite is transmitted by biting beetles, and can cause a person’s heart and intestines to swell and burst. According to a lengthy editorial in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Chagas disease is slowly — and surreptitiously — spreading to the U.S. from Latin America.

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This is a clue: there are too many humans on earth.

(via amycarr)

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May 31, 2012

slackmo:

wilwheaton:

Whenever I read the news, I think this is a good idea.

Whenever I read the internet, I think this is a good idea.

Hey!

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Filed under: not cool man

May 30, 2012

coverspy:

Wolverine: Contagion, Chris Huston (M, 20s, very muscle-y, long dreds, studded bracelets, black jeans, dojo on McKibben) http://bit.ly/KLFyHU

The company you keep

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Filed under: very muscle-y

May 28, 2012

See?

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May 28, 2012

yourmonkeycalled:

You go to take a photo but the last picture you took was with your phone’s front camera, so you get a moment of your own face, slack and unposed, before you have the chance to close your mouth, tuck your chin back in, and pretend death is not swiftly approaching.

My life.

I took one of these today.

(via merlin)

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May 23, 2012

Favorite color combination

(via The prefabricated world – ‘Sachliches’ by Josef Schulz | The Fox Is Black)

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May 18, 2012

My short story collection is available in Kindle, epub formats

About 10 years ago I published a collection of short stories called Building. It recently became available in a number of different electronic formats:

Kindle

Nook

Sony ePub*

There’s some good writing in there, and it’s a collection I’m still proud of, even after all these years. You should pick up an electronic copy in some kind of future/past celebration.

*I don’t even know what this is or where it’s used. You should stay away.

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Filed under: building fiction

May 16, 2012

Newsweek: The House has passed the GOP's Violence Against Women Act

newsweek:

Just happened. So what bill is that? “House Democrats say the Republican-authored law would raise requirements to prove domestic violence and sexual assault, erase confidentiality protections for immigrant women and alert abusers when their victims seek help. They say it would eliminate a path…

Politics would be bug me a lot less if the GOP would just come clean and admit it’s trying to bring back slavery. Women, minorities, immigrants—it doesn’t matter as long as there is a population cowed by fear, intimidation, or economic suffering.

Another shame: Democrats are too fractured and too beholden to corporate money to call anyone out on the big-picture issues.

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May 16, 2012

god fuck

The best 10 minutes I’ve had since a Saturday dinner with my wife is the first 10 minutes of this week’s Roderick on the Line, “Incidental Boners.”

Safe for work? No fucking way.

Morally askew? Only if you’re judgy.

So hilarious you’ll fear people will think there’s something wrong with you? Absolutely.

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Filed under: Roderick on the Line