lol my thesis- urban planning

http://lolmythesis.com/page/86

1. 11 Dec

   
   
   

   Inequality in the built environment makes us fat and sick, but because how we measure these things is governed by an equally inequal power structure, no real change will happen any time soon. Hooray!

   Environmental Studies, University of Chicago

    

We'll be using this one a lot, too late though: lol my thesis

http://lolmythesis.com/page/40

1. 2 Jan

   
   
   

   If you want people to make good decisions about climate change policy, tell them about it when it is really, really hot.

   Geography, University of Colorado - Boulder

lol my thesis, the saddest one of all

http://lolmythesis.com/page/55

1. 26 Dec

   
   

   Looking for a reason to give up on humanity? Study climate change. That shit isn't changing back.

   Environmental Studies, New York University

    From Nick Kristof's NYT column:  "Here’s a scary fact about America: We’re much more likely to believe that there are signs that aliens have visited Earth (77 percent) than that humans are causing climate change (44 percent). . . . A reader from Virginia quoted James Hansen, the outspoken climate scientist: “Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now.” . . .  My take is that when Democrats, led by Al Gore, championed climate change, Republicans instinctively grew suspicious. Yet the scientific consensus is stronger than ever. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in September raised its confidence that human activity is the main cause of warming from 90 percent probability to 95 percent or higher.  . . . Nordhaus warns that “the pace of global warming will quicken over the decades to come and climate conditions will quickly pass beyond the range of recent historical experience.” . . .In politics and the military, we routinely deal with uncertainty. We’re not sure that Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon, but we still invest in technologies and policies to reduce the risks. We can’t be sure that someone is going to hijack a plane, but we still screen passengers. . . ."

For would-be journal keepers

Keeping a journal using email 

Oh Life

Jan 13, 2014 01:00 am

I've written so many "first" journal entries that I've lost count. I have always wanted the benefits of a journal, but could never build the habit, or muster the discipline, to consistently write entries. That all changed when I discovered OhLife.com three years ago.

Oh Life is the tool that helped me successfully keep a journal for the first time. Thanks to it, I now have a record of my life that is richer and more meaningful than I ever expected. Oh life is where I wrote about the birth of my first son, my decision to quit a terrible job, and my excitement about starting a new, better job. It's where I wrote about my brother's cancer diagnosis and where I chronicled the daily milestone's of my son's infant and toddler years. Now I can look back on those events with a clarity that I never had before. In short, given me everything that I'd hoped for in a journal.

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I've also known a few people who used it as a shared-private journal. One family wanted a common place for kids, parents and grandparents to share day-to-day experiences and thoughts with each other. They set up an email address that automatically forwarded the daily prompts to all of them. This let them all make contributions in a format that was accessible to all family members but shielded from the public.

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-Up to 5 photo uploads per entry (vs. 1 with the free version)

-Customized email prompts

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Underdog law blog: Obsidian v Cox -- First Amendment Protects Bloggers!

Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit issued a landmark opinion providing Constitutional protections to bloggers.

The pro bono efforts of attorneys Benjamin Souede and Eugene Volokh appear nothing short of heroic. 

Summary of case: http://www.underdoglawblog.com/2014/01/bloggers-deserve-first-amendment.html

Full text of case: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/01/17/12-35238.pdf