We believe that the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory
By Jay Rogers — via PLANET-PULP
Say the name Kathleen Suckley to Corpus Christi Police Captain Tim Wilson and his response is immediate: 8 April 1993
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He never met her, but he thinks about her often. He checks the file he has checked a million times before, looking for something, anything, to solve the homicide cold case he first responded to 20 years ago.
Suckley was 29 when her throat was slashed and she was stabbed about 40 times inside her rented duplex, while her two sons, ages 4 and 1, were home.
I haven’t forgotten,
Wilson said. It’s just a tragic incident; she was a young girl, she had a good life before her, she had two infants, she had a nice family. To me it seemed like such a useless crime.
The Department of Public Safety last week unveiled a new Web page dedicated to unsolved cold case homicides. It will rotate through the Texas Rangers Top 12 Cold Case Investigations
, and Suckley is among the first 12 to be featured. Like Wilson, DPS spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger said the goal of the new website is to make sure the victims are not forgotten and to try to catch a break in even the coldest of cases — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Doctors in the US have made medical history by effectively curing a child born with HIV, the first time such a case has been documented.
The infant, who is now two and a half, needs no medication for HIV, has a normal life expectancy and is highly unlikely to be infectious to others, doctors believe.
Though medical staff and scientists are unclear why the treatment was effective, the surprise success has raised hopes that the therapy might ultimately help doctors eradicate the virus among newborns.
Doctors did not release the name or sex of the child to protect the patient’s identity, but said the infant was born, and lived, in Mississippi state. Details of the case were unveiled on Sunday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sometimes a browser needs to leave a little data on your computer, just a little 5-10KB nibblit, a cookie. HTML5 is a hungrier beast than that which came before it though, and sometimes wants a little more. Maybe 5MB or so. But that’s where it should end. Thanks to a little HTML5 vulnerability, however, this site can and will fill your entire hard drive with trash.
In order to keep sites from going to wild, most browsers put a hard limit on how much space any site can get. Google Chrome says 2.5MB, Firefox goes with 5MB, Internet Explorer opts for 10MB, etc. And HTML5 standards dictate that a single stash should apply to all affiliated sites. So a1.example.com should have to share with a2.example.com. Except in most browsers, as discovered by Feross Aboukhadijeh, they don’t.
In Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer (FireFox users, pat yourselves on the back), subdomains all get their own little data cubbies, so as long as a site keeps churning out new ones, your hard drive will keep eating up the data until it’s bulging at the seams. And Feross Aboukhadijeh’s Filldisk.com does exactly that. Fortunately for you, it’s merciful enough to give you all your space back if you ask it to stop, but it’s easy to see how this could be a pain if it didn’t play nice — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mother & Son, originally uploaded by Melanie Stanton.
Public Image Ltd with John Lydon perform Reggie Song
live in studios of 89.3 The Current
Orange Bracket Fungi (Pycnoporus coccineus), originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
As long as wolves have been making their comeback, biologists and ranchers have had a decidedly Old West option for dealing with those that develop a taste for beef: Shoot to kill. But for the past year, Oregon has been a wolf-safe
zone, with ranchers turning to more modern, non-lethal ways to protect livestock.
While the number of wolves roaming the state has gone up, livestock kills haven’t — and now conservation groups are hoping Oregon can serve as a model for other Western states working to return the predator to the wild.
Once the easy option of killing wolves is taken off the table, we’ve seen reluctant but responsible ranchers stepping up,
said Rob Klavins of the advocacy group Oregon Wild. Conflict is going down. And wolf recovery has got back on track
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Not just one, but two baby Sichuan Takins have been born at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, arriving on 31 January and 9 February respectively. Both are males. Just yesterday it was announced that the babies have been named Xing Fu, meaning happy good fortune, and Mengyao, meaning superior handsomeness! Last week Lincoln Park Zoo’s animal care experts picked six Mandarin names to honour the species’ roots, and put them out for a public vote — via ZooBorns
— via Society6
A deadly form of skin cancer is able to fend off the body’s immune system, UK researchers have found.
Analysis of tumour and blood samples shows that melanoma knocks out the body’s best immune defence.
A potential test could work out which patients are likely to respond to treatment, the Journal of Clinical Investigation reports.
Cancer Research UK said the body’s response was a complex puzzle
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Queen’s classic arranged for solo viola and orchestra and conducted by Nick Hersh, performed by an ad hoc orchestra at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
ok, so there’s an architectural style from the early/mid 20th century that is either called moderne
or streamline moderne
or houses that look kind of like grounded ocean liners
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and la has a lot of these streamline moderne houses that look vaguely like ocean liners from 1930
. not enough, as they’re pretty great, but still: a lot, comparatively speaking.
and this one is arguably the prettiest of the bunch — via Moby Los Angeles Architecture
Big news! I had the thrill of creating an illustrated version of Abbott and Costello’s Who’s on First? for Quirk Books. The classic comedy routine was one of my favourite things ever as a kid, and just about the closest I ever came to caring about baseball — via John Martz
Corner Framework, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
Packed bag, go!, originally uploaded by Kai Teoh.
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