Downtown Douala, Cameroon

After reading that Cameroon was home to one of the world’s least livable cities (Douala), I figured there was no reason anyone would want to visit Cameroon. But this FT article over the weekend by Stephen Cave offered one, “Of man and beast“. From the article:

Many of the other problems [autoimmune diseases, diabetes, [...]

Spectacular photo of Chicago from the International Space Station (HT: David Stendahl):

I had Real Time with Bill Maher on TV while doing some work overnight, and one of Bill’s guests was the actress Ellen Page (the pregnant girl in Juno; Kitty Pride in the X-Men, etc.). She was promoting a documentary about bees, and the gist of their discussion about it was that the bees were [...]

Via KnowAbout.It (with a second assist to Quora), former nuclear engineer (and current co-founder/CTO of Artsicle1) Scott Carlton answers the question:
What’s the worst possible scenario involving the damaged Japanese nuclear reactors?
The worst possible scenario is happening. Fuel pools are on fire, hydrogen explosions are occurring and fuel rods are exposed. However, even with [...]

Below is a guest post by Short Screen member and occasional commenter here MonkeyPilot, who is a research scientist in the pharmaceutical industry. I had asked him about a stock called BioTime, on behalf of new Short Screen member Market_Sniper, who owns it. MonkeyPilot offered his opinion on BioTime and used it as a jumping-off [...]

For the last couple of months, we’ve been dieting and exercising. I’ve got a couple of presentations to make in mid-August, so I figured I’d try to fit into one of my suits by then. For the diet, we’ve been doing Atkins, as I’ve had some success with that in the past. It’s been a [...]

Glancing at the quote page for FBP reminded me of this cool info graphic I saw over the weekend (HT: Ilkka Kokkarinen with a second assist to Dave Richeson).