Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Infrastructure (HBO)
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Teriyaki salmon with asparagus and rice pilaf, thanks @kaylalabonte!
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Boston Parking is Musical Chairs Gone Very, Very Wrong
“Imagine a game of musical chairs, where, when the music stops, you smash the chair you occupied in the last round in a fit of rage. That’s basically Boston right now.”
“On Friday morning, she found all four tires on her car slashed, and the driver’s side window smashed, and the front windshield broken.”
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Boston Parking is Musical Chairs Gone Very, Very Wrong
“Imagine a game of musical chairs, where, when the music stops, you smash the chair you occupied in the last round in a fit of rage. That’s basically Boston right now.”
“On Friday morning, she found all four tires on her car slashed, and the driver’s side window smashed, and the front windshield broken.”
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It’s the Day of Reckoning for Parking Space Savers
“On Monday, March 2, the City of Boston will collect lingering parking space savers along with trash pick up marking an end to the practice of claiming dominion over a piece of pavement to park one’s car using a random object.”
http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2015/03/02/boston-parking-space-savers-end-monday-march-2/
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This was captivating.
The Peasants’ Revolt
Historian Juliet Barker speaks about the great uprising of 1381, and challenges a number of misconceptions about the revolt.
39 minutes
http://historyextra.com/podcast/medieval/peasants%E2%80%99-revolt
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Family of Alan Turing to demand government pardon 49,000 other men convicted under gross indecency law for their homosexuality
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The MIT Alps
A few more pictures and an amusing read at the link
(http://www.manicamerican.com/?p=2109)
Via (http://dlewis.net)
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A radical new approach to vaccination seems to completely protect monkeys from HIV
This technique uses gene therapy to introduce a new section of DNA inside healthy muscle cells.
That strip of DNA contains the instructions for manufacturing the tools to neutralise HIV, which are then constantly pumped out into the bloodstream.
Experiments, reported in the journal Nature, showed the monkeys were protected from all types of HIV for at least 34 weeks.
As there was also protection against very high doses, equivalent to the amount of new virus that would be produced in a chronically infected patient, the researchers believe the approach may be useful in people who already have HIV.
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28.4" of snow so far and it’s still going in Worcester, MA
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