Random stuff worth reading on the internet thread

[Uncle Ted]

My boss at work had me read this article when it first came out. It's fascinating how some pretty smart people were able to piece everything together. There's a 1:3 chance of this disaster occurring in the next 50 years. And let's not get started on what a Mount Rainier eruption would do.

As I write this, my sister is moving to Seattle.

My daughter is moving to Seattle as well and will be working as a Geotechnical Engineer... There should be plenty of work for her.

[Bo Diddley]

As I write this, my sister is moving to Seattle.

Gorgeous area, but I'll never consider moving there because of this.

[wuapinmon]

My boss at work had me read this article when it first came out. It's fascinating how some pretty smart people were able to piece everything together. There's a 1:3 chance of this disaster occurring in the next 50 years. And let's not get started on what a Mount Rainier eruption would do.

As I write this, my sister is moving to Seattle.

[Bo Diddley]

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...really-big-one This article won a Pulitzer.

My boss at work had me read this article when it first came out. It's fascinating how some pretty smart people were able to piece everything together. There's a 1:3 chance of this disaster occurring in the next 50 years. And let's not get started on what a Mount Rainier eruption would do.

[Northwestcoug]

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...really-big-one This article won a Pulitzer.

Phew! I'm glad I'm on the east side of the Cascades!

[wuapinmon]

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...really-big-one This article won a Pulitzer.

The first sign that the Cascadia earthquake has begun will be a compressional wave, radiating outward from the fault line. Compressional waves are fast-moving, high-frequency waves, audible to dogs and certain other animals but experienced by humans only as a sudden jolt. They are not very harmful, but they are potentially very useful, since they travel fast enough to be detected by sensors thirty to ninety seconds ahead of other seismic waves. That is enough time for earthquake early-warning systems, such as those in use throughout Japan, to automatically perform a variety of lifesaving functions: shutting down railways and power plants, opening elevators and firehouse doors, alerting hospitals to halt surgeries, and triggering alarms so that the general public can take cover. The Pacific Northwest has no early-warning system. When the Cascadia earthquake begins, there will be, instead, a cacophony of barking dogs and a long, suspended, what-was-that moment before the surface waves arrive. Surface waves are slower, lower-frequency waves that move the ground both up and down and side to side: the shaking, starting in earnest.

[wuapinmon]

Heartbreaking story about the theology of homeless children in Miami:



http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/my...-miami-6393117

That article is fascinating. I only noticed at the end that it's 20 years old.

[Armenag]

Heartbreaking story about the theology of homeless children in Miami:

The secret stories say the angel army hides in a child's version of an ethereal Everglades: A clear river of cold, drinkable water winds among emerald palms and grass as soft as a bed. Gigantic alligators guard the compound, promptly eating the uninvited. Says Phatt: "But they take care of a dead child's spirit while he learns to fight. I never seen it, but yes! I know it's out there" -- he sweeps his hand past the collapsing row of seedy motels lining the street on which the shelter is located -- "and when I do good, it makes their fighting easier. I know it! I know!"

All the Miami shelter children who participated in this story were passionate in defending this myth. It is the most necessary fiction of the hopelessly abandoned -- that somewhere a distant, honorable troop is risking everything to come to the rescue, and that somehow your bravery counts.

. . .

Research by Harvard's Robert Coles indicates that children in crisis -- with a deathly ill parent or living in poverty -- often view God as a kind, empyrean doctor too swamped with emergencies to help. But homeless children are in straits so dire they see God as having simply disappeared. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam embrace the premise that good will triumph over evil in the end; in that respect, shelter tales are more bleakly sophisticated. "One thing I don't believe," says a seven-year-old who attends shelter chapels regularly, "is Judgment Day." Not one child could imagine a God with the strength to force evildoers to face some final reckoning. Yet even though they feel that wickedness may prevail, they want to be on the side of the angels.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/my...-miami-6393117

[Northwestcoug]

~20,000 drug convictions in Massachusetts look like they will be dismissed, because they are all tied to a single fraudulent chemist:

https://news.vice.com/story/massachu...ence-for-years

Crazy. And, this isn't the first time in recent history that Massachusetts forensics has been in trouble.

[BigFatMeanie]

Not an article, but a book:

The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War

http://http://media.wix.com/ugd/0ad54b_02bd35303a0338ab8bb7526fd5b60c98.pdf

Absolutely riveting.

[Pelado]

"Confessions of a Catholic convert to capitalism"

http://www.americamagazine.org/polit...ert-capitalism

[falafel]

Dad takes kid's drawings and turns them into fully drawn characters.



http://imgur.com/gallery/l25T7?campa...design_engaged

[Art Vandelay]

I am far from an expert on The Philippines and and Duterte's war on drug users and dealers, other than everything I have read and seen about it seems very bad.

The NY Times published a photo piece documenting some of the violence yesterday. It is full of beautiful and terrible and disturbing photos.

Very few sites do as good a job at weaving together maps, graphics, and other media into their stories as the NYT. I really dig a lot of what they do, maybe because I am an old guy.

Warning, lots of dead bodies.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...=tw-share&_r=1

I read that a couple days ago. It was shocking to see a country like the Phillippines (which often seems closer to a poor American state than a 3rd world country) have this happening. The photos are amazing, and as you said disturbing.

[Clark Addison]

I am far from an expert on The Philippines and and Duterte's war on drug users and dealers, other than everything I have read and seen about it seems very bad.

The NY Times published a photo piece documenting some of the violence yesterday. It is full of beautiful and terrible and disturbing photos.

Very few sites do as good a job at weaving together maps, graphics, and other media into their stories as the NYT. I really dig a lot of what they do, maybe because I am an old guy.

Warning, lots of dead bodies.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...=tw-share&_r=1

[Art Vandelay]

This article is interesting from an outsiders perspective for us 99%ers. If Uncle Ted, PAC, or cr33kster decide to get divorced, they may be able to learn something. I don't know if anyone on here is a divorce attorney. I found all the legal maneuvering intriguing.

How to hide $400,000,000