It’s Friday, here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

Senate candidate has been ‘jailed repeatedly’.

An Honorable Last Wish For A Dying Marine. 58 years after being kicked out for being gay, dying Marine receives his honorable discharge.

NOM’s Slide Into Oblivion And Other Political Predictions For 2014.

Time-like loops and indeterminate particles: Cloning quantum information from the past.

And if that wasn’t enough physics for you: Life is a Braid in Spacetime: How to see yourself in a world where only math is real.

What I Learned From the Liberal Arts. I must say, I and one of my English professors at SPU had even less kind things to say about literary criticism.

The iPad Is A Solved Design Problem. Yep!

Marco Rubio Accidentally Made A Good Argument For Gay Marriage. I was going to make a broken-clock reference, but he isn’t even aware of what he said, so…

Why are we talking about a Traffic Jam from September:

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The Simpson have some anime whimsey:

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The ASAPScience guys answer the question, “Can being cold make you sick?”

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This is a cool (and a bit scary) optical illusion:

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