Michael Hayes

You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.

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I’m back

OoOOooh I still have this -- fuck yeah!

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Police Billboard In Wisconsin Shows Cop Under Investigation For Fatal Shooting And Says “Thank You”

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Photos Of 17 Amputees Shown At Boston Marathon Bombing Trial

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Here’s a 14-second video from January of Seattle PD pepper-spraying school teacher Jesse Hagopian in the face at a Martin Luther King Day rally. It’s been viewed 1.7 million times.

Today, the DOJ announced that all 1,300 SPD officers will receive “tactical de-escalation” training as part of an 2012 consent decree agreement between the feds and the Seattle dept.

Over the past few months, Seattle seems to be making strides to improve policing in its city. Earlier this year, the dept. launched a YouTube channel for posting its officers body-camera footage.

Q: Is the Seattle Police finally cleaning up its act? 

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When she was in fifth grade, Mackensie began pulling the hair from her eyebrows. They were thick, and she was self-conscious, so she used her fingers to thin them out. The summer before sixth grade, she began pulling from her scalp. A large bald spot formed on the back of her head, so over winter break, her dad cut off all of her hair. She started wearing a wig. By now — 10th grade — Mackensie’s wild, wiry curls have grown back, and she uses her bun or a hairpiece to hide her bald spots.

Mackensie Is Pulling Out Her Hair

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Boston Bombing Victim's Parents Don't Want Tsarnaev To Get The Death Penalty

In a letter published in the Boston Globe, the parents of Martin Richard ask the government to drop the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and grant him a life sentence.

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This is me in my work pod.

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(via Nick Bayiokos)

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The Internet Responds To Barilla Pasta Chairman’s Anti-Gay Remarks

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This is how the postponed Nats vs. Braves game is listed on MLB.com.

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Governor Christie Says Jersey Shore Boardwalk Fire "Finished The Job Sandy Started"

Seaside Park, NJ fire destroys 50 businesses. Gov. Chris Christie says the boardwalk is "gone."

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27 Somber And Moving Images From The 9/11 Memorial Ceremony

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Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Art of the Soundbite

On August 28, the American Museum of Natural History hosted IFLS Live, a panel discussion on the wide, wild world of online science communication from I Fucking Love Science's Elise Andrew, io9's Annalee Newitz, Mitch and Greg from ASAPScience, Emily Graslie of The Brain Scoop and Maria Popova of Brain Pickings (and still the most interesting person on the internet). I’m sure my invitation to the panel got lost in the mail :)

A surprise visitor showed up near the end: none other than Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of AMNH’s Hayden Planetarium. Maria asked him how on Earth (or how on any other planet) he manages to craft such information-rich soundbites, polishing away the jagged edges of the science without dulling its shine. It’s a skill that Tyson has mastered perhaps better than any other living science communicator (incidentally, “science communicator” is a term I am growing to dislike, because it’s very clunky and weird). 

Neil’s full answer is over at Brain Pickings in video form (I highly recommend checking it out in full), but this GIF by Maria captures the tasty essence quite well. I mean, isn’t the GIF really just the soundbite of images?

When you’re done, sit down with your beverage of choice, get comfortable, and take in the full IFLS Live panel (video below):

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Essential media literacy and wisdom for anyone engaged in the art of communication, which is practically everyone with a beating heart and firing neurons.

Aw, thanks Joe!

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This GIF is maximum perfection. Maximum. Perfection.

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Wow.

Arizona State Football’s Pat Tillman Tunnel Will Give You Chills

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Bros.

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I never type in the morning. I don’t get up in the morning. I drink at night. I try to stay in bed until twelve o’clock, that’s noon. Usually, if I have to get up earlier, I don’t feel good all day. I look, if it says twelve, then I get up and my day begins. I eat something, and then I usually run right up to the race track after I wake up. I bet the horses, then I come back and Linda cooks something and we talk awhile, we eat, and we have a few drinks, and then I go upstairs with a couple of bottles and I type — starting around nine-thirty and going until one-thirty, to, two-thirty at night. And that’s it.

Bukowski

If you're not Bukowski, you're doing it wrong.

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The 10 Best Chewbacca Quotes