Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Migrants and Refugees (HBO) Millions of migrants seeking asylum in Europe face hostility, racism, and red tape. John Oliver does one admittedly tiny thing for one of them. Connect with … cross-posted on Facebook

I’ve faced sexual assault, harassment and discrimination as a female scientist. My complaints… I want better for the next generation of female oceanographers. cross-posted on Facebook

Robert Reich: 4 Reasons the Wall Street Journal’s Attack on Bernie Sanders Is Absurd “The Journal’s numbers [are] entirely bogus, designed to frighten the public,” argues the former secretary of labor. cross-posted on Facebook

Pope Francis is a far better voice for Christianity than Kim Davis Thanks to a small-town county clerk from Kentucky, Christianity has become an issue in the presidential campaign. Republican candidates Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz rushed to share the media attention with Kim Davis when she was let out of jail after spending six …

Robert Reich Questioner (wearing Trump T-shirt) to Donald Trump last night in New Hampshire: “We have a problem in this country. It’s called Muslims. You know our current president is one. You know he’s not even an American.” Trump (chuckling): “We need this question. This is the first question.” Questioner, continuing: “Anyway, we have training …

REAL First Aid Training is a overrated. Except for that one day you rely on it. cross-posted on Facebook

Who Said It: Ron Burgundy Or Donald Trump? We’ve rounded up a glorious selection of quotes from business tycoon Don and fictitious bumbling TV presenter Ron, and all you need to do is guess who said it… cross-posted on Facebook

When examined, our cultural hangups around sex and gender don’t always hold up…Assigned Male cross-posted on Facebook

This makes me very hungry.All 50 States Reimagined as Food Puns cross-posted on Facebook

Andy Kubiak I thought of you.Nickelodeon Beware of dad jokes this Father’s Day… cross-posted on Facebook

Some fun science and engineering from two young women![HD] Loki Lego Launcher – High altitude balloon Our family had a great time with this Loki Lego Launcher project. Not only did our kids get a big sense of accomplishment in successfully sending a… cross-posted on Facebook

Funny Or Die Donaldo Trumpez (George Lopez) outlines his executive policies promising to “Make Mexico Great Again.” cross-posted on Facebook

Is it possible to use python urllib with basic HTTP authentication? Answer: This was answered on stackoverflow.com I would recommend using the Requests: HTTP for Humans module if you aren’t constrained to the standard modules. The first example is of HTTP Basic Auth…. cross-posted on Facebook

“We will have so much winning if I get elected, that you may get bored with winning.”Fox News “We are led by very, very stupid people… We will have so much winning if I get elected, that you may get bored with winning.” – Donald J. Trump at the anti-Iran deal rally today MORE: http://bit.ly/1OzChhY …

In the 8 minutes before the first moon landing the flight control computer crashed *4 times.* It was trying to run extra programs because of a misconfiguration by the astronauts and it was running out of memory (all 3 kB). In such instances it was designed to reinitialize, essentially rebooting the system, and restart all …

Fredericton folks, I need 1-3 people to make a team for Saturday. Kubb is tons of fun!!!1st Annual Fredericton Kubb Tournament; Say Whaaaat? Kubb, the German Horseshoe game. Tons of fun. Lets DQ something different and learn a new national German pastime. Who:Teams of 2-4 players. Numbers don’t have… cross-posted on Facebook

Obama is in Kotzebue! One of my last big surveys with the NOAA Ship Fairweather was to survey the approach and offshore areas of Kotzebue.The White House “Everybody who has a chance to come up here will marvel at the incredible natural beauty of the state of Alaska, but the reason we’re here in particular …

The White House Watch President Obama get behind the camera next to a glacier in Alaska’s Kenai Fjords National Park to show you the serious impacts of climate change: http://go.wh.gov/GsxVga #ActOnClimate cross-posted on Facebook

“When a certain subset of [people] see other people playing with their toys, it often feels to them like the toys are getting taken away.”Who Won Science Fiction’s Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters After a group of fans tried to guarantee a whiter, more male slate, most of the big Hugos instead went to …

Grasping at straws. I thought this was a joke at first. There is zero context provided just “waste!” “premium satellite!” “They only are at sea 3 weeks!” “The military can do it with 6 stations!” This is particularly offensive because we regularly had discussion about how we were using resources, and whether it was an …