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Sunday Late Night Open Thread: Laughter is the Best Medicine

Posted: April 3, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: just because | Tags: |11 Comments

I just couldn’t take any more depressing news today, so I kind of zoned out. I read a mystery and took a long nap. I’m feeling a whole lot better now, even though the news is all still bad.

I wanted to find something cheerful to post tonight, and I found this over at Uppity’s place–so I’m borrowing it. A big hat tip to Uppity Woman for putting a big smile on my face tonight.

Dad was ripping up a job rejection letter, much to his baby’s delight.

I wanted more, so I found a few more happy baby videos. I hope you like them as much as I do.

11 Comments on “Sunday Late Night Open Thread: Laughter is the Best Medicine”

  1. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    April 3, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    Female journalist describes her experiences covering Libya and talking to Iman al-Obeidi.

  2. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    April 3, 2011 at 10:05 pm

    Why is the Fed bailing out Gaddafi? by Matt Taibbi

    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/why-is-the-fed-bailing-out-qaddafi-20110401

  3. minkoffminx's avatar Minkoff Minx says:
    April 3, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    I did the same like you BB, only I started a new puzzle to get my mind off of the bad news.

    Have you seen this video:

    It is funny.

    • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
      April 4, 2011 at 6:26 am

      No, I haven’t. That’s a great example of the later stages of babbling when kids imitate the rhythms of adult speech. I’m going to save that to use the next time I teach about language development.

      It’s amazing the way they are using gestures too. Very interesting–and cute.

  4. minkoffminx's avatar Minkoff Minx says:
    April 3, 2011 at 10:17 pm

    Did you all see the Nova special about the Japanese quake?

    Japan’s Killer Quake | NOVA | PBS Video

    Here is a preview:

    • purplefinn's avatar purplefinn says:
      April 4, 2011 at 6:18 am

      Yes, it was very informative. The narrative and videos helped to explain the tragic events. We watched the events over the weeks in piecemeal. This gives a pretty good overview.

  5. minkoffminx's avatar Minkoff Minx says:
    April 3, 2011 at 10:34 pm

    Okay, this seems like some kind of joke, but it isn’t:

    Gov’t eyes use of huge sheet to contain radioactive substances | Kyodo News

    The government has asked Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, to study the possibility of containing radioactive substances from four damaged reactors by wrapping their entire containment buildings with a huge amount of sheeting, government sources said Sunday.

    The proposal calls for building framed structures around the 45-meter-high containment buildings and then wrapping them with the sheeting, the sources said.

    If all of the four buildings were wrapped in this manner, it would cost about 80 billion yen and take up to two months, the sources said.

    But atomic energy experts are skeptical about the feasibility of the plan, proposed by a general construction firm, saying the step would have only limited effects in blocking the release of radioactive substances into the environment.

    Osaka University professor emeritus Keiji Miyazaki said that there is the risk that such sheeting would be torn apart by heat emanating from nuclear reactors. ”What must be done speedily is rather the restoration of the reactors’ cooling functions,” said the professor of atomic energy engineering.

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