Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Two weeks to the Mars rover landings ... and fingers are crossed

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VOANews.com A U.S. spacecraft named Spirit is to land on Mars this week. It is to be followed in three weeks by an identical spacecraft name...
Tuesday, December 30, 2003

BBC NEWS | Americas | US air marshals demand resisted - But what about the armored doors?

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BBC NEWS | Americas | US air marshals demand resisted The American directive, which has come into immediate effect, applies to all flights u...
Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Iraq as the Spanish American War?

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Krugman: Citizen Conrad These days, everything old is new again. Income is once again concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite, and money r...
Sunday, December 21, 2003

When more is less: Amazon.com

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Amazon.com: All Products Search Results: 1000 places to see before you die Amazon now does full text searching. This is a "feature"...
Saturday, December 20, 2003

A positive view of Iraq -- from an independent source

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Telegraph | News | It is stupid to say life in Iraq has got worse In the streets of Baghdad and other cities, plenty of excitable people te...
Friday, December 19, 2003

Humans: Fat by Nature?

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Economist.com ... it is not obvious that getting fat is a natural response to plenty. Animals rarely get fat, even when food is abundant, un...
Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Prewar propaganda: Bush claimed bio and chemical weapons with drone delivery to east coast.

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Florida Today Local News: Senators were told Iraqi weapons could hit U.S. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Monday the Bush administration last yea...
Monday, December 15, 2003

Alternate universe: Musharaf assasinated, Saddam at large

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Pakistani President Narrowly Escapes Assassin's Bomb President Pervez Musharraf narrowly survived an assassination attempt here Sunday n...
Sunday, December 14, 2003

Dave Barry on computer security

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Herald.com - Your Miami Everything Guide : It's time once again for Keyboard Korner, the computer-advice column that uses simple, '&...

States sell voter registration information to marketers

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Wired News via NewsScan: Mining the Vein of Voter Rolls Unbeknownst to most citizens, state officials are selling their voter-registrati...
Friday, December 12, 2003

The Bush Smallpox Scandal

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Bioterror Preparedness Still Lacking, Health Group Concludes (washingtonpost.com) One year after President Bush sought to energize the natio...

NYT Science: The differences between a chimpanzee and homo sapiens

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Comparing Genomes Shows Split Between Chimps and People Humans and chimps shared a joint ancestor as recently as five million years ago. Bio...

What's the respiratory rate of the universe?

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Reading a popular cosmology article (a hobby), I caught note of a hint that some models of physics suggest quintessence need not have a moda...
Tuesday, December 09, 2003

BW Online | December 8, 2003 | A Guide to Phone Number Portability

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BW Online | December 8, 2003 | A Guide to Phone Number Portability Best set of instructions I've seen -- in fact, the only set of instru...

NYT Review: Neuroscience and the nature of humankind

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Humanity? Maybe It’s in the Wiring The body, it turns out, is as important as the brain. Dr. Antonio Damasio, a neurologist at the Universit...