Saturday, January 31, 2004

Georgia Takes on ’Evolution’ - The Decline and Fall of American Education

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NYT: Georgia Takes on ’Evolution’ A proposed set of guidelines for middle and high school science classes in Georgia has caused a furor afte...

Understanding Bush: It's all about faith

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NYT, Friedman: Budgets of Mass Destruction It should be clear to all by now that what we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administrati...

Africa: Outsourcing 2008?

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BW Online | February 2, 2004 | Africa: The Next Wide-Open Wireless Frontier For a telecommunications industry hungrily seeking new avenues o...

Clear Channel (Republican Radio): Kill all the Bicylists

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Business 2.0 - 101 Dumbest Moments in Business We deeply regret that comments made by on-air personalities were misinterpreted. Clear Channe...
Friday, January 30, 2004

Brad DeLong: why the rational middle despises Bush

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Brad DeLong's Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (2004): a Weblog Jeffrey Frankel is not, by nature, a bitter or a partisan person. Ye...

Krugman: What's Happening to America?

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Op-Ed Columnist: Where’s the Apology? ...Still, the big story isn't about Mr. Bush; it's about what's happening to America. Othe...
Thursday, January 29, 2004

Saddam and GWB: a consensual hallucination (NYT, Dowd)

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Maureen Dowd: Dump Cheney Now! The awful part is that George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein were both staring into the same cracked spook- house...
Tuesday, January 27, 2004

USATODAY.com - Declining testosterone might put men at risk for Alzheimer's - or NOT

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USATODAY.com - Declining testosterone might put men at risk for Alzheimer's The researchers found that higher levels of free testosteron...
Sunday, January 25, 2004

Alzheimer's excitement: apoE clears key proteins

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BBC NEWS | Health | Proteins 'hold Alzheimer's key' Scientists have identified two proteins that may help prevent the brain plaq...

What would you do with Microsoft's 10 billion? (a quarter)

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MacInTouch Home Page Microsoft yesterday reported record revenue of more than $10 billion for its latest fiscal quarter . Once upon a time J...
Saturday, January 24, 2004

NYT, Tom Friedman: War of Ideas -- Why we must sacrifice American jobs to avert more 911s

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Op-Ed Columnist: War of Ideas, Part 6 ...Just read the numbers and weep: of the 90 million Arab youth today (between the ages of 15 and 24),...

Microsoft protects "open" Office file formats

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Microsoft seeks XML-related patents | CNET News.com Microsoft has applied for patents that could prevent competing applications from process...
Friday, January 23, 2004

John McCain on the Senate Omnibus Bill

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U.S. Senator John McCain onthe Senate Omnibus Spending Bill An unsuspected reader (I thought only my mother read this blog) sent me the link...

PBS | I, Cringely - On Outsourcing

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PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column There are those who argue that the numbers involved are too small to worry about.  What do a few thousan...

Emergent computation -- the thinking world (Nature)

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Nature: Do plants act like computers?: Leaves appear to regulate their 'breathing' by conducting simple calculations. "Plants ...