Tuesday, March 09, 2004

The Endocannabanoids - medicine does move on

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Entrez-PubMed After the discovery, in the early 1990s, of specific G-protein-coupled receptors for marijuana's psychoactive principle De...

MSNBC - Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind

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MSNBC - Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and member...
Monday, March 08, 2004

Wahhabism and the Saudi Front (NYT Magazine)

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Intruders in the House of Saud, Part I: The Jihadi Who Kept Asking Why Long NYT Magazine article -- Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are the next &...

Betting against Bush's America ... Buffet's move.

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NYT: Weak Dollar Gains Notice of Buffett Warren E. Buffett, the billionaire investor, has a $12 billion bet against the United States. Mr. B...
Sunday, March 07, 2004

Evolution in action: why Theocons need to teach natural selection in the schools

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Wapo: Dueling Viruses Are Latest Computer Pest (TechNews.com) The programmers behind the ongoing wave of computer worms and viruses hitting ...
Saturday, March 06, 2004

Kristof: The market failure of CEO Compensation

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Op-Ed Columnist: Millions for Moochers ...The problem with "the great C.E.O. pay heist," as Fortune magazine once called it, is th...
Thursday, March 04, 2004

How Will the Universe End? - A cosmic detective story about the demise of the world, in three parts. By Jim Holt

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How Will the Universe End? - A cosmic detective story about the demise of the world, in three parts. By Jim Holt Before I was going to start...

Republican party: anti-gay yes, but also anti-adoption?

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NYT: Senate Hears Testimony on a Gay Marriage Amendment Lawmakers and other supporters of the proposed amendment disputed the notion that it...

Salon.com | Theocons vs. neocons: The contradictions within the republican party

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Salon.com | Theocons vs. neocons Theocons vs. neocons With Mad Mel scaring the Jewish vote and Bush pandering to his theocratic base, the ...
Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Building a better memory

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Wired News: The Masters of Memory Lane Hagwood said he wasn't born with an outstanding ability to memorize, and claims anyone can learn ...
Tuesday, March 02, 2004

The power of the internet combined with social networks ... it still stuns me

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MacInTouch Home Page John Faughnan emailed us about a QuickTime 6.5 EXIF problem he has been tracking down with Thorsten Lemke, author of Gr...

And now, unleash the dogs of democracy ...

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Big Margins in Key States Assure Kerry the Nomination Senator John Kerry blazed to victories in Democratic primaries from New York to Califo...

Krugman: The corruption of Alan Greenspan

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Krugman, NYT: Maestro of Chutzpah The Bush White House has made it clear that it will destroy the careers of scientists, budget experts, int...

An end to spam? But not a new idea ...

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iTNews Microsoft is suggesting a new tactic in the fight against spam. Execs have proposed a broad industry plan to publish technical detail...
Monday, March 01, 2004

Mars probe Opportunity -- plop into a martian swamp?

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Mars: A Water World? Evidence Mounts, But Scientists Remain Tight-Lipped [UPDATE: unless you're a geologist, the actual news confere...