Monday, April 11, 2005

How does one survive the death of two children?

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Markham's Behavioral Health: Memories live on A father of nine loses two of his youngest children in 1993. On the occasion of the an...

Extinctions every 62 million years

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Research News: Fossil Records Show Biodiversity Comes and Goes Every 62 million years there's a collapse in biodiversity. The hypoth...

BBC survey of Iraqi attitudes: quite positive

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | After the war: Iraqis face new lives I wouldn't make much of a set of anectdotal interviews of Iraqis, exce...
Sunday, April 10, 2005

Millenialism and the pursuit of profit

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The New York Times > Opinion > Frank Rich: A Culture of Death, Not Life Frank Rich notes the recent passion for mega-funerals, and loo...
Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Exploring British Columbia by google's new satellite imagery maps

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Brian Faughnan - A Lost Person I started at Rainbow Mountain (I think) by Whistler and navigated to the coast, then up the coast of BC to Ju...
Monday, April 04, 2005

No Black Holes? Say it ain't so Joe.

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news @ nature.com -- Black holes 'do not exist' --These mysterious objects are dark-energy stars, physicist claims. Universal ti...
Saturday, April 02, 2005

Yahweh vs. Ganesha in the American Supreme Court

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Kudos to Salon for covering a topic I've not seen mentioned elsewhere. I'm reminded by this odd silence how feeble American journali...

A silent liberal majority in America? The BBC's Justin Webb thinks so ..

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BBC NEWS | Programmes | Justin Webb | Schiavo case tests America A BBC Commentation is stunned by his "discovery" of what he c...
Friday, April 01, 2005

Google Ride Finder - I thought this was an April Fool's joke

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Google Ride Finder It's not. My jaw just dropped. Google's integrated GPS sensors in some taxi companies with Google Maps. This ...

American Torturing Jobs Increasingly Outsourced

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WASHINGTON, DC—AFL-CIO vice president Linda Chavez-Thompson, representing the American Federation of Interrogation Torturers, released a sta...

How social security solvency problems will be addressed - through immigration law changes

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Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Max Sawicky Reports on Brookings The last election cost me whatever residual faith I had in the wi...

Gmail goes to 2GB -- take that Yahoo!

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Gmail: Help Center Yahoo plans to go to 1GB, so Yahoo has gone to 2GB - with (far?) more to come. So much for my already hitting 19% of ...
Thursday, March 31, 2005

Is DeLay getting nervous?

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The DNC has put together a rogue's case file for Tom DeLay: DNC Special Reports: Tom DeLay Case File . It's pretty interesting. M...
Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Political Animal spots the Heritage Foundation's Creationist Event

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The Washington Monthly: Kevin Drum Kevin Drum spots this description of an April 19th event to be held by an old bastion of conservatism (e...

You are (probably) very, very rich.

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Global Rich List Crooked Timber sent me to this one (read the post). The test doesn't actually measure wealth, it instead ranks yea...