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moominmuppetNew governors in Wisconsin and Ohio reject trains as rest of world moves headlong into 21st Century -- I want my trains, asshole! So idiotic.
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Marine biologists claim to have discovered three new fish species while undertaking deep-water ocean trawls of the Peru-Chile trench off South America.
A brand new kind of fish has just been found in one of the dark “lifeless” areas of the ocean. It was previously thought that the area was devoid of fish, researchers say.
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New research now points the way to a fossil record of viruses that have surprisingly insinuated themselves into the genomes of insects and animals, providing clues about their evolutionary history
Koreaceratops hwaseongensis, a new species of dinosaur estimated to have lived during the late Early Cretaceous period about 103 million years ago, has been discovered in South Korea
Let’s Talk about Julian Assange.
Universal Subtitles: add subtitles to any video on the web -- This has a lot of potential for expanding accessibility!
DREAM Act passes the House.
When sex wouldn't stop hurting (on chronic pelvic pain, not sexual assault)
Is nothing sacred? The sad demise of Norway's "sex priest"
Thank You, Elizabeth
How Elizabeth Edwards rewrote the script for political wives like me.
How AOL News Started The "Sex By Surprise" Lie
IRB caught in WikiLeaks firing line
The Seven Planets
Brenda Starr, redheaded reporter and comic heroine, leaving the news biz
Euclid Beach cats get young caregiver; homeless pets need foster care; adoptathon at Cleveland APL: Animals in the News
Fun with Water
Holy Glastonbury Thorn cut down by vandals at pilgrimage site in Britain
Expecting a Baby, But Not the Pain
Treating ulcerative colitis with parasitic worms
Scariest Scarecrow, Pneumatic tubes, and other fun stuff
Sister Wendy the art critic discusses "Piss Christ" and the naked human form
The Sound of Science
Metabolic Melodies
A shortage of certain immune cells might prompt obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Melodious Genes
A study on antibiotic resistance shows that bacteria aren’t just out to help themselves.
Maternal and paternal genes don’t always have the same effect on offspring.
A map of relationships between British citizens, measured in telephone calls
A Peculiarly Wonderful Ball of Fluff
Dirk Gently trailer from BBC!
TSA subjects India's US ambassador to public grope because of her sari
EFF wants Righthaven to pay for its own ass-kicking
Czech "peter meter" test for gay asylum seekers slammed by EU
Student protesters in London use Google Maps to outwit police "kettling"
WikiWecaps
Google foreclosure maps
Intrepid Crater on Mars
Wikileaked: a foreign policy journal devoted to the Wikileaks releases
California's safety codes are now open source!
More than 1000 Wikileaks mirror sites spring up in a week
Lovely song about math by Wilco frontman's son: Put A Line On It
George Lucas wants to resuscitate dead actors using computers
The Air Force's PlayStation 3 supercomputer
Helen Mirren Kick Ass at the Women in Entertainment Breakfast
roundup of Aung San Suu Kyi articles
Senate Democrats postpone planned vote on 'don't ask, don't tell'
Must-see TV: Rachel Maddow interviews author of Uganda’s “kill the gays” bill
Sen. Sanders' Filibuster Of The Tax Deal -- I caught some of this on CSPAN. Awesome!
The Coriolis Effect: It Sinks Ships
A 75,000-year-old human settlement may lurk beneath the Persian Gulf
Poop, Not the Pill, Causes Estrogen Pollution
Coolest Shakespeare Riffs in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Julie Taymor's The Tempest is your new late night drunken pizza orgy movie
More sumac, please
National Geographic: Ten weirdest animals of 2010
2600 Magazine condemns DDoS attacks against Wikileaks censors
Pictures: 14 Rarest and Weirdest Mammal Species Named
Marine biologists claim to have discovered three new fish species while undertaking deep-water ocean trawls of the Peru-Chile trench off South America.
A brand new kind of fish has just been found in one of the dark “lifeless” areas of the ocean. It was previously thought that the area was devoid of fish, researchers say.
With the discovery of a fourth giant planet, astronomers are hailing the HR 8799 system as remarkably similar to our own.
New research now points the way to a fossil record of viruses that have surprisingly insinuated themselves into the genomes of insects and animals, providing clues about their evolutionary history
Koreaceratops hwaseongensis, a new species of dinosaur estimated to have lived during the late Early Cretaceous period about 103 million years ago, has been discovered in South Korea
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Date: 2010-12-11 06:15 am (UTC)It looks absolutely gorgeous, and I think several of the actors in it are brilliant, but the fact that the only person of color in the cast is a brutish and somewhat comical would-be rapist is some serious race fail.
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Date: 2010-12-20 04:06 am (UTC)Re Julian Assange & Wikileaks...
Date: 2010-12-12 10:05 pm (UTC)You present a well-reasoned and quite possibly accurate picture of events. And you are correct, wikileaks and the rape charges ought to be two different stories. Is the timing politically motivated? It’s hard to come to any other conclusion. Has Assange misbehaved and jeopardized the important work he’s been involved in? Quite possibly.
Wikileaks IS the media story. It’s one of the most important media stories since the falsehoods (okay, lies) told by the White House and others to justify the Iraq War.
There is a second story now, and that is about human frailty. It’s rather ironic that while Assange is crusading to “reveal the truth” about the relationships between the powerful and weaker states, he is engaging in his own sexual power games with women.
My expectation is that this story of rape will totally erode any credibility that Wikileaks has in the current seat of world power - the US. (I’ve lived in Canada, US and spent time in Brazil as well). It has amazed me how different the American psyche is compared with perspectives elsewhere, even amongst American “progressives”. My hope is that we listen carefully to the secrets revealed by wikileaks and that our attitude about the world we live in matures
Re: Re Julian Assange & Wikileaks...
Date: 2010-12-20 04:06 am (UTC)I couldn't agree more!