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- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 24 minutes ago*Spotlight on CERN has been reformatted in 2011. Aside from some not-too-shocking answers that Rolf Heuer gave the lady in the TV News Studio, two chaps show you the 15 km of service tunnels.* Last ni...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 hour agoGod bless Lupe Fiasco. He delivers on this song. "I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullshit Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets How much money does it take to really make a...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 hours agoWatch this disturbing video of the Bahrain government killing peaceful protesters: Full video of the incident: In a confrontation between non-violent protesters and violent oppressors, the later will a...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 hours agoIn a Youtube message, Emmy award-winning actor and 9/11 truth activist Ed Asner asks actors and producers to help make a new ground-breaking mainstream film that dramatically depicts the official story abo...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*This is what happens when you have a director too lazy, stupid, dishonest, or just plain contemptuous of the work he's staging. From a 1985 Vienna State Opera production we have Marguerite's "*Roi de Thu...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoUsing Kepler observations, an estimate of the number of exoplanets populating our galaxy has been made.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoThe Earth just dodged a solar bullet, but what about next time? Sensitive technology could be mankind's Achilles heel.
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 6 hours ago
Boy, 16, 'attacks mother with claw hammer before cremating her in oven'... because she took away his Playstation A 16-year-old son has allegedly confessed to killing his mother because she took away his P... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago
*The U.S. military's historically pervasive straight-horny-boys-will-be-horny-boys attitude doesn't bode well for its commitment to protecting non-straight servicefolk from discrimination and harassment.*... - posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoA shortage of a specific type of helium has caused a physics and engineering scramble across the United States.
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 8 hours ago“We also condemn in the strongest terms attacks on peaceful demonstrators, human rights activists, foreigners, and diplomats. Freedom of assembly, freedom of expression, and freedom of the press are pill...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago
Photos by Forgotten People Forgotten People, Navajo Nation, Arizona: Friday, February 18, 2011, Pastor Jimmy Bowling and Operation Compassion delivered a semi with 80,000 lbs. of safe drinking water, pr... - posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 11 hours ago
Is it just me or has the BBC been going *out of it's way* to ensure that Red Ed Miliband gets a rebuttal in every time the Coalition so much as opens its mouth? I was looking at this page concerning the R... - posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoI had the misfortune earlier today to listen to what the BBC allege is a "topical panel quiz show". I refer, of course, to the News Quiz. The panelists were* Jeremy Hardy, Paul Sinha, Imran Yusuf* and *Fr...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 12 hours ago
Photo by Lucas Oleniuk for The Toronto Star. For more, go here. - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 13 hours ago
* Hannah Tan from Penang.* Malaysia is mainly Moslem. And it is a wildly successful country, with good schools, good hospitals, and a standard of living way above that of most of its Asian neighbours. Th... - posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoHere, Richard Black sets out to mount what he sees as a balanced discussion of the much-mulled-over disagreement between Eric Steig and Ryan O'Donnell about the Antarctic climate record. He fails miserably...
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[image: Ángeles, hadas, cupidos y otros seres fantásticos III][image: Las mejores imágenes, en un solo lugar.] Desde hace mucho, las *imágenes de Ángeles, hadas, cupidos y demás seres fantásticos*, han sid... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago
*FRANK OBJECTS TO REPUBLICAN EFFORTS TO MAKE WIDESPREAD CHANGES TO U.S. GOVERNMENT IN ONLY THREE DAYS OF DEBATE* *by Ken* No, don't bother trying to click on anything in the above image. There actually *... - posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 14 hours agoObama administration rejects Israel resolution, using U.N. veto for first time By Colum Lynch ForeignPolicy.com Published: February 18, 2011 The Obama administration on Friday cast its first ever veto in ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 15 hours agoFive tourist hotels have been attacked in Cairo. According to the manager, 'about 1,000 young guys' attacked Cairo's *Europa Hotel* on 15 February 2011. WND reported that the Egyptian Islamist terrorist ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 15 hours agoFebruary 17, 2011 at 23:18:22 *Obama's FY 2012 Budget Is A Tool Of Class War* By Paul Craig Roberts opednews.com Obama's new budget is a continuation of Wall Street's class war against the poor and mi...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours agoAlarmist blog Climate Science Watch reports that the lower chamber of the U.S. Parliament has voted 244-179, largely separated by parties, to stop the U.S. contributions to the IPCC. Dr Robert Austin of P...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 17 hours agoI don't watch award shows and I don't care about the Grammys (i.e., I care about music), but I love this footage of Mick Jagger and Raphael Saadiq rehearsing for this year's Grammy show. It swings like cra...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 18 hours agoYesterday the League of Conservation Voters released their 2010 scorecardrating every Member of the House's record on environmental issues. Considering that Big Oil and Big Coal now dominate Congress utter...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoThe BBC views the eruptions throughout the Arab World as one homogeneous, righteous, peoples’ call for democracy. To them ‘democracy’ can only mean ‘Western Style’ democracy. Legitimate doubts about that a...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago*Photos copyright by Christina Akaquiqui, published with permission.* The Longest Walk 3 northern route for the reversal of diabetes, walked and ran through the snow in the mountains of Oregon this week, ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago*In the news:* *Native American Youth walkers, Mohawk Nation News, Subcomandante Marcos, Wikileaks and Native Music* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo by Christina Akaq...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 19 hours agoAncient Britons were cannibals. So now we can admit the truth: that other 'gentle native peoples' ate each other Ancient Britons stand accused today of ritually killing each other, boiling and eating huma...
- posted by Anaconda at PhoeniCIA2phoenix - 20 hours agoThe MSM is dying, Good Riddance ! My wife subscribes to The Economist and the IHT...., but I swear I don’t read any of it. Every time I pick them up, I burst into peals of laughter.... These MSM rags......
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 20 hours ago" You're a libertarian because you abhor violence . . . When a neighbor isn't willing to contribute as much to a social project as you are, you'd never think of: Using a gun to force him to contribute; H...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoThe Daily Mail claims today that culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has recommended that Lord Patten should become the next chairman of the BBC, and that this is now almost certain to happen. It's a horrific pr...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoJames Naughtie, discussing internships and work experience on this morning's Today programme: "You've raised the point about companies getting people to work for them for nothing. That's one side of it. T...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 20 hours ago(caution - not pretty) Press TV - 'Army massacring Bahraini protesters'
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 21 hours agoAll recorded nuclear explosions in the modern age are mapped here. Please, don't ask difficult questions like what kind of impact this and (since 1991) DU may have had on human cancer rates. (oh sh- I ju...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 21 hours agoI just heard Alex Jones say she has been diagnosed with cancer. While I only encountered what Katherine had to say after waking up, those who have been around this blog long enough to remember *'Art, Freed...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 22 hours agoMarc *Ravalomanana* said aviation authorities in Madagascar had written to South African Airways to say he was not welcome. Ravalomanana had be book on the carrier's regular Saturday journey to Antananar...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 22 hours agoWisconsin's *Republican* governor vowed on top of Friday to press ahead with legislation to curb the union bargaining rights of public employees as fraction of a deficit-cutting plan even as protests aga...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago* Indonesian fishermen* What will happen to Egypt? "The similarities between Indonesia a decade ago and Egypt today are striking: a Muslim majority, a popular uprising, and the ouster of a long-running...
- Sunday Classics preview: In which we tune into the sound world of Gounod's "Faust," via Faust's aria
posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*For next season's new production of Faust at the Met: "Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the 20th century with a production that won praise in London last seas... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Would you buy a used constitution from this man?* *by Ken* From Al Kamen's *Washington Post* "In the Loop" column today: *Hold the salsa* Speaking of [former Virginia Sen. George] Allen, it is time once...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoI've been breathlessly following the news from Wisconsin for a week, and it just keeps getting better. Canadian readers may not know that the capital of this once (and future?) liberal US state has been a ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDogs appear to empathize with us, to the point that some therapy dogs even seem to take on the emotions of their sick or distressed human charges.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNew clues are being found as to how violent exoplanetary atmospheres can be.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*The St. Petersburg Quartet:* *unflappably poised and probing founding first violinist Alla Aranovskaya, violist Boris Vayner (with the quartet since 2005, and an ear-opener in last night's performance of ...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day ago*Excellent analysis here, be sure to click on the phrase "Anglo-American" on their version of the article.* : ) " Contemplate the larger pattern. The Anglosphere has built up militant Islam piece by piece...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 1 day agoAlthough we featured it the other day, I bet you haven't heard too many prominent Democratic politicians railing against Republican state legislator Gregory Sorg's bill to deny New Hampshire students the ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBattles are brewing for where the retiring space shuttles should be located.
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day agoRon Paul Is A Vicious Anti-Semite and Anti-American and Conservatives Need To Wash Their Hands of Him by David Horowitz Long ago Bill Buckley drummed the anti-Semites out of the conservative movement, an...
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTake the online quiz and see how a Cornell researcher would categorize your app usage.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAnother year of major spring flooding is on its way to the upper Midwest.
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOn this week's Friday News Feedbag, we talk to Kory Stamper, an Associate Editor at Merriam-Webster about how the modern English language came to be. And what makes it so difficult to learn. Here's a clip ...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoUnlike birds, plants are doing fine in Chernobyl despite the high radiation level of the soil.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOverfishing has culled larger fish from the world's oceans, leaving smaller fish to thrive.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoI am always hesitant to join in on confessional posts, when I get truthful, people tend to get upset. Not my bloggy friends, because most of the time you have been there, but family. So family, if you don'...
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoElectromagnetic pulses can detonate explosives from out of harm's reach.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoJohnny Ball has been a great popularizer of mathematics, especially among the British children. Even these days, at the age of 72, he can spontaneously, vigorously, and meaningfully answer any general scie...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThree generations of Russian scientists have been keeping track of the world's largest and deepest lake and they're finding some surprising climate change connections.
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 1 day ago*HUMOUR:* *WHY LEAVE A JOB HALF DONE:* Here's another winning item from the pen of Stephanie McMillan.
- posted by Amanda Onion at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSerene Branson's odd Grammy night appearance is linked to a migraine -- revealing how complicated the condition can be.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoStretching may not be the best way to enhance athletic performance and reduce injury, research concludes.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 1 day agoI was in London for New Years Eve and Buckingham Palace was between our hotel and the Tate Gallery and its Francis Bacon collection, our destination one day. We decided to walk the 2-3 miles to the Tate ...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day ago" Raw Milk Is Living, Alive – Lactic Acid Bacteria Raw milk contains an abundance of what are called lactic acid bacteria. These bacteria populate the gut and are fundamental to the immune system. In fact, ...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 day agoUPDATE to my post yesterday about the union protests in Wisconsin. The BBC has dramatically changed the news brief since I wrote the post. They've clearly updated it to reflect the Dems going AWOL. I think...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Gene Sharp *The Father of the Egytian Revolution is a friend of the CIA called Gene Sharp. According to Thierry Meyssan *(**The Albert Einstein Institution: the CIA.** ):* Gene Sharp "helped NATO and th...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoFrom *Coquitlam Now*, with heartfelt thanks to Jeff Schutts. Canada's conscience 'in limbo' by Jeff Schutts Old news: American soldiers living in Canada seek sanctuary from the Iraq War. When you heard t...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoAfter a look at the PC leadership contenders last week, I turn to the Liberal field. The last three Liberal leaders have all come from within caucus, so any conversation about the next leader should start...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA year after runaway Toyotas scared the country, a government report clears faulty electronics.
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoNew Day of Rage. Rise up! Protest! Demand impartiality from the despotic BBC! Express your outrage here. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- *What would you do* when you read: *"patchlet with handler whacked"*? [1] To be honest I frowned, until I noticed that Ubuntu 11.04, also known as "Natty Narwhal", could get a new, patched kernel. A new ke...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoDespite my complaints, there is some good news. Nothing solid like a job offer - too early for that - but hope is beginning to take shape on three different fronts. *Volunteering.* At the iSchool, we are ...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFossils of the fabrosaur, about 190 million years old, were found at 12,500 feet elevation.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 1 day agoThe Pentagon (Defense Secretary Gates and the Joint Chiefs) and the Air Force were clear as a bell: they do not want a second engine for the F-35 fighters, which already has an engine. But congressmen in ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoA new list thread is coming soon, but first I must use my poor, neglected blog to complain about why my blog is neglected. This is not a participatory list - it's an extended whine. I am *very* glad I am ...
- posted by Raed Jarrar at Raed in the Middle - 1 day agoI found this video on a Kurdish facebook page. It shows how the guards of Barzani's party opened fire and killed Rijwan Ali, a young Iraqi protester, in Sulaymaniyah yesterday. The same facebook page po...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 1 day ago
- posted by Anaconda at PhoeniCIA2phoenix - 1 day agoJusqu’à quand cela sera-t-il exclu de la Constitution Européenne...? On se souvient du fameux débat au sein de l’Union européenne : faut-il ou non signaler dans la Constitution de l’Europe les fondemen...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 1 day agoNewly elected *Republicans* in state capitols launching strongest challenge to unions in decades Republicans who swept keen on power in state capitols this year with promises to cut spending and bolster ...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 1 day agoA plan to increase production from *Canada's* last asbestos mine near this town named for the deadly mineral has beside yourself physicians and public health workers around the globe. They say the fiber...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoThere has been a lot of havoc in the media world about two recent papers in *Nature* whose authors argued that bad rainstorms are caused by humans (Min et al.) and that the British 2000 floods were cause...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 2 days ago*Justin Bieber* is being *used* by the politicians. "Campus Progress - which is a youth outreach arm of the *Soros*-funded non-profit powerhouse Center for American Progress - is trying to say that if yo...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoRegistration for a $30 million competition to land a spacecraft on the moon is closed, with a total of 29 teams officially in the running.
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 2 days agoI agree with Mr Littlejohn that it's time for the chop, though a replacement for Question Time would undoubtedly be much worse. BBC producers are so obsessed by their own lefty agendas that they are no lon...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoCould spinning black holes be detected by the light they're twisting? If Einstein was right, then yes.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 2 days ago*Bloggers Note:* Play the video above and/or read the transcript below. If you'd like to know more about Speaker of the House John Boehner, go here. ------------------------------ DemocracyNow! / By...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days ago*"I don't suppose that anyone would be sending me a bbl. of beer, because it is pretty well known around France that I don't drink. Certainly not French beer."* *-- Benchley, in "One Set of French Dishes"*...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days agoBarbara Hollingsworth writes: When did demonstrating at the private homes of politicians or corporate executives become an acceptable way to voice one’s political opinions? Nearly two dozen activists from...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 2 days ago*INTERNATIONAL LABOUR PHILIPPINES:* *SUPPORT WORKERS AT DOLE PHILIPPINES:* For over four years workers at Dole in the Philippines have been struggling against both the agribusiness company and the Filipi...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 2 days agoTwo autocracies have fallen in North Africa, Tunisia's and Egypt's. Down With Tyranny! Tremors are being felt all over the world, particularly the Muslim world, although I loved that the right-wing regime...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*Longest Walk 3 northern route for the reversal of diabetes, through the snow. Photos by Christina Akaquiqui. (Double click on images to enlarge.) . Longest Walk northern route: The snow hasn't dampened th...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe recent X-class eruption on the sun caused disruption to radio communications across southern China.
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 2 days ago*By Dennis Kucinich* *Editor's Note: Nine years ago today Rep. Dennis Kucinich offered a "Prayer for America" at an event sponsored by the **Southern California Americans for Democratic Action** in Los An...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 2 days agoThis request to make all hyperlinks pops up every now and then so might as well make a post for it. To make all links open in new window is amazingly simple. Just sign into DASHBOARD > DESIGN > EDIT HTML ...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days agoA must read. The Back Story on Iran's Clashes By Robert Parry (A Special Report) Consortium News February 17, 2011 Iranian parliamentarians presented an ugly scene on Tuesday with raucous chants calling...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAlthough the environmental impacts of the spill are considerable, scientists still know little about the disaster's effects on mental health.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoBears can slow their metabolic rates far more than their body temperatures would predict.
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days ago
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days agoReal America: Ray McGovern Fake America: Hillary Clinton Ray McGovern: McGovern Bloodied and Arrested at Clinton Speech 1/2 2/2
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 2 days agoFor the last couple of days, there have been major events in Wisconsin involving state government legislation intended to curtail public sector union entitlements in order to save money. Like several other...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 2 days ago*But not the Republican one* I'm a member of KCRW, my local public radio affiliate. I listen whenever I'm in the car and every year I send them a check for $365. This week they sent all their members this...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 2 days agoIncompetent Establishment | by Guest Blogger on Feb 15th, 2011 Green Bay Packers Criticize WI Gov: ‘Right To Negotiate Wages And Benefits’ Is ‘Fundamental’ To Middle Cl...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 2 days ago* DAVIS* In January 2011, an American called *Raymond Davis* murdered two Pakistanis. This murder took place at a busy road junction in the Pakistani city of Lahore. The Obama regime wants Davis back in ...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe story of the looted artifacts at the Egyptian museum almost reads like a crime-fiction story.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoJapan announces it is "suspending" this year's Antarctic whaling. Is it in fact ending it - and not just this year, but for good?
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAn antilaser traps two laser beams in a silicon wafer that absorbs their energy. The new technology may one day be used for optical computing.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe high levels of PCBs in the Hudson River should be toxic -- but not to these fish.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*Inuit brought their own message to*** *'The Race for the Arctic' * By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Map below: Inuit dialects *Updated with Mohawk Nation News article* . Wh...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 days agoJavier was intrigued by the following preprint: Quantum D-branes and exotic smooth R4 The authors argue that strings or D-branes may propagate on backgrounds that are homeomorphic to R^4 but not diffeomor...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoFossils heralded as the remains of 4- to 7-million-year-old hominids might actually come from apes.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSingers like Justin Bieber may owe their unique sound to the large social circles of their ancestors.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 2 days ago*Does Madison have a Tahrir Square?* Our old friend, author Reese Erlich is just back from a book tour. Reese, who wrote Conversations With Terrorists: Middle East Leaders On Politics, Violence, and Empir...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWatson swept the three-day Man V. Machine Jeopardy! competition, but humans still come out the winners.
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 2 days ago. *Oh come on, be a bit more original, Israel. You just don't have the same creative evil. No slave labour?! I'm sorry, that was the worst covenant genocide operation I've ever seen in a thousand years of ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 2 days agoAlterNet / *By Mike Elk* Wisc. Governor Makes a Threat to Sic the National Guard on Union Workers *If the National Guard is called out in Wisconsin, workers across the country should take a page fr...
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThese organisms come with as much controversy as hope to combat dengue fever.
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe Hubble Space Telescope's Wide-Field Camera 3 reveals NGC 2841 to be quite lovely, but also quite... quiet.
- posted by David Teeghman at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA new technique helps regenerate the skin of burn victims, drastically reducing recovery time.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAn English cave serves up the oldest known vessels made from human skulls.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoBirth control pills likely not the culprit when it comes to estrogen pollution in rivers and lakes.
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 2 days agoTonights Question Time comes from Barking and on the panel we have Michael Heseltine, the ex-St Vince Cable, Yvette Balls (nee Cooper), Nigel Farageand a book publisher called Victoria Barnsley. The Live...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 2 days agoOn the first day of the month we looked into the political strategyRepublicans were using to undermine President Obama (and America) for the sake of their political ambitions. A highly regarded, forward-lo...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoDark energy is not directly detectable, but scientists can track its footsteps through history.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 2 days ago*More fakery.* On 3 February 2011, an *Egyptian woman made the claim that Mossad and the CIA had used her to help topple the Mubarak regime* On Egypt's Al Mehwar TV, the anonymous young Egyptian woman s...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 days agoMichael Dine (with Motl number one haha) has posted his TASI 2010 lectures on the theorist's approach to the phenomenology of supersymmetry: Supersymmetry from the top down (PDF) Dine reviews positive asp...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 3 days agoHold the front page. Richard Black, discussing the preposterous use of models by a group of scientists in Oxford to "prove" that higher levels of flooding in the UK in 2000 were undoubtedly caused by CO2, ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 days ago* I guess that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it. * *"The man's dread is probably that of making himself appear a pest or ridiculously uninformed. The woman's insistence is based probab...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 3 days ago*Unless she can explain that discrepancy, which she has failed to do so far, the only logical conclusion is that she lied to MPs at her first appearance. Once again, the Harper government appears most vuln...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 days ago*Russ was scheduled to be a guest with Rachel Maddow tonight to talk about the threats to democracy being promoted by his home state of Wisconsin's new thug-governor, and also his new organization, Progre...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIt turns out that galactic disks may not be as neat and tidy as we once thought.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days agoQ'eqchi' Leaders Massacred in Guatemala Thousands of q’eqchi’ peasants near Livingston, Guatemala had been anticipating February 14, 2011 as a possible day of joy and celebration. Instead it became a day ...
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoPut your earphones on and crank out some tunes. But are you becoming a spectator rather than a participant?
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe explosive sun we all know and love is back! And it's packing a punch.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*Communique on Mexico's Drug War *Photo by Brenda Norrell/Marcos in Sonora, Mexico *About the Wars: A Fragment of the First Letter from Subcomandante Marcos to Don Luis Villoro, beginning the correspondence...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThis accidental discovery could one day give Rogaine a run for its money.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 days agoIf you would like to get rid of dark matter, the European infrared space telescope, Herschel, has some good news for you. *Three theoretical pictures of the redshift z~2 Universe (10.7 billion years a...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 3 days ago*By Noah* Dear Mr. President: You have inspired me! But, perhaps not in the way you would have wanted. This morning, I received, in my email, your explanation for your proposed budget via your whit...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 3 days agoDear Followers, I regret that I am going to neglect *killing Mother* this week. I am working and playing in the sunny Turks and Caicos Islands until February 24th. After that date, I will be sequestered ...
- posted by Elephant Buddy01 at Our Manmade Disasters - 3 days ago[image: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. President, Waterkeeper Alliance; Professor, Pace University Posted: May 5, 2010 10:19 AM ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/sex-li...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 3 days agoThe people who want to enforce this totalitarian freak show are insane in their own right, and have no authority to judge the mental health of others. " Sterilisation ruling: what is the Court of Protectio...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 3 days agoFour Myths About Iran's Clerical Regime By Saeed Rahnema TheMarkNews.com Published: January 7, 2011 Is Ahmadinejad an anti-imperialist, or really a deceptive populist? Let's address the illusions that lead...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 3 days agoFour Myths About Iran's Clerical Regime By Saeed Rahnema TheMarkNews.com Published: January 7, 2011 Is Ahmadinejad an anti-imperialist, or really a deceptive populist? Let's address the illusions that lead...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe toes date from before 600 B.C., pre-dating what was previously thought to be the earliest known practical prosthesic.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoYoung people in Spain take six more years to reach adulthood compared to their counterparts 20 years earlier.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoCould there be a massive planet well beyond the orbit of Pluto? Unfortunately, this "extraordinary" claim is based on rather "ordinary" evidence.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoHuman-induced global warming has, for the first time, been identified with specific flood events across the Northern Hemisphere.
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 3 days agoMubarak has many supporters. Egypt Inc. -- a look at the numbers
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 days ago*Blogger's advice* to fellow Americans: Remember Martin Niemoller's famous quote: First they came for the Communists, but I did not speak out because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade uni...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 days agoAccording to Business Wire, HP Boosts Performance of CERN Network Products and services of Hewlett-Packard were chosen by the CERN network team to deal, among other things, with the 15 million gigabyte...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 3 days ago"Shaykh Khalid Yasin is an American Muslim teacher, extremely popular among young European Muslims. He has embarked on a mission to de-radicalise them." That's what the BBC/RedRebel film on Geert Wilders...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 3 days ago*Fasten your seat-belts* I love two counter-strikes NY Rep. Jerry Nadler is offering to Ryan's irresponsible slashing and burning. One, Amdt 232, would cut $90 billion from the war in Afghanistan, leaving...
- posted by Anaconda at PhoeniCIA2phoenix - 3 days ago*Lessons from Tahrir to Tiananmen....to Damascus !!! *By Francesco Sisci .... BEIJING - Aside from geopolitics and the balance of power, Egypt is also an issue of principle - of democracy, an idea crucial...
- posted by Lola Heavey at Network for Church Monitoring Blog - 3 days agoSo much for my previous blog A4E: Letter to the Chairman, Emma Harrison CBE! Action for Employment (A4E) explains that they support their customers by "Working with you to review where you are now, find ...
- posted by Lu at Housewife Eclectic - 3 days agoContinuing on in *The Gospel of Links, According to Lu* (catch the first sermon here).... let's talk about using text links vs. image links. What's the difference? A* text link* is a piece of text (a wo...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 3 days agoInteresting info. Lots of studies on learning, behaviour, etc. Starts about 15 mins in. http://archives2011.gcnlive.com/Archives2011/feb11/KatherineAlbrecht/0215111.mp3 The best explanation I have heard o...
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoShining a UV light on these rubbery sheets reveals the stress they – and the buildings or bridges they coat – are experiencing.
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 3 days ago
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoExperts say that hyping incidents as warfare distracts computer security champions from safeguarding power grids, financial systems and medical networks.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*IMPERIAL FANGS & CLAWS - INTERNATIONAL BANKERS MONETIZE OUR ASSETS Mohawk Nation News* http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. FEB. 12, 2011. The US government is going to issue treasury certificates or vouc...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA new system prints portrait photos that blind people can feel and recognize.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoOn the second day of a three-day challenge, Watson the computer has netted $35,734 in winnings.
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 3 days agoWith predictions for temperatures to rise into the 60's by the end of this week, first daughter proclaimed winter has had its last gasp and spring is around the corner! In celebration we went together to th...
- *Maybe you know that I am a cartography-freak*. Recently I wrote about mapping, stumbling across and over the many 'neo-colonial' world maps that still exist for 'education' at schools. These maps project ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days agoLongest Walk 3 for Diabetes photo copyrights: Photos 1, 2 and 4 by Rez Riders Mike Subish, and photo 3 by Feather Speak, published with permission, thank you! The Longest Walk southern route departed fro...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 3 days ago*Ed Potosnak, Democratic candidate for Congress in NJ-07* *New Jersey’s Representative Leonard Lance was caught red-handed tricking voters into believing he isn’t taking government healthcare because he op...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 3 days agoDoes the CIA want Egypt to be a strong democracy? "In the weeks ahead, in Egypt, the CIA may start an assassination campaign against Brotherhood leaders. "These are tactics the CIA has used in the past i...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 3 days agoProtesters difficult sweeping political reforms from *Bahrain's* rulers held their ground Wednesday in an Egypt-style profession of the capital's landmark square, staging a third day of *demonstrations *t...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 3 days agoThe Obama *administration's* campaign against a costly alternative engine for the Pentagon's next-generation fighter plane faces a critical vote in the *GOP-controlled* House, its fate to be decided by s...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 3 days agoIf you are a troll you will be humiliated and your comments will be edited. I do not put up with bullshit. You may speak now... Comments on: Geezer Power I wrote my congresswoman (Debbie Wasserman Schult...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA galaxy collision is an impressive creation event, that is, the creation of stars and, in this case, a ring of black holes.
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 4 days agoThis Richard Black outpouring has it all. First the agency involved, The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, is an innocent, raped, victim of government spending cuts. Those nasty Tories again. Se...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 4 days ago*CANADIAN POLITICS:* *THE HIDDEN PUPPET STRINGS BEHIND THE F-35 PURCHASE:* The military procurement bill for the multibillion dollar purchase of F-35 "stealth figheters" for the Canadian airforce is slowl...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 4 days ago* I really have no remedy for Sunday afternoons. * *"Personally, a little slump in business would not be too great a price for me to pay for having Sunday fall on Saturday, but I don't suppose that I could...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 4 days agoWeAreChange: Luke Rudkowski and James Lane of We Are Change confront Dick Cheney in Wahsington D.C. at CPAC 2/10/2011.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 4 days ago*Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, come on down!* *Would you buy used WMDs from this man? How about fantastical tales about mobile bioweapons trucks and secret laboratories? Okay, maybe you have to hear him to ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoPlants would seem to live in the slow lane, but this carnivorous plant may be an exception.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoMission success! Stardust-NExT completes comet Tempel 1 flyby.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 4 days agoThe Canadian Press' Joan Bryden penned a fascinating article over the weekend on the latest poll numbers. The latest poll numbers that show the Tories on cusp of a majority? Or the ones before that showed...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 4 days ago*This wasn't exactly subtle* President Obama is not a reactionary; he's a mainstream career politician who's happens, for obvious historical reasons, to be on Team Blue. As with just about everything he d...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 days agoToday, we learned that based on the 2010 GDP figures, China overtook Japanas the world's second largest economy. It may be pretty unlikely for Japan to return to its place because the current mess in the...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThe Coca-Cola Company takes pride in keeping founder John Pemberton's recipe a mystery.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 4 days ago** TANWEER* **(LONDON BOMBS - REMEMBER TONY GAUCI**)* A Bangladeshi businessman once told us that, in his view, all these 'Moslem terrorists' are actually members of criminal gangs who are protected by the...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 days agoAmy Lee Radigan (British Columbia) has recorded a song that became a kind of hit. 160,000 views in three weeks is not bad. Sheldon Cooper and sonic screwdriver are among the guys she has a crush on. ;...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoLaserMotive's Jordin Kare aims to propel rockets and helicopters with light.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 days agoLast night *Forbes* Magazine summed up our dilemma: because *technically*our first ad was inaccurate-- we didn't mention that Lance was still taking government-subsidized healthcare paid for by *New Jerse...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 4 days agoChristians flee Iraq, find Syria 'ruthless' (WND, 2006) NBC News report, 2007: (this is what *you* see) The Countdown for Christians in Syria *Syrian Christians. Persecuted?* The Slow Genocide Against C...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 4 days agoI am a Utah native, who has since moved to Texas. For some reason, Utah is known for Jello. Green Jello. Well, I like to break the stereotype by making pink Jello. :) For raspberry cream Jello, you will...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 days ago*Photos copyright Christina Akaquiqui, published with permission.* The Longest Walk northern route gathered in Portland on Sunday, then began walking, and running, into the rain, on Monday. Lisa Peake, Po...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoNative tropical vines are advancing to the top of forest canopies and taking over everything in their way.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 4 days ago* * *Economic Hitmen* studioJOHO *Blogger's Note:* I learned of this video by having subscribed to Brasscheck TV. Cherchez la Verite
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 4 days agoHat tip to Bupendra Bhakta in the comments for this gem. My Life in Travel: Marcus Brigstocke, comedian Best holiday? I went to the Maldives the year before last… I've also had some of my happiest holida...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 4 days agoIn the last couple of days there has been an extraordinary mish-mash of television on the subject of Islam and Israel. All but one sanitising Islam and denigrating Israel. For example, yesterday’s hostile ...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoA house system in development can sense if an occupant spikes a fever or takes a fall.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 days agoWe often think about environmentalism as a left-wing ideology. However, the mass-organized environmentalism can only be invariantly identified as a totalitarian ideology; whether it is left-wing or right-w...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoOn the opening day of the Man V. Machine 'Jeopardy!' competition, machine and man are tied at $5,000.
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 4 days agoThe aftershocks of last week's overthrow of President *Hosni Mubarak*continued to resound Monday, not no more than in Egypt but all the way across the Middle East to Iran. And it was the democratic challe...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 4 days agoAs the House prepares for debate today on the budget, *Republicans* are trying to cut off public funding for NPR and the community Broadcasting Service, which run such iconic programs as "Sesame Street" ...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 4 days agoThe military council has taken control of the open thread. Go back to work. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- "But The Republicans Are Even Worse" Is True... But Not A Good Enough Excuse For What Obama Is Doing
posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 4 days ago*Obama & GOP budgets both make sure the wealthy don't pay their fair share* Yesterday Paul Krugman summed up a first-look at Obama's conservative budgetbeautifully in two elegant paragraphs: There was an o... - posted by DB at Biased BBC - 4 days agoThe Geert Wilders documentary on BBC 2 last night, the latest in the recent profusion of inept one-sided films attacking those who disagree with prevailing BBC leftist orthodoxies, has justifiably attracte...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoBeamed energy propulsion would be a cheaper, safer and more efficient way to launch rockets into space.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 4 days agoWas the coup in Egypt partly about putting into power people who would promote the business and military interests of the USA? Paul Amar is a Jewish journalist of French origin and an *Associate Professo...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoAfter a delayed start to the Valentines Day proceeds, the first photos of comet Tempel 1 were received by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., early Tuesday morning.
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 4 days agoDon’t for one minute think anyone can get an intelligent, nuanced analysis of the situation in the Middle East from the BBC, despite the endless chatter. Islamic organisations like the Muslim Brotherhood a...
- posted by Laura Knight Jadczyk at Laura Knight Jadczyk - 4 days agoWe had a chat with the Cassiopaeans the other night and got in a few questions about Comet Elenin, to wit: Q: (Andromeda) Is the outburst of asteroid 596 Scheila related at all to Comet Elenin? A: Yes. A...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 4 days ago* Contras*. In 1979, in Nicaragua, the Sandinista Party took over from Somoza. Carter and Reagan then got the CIA to use terrorism against the Sandanistas. Videos via *http://honkbonkman.blogspot.com...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 5 days agoHere, I thought naively, is a harmless topic on the BBC science and environment website; how Britain became an island as a result of a tsunami caused by melting ice. No mention of climate change (for once,...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 days agoThe Longest Walk 3 northern route began today, in the rain. Navajo Craig Luther, our friend from the 2008 northern route, is at the beginning of the video. Walkers and runners made it to Government Camp,...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 5 days ago*INTERNATIONAL LABOUR:* *RALLIES IN SUPPORT OF MEXICAN WORKERS' RIGHT TO ORGANIZE:* Over the past few years the situation of workers in Mexico has become increasingly dire as both employers and the govern...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 5 days agoThe Scottish writer/essayist/historian Thomas Carlyle ended his Inaugural Address At Edinburgh University on April 2, 1866, with this great verse by the German poet Goethe. Introducing the poem, Carlyle w...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 5 days ago* My old blue towelling bathrobe would never fit in with any room shown in the catalogue. * *"Just as a detail, but one which is quite important to a successful bathroom regime, I should like to know what p...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 5 days agoThis is not a shocking story: OTTAWA — International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda admitted Monday that she is not responsible for modifying a memo that had originally recommended funding for an aid group.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 5 days ago*"Why cut a billion dollars from a highly successful program that provides supplemental nutrition to pregnant mothers, infants, and young children? Why cut $648 million from nuclear nonproliferation activ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoWhat would it look like if all 1,236 of Kepler's candidate exoplanets were placed in the same "solar system"?
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 5 days agoFormer PBS broadcaster Bill Moyers, with all his influence and prestige, publicly derided 9/11 truth activists, and supported the official myth in a speech he gave in New York on January 27, 2011. Of al...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 days agoFebruary 14, 2011 Contact: Derechos Humanos: 520.770.1373 *Justice for Brisenia! Press Conference *Tuesday, February 15, 2011 11:00am El Tiradito Shrine (Cushing and Main Streets), Tucson, AZ Tucson – The ...
- *Well, it had to occur any time*, closing in on the new solar maximum at the end of next year, 2012. The Sun is waking up and its fast growing sun-spot 1158 suddenly flashed as if a short-circuit occurred...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoTaking into account the gas leaked during the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico last year indicates the spill was 33 percent larger than estimated.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoSeveral online dating sites, including eHarmony, claim a scientific approach to making matches. But where's the science?
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 5 days agoPOLITICS - Egyptian President Mubarak finally stepped down three days ago, but the protests in Cairo and other Egyptian cities remain as many of his cronies stay in power and control the assets of the nati...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 5 days agoBy Charles Moffat - February 2011. CANADA - When I was younger every time my parents decided to do home renovations I thought for sure they might get divorced several times during various incidents/argume...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 5 days agoMost of us know that we live in an age of lies. The United States government is led by liars and cheats, not honest and honorable statesmen. We got a glimpse into the culture of government lying through th...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 5 days agoIt's funny, dear readers. Most of the time I have little to say and merely pass sniping commentary on the news. However occasionally, my primary concern is making sure I get said all I need to say. This is...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoThe truck-sized asteroid 2011 CQ1 didn't get "bent" but its orbit sure did.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 5 days agoIn 2008 Obama was elected President and Miss McConnell was reelected to the U.S. Senate (from Kentucky, a state with one of the highest income disparities between the rich and everyone else while also one...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoOrangutan bride Nancy, aged 20, might be considered more cougar than orangutan, since her groom was a male nearly half her age.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoThe nuclear fall-out from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster still has lingering effects on neurological development for wildlife.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoScientists have discovered a chemical reaction that has caused the artist's once-vivid yellows to turn brown.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoYour friendly neighborhood honeysuckle is probably an invasive species -- and that's OK.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 5 days agoIt's been a very long time since I posted a column by Bob Herbert. He's an excellent thinker and writer with a difficult beat: the liberal readers of the not-so-liberal *New York Times*, who he challenges ...
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoThis desert design will be a landmark as well as an energy generator.
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 5 days agoOmar Suleiman, the new vice-president of Egypt, told the Israelis he wanted to start “cleansing the Sinai” of Palestinian arms smugglers, according to leaked cables. The Telegraph By Christopher Hope ...
- posted by Barbara Loe Fisher at Vaccine Awakening - 5 days ago*by Barbara Loe Fisher * If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 5 days agoWhile everyone is enduring yet another full day of BBC reporting negatively about the nasty cuts forced on the poorest by the Conservative-led Coalition, it's also necessary to check out the BBC's reportin...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoA spacecraft will zoom within 125 miles of the comet at more than 24,000 miles per hour.
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoThe Friday News Feedbag podcast pits Discovery News reporters James Williams and Jorge Ribas in a head-to-head match with only one science story at their disposal. Host Will Johnson keeps order. If this is...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 5 days ago------------------------------ February 13, 2011 *The History of Military Dictatorship in Egypt* Gilbert Achcar: Military rule in Egypt began with Nasser's overthrow of King Farouk and increasing in...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 5 days agoWhen I was a kid I would spend the summers in Mount Freedom, New Jersey, a few minutes north of the district now represented by career politician Leonard Lance. I have a lot of friends and relatives in th...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 days agoA topic for Valentine's Day. Did you ever want to know how the/an average German woman or the/an average black American woman looks like? Those questions have already been calculated by Face Research. Her...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 5 days agoHappy Valentine's Day! If you are like me and are still looking to finish up some valentines, marshmallow flowers are a simple answer. After seeing them at a baby shower awhile back, I knew I had found an...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoThe volunteers are part of a 520-day experiment to test the readiness of humans for an extended mission to the Red Planet.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoLocalized cyclone strike and flooding stress on the Great Barrier Reef likely to have far-reaching effects.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoA plantation greenhouse where Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood was not as uniquely European as once thought.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 5 days ago*Mubarak kept Egypt at peace and helped the poor to prosper. (**2% BELOW POVERTY LINE IN EGYPT.**) * It suits the CIA to spread the lie that Mubarak is worth $70 billion? At *Forbes.com*, we read that *Es...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 5 days ago
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 days ago*This blog entry is the 4,000th text on this blog.* In March 2000, scientists at *The Independent* proved that there would never be any snow again: Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past Researchers ...
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoAnalysis from a dating website offers surprising advice for those who really need to know.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoFollowing the exit of Egypt's President Mubarak, the minister of antiquities reverses an earlier statement and reveals valuable objects were stolen during a recent break-in.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 5 days agoTwo weeks ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper signed a new border "security" agreement with the United States. Completed without public input or Parliamentary debate, the agreement aims to bring Canada's se...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 5 days agoEgypt's representative to the United States says *Hosni Mubarak* may be in "bad health," the first word on the 82-year-old oust president's health. Speaking Monday on NBC's "Today" program, *Sameh Shouk...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 5 days ago*President Barack Obama* is sending parliament a $3.73 trillion spending blueprint that pledges $1.1 trillion in deficit investments over the next decade through spending cuts and *tax* increases. Obam...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 5 days ago*As you probably know, Nicholas Ruiz is the first congressional candidate endorsed by Blue America for the 2012 cycle. He's running against a right-wing fanatic and egregious hypocrite, Sandy Adams, in FL...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 5 days ago*I had read about this, and am pleased to see the 'no' vote. Last country in Europe with a militia. Even if it is a 'globalist' safe haven. * Swiss says 'no' to gun control vote Swiss voters have thrown ou...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 5 days agoSilvio Berlusconi faces nation's women as a million protesters take to streets Marches were held in 200 towns and cities throughout the country as Italians voiced their anger and frustration at the 74-yea...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 days agoFritz Zwicky, a top 20th century astronomer, was born on February 14th, 1898 - on Valentine's Day 113 years ago. He was actually born in Varna, Bulgaria - a city where I spent two weeks when I was appro...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 5 days ago"What on earth are you doing...you're worse than black people!" This guy always makes me laugh, but then kind of get serious when I realise he's right. h/t This is the kind of 'dialogue' that solves pro...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 5 days agoThe 'white' sites claim 10000 were there. No media has reported this. They carry 'Celtic' crosses and apparently are protesting immigration. While I am against the race replacement currently going on in ...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 5 days agoAttacking Israel with malice aforethought is one of this country’s favourite pastimes. From grave political misrepresentation emanating from MPs and broadcasters, to gossip and urban myth perpetuated by pr...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 5 days ago*Tunisian stock market.* Tunisia is now in a bit of a mess. "The Italian government has declared a humanitarian emergency after nearly 3,000 migrants arrived in the south of the country in the last few...
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