Jed Rakoff puts the SEC on notice | Felix Salmon

Seeded on Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:22 PM EDT (Reuters)

The parties should be prepared to answer these questions in detail at the November 9 hearing.

business, sec, fraud, citigroup, citibank

Hitler was a True Christian™ : Pharyngula

Seeded on Fri Oct 28, 2011 8:17 AM EDT (ScienceBlogs)

So Flam got a contribution from a developmental biologist, the most excellent Scott Gilbert, who pointed out that biology and Darwinism were not factors in Hitler's rise to power: the Lutheran and Catholic churches were

history

Scientists are from Mars, the public is from Earth | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Seeded on Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:55 AM EDT (discovermagazine.com)

It’s a list of words scientists use when writing or otherwise communicating science, what the scientists mean when they use that word, and most importantly what the public hears.

science, climate-change, language, phil-plait

I Heart Chaos — SpaceX develops a fully reusable launch system, wants to put humans on Mars

Seeded on Mon Oct 3, 2011 6:59 AM EDT ()

At a speech at the National Press Club on Thursday, SpaceX founder and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk rolled out SpaceX’s latest leap into the future: Musk and his teams are developing a fully reusable space transportation system that will use a powered landing to come …

technology, space, nasa, spaceflight

NASA - NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System

Seeded on Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:24 AM EDT (nasa.gov)

Direct Lives! Also, we finally see some rationality in NASA's approach: This specific architecture was selected, largely because it utilizes an evolvable development approach, which allows NASA to address high-cost development activities early on in the program and take ad …

technology, shuttle, nasa, shuttle-replacement

Report: Vaccines Are Safe, Hazards Few And Far Between : Shots - Health Blog : NPR

Seeded on Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:38 AM EDT (NPR)

I hate to say I told you so, oh who am I kidding? I told you so!

science, jenny-mccarthy, pseudoscience

Case closed: "Climategate" was manufactured | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Seeded on Wed Aug 24, 2011 12:23 PM EDT (discovermagazine.com)

This latest, and hopefully last, investigation into Dr. Mann’s research (PDF) again shows he is not guilty of misconduct.

global-warming, environment, climate-change

Ben Stein destroys O'Reilly's 'Talking Points' on taxes | Raw Replay

Seeded on Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:36 PM EDT (Raw Story)

O’Reilly went on to argue that raising taxes on the rich would make the recession worse. “That isn’t true,” Stein said. “There is no correlation, Mr.

economy, taxes, obama, us-news, bill-oreilly, ben-stein

The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:33 AM EDT (The New York Times)

If our ideas seem smaller nowadays, it’s not because we are dumber than our forebears but because we just don’t care as much about ideas as they did.

ideas, education, philosophy, thinking

Egypt is still run by a military dictatorship – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs

Seeded on Fri May 27, 2011 10:37 AM EDT (CNN)

Meet the New Boss... Same as the Old Boss...

egypt, world-news, arab-spring

10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling - The Oatmeal

Seeded on Mon May 23, 2011 10:35 AM EDT ()

Everyone on Newsvine needs to peruse this!

english, spelling, grammar, not-news

U.S. Business Has High Tax Rates but Pays Less - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Wed May 4, 2011 10:33 AM EDT (The New York Times)

The paradox of the United States tax code — high rates with a bounty of subsidies, shelters and special breaks — has made American multinationals “world leaders in tax avoidance,” according to Edward D.

politics

Running in the red: How the U.S., on the road to surplus, detoured to massive debt - The Washington Post

Seeded on Sun May 1, 2011 10:10 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

The biggest culprit, by far, has been an erosion of tax revenue triggered largely by two recessions and multiple rounds of tax cuts. Together, the economy and the tax bills enacted under former president George W.

economy, politics, deficit, tax-increase

Delhi Belly Not Only India Water Risk as Resistant Bugs Found - Bloomberg

Seeded on Thu Apr 7, 2011 8:12 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)

"The world is on the brink of losing these miracle cures," Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, said in a statement today.

science

Discovery Rocks Creationists' Claim That Humans Lived with Dinosaurs - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:37 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

"The most important implication of these findings is that one of the creationist camp's favorite piece of 'evidence' for the coexistence of dinosaurs and humans — a dinosaur petroglyph — doesn't even exist," researcher Phil Senter, a paleontologist at Fayetteville State Unive …

science

Was Brewmasters Killed by "Big Beer" Beer & Whiskey Brothers Blog

Seeded on Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:03 PM EDT (beerandwhiskeybros.com)

If you recall, we were the ones who said definitively that the Discovery show Brewmasters was dead. There were a lot of folks who said we were wrong, but we had it on good authority that the show was done. Now we have it on even better authority.

odd-news, discovery, dogfish-head, brewmasters

Our Big Pig Problem: Scientific American

Seeded on Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:39 AM EDT (Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American)

For more than 50 years microbiologists have warned against using antibiotics to fatten up farm animals. The practice, they argue, threatens human health by turning farms into breeding grounds of drug-resistant bacteria.

food, science

National debt: Why tax revenue will have to increase - Mar. 25, 2011

Seeded on Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:19 AM EDT (CNN)

But there is abundant evidence showing that taxes must be part of debt reduction, however distasteful the GOP finds them.

economy, taxes, politics, deficit, debt

Federal agency recognizes pot for medical use | The Raw Story

Seeded on Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:19 PM EDT (Raw Story)

The NCI has issued a statement that in clinical trials, cancer patients successfully treated nausea and vomiting, sleeplessness, pain, and loss of appetite using marijuana.

cancer, science, nih, marijuana-legalization

The Smithsonian's Hardcore History Posters Rule | Badass Digest

Seeded on Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:07 AM EDT (badassdigest.com)

These are great. I am particularly fond of the Ghengis Khan one.

history, smithsonian, 50-cent, andrew-jackson, theodore-roosevelt, brett-michaels, gengis-khan

Will radiation hormesis protect us from exploding nuclear reactors? : Pharyngula

Seeded on Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:45 AM EDT (ScienceBlogs)

But wait! If that isn't enough stupid for you, she went on the O'Reilly show to argue about it. Yes! Coulter and O'Reilly, arguing over science. America really has become an idiocracy.

japan, radiation, science, idiocracy

A flowchart to help you determine if you're having a rational discussion - 22 Words

Seeded on Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:24 PM EDT (twentytwowords.com)

As one of the commenters said, I don't think any discussion has ever successfully made it through this flowchart, but man wouldn't it be nice if they did?

odd-news

CSI | Ghost-Hunting Mistakes: Science and Pseudoscience in Ghost Investigations

Seeded on Sat Mar 5, 2011 9:05 AM EST (csicop.org)

Yet in their 2007 book Ghost Hunting: True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society, Hawes allots a grand total of four paragraphs (within 273 pages) to a chapter titled "The Scientific Approach." He doesn't have much to say about science or scien …

ghost-hunters, science, ghosts, paranormal, skeptics, csicop, skeptical-inquirer

Observations: Can we get off oil now?

Seeded on Tue Mar 1, 2011 11:46 AM EST (Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American)

To be clear, the goal is to break U.S. addiction to oil, not just foreign oil. Oil prices are global, and as Woolsey points out, the U.S. has no domestic leverage.

technology, iraq, oil, opec, alternative-fuels

New budget campaign asks 'What would Jesus cut?' â�� CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs

Seeded on Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:52 AM EST (CNN)

"They're talking about cutting bed nets for malaria and leaving every piece of military spending untouched," said the Rev. Jim Wallis, who leads the Christian group Sojourners, referring to Republican spending proposals for the rest of this year.

house-republicans, christianity, republican-conservatives

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