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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.
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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!
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.
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.
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.
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...
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 …
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.
New budget campaign asks 'What would Jesus cut?' � 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.
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Bachmann: My 'flat tax' would have 'not one but several rates'Another day, another peculiar statement from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). When asked by ABC’s This Week host Christiane Amanpour about what her tax plan would be, the congresswoman said that she would implement a flat tax.
- Traders Respond in Epic Letter to 'Occupy Chicago' - Wall Street Protests
Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you’re only going to hurt yourselves. What’s going to happen when we can’t find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We’re going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work until 10pm or later.
- In Norway, Gender Equality Does Not Extend to the Bedroom - NYTimes.com
Her husband had raped her again that night, this time more violently than ever in their 15-year marriage.
- Jed Rakoff puts the SEC on notice | Felix Salmon
The parties should be prepared to answer these questions in detail at the November 9 hearing.
- Hitler was a True Christian™ : Pharyngula
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
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