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• Yes it is too so a question for science


• YouTube - Naomi Klein on Obama


• The Satirical Political Report - An Offbeat Look at the Hot-Button Issues of the Day » Hillary Tries to Turn ‘PUMAs’ Into ‘NIKEs’


• Israel settlement surge draws Rice criticism | Reuters


• 'Perfect Pitch' In Humans Far More Prevalent Than Expected


• 14% of doctors believe insurer interference contributed to the death or serious injury of a patient | Corrente


• Uninsured pay $30 billion for health care: study | Top News | Reuters


• Just think: it's important - National - smh.com.au


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"No Way, No How, No McCain"

Hillary was excellent. She played all the right notes, and played well, in the right order. She was right to spend a lot of time dwelling on her campaign, which so many people worked on and fought for. She knows very well that her supporters' emotional investment isn't something she can lightly hand over to someone else.

But she also hit McCain hard and gave the best pro-Obama argument of the convention. Yes, even better than Michelle's message.

People should compare this speech with the "dream will never die" speech by Kennedy at the 1980 convention, or the fight by Reagan people in the '76 GOP convention. HRC could have taken that route but she did just the opposite.— dende blogger

Continue reading "Clinton: Barack Obama Is My Candidate" »

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Bill Maher's thoughts on the convention.

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I can't imagine her giving a better speech. It seemed to me to be pitch perfect.

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And the crowd chants fuck fox news.

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• OBAMA’S CONVENTION ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: AN ADVANCE COPY (Or Not)

  I favor engagement – not war or isolation -- with Iran. Only war could possibly stop them from building nuclear weapons if they choose to. This would be a disastrous course of action. Even a cold war with Iran would fail. We couldn’t stop friends like Pakistan and India, so what gives us the confidence that our hostility will change their minds?

  My administration is not going to war with Iran. It is better to establish a relationship with them. It would be even more important if they develop nuclear weapons.

  Some argue that we must use force and eliminate Iran’s growing nuclear capabilities to support and protect Israel. I ask you: Since when has Israel ever needed defending? The certain knowledge that Israel would use its A bomb against Iran is deterrent enough. Deterrence worked between the former Soviet Union and us during the Cold War, and it seems to be working between Pakistan and India. Let’s leave Iran to decide its own fate.



• Electric cars, Tesla, Volt | Salon

  I was excited to hear that Chevy plans to debut an electric car in 2010. But then a discussion with a friend got me thinking: If the electricity used to charge up an electric car is created by burning fossil fuels, is it better to stick with a gas-powered car with good fuel economy?

  It's true that most electric cars get their electricity from the grid, which, in many states, is made up mostly of electricity from coal-fired power plants. In areas where the power comes mostly from hydro, wind or solar, your electric car would be virtually emissions-free. (Any electric-car owner can achieve this by installing a solar carport at home.)



• World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC - Yahoo! News


• Decoding the Kindle » Usefulness of Kindle NowNow Praised


• Gmail Account Hacking Tool | Hacking Truths


• denialism blog : Mike Leavitt to patients: "F*** you"


• Small Packages Trick People to Eat More - Yahoo! News


• Bad Science » Part two of my Radio 4 show on the placebo effect

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And this week's winner is?

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• A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash - NYTimes.com

  David Campbell switched on the overhead projector and wrote “Evolution” in the rectangle of light on the screen.

  He scanned the faces of the sophomores in his Biology I class. Many of them, he knew from years of teaching high school in this Jacksonville suburb, had been raised to take the biblical creation story as fact. His gaze rested for a moment on Bryce Haas, a football player who attended the 6 a.m. prayer meetings of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in the school gymnasium.

  “If I do this wrong,” Mr. Campbell remembers thinking on that humid spring morning, “I’ll lose him.”



• Economist.com


• Writer who photographed HP Lovecraft's headstone ordered to delete her photo, heaped with abuse - Boing Boing


• Marvellous magazine ads of 1904 - Boing Boing


• Hope (tip to pedantsareus)


• O'BIDEN: Nader Hits the "MasterCard VP" Choice

  I think Hillary would have been a better choice, no surprise there, but I think the Biden choice was better than Bayh or Kaine. I had forgotten why I dismissed Biden early on, this article reminded me. I think Obama-Biden will win in November, but it will be way too close for comfort.

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• Michael Moore Dares to Ask: What's So Heroic About Being Shot Down While Bombing Innocent Civilians? | War on Iraq | AlterNet


• The Satirical Political Report - An Offbeat Look at the Hot-Button Issues of the Day » Steve Martin’s ‘Tribute’ to McCain: King Glut


• Toronto Journal - In a Cyclist-Friendly City, a Black Hole for Bikes - NYTimes.com
• blog.talkingphilosophy.com » Green thoughts in the US

  There’s some good news from America concerning action on climate change. It turns out that two-thirds of adults in the USA think that their country should do something serious about climate change, regardless of what other countries do, according to a poll by TNS, ABC News, Standford University and Planet Green. It’s good news, because the thought that America should refuse to act until developing countries like China and India take action has been at the centre of US policy for some time. The Bush administration’s spoken reason for refusing to sign up to Kyoto is that the treaty fails to make demands on the developing world. Thrasymachus could not have put it better.



• t r u t h o u t | Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error That Dropped Votes
• Fish Tale Has DNA Hook - Students Find Bad Labels - NYTimes.com
• Good Math, Bad Math : Astrology and the Olympics


• Uncertain Principles: Science Outreach Through Fiction


• New Algorithm Significantly Boosts Routing Efficiency Of Networks


• Language Log » “Grammar vigilantes” brought to justice


• Language Log » Give me an F…


• The Language Guy: "Retard"


• James Fallows (August 21, 2008) - How to avoid becoming a Kindle nerd-bore (Kindle)

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At least that's what the New York Times news alert I just received claims. No message from the Obama campaign on my phone yet.

update text message: Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3pm ET on www.BarackObama.com

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• Pew Research Center: More Americans Question Religion's Role in Politics

  Some Americans are having a change of heart about mixing religion and politics. A new survey finds a narrow majority of the public saying that churches and other houses of worship should keep out of political matters and not express their views on day-to-day social and political matters. For a decade, majorities of Americans had voiced support for religious institutions speaking out on such issues.

  
  
  


• Magpies are no bird-brains, mirror test shows | Science | Reuters

  Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror, highlighting the mental skills of some birds and confounding the notion that self-awareness is the exclusive preserve of humans and a few higher mammals.



• Crossword, sudoku plague threatens America! (note: I'm a puzzle person)

  Try this experiment at a dinner party (if you want to ruin it). Mention a frequent obsession of puzzle people, the NPR "news quiz" show, Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! (Or, as I call it, "Wait Wait ... Please Kill Me!") About half the attendees will exhibit violent, often physical reactions ranging from cringing to shuddering. Meanwhile, the other half will have sublime self-satisfied smiles. They sometimes get the answers before the guests! The show is so mentally stimulating!

  What always gets to me is the self-congratulatory assumption on the part of puzzle people that their addiction to the useless habit somehow proves they are smarter or more literate than the rest of us. Need I suggest that those who spend time doing crossword puzzles (or sudoku)—uselessly filling empty boxes (a metaphor for some emptiness in their lives?)—could be doing something else that involves words and letters? It's called reading.



• Nader predicts Obama to pick Clinton - John F. Harris - Politico.com


• t r u t h o u t | Progressives and Obama: A Clash of Narratives

  But supporting one candidate - clearly preferable to the Republican - should not require a lack of candor about the preferred candidate's defects. And progressive interests are not advanced by claiming, against the evidence, that it doesn't really matter which candidate wins.



• 'Offensive' word to be removed from Jacqueline Wilson book | Books | guardian.co.uk


• The decay of serious journalism and Rachel Maddow's new show - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com


• Authors admit falsehoods in Rushdie memoir | Books | guardian.co.uk

  Does this mean we can't call him Scruffy?



• Could We Lose Weight by Injecting Fat into Our Bellies?: Scientific American


• Editorials & Opinion | Doctor's office no place for bigotry | Seattle Times Newspaper (good news)


• Bad Science » My Placebo programme on BBC Radio 4


• Great Pictures of Readers
  
  

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