Wednesday, March 31, 2010

More religion talk. (Hey it is almost Easter)

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Christian faith: Calvinism is back / The Christian Science Monitor Here's a really good article on an alleged revival of Calvinism in th...

All about modern nuns

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How the health care bill made nuns rad. - By Noreen Malone - Slate Magazine This is a pretty interesting article on the current state of nun...

A multi faith approach

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BBC News - India holy man quits after sex claim Well, as I like to point out how Islam can be, shall we say, overly legalistic about sexual ...

Ocean acidification and poison seas

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CO2 and phosphate availability control the toxicity of the harmful bloom dinoflagellate Karlodinium veneficum I have commented here before ...

Stem cells and snake oil

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UK - Stem Cells & Miracles - Foreign Correspondent - ABC There was an excellent BBC Panorama show on the ABC last night on the fetal ste...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Suburban failure

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From bucolic bliss to 'gated ghetto' - latimes.com In this story of a new estate near Los Angeles which has suffered badly from the ...
Monday, March 29, 2010

An unlikely solution

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Bright water proposal to cut global warming Harvard University scientist Russel Seitz’s proposal is to use ships to pump tiny “ microbubble...
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Gypsy stories

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Four Corners - 29/03/2010: Gypsy Child Thieves Four Corners had an interesting BBC documentary tonight about the urban gypsies of Europe. I...

Firefox issue

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For those of you using Firefox on an XP computer, have you noticed it slowing down? Over the weekend, I checked and the amount of CPU it is...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

Rare medical condition noted

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Schizophrenia in Children: Families Grapple With Costs, Emotional and Financial - ABC News Tonight I happened to see the ABC news magazine s...

Racking up the deaths

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BBC News - China flooding 'traps 152 miners' This is a very brief report of yet another coal mining accident in China. The number of...
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Yay for John

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A Physics Maven’s Take on Skeptical Science - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com I've been a fan of Skeptical Science for quiet a while, and h...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

That's big of him

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Cleric: Don’t cut too much female genital to avoid sexuality loss | The Jakarta Post A Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) cleric said on Friday that circu...

Sort of good news

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NASA Study Finds Atlantic 'Conveyor Belt' Not Slowing Another study finds that the Atlantic conveyor (the current that keeps Europe ...
Friday, March 26, 2010

Please make the movie

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"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" from Aaron Paul
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Promising

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How to Train Your Dragon Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes I see that How to Train Your Dragon is receiving very strong reviews. Go...

Brave woman

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BBC News - Saudi female poet whose verse inflames and inspires
Thursday, March 25, 2010

An old debate

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The Moral Equivalent of the Parallel Postulate | Cosmic Variance It's an old topic, the question of the exact nature of morals. Cosmic ...

Looks good, but a bit small?

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Samsung Announces eReader Launch For The US Market You can write notes on this one, and this feature sounds interesting: Samsung eReader use...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The boy Ellen

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Constance McMillen case: proms as gay-rights battleground So, the ACLU sued a school district to try to force it to re-instate a prom cancel...