Backward Christian Soldiers

Seeded on Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:59 AM EST (newhumanist.org.uk)

If you heard it said that America's military was being taken over by agents of apocalyptic Christianity, you might think it the fiction of some leftwing alarmist.

religion, military, christianity, tolerance, evangelicals, fundamentalists, us-armed-forces, dominionists

Study: Bisexuality In Women Not Just A College Experimental Phase

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:52 AM EST (Scientific Blogging)

Seeded by Killfile (Clipped by Belarius)

Bisexuality in women appears to be a distinctive sexual orientation and not a transitional stage that some women adopt "on their way" to lesbianism or as a temporary phase in otherwise heterosexual behavior, according to new research in Developmental Psychology.

science, sex, women, college, psychology, sexuality, hot, experimental, heterosexual, bisexuality

The White House and the Whales: Bush Issues Expemption To Navy's Use Of Sonar

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:33 PM EST (The New York Times)

While traveling in the Middle East on Tuesday, President Bush issued an exemption to the Navy from environmental laws that would otherwise limit its ability to use certain kinds of sonar used in anti-submarine warfare training, the Associated Press said.

us-news, bush, environment, military, president, george-bush, navy, whales, animal-rights, sonar

Nanotech Used To Create Blackest Material Known To Man

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:53 PM EST (BBC News)

The "darkest ever" substance known to science has been made in a US laboratory. The material was created from carbon nanotubes - sheets of carbon just one atom thick rolled up into cylinders.

technology, nanotechnology, nanotech, black, blackness, darkness, darkest-ever, materials, material-science, dark-matter

Sensitive Synthetic Skin in the Works for Prosthetic Arms

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:30 PM EST (spectrum.ieee.org)

By combining carbon nanotubes with a specially designed polymer, researchers are making a material that looks, feels, and functions like human skin.

technology, prosthetics, skin, synthetic-skin, transhumanism, amputees, nanotechnology, nano, carbon-nanotubules, shirow-was-right

White Bread For Young Minds: Does The Internet Interfere With Students Learning How To Learn?

Seeded on Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:45 PM EST (The Times)

Google is "white bread for the mind", and the internet is producing a generation of students who survive on a diet of unreliable information, a professor of media studies will claim this week.

education, psychology, teachers, students, google, wikipedia, internet, search-and-define

Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles: The Veterans Who Committed Killings After Returning From War

Seeded on Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:39 PM EST (The New York Times)

Town by town across the country, headlines have been telling similar stories.

us-news, veterans, iraq, afghanistan, violent-crime, murder, war, military

I Can Has Rezearch Papar? A Historical Examination Of "The Lulz"

Seeded on Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:54 PM EST (cylegage.com)

With that in mind I introduce my main subject, something that dominates the lowest levels of the internet and permeates upward. It is a term and a condition, a plague and a justification, a way of thinking and a postmodern machine. I speak of the lulz.

technology, satire, internet, lulz, lol, lolcats, memes, internet-memes, research-papar, 4chan

Green Revolutionary: One Man's Largely Successful War On World Hunger

Seeded on Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:38 AM EST (Technology Review)

Four decades ago, Norman E. Borlaug developed a wheat variety that fed the world. Now he's battling a pathogen whose spread could cause starvation.

world-news, wheat, rust, norman-borlaug, hunger, famine, starvation

Wesley Snipes Declares That He Is Not Required To Pay Taxes, Is Charged With Felony Tax Evasion

Seeded on Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:28 AM EST (The New York Times)

But unlike other celebrities who find themselves on the wrong side of the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Snipes has a flamboyant explanation: he argues that he is not actually required to pay taxes.

us-news, taxes, tax-evasion, 861-provision, tax-law, trial, welsey-snipes

'Iranian Threats' May Have Been Work Of A Heckler

Seeded on Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:22 AM EST (Telegraph)

Threats to US ships in the Strait of Hormuz heard at the end of a Pentagon-released recording of an incident between Iranian patrol boats and US Navy warships last week may have been the work of a local heckler known as the "Filipino Monkey", The Navy Times has reported.

world-news, iran, war-on-hecklers, us-navy, pentagon

Mysterious $100 'Supernote' Counterfeit Bills Appear Across World

Seeded on Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:17 AM EST (The Kansas City Star)

Whatever the origin of the bills, "it's by far the most sophisticated counterfeiting operation in the world," said James Kolbe, a former congressman from Arizona who oversaw funding for the Secret Service.

business, counterfeit, 100, c-note, benjamins, catch-them-if-you-can

The Great Unknown: Book Review of "Anonymity" By John Mullan

Seeded on Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:38 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Many of the great books of English literature were originally published without their authors' names. It is one of the most frequent facts about literary works from before the 20th century, yet it is rarely thought worth a comment.

history, literature, anonymity, anonymous, john-mullen, book-review

SimCity Source Code Released Into The Wild

Seeded on Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:35 AM EST (weblogs.asp.net)

This past holiday (I've been bugging him since November about it) my good friend Don Hopkins got a lot of work done on the finishing touches on releasing the original SimCity source code under the GNU General Public Library (GPL).

entertainment, simcity, maxis, infogrames, will-wright, micropolis, open-source, freeware, sourcecode, games

Monsanto's Supreme Court Victory Suing Farmers for Saving Seed

Seeded on Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:35 PM EST (American Chemical Society)

Seeded by Pamela Drew (Clipped by Belarius)

From the dawn of time farmers have gathered and set aside seeds from their harvest to replant the next season but the gmo seeds carry a fee whether they come from the harvest or are purchased new.

us-news, supreme-court, gmo, biotech, monsanto, agribusiness, genetically-modified-foods, corporate-govermnent, fee-based-seeds, ge-genetic-engineering

Unknowing Twins Marry Each Other

Seeded on Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:11 AM EST (CNN)

British twins who had been separated at birth learned they were related only after they had become husband and wife, a senior British lawmaker said. The marriage has been annulled.

odd-news, uk-news, twins, marriage, annullment, seperated-at-birth

Aroma Of Chocolate Chip Cookies Prompts Splurging On Expensive Sweaters

Seeded on Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:52 AM EST (Science Daily)

Exposure to something that whets the appetite, such as a picture of a mouthwatering dessert, can make a person more impulsive with unrelated purchases, finds a study from the February 2008 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research.

science, psychology, impulse-purchase, cookies, food, consumer-behavior, irrationality, poor-impulse-control

Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network

Seeded on Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:17 AM EST (The Register (UK))

Seeded by coxy (Clipped by Belarius)

A Polish teenager allegedly turned the tram system in the city of Lodz into his own personal train set, triggering chaos and derailing four vehicles in the process. Twelve people were injured in one of the incidents.

odd-news, train, poland, tv-remoite, trams, hacking, hacker, polish, train-set, derailing

Sarkozy Proposes Taxing New Technology To Finance Ad-Free Public Televison

Seeded on Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:35 PM EST (International Herald Tribune)

In a move that could profoundly reshape the media landscape in France, President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday proposed banning commercials from public television and making up for some of the lost revenue with a first-of-its-kind tax on the Internet and mobile phones.

world-news, france, media, televison, advertising, internet, telephony, radical-proposals

Blackwater used gas on U.S. soldiers

Seeded on Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:43 AM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by bondibox (Clipped by Belarius)

Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance the American military in Iraq can use only under the strictest conditions and with the approval of top military commanders.

us-news

The Myth of "Supporting Our Troops"

Wed Jan 9, 2008 11:12 PM EST

We've heard it before from conservatives. We're hearing it now. The message they're spreading is loud and clear: only conservatives support the troops because only conservatives support doing what is necessary for victory in Iraq.

Continue reading this entry ...

world-news, iraq, war, military, iraq-war, propaganda, anti-war, support-our-troops, pro-war, bellicose

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Hope Diamond's Red Glow Explained

Seeded on Tue Jan 8, 2008 7:08 PM EST (Discovery.com)

The eerie smoldering glow of the world's largest rare blue diamond has finally been explained -- and it's neither unique nor a mere oddity.

science, hope-diamond, boron, ultraviolet, glow, gemology, jewelry

Game Review: Mr. Robot

Seeded on Tue Jan 8, 2008 6:32 PM EST (gamer-girl.org)

As the NES generation teeters toward middle-age, it comes as no surprise that garage game developers like the two employees of Moonpod should produce games that look back fondly to the best elements of classic gaming.

entertainment, mr-robot, games, computer-games, platform-games, rpg, review, game-review, robots, robot-overlords

The Manners Manifesto

Seeded on Mon Jan 7, 2008 9:38 PM EST (wherediditallgoright.com)

This is The Manners Manifesto. It's time for a return to - or a formalisation of - good manners. Here's how we do it:

manners, manners-manifesto, politeness, courtesy, not-being-a-dick, dont-be-a-dick, antidickery

Keeping It Real: The Sale Of The Magna Carta And The Paradox Of Expensive Documents In The Digital Age

Seeded on Mon Jan 7, 2008 8:36 PM EST (The New York Times)

What is Magna Carta worth? Exactly $21,321,000. We know because that's what it fetched in a fair public auction at Sotheby's in New York just before Christmas.

technology, op-ed, opinion, magna-carta, auction, expensive, cheap, rare, ubiquitous, information

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Backward Christian Soldiers
Source: newhumanist.org.uk
If you heard it said that America's military was being taken over by agents of apocalyptic Christianity, you might think it the fiction of some leftwing alarmist.
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The White House and the Whales: Bush Issues Expemption To Navy's Use Of Sonar
Source: The New York Times
While traveling in the Middle East on Tuesday, President Bush issued an exemption to the Navy from environmental laws that would otherwise limit its ability to use certain kinds of sonar used in anti-submarine warfare training, the Associated Press said.
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Nanotech Used To Create Blackest Material Known To Man
Source: BBC News
The "darkest ever" substance known to science has been made in a US laboratory. The material was created from carbon nanotubes - sheets of carbon just one atom thick rolled up into cylinders.
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Sensitive Synthetic Skin in the Works for Prosthetic Arms
Source: spectrum.ieee.org
By combining carbon nanotubes with a specially designed polymer, researchers are making a material that looks, feels, and functions like human skin.
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Study: Bisexuality In Women Not Just A College Experimental Phase
Source: Scientific Blogging
Bisexuality in women appears to be a distinctive sexual orientation and not a transitional stage that some women adopt "on their way" to lesbianism or as a temporary phase in otherwise heterosexual behavior, according to new research in Developmental Psychology.
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