I am sure I'm not the only one wondering why there has been no new Einstein? or Newton? for that matter. So what made Einstein so special? Many of Einstein's contemporaries testified that he was not unusually talented mathematically.
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A large weapons stockpile, which contained nine separate caches and thousands of pieces of weaponry, was uncovered last week by Marines operating in Anbar province.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
'There's now a school, with about 800 kids ... We built a road, there's a health clinic up and running, there's a work programme that employs 400 people a day on various projects, there's a mosque that will be built.
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BAGHDAD — Actress and humanitarian activist Angelina Jolie said Thursday that the reinforcement of U.S. troops in Iraq has created an opportunity for humanitarian programs to boost assistance for Iraqi refugees.
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Milton Wolff typified the type of working class political activist of whom Trotsky said Stalinism corrupted, by this he meant people who came into politics to help build a better world, ended up as an accomplice of the Gulags and the grave digger of socialism.
Source: richarddawkins.net
The point is not, he said, whether or not you would 'win' the debate. Winning is not what the creationists realistically aspire to. For them, it is sufficient that the debate happens at all. They need the publicity. We don't.
Source: China Daily
The consensus was reached by Premier Wen Jiabao and visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after a two-hour meeting.
Source: populistamerica.com
Just as Americans have been betrayed by "their" leaders in government at all levels, they have been betrayed by business "leaders" on Wall Street and in the corporations. US government and business elites have proven themselves to be Americans' worst enemies.
Source: Echo Newspapers.
The Boss of the Thames Gateway projects New Year message.
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For what sort of change are you voting if you are not voting with a candidate with whom you agree on the issues?
Source: Science Blog
Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have corrected key symptoms of mental retardation and autism in mice.
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Guerilla groups present in the volatile Diyala province in northern Iraq have decided to unite and combat al-Qaeda militants together
Rome is a beautiful, chaotic, dirty, wonderful, run-down, vibrant, and most of all historic city. You can walk for miles through twisted alleys filled with Vespa scooters, tobacconists, and cobblestones. You can also walk along miles of rather anonymous high rise apartment blocks.
The first part of this familiarisation stage in any relationship (Stage 3) is basically a war of wills. Each individual, being used to doing things his/her way, must now try their hardest to adjust to the ways of their partner.
So it's that time of year again.
If the last bloodbath passing as a religious debate is any indication, we have a problem of people talking past each other. There's no denying that few areas engender the level of overt hostility and disrespect that disagreement over religion generally does.
Source: Media Matters for America
In a post on the NRO military blog The Tank, W. Thomas Smith Jr.
Source: AlterNet.org
The world is becoming One. But the game is being played according to rules set by the West. Where colonialism ultimately failed at running the world, Hollywood and the stock market are succeeding.
Is Bush seeking funding for war or for peace? Having recently read Bush Asks for $46 Billion More for Wars I was struck with the cognitive dissonance of this statement.
Source: Bloomberg.com
"The present participle is hereby fired from all federal district entities,'' wrote Brazil's Federal District Governor Jose Roberto Arruda. This is apparently to prevent government officials from using continuous tenses to obscure progress - or the lack of it...
Source: Wall Street Journal
SUBSCRIPTION ACCESS TO WSJ REQUIRED TO READ SEED The Republican Party, known since the late 19th century as the party of business, is losing its lock on that title.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
What the media wants is polemic not reasonable exploration of complex issues - does Dawkins resist that tendency or play up to it? He clearly has a huge vested interest in doing the latter because it has made him a fortune out of booksales.
Source: The New York Times
Unfortunately, at the moment the political paralysis seems to be a more powerful force than the military momentum, and progress in security is unsustainable without sectarian compromise among Iraq's Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Shiites.
Source: Think Progress
Yesterday, a plane carrying three U.S. senators and a member of the House was forced to take evasive maneuvers to avoid rocket-propelled grenades as they took off from Baghdad. "It was a scary moment," said Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL).
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