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"Citizen" Videos about Primaries Goes up on NYTimes.com Thursday

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:10 PM EST (beet.tv)

[Thursday], the first of nearly a dozen video segments produced by her new company and reported by non-professional citizen journalists, go up on the Op-Ed pages of the NYTimes.com The videos will be uploaded through February 5, "Super Tuesday."

us-news, nytimes, 2008-presidential-campaign, beet-tv, citizen-journalist-videos

Weak eyes, strong eyes: Does a weaker prescription help strengthen your eyes?

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:02 PM EST (International Herald Tribune)

Most people I know believe that it's better to order weaker glasses than were prescribed because the correct prescription weakens your eyes even more and results in your needing a stronger prescription down the line. Is that true?

health, eyesight, ophthalmology, glasses-prescription, weaker-or-stronger

The land-based ancestor of whales: deerlike mammals the missing link

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:59 PM EST (News at Nature)

Researchers have analysed fossils of what seems to be the missing link between whales and land-based mammals.

science, india, kashmir, evolution-of-whales, indohyus, mini-deer

101 Simple Appetizers in 20 Minutes or Less

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:15 PM EST (The New York Times)

Party foods that are as easy to eat as they are to make.

nytimes, home-garden, recipes, dining, mark-bittman, simple-appetizers

A Big Gift for the Met: The Arbus Archives

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:56 AM EST (The New York Times)

The estate of Diane Arbus has presented an intimate chronicle of the photographer's life to the Met as a gift, along with hundreds of early and unique photographs.

arts, nytimes, art, design, photography, metropolitan-museum-of-art, diane-arbus

Phishers Pinch Billions From Consumers' Pockets

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:04 AM EST (The New York Times)

More than 3.5 million U.S. adults lost money to phishing scams and online identity theft in the 12-month period that ended in August, a 57% increase over the previous year, a Gartner fraud analyst said today.

technology, phishing, growing-problem, computer-scams, fdic-poor-data-quality, gartner-poll

Where Water-Cooler Talk Is About the Water Bowl: Bringing your dog to work

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:57 AM EST (The New York Times)

Employees explain the benefits of bringing their dogs to work.

business, nytimes, jobs, labor, dogs, dogs-at-work

California Moves Toward Universal Health Care

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:49 AM EST (The New York Times)

A plan that would provide coverage to an estimated 70 percent of the 5.1 million persistently uninsured Californians passed the State Assembly on Monday.

health, us, nytimes, california, medicine-and-health, arnold-schwarzenegger, health-insurance-and-managed-care

The Real Dreamgirls: How girl groups changed American music

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:49 AM EST (smithsonianmag.com)

With three Golden Globe awards and eight Academy Award nominations, Dreamgirls has renewed interest in the girl groups of the 1960s as well as Motown Records, the Detroit-based company that became one of the most influential labels of the time.

entertainment, motown, the-supremes, girl-groups, chantels, gospel-background, marvelettes, shirelles

Demolition Man: Harold Pinter and "The Homecoming"

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:42 AM EST (New Yorker)

On a grisly London evening last October, as the Victorian street lamps of Holland Park were flickering in the twilight, I arrived too early for an appointment at Harold Pinter's handsome town house.

arts, interview, author, harold-pinter, 2005-nobel-prize-in-literature, the-homecoming

Life's Little Mysteries - What Makes Food Taste Sweet?

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:36 AM EST (Live Science)

A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down with some fancy tricks on your tongue, and your eyes. Taste buds are clusters of up to 100 cells. Nerve fibers connect each bud to the brain.

science, taste-receptors, sweetness, tongue-taste-buds

China: the future of free music? What happens when piracy tips to become a marketing channel

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:26 AM EST (The Long Tail)

A few weeks ago I was in Brazil, reporting on a market where music and film piracy has tipped from an evil to be fought to a marketing channel to be exploited. This week, after more crazy traveling, I was in China, which is an even better example of that phenomena.

business, china, long-tail, chinese-music-industry

How can sea mammals dive so long without breathing?

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:46 AM EST (News at Nature)

Marine mammals have an uncanny ability to remain awake and alert while holding their breath during long dives. New research shows that this might be thanks to high concentrations of oxygen-binding proteins in the brain.

science, deep-sea-mammals, oxygen-stored-in-brain

ET too bored by Earth transmissions to respond: the question is, what is interesting to an extraterrestrial?

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:53 AM EST (space.newscientist.com)

Messages sent into space directed at extraterrestrials may have been too boring to earn a reply, say two astrophysicists trying to improve on their previous alien chat lines.

science, seti, extraterrestrial, interstellar-message-composition

Astronomy Pictures of the Year for 2007

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:40 AM EST (APOD)

Looking back over the past year, the editors of the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) have decided to list 12 of the more memorable images that have been posted to APOD in 2007.

science, astronomy-picture-of-the-day, best-pictures-2007

Philip Rosedale Answers Your Second Life Questions

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:27 AM EST (The New York Times)

Last week, we solicited your questions for Second Life creator Philip Rosedale. Your questions were excellent, as are his answers. Thanks to all.

technology, second-life, freakonomics, philip-rosedale-interview

Charms and Challenges Of a Tiny Old Town

Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:11 AM EST (The Washington Post)

For almost four decades, the citizens of tiny Brookeville, population 155, have really wanted one thing -- a bypass around their 19th-century village. They're still waiting for that road, less than a mile long and deemed a "priority" by Montgomery County 20 years ago.

us-news, dcmetro, small-town-living, brookeville-maryland

Vaccine Recall: What Parents Need to Know

Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:00 PM EST (TIME)

Merck announced that it is voluntarily recalling 1 million doses of two common childhood vaccines, routinely given to children under 5. Here's everything you need to know about the recall.

health, comvax, pedvaxhib, vaccine-recall

High-tech brings rural towns back to life

Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:41 PM EST (Christian Science Monitor)

Across the street from the Po' Boy Opry, Web designer Jannis Paulk, a "refugee" from Atlanta, is helping everyone from rural real estate agents to dog breeders expand their markets via the Internet.

business, broadband, high-tech-business-incubators, internet-business-in-small-towns, small-town-america

Making a malaria vaccine à la Louis Pasteur

Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:47 AM EST (International Herald Tribune)

The sign on the wall reads "Emergency Response Procedures for a Mosquito Release." Among them are "Do Not Leave the Room or Open Any Doors!!!" and "Do Not Panic!"

science, dcmetro, malaria-vaccine, rockville-maryland, sanaria, controversial-technique, mosquito-borne-disease, whole-parasite-vaccine

What if the Earth Had No Moon?

Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:14 AM EST (astrobio.net)

If the time of Earth's existence was condensed into a 24-hour clock, the moon formation event occurred just 10 minutes after the Earth was born. The Earth formed 4.56 billion years ago, and the Moon formed about 30 million years later. At that time, the Earth was a magma ocean.

science, nasa, earth, moon, essay, european-space-agency, what-if, bernard-foing

A Conversation With Pervez Musharraf

Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:06 AM EST (The Washington Post)

An angry President Pervez Musharraf defended imposing a state of emergency on Pakistan and blamed the Western media for many of his problems -- from increased attacks by Islamic extremists to lawyers who have taken to the streets to protest his suspension of the constitution and …

world-news, pakistan, osama-bin-laden, pervez-musharraf, benazir-bhutto, pakistan-supreme-court, pakistan-state-of-emergency

Life's Little Mysteries - Were Dinosaurs Colorful?

Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:18 AM EST (Live Science)

Dinosaurs had bumpy skin, similar to the skin of an alligator or a flightless emu bird. But their skin color remains a mystery to paleontologists today.

science, dinosaur-skin-color, lifes-little-mysteries

Stairway to Here: Led Zeppelin play again at the O2 Arena in London

Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:01 AM EST (New Yorker)

ast Monday, in London, Led Zeppelin played its first full live set since 1980, at the O2 Arena—formerly the Millennium Dome—which seats twenty-two thousand and was built in 1999, during the early, optimistic days of Tony Blair's tenure.

entertainment, john, jimmy-plant, john-paul-bonham, led-zeppelin-reunions-concerts-page, robert-jones

Testing the Climate: Al Gore and the Nobel Peace Prize: Will it make a difference?

Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:58 AM EST (New Yorker)

Last week, Al Gore, at the start of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, took note of a curious coincidence. Almost exactly seven years earlier—on December 12, 2000—the United States Supreme Court had called a halt to the Florida recount, thereby un-electing him President.

world-news, al-gore, dalai-lama, nobel-peace-price, yasir-arafat, fw-de-klerk-and-nelson-mandela, norwegian-administered-prize, shimon-peres-and-yitzhak-rabin

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Hi Marilyn
Good to "meet" you through the vine. I enjoyed reading your bio. I could almost nick it as my own (not the art director bit, tho')!

Feminism has to become normal - for both sexes - before we can properly call ourselves civilised.

— greengecko

hi marilyn, i just joined a few days ago. thanks for inviting me as a "friend" --your bio looks interesting.

your comments about sharia law as well as israeli society are both issues i grapple with. how can democracy & islam reconcile? since the nation-state experiment is new in the ME, how will purported theo-democracies evolve? do we judge how democratic a society is based on how minorities are treated? that is my tendency, but how fluid a concept is a WORK-IN-PROGRESS democracy? it took the U.S. almost 200 yrs before most minorities had legal rights...and look at all the challenges still before us...btwn judgment and perception, how can collective progress be made on these issues...hmmm

just dishin some thoughts. thanks for the welcome!

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I just joined Newsvine, but Marilyn has already welcomed me! I don't know her well yet, but I plan to.

She's my first added friend here. :)

— indelible inc.

Marilyn has been just about my biggest supporter both on Newsvine and in other endeavors. Get her in your corner and you can defeat any opponent. She is a real Newsviner!

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