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Block the Vote, Ohio Remix

Seeded on Thu Jun 8, 2006 10:08 AM EDT (The New York Times)

If there was ever a sign of a ruling party in trouble, it is a game plan that calls for trying to win by discouraging voting.

politics, opinion, elections, corruption, republicans, florida, governor, voting, ohio, oppression

From Barbados to Boston: A Short History of Rum

Fri Jun 2, 2006 12:59 AM EDT

By the time of the Caribbean slave trade, concentrated alcoholic spirits had already become a lucrative and prestigious commodity in the slave trade, a currency, in essence.

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world-news, europe, history, america, alcohol, caribbean, slavery, rum, american-history, brandy

Religious Right Got Bush Elected - Now they are fighting each other

Seeded on Thu Jun 1, 2006 10:52 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Mr Cizik, an ordained minister of the Evangelical Presbyterian church and otherwise impeccably conservative on social issues such as abortion, stem-cell research and homosexuality, believes concern for the environment arises from Biblical injunctions about the stewardship of the …

politics, bush, environment, abortion, conservative, gay-marriage, extremism, religious-right, religious-morals

Inside Apple's Glass Cube

Fri May 19, 2006 10:57 PM EDT

In the retail business, "Grand Opening" is oft-used to indicate the rather mundane affair of opening a new store. For Apple, the opening of the Fifth Avenue Store is truly grand.

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technology, apple, mac, new-york, macbook, apple-store, fifth-avenue

Scientists Discover Golden Buckyballs

Seeded on Wed May 17, 2006 2:03 PM EDT (SeattlePI.com)

Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland and at the University of Nebraska report in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have discovered hollow molecular structures made of pure gold -- golden buckyballs.

science, gold, chemistry, discovery, nebraska, fullerene, metallurgy, richland, nanomaterials, buckyballs

Google Store Sells Google Gum

Seeded on Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:11 PM EDT (Google Store)

The Google Store has now begun selling Google Gum to promote the Google brand. Whatever will they think of next!

technology, google, gum, merchandise, google-store, merch

Pseudo-Relative Morality: An Anthrobiological View

Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:17 AM EDT

In a few recent columns, morality has become a heated topic of debate.

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politics, ethics, atheism, tolerance, morality, morals, absolute, absolute-morality, relative-morality, rational-morality

Antibiotic Found in Wallaby Milk 100x More Potent than Penicillin

Seeded on Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:35 PM EDT (Sydney Morning Herald)

A compound, AGG01, has been discovered and isolated from wallaby milk which is approximately 100 times more potent than penicillin in stopping golden staph (staphylococcus aureus), E. coli, salmonella, streptococci, bacillus subtilus, pseudomonas spp, and proteus vulgaris.

health, australia, medicine, nature, bacteria, discovery, sydney, animal, antibiotics, germs

Hate Group Protests Soldier's Funeral

Seeded on Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:29 PM EDT (nytimes.com)

A Christian fundamentalist splinter group has taken to picketing and protesting at the funerals of soldiers who died serving their country in Iraq.

politics, iraq, war, united-states, america, protest, freedom-of-speech, homosexuality, funeral, soldier

Supercomputer simulation suggests fast galaxy formation.

Seeded on Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:51 PM EST (physicsweb.org)

Scientists at UCLA and the University of Tsukuba have used the "Earth Simulator" supercomputing cluster to try to model galaxy formation from the Big Bang. The Earth Simulator's primary application in modeling complex weather systems.

science, tech, astronomy, physics, vinesci

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"Hadji Girl" Humor attempt falls flat
Seeded by Ballew74 (Source: jacksonvilledailynews.com)
Cpl. Joshua Belile thought up the words to “Hadji Girl” in September while drinking coffee with buddies in Iraq. It was just a joke, Belile says, a play on lines from a movie. His fellow Marines seemed to enjoy the song, so they got Belile up on a stage with his guitar.
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The Origins of Life
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The amazing diversity of life you see in the world today arose from simple chemical reactions on a harsh and young Earth around 4 billion years ago.
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The Human Condition: The Threat of Homosexuality
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There is much debate at the moment over the subject of same-sex marriage and its implications. On the one side you have people advocating for equal rights for homosexual couples and heterosexual couples based on this being a civil, not a religious society.
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Theory of Gravity Debunked by Christian Genius
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I'm not sure what prompted this person to attempt to debunk gravity, but it's pretty amusing how poor their grasp on the theory they're attempting to debunk is.
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Israel Spinning Out of Control
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Before looking at the specific Gaza beach killings, let’s remember Israel’s track record of conducting investigations.
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