September 2008
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“Self-consciousness exists in itself and for itself only insofar as it exists in...”
– Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit
This would be simpler than a bailout
Quote of the Day:
“At this point, Congress is being asked to support an uncertain entity,
costing an uncertain amount of dollars, for an uncertain duration – a
decision that will have implications for generations to come and
requires absolute certainty.”
– Congressman Jeb Hensarling, TX, and Chair of the House Republican Study Committee
Subject: This would be simpler than a bailout
A few...
Did Obama Just Touch the Third Rail?
By Peter Bray
Barack Obama is such a hard-core wonk, his camp grinds through policy day in, day out. That may be a great quality to have in a president—but it’s not necessarily a smart strategy for a presidential candidate just weeks before an election.
And this week the Obama campaign modified his position on a sensitive issue: Social Security. Compare the current “Seniors &...
Einstein fridge design can help global cooling
An early invention by Albert Einstein has been rebuilt by scientists at Oxford University who are trying to develop an environmentally friendly refrigerator that runs without electricity.
Modern fridges are notoriously damaging to the environment. They work by compressing and expanding man-made greenhouse gases called freons - far more damaging that carbon dioxide - and are being manufactured in...
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Egypt donkey jailed for theft
CAIRO (AFP) - An Egyptian donkey has been jailed for stealing corn on
the cob from a field belonging to an agricultural research institute in
the Nile Delta, local media reported on Thursday. The ass and its owner were apprehended at a police checkpoint that
had been set up after the institute’s director complained that someone
was stealing his crops, the state-owned Al-Ahram daily said....
Evolution fine but no apology to Darwin: Vatican
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Tuesday the theory of
evolution was compatible with the Bible but planned no posthumous
apology to Charles Darwin for the cold reception it gave him 150 years
ago.
Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican’s culture minister, was
speaking at the announcement of a Rome conference of scientists,
theologians and...
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This is Your Nation on White Privilege
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those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are
constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps
this list will help.
White privilege is when you
can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick
to insist that your life and that of your family...
Integrated circuit is 50 years old today
It’s half a century since the first integrated circuit was demonstrated by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments
If
it wasn’t for the invention of the integrated circuit, then computers
today would probably be housed in huge mahogany cabinets with a
baffling array of polished, brass valves, or at least be stuffed into
huge boxes containing hand-soldered transistors. We owe a lot of...
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US 'in need of rebellion'
Al Jazeera speaks to Howard Zinn, the author, American historian, social critic and activist, about how the Iraq war damaged attitudes towards the US and why the US “empire” is close to collapse.
Q: Where is the United States heading in terms of world power and influence?
HZ: America has been heading - for some time, and is heading right now - toward less and less world power, less...
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Critical shortage of internal medicine MDs...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Only 23 percent of U.S. medical students plan
to practice internal medicine and just 2 percent intend to become
general practitioners, leading to a possible healthcare crisis,
researchers reported on Tuesday.
Students are especially worried about caring for elderly patients
with complicated diseases, and are being scared away from becoming the
kind of general...
Al Franken wins Senate nomination
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Al Franken, a comedian and former liberal
radio talk show host, won the Democratic nomination on Tuesday to run
for a U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota.
In the November election, he will face incumbent Republican Sen.
Norm Coleman and the Independence Party’s Dean Barkley, who also won
their nominating contests, according to returns from the state’s
primary...
Fatal Flaws of the TWIC Scheme
Quote of the Day:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed,
and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H.L. Mencken Subject: The Five Fatal Flaws of ANY ID Card Scheme
A few weeks ago we introduced Lowell Rogers to you. He’s a tugboat
engineer. His employer is about to be brought under...
US marks 'new phase' of Libya ties
Condoleezza
Rice, the US secretary of state, has met Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s
leader, in what she described as “a new phase” in relations between
the two countries.
Her visit marks a historic turnaround in relations between
Washington and Tripoli, which have for decades viewed each other with
suspicion.
...
The new MP3: revolutionary file format offers...
Do you love Billy Corgan’s voice but hate the sound of Smashing
Pumpkins? Do you loathe Jay-Z’s rapping but love Kanye West’s
production? Well, Korean engineers have just the thing for you and, if
they have their way, you’ll never again have to listen to a James Iha
guitar solo. Audizen is a Korean company promoting the MT9 digital music format,
a proposed follow-up to the...
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Artificial brain becomes ace pilot
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