December 2010
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PNP needs better forensic technology, training:... →
“Many prisoners are wrongly incarcerated because of sloppy forensic analysis, an expert believes.”
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PNP needs better forensic technology, training:... →
“Many prisoners are wrongly incarcerated because of sloppy forensic analysis, an expert believes.”
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The politics of Christmas →
“The single most important fact about the birth of Jesus, as recounted in the Gospels, is one that receives almost no emphasis at Christmas: the child who was born in Bethlehem represented a drastic political challenge to the imperial power of Rome.”
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The politics of Christmas →
“The single most important fact about the birth of Jesus, as recounted in the Gospels, is one that receives almost no emphasis at Christmas: the child who was born in Bethlehem represented a drastic political challenge to the imperial power of Rome.”
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Google creates a tool to probe 'genome' of English... →
“Harvard and Google say they have developed a way to identify cultural trends over the past 200 years using a database of 5m digitised books”
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Google creates a tool to probe 'genome' of English... →
“Harvard and Google say they have developed a way to identify cultural trends over the past 200 years using a database of 5m digitised books”
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Secrecy, Truth, & the Struggle for Peace &... →
“The WikiLeaks saga demonstrates that secrecy plus power results in corruption and crime, and that an informed citizenry is essential to prevent our’s from becoming a society where civil liberties are a pipe dream and torture is the norm.”
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Secrecy, Truth, & the Struggle for Peace &... →
“The WikiLeaks saga demonstrates that secrecy plus power results in corruption and crime, and that an informed citizenry is essential to prevent our’s from becoming a society where civil liberties are a pipe dream and torture is the norm.”
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Could granting rights to nature change the climate... →
“In the wake of failure in Cancun and the much deeper problem that humanity is no longer living within the ecological capacity of the planet, might it be time for nature to have its own legal advocates?”
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Could granting rights to nature change the climate... →
“In the wake of failure in Cancun and the much deeper problem that humanity is no longer living within the ecological capacity of the planet, might it be time for nature to have its own legal advocates?”
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UP unveils marker on Maguindanao massacre →
“Tolentino also led the inauguration of the college lobby as the “Bulwagan ng Kalayaan sa Pamamahayag (Hall of Freedom of Speech),” where the marker can be seen by students and faculty passing by.”
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UP unveils marker on Maguindanao massacre →
“Tolentino also led the inauguration of the college lobby as the “Bulwagan ng Kalayaan sa Pamamahayag (Hall of Freedom of Speech),” where the marker can be seen by students and faculty passing by.”
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Slackervism on Facebook again →
“I think it is yet another example of slackervism, where people clicked something online, or did something equally simple online, and walked away thinking, “Wow, I really made a difference”, but they didn’t.”
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How China Elevates the Nobel Peace Prize →
“The Nobel Peace Prize is sometimes meaningful and sometimes hollow. Whether the medal itself is presented on December 10, Liu Xiaobo has won a symbolic victory for his cause, just as Sakharov and Walesa did in their time. Their Nobel prizes were a prelude to profound changes in Russia and Poland, and that may well be why the Chinese seem so afraid of letting Liu Xiaobo get his.”
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Wildlife: Protecting Biodiversity Might Just... →
“But it turns out that a healthy, diverse planet may help keep all of us healthier as well. That’s the conclusion of a new article in the December 3 edition of Nature. Reviewing 24 papers that have examined the potential relationship between biodiversity and the emergence and transmissions of infectious disease, a team of researchers led by ecologist Felicia Keesing of Bard College...
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Going round in circles →
“In contradiction to most cosmologists’ opinions, two scientists have found evidence that the universe may have existed for ever”
November 2010
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Predicting the Future With Porn? →
“An upcoming study to be published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychologyclaims that test subjects were able to accurately predict future events—and that pornography was one of the tools used in research for the project. But the methodology is sound. Skeptics are impressed. Do humans really have extra-sensory perception (ESP)? Can it really be triggered by the latest issue...
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