Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
Friendly Atheist - Dr. Atheist Wants to Kill You Faster, Says Guardian Article doctors who described themselves as non-religious were more likely than others to report having given continuous deep sedation until death, having taken decisions they expected or partly intended to end life, and to have discussed these decisions with patients judged to have the capacity to participate in discussions.
Daily Kos - The Republicans do have an agenda As noted by Jed Lewison, the Republican agenda, should they retake the House, distills down to this: Extend Bush tax cuts for wealthy.
RealClimate - Doing it yourselves We've been a little preoccupied recently, but there are some recent developments in the field of do-it-yourself climate science that are worth noting.
Bad Astronomy - SPEECH Act now a law: big win for libel reform! American authors, journalists, and bloggers can breathe a sigh of relief: with broad bipartisan support, a short time ago President Obama signed a bill into law that makes sure that the awful and regressive libel laws in the UK cannot be enforced here in the United States.
Friendly Atheist - Dr. Atheist Wants to Kill You Faster, Says Guardian Article … doctors who described themselves as non-religious were more likely than others to report having given continuous deep sedation until death, having taken decisions they expected or partly intended to end life, and to have discussed these decisions with patients judged to have the capacity to participate in discussions.
Scenes From A Multiverse - Pony Tales This is why imaginations need to be made illegal! People take their stories way too seriously sometimes, stories are meant to be soothing to infants and the mentally diff-abled and not to be taken internally by responsible adults or used as the basis for legislation or warfare or anything nasty.
Pharyngula - I get email Greg Abell wrote to me, requesting answers to his questions, which he doesn't ask, and since he caught me in a cranky moment, I felt like answering.
Bad Astronomy - Mesmerizing Perseid timelapse video I missed the Perseids last week combination of bad weather and having to get up early to go to SETIcon the next day but I, and now you, can get a good feel for them via this lovely timelapse video taken by photographer Henry Jun Wah Lee:
Joshua Tree Under the Milky Way from Henry Jun Wah Lee.
Daily Kos - ABA backs marriage equality How convincing was Judge Vaughn Walker's decision to strike down Prop 8? Strong enough to lead the American Bar Association to back marriage equality.
Gawker - E=mc2 Is a Liberal Conspiracy [Conspiracy Theories] To many conservatives, almost everything is a secret liberal plot: from fluoride in the water to medicare reimbursements for end-of-life planning with your doctor to efforts to teach evolution in schools.
General : Earth Is Warming, Prop 8 Overturned, GOP Loves Deficits, Birthers
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Bad Astronomy - New study clinches it: the Earth is warming up The 2009 State of the Climate report released today draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the same finding: the scientific evidence that our world is warming is unmistakable.
Daily Kos: Prop 8 Struck Down: The Decision Findings of Fact: Start by remembering that Judge Walker conducted a trial -- this was not merely decided based on legal arguments, but on lay and expert testimony regarding the impact of Prop 8 on real couples, same-sex and opposite-sex. As the trial judge, Judge Walker's determinations as to the reliability of these witnesses will receive a great deal of deference by the appellate courts which will review this decision, and on that, his conclusions are devastating to Prop 8
Wonk Room - Oil Spill Could Put Gulf Sturgeon On Brink Of Extinction Impacts on Gulf sturgeon associated with routine operations and accidental spills under the proposed action are expected to be minimal, because there is relatively little overlap between the locations that could be affected by activities and the distribution of Gulf sturgeon.
The Itch of Curiosity | Wired Science | Wired.com Curiosity is one of those personality traits that gets short scientific shrift. It strikes me as a really important mental habit - how many successful people are utterly incurious? but it's also extremely imprecise.
Talking Points Memo - McConnell Makes His Choice There was a very important development this afternoon which Sam Stein of the Huffington Post managed to get the jump on: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has come out in support of congressional hearings into the matter of whether the US Constitution grants citizenship to every person born in the United States -- so-called 'birthright' citizenship.
Because the woman he was supposed to drive wanted to go to Planned Parenthood. And Mr. Graning believed that she was going to get an abortion. It didn't matter to Mr. Graning that she might have been going for a pap test or breast exam, that it was, in fact, unlikely that she was seeking an abortion because despite the constant smears from the forced birth movement, abortion is only 3 percent of the services Planned Parenthood provides.
I'm thinking no. And for two reasons: The odds of there being intelligent aliens somewhere in the galaxy, space-faring aliens, are incredibly low, and even if they do exist they'd be so far away that getting here would be a serious problem. Enough that the trip wouldn't be worth it.
TPMDC - Boehner's Recipe For Creating Jobs: Do Nothing In a meeting with several reporters this afternoon, House Minority Leader John Boehner outlined the top three measures he'd pursue if he becomes Speaker of the House next Congress to create new jobs.
BBC News - Fossil links humans and monkeys Researchers have discovered the skull of a 29 million-year-old animal that could be a common ancestor of Old World monkeys and apes, including humans.
Daily Kos - Open thread for night owls: hot and hotter A newly published study has concluded that, by 2039, the United States could experience at least four crop-destroying, life-threatening seasons "equally as intense as the hottest season ever recorded from 1951-1999.
RealClimate - A simple recipe for GHE In any case, the science behind climate change has not changed (also see America�s Climate Choices), but there certainly remains a problem in communicating the science to the public.
Daily Kos - Where are the climate change deniers now? In reading (and living) this: The East Coast broiled under an unforgiving sun Tuesday as the temperature soared above 100 degrees in several cities, utility companies cranked out power to cool the sweating masses and the unlucky sought any oasis they could find.
Daily Kos - Senate 2010: 60 seats still in sight While Conservatives dream of taking the Senate, or at least taking a huge chunk out of the majority, the situation on the ground is far more fluid.
Daily Kos - GOP: "We don't need any more monuments" A California lawmaker has introduced a bill to limit the president's power to establish the national monuments that he says endanger the livelihoods of thousands of loggers, miners and farmers.
Pharyngula - Atrocity in Kerala This is a horrific story out of India, and the weird thing is that everyone is condemning the bloody, violent end of the story, but treating the preliminaries as a matter of course.
io9 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Daleks [Dalek 101] Given their penchant for pan-galactic reigns of terror, Doctor Who's immortal villains clearly deserve a place in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and this artfully constructed infodump does the job quite nicely.
Pharyngula - Climategate slowly deflates After the computer break-in that revealed so-called 'damaging' emails in the East Anglia Climate Research Group, after all the media hysterics and errors and misrepresentations, now at last some newspapers are coming out and admitting that they screwed up.
On the Media's Disclosure Bill Exempts National Rifle Association and Others The House narrowly passed the "DISCLOSE" Act this week. Supporters say it will shed light on the way corporations, unions and non-profits spend money on election ads. But the bill exempts the National Rifle Association, the Sierra Club and a few other ...
Daily Kos - CBS: Jindal holds up deployment of National Guard to fight spill You know how Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal likes to blame the Federal government for the damage caused by BP's oil spill, arguing that he could have kept all the oil at bay if President Obama had only given him the resources he needed to fight it? Well, last night CBS News tore Jindal's argument to shreds, pointing out that while President Obama has authorized up to 6,000 National Guard troops to fight the spill, Jindal has only activated 1,053 of them -- leaving more than 80% sitting idle, doing nothing to protect the state.
Newspapers Retract 'Climategate' Claims, but Damage Still Done - Newsweek A lie can get halfway around the world while the truth is still putting its boots on, as Mark Twain said (or “before the truth gets a chance to put its pants on,” in Winston Churchill’s version), and nowhere has that been more true than in "climategate."
The Panda's Thumb - Early indications of bipedalism in A. afarensis While were waiting to see if one of our paleo people will post at greater length on this, I will call attention to Case Western Reserve Universitys Center for Human Origins material on the recent publication of a report on a very early specimen of Australopithecus afarensis.
Daily Kos - Conference and the filibuster Disclosure: I'm advising Open Left in a paid capacity on procedure with regard to the Wall Street reform bill, and thought readers at Daily Kos and Congress Matters would be interested in the information as well.
The Panda's Thumb - Haeckel had a point My colleague Paul Strode wrote a very clear and concise explanation of Ernst Haeckels ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny law for our book Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails).
Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog - Is There Nothing This Man Can't Make Awesome? Its easy to just dismiss the World's Going to End in 2012 nuts - But when Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why that theory makes no sense, its makes you want to seek out those people and explain to them exactly why they're crazy: He gets bonus points for the hat.
Daily Kos - Gay GOPers & teabagging tunnel vision Proof that even joke teabagging makes you stupid: The Log Cabin Republicans of Los Angeles -- the largest such gay GOP organization in the country -- is holding a Tea Bag Toss at Christopher Street West, the Los Angeles Pride celebration this weekend.
On the Media's Media Encounter Access Problems While Covering the Oil Spill A handful of media outlets have reported that their reporters were denied access while trying to cover the oil spill in the Gulf, leaving some journalists worried that BP is deciding where they can and can't go. Times-Picayune photojournalist Ted Jacks...
Think Progress - Paranoid Hatriot Group Attempting Takeover of Local Sheriffs Offices The retired police officer and investment adviser intends to make that a reality, joining at least a dozen candidates in other states running for office on an intepretation [sic] of the Constitution they say means the sheriff is the highest law enforcer in the land, even above federal agents.
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity.
Talking Points Memo - Should Be a Smashing Success House Republicans are re-rolling out their Health Care Reform repeal bill which not only reopens the "donut hole", un-insures 29 million people and adds almost $75 billion to the federal deficit.
Daily Kos - Obama Campaign 2.0 After going 0 for 4 in elections where the President campaigned on behalf of the candidate in question, our own Dante Atkins made an astute observation: And while some have used the results to question Obama's star power and campaigning potential for the rest of the midterm cycle, what actually seems open to more question is our President's political instincts.
Daily Kos - If BP were a human being Would he or she be charged with criminal negligence as in this case: In 1994, petitioner Edward Hanousek, Jr.
General : DADT Repeal, Fox Edits Applause From Obama Speech, Oil Regulation Fail
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Daily Kos - DADT: White House signs off on repeal compromise But now, it looks like the Obama Administration has seen on the wall the handwriting created by pressure both from activists and from a House leadership team that seems more interested in doing what is right than what is politically expedient--and now a deal is in the works.
voices.washingtonpost.com - Ezra Klein - The big offshore lie The Obama administration, in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico disaster, has apparently decided that digging in on its misguided decision in March to expand offshore drilling is the way to go.
www.nytimes.com - Inspector General Faults Minerals Management Service - NYTimes.com Federal regulators responsible for oversight of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico allowed industry officials several years ago to fill in their own inspection reports in pencil - and then turned them over to the regulators, who traced over them in pen before submitting the reports to the agency, according to an inspector generals report to be released this week.
Daily Kos - NC-08: Republican Party attacks Tea Party candidate Apparently afraid that they'll be forced to publicly support another Rand Paul-like candidate, the Republican Party is now openly attacking a tea party candidate in North Carolina: Republican officials are working to derail the campaign of a tea party supported candidate in North Carolina - circulating documents from the man's messy divorce that depict him as a pot smoker who has called himself the messiah.
Mashable! - Towel Day Celebrations Hit YouTube and Flickr Happy Towel Day!This universal holiday, which honors the life and work of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams, is being celebrated by his fans the world over today.
Pharyngula - No better demonstration of the futility of prayer Angela Wright had a serious heart attack two months ago; she seems to have had a history of cardiovascular problems, because she'd also had a series of blood clots in her leg that required a partial amputation about 20 years ago.
Daily Kos - Kucinich Bill Bans Extrajudicial Killing of U.S. Citizens Earlier this year, The Washington Post and The New York Times revealed that the Obama Administration was continuing a Bush-era policy of including U.S. citizens on lists of people to be assassinated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). These citizens have had no trial.
Bad Astronomy - BREAKING: Republicans derail the COMPETES act In a 261-148 vote that went almost exactly along party lines, the America COMPETES act was defeated. Over $40 billion dollars was designated in that bill to go toward science and technology innovation, and to provide a lot of jobs to meet our nation�s needs for the future.
Bad Astronomy - Climate change attacks followup Many recent assaults on climate science and, more disturbingly, on climate scientists by climate change deniers, are typically driven by special interests or dogma, not by an honest effort to provide an alternative theory that credibly satisfies the evidence.
Daily Kos - NAS: Urgent Action Needed On Climate Change At the behest of Congress, the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering just completed a series of comprehensive reports on Climate Change.
General : Lenski's Evolution Milestone, Newt Afraid Of The Left, 95,000 Barrels / Day
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Gawker - Newt Gingrich is Equally Afraid of 'The Left' and Terrorists [Warnings] In plugging his new book, the former GOP Speaker of the House writes that leftists have infiltrated nearly all facets of society with their brand of "secular-socialism," and they will destroy America faster than you can say firecracker jihadist.
Daily Kos - Engineering professor: It's 95,000 barrels per day McClatchey: WASHINGTON - The latest video footage of the leaking Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico show that oil is escaping at the rate of 95,000 barrels 4 million gallons a day, nearly 20 times greater than the 5,000 barrel a day estimate BP and government scientists have been citing for nearly three weeks, an engineering professor told a congressional hearing Wednesday.
Think Progress - Rand Paul Wants To Abolish The Americans With Disabilities Act, Citing Fairness "To The Business Owner" PAUL: You know a lot of things on employment ought to be done locally. You know, people finding out right or wrong locally. You know, some of the things, for example we can come up with common sense solutions " like for example if you have a three story building and you have someone apply for a job, you get them a job on the first floor if they're in a wheelchair as supposed to making the person who owns the business put an elevator in, you know what I mean?
Think Progress - Loop Current Is Now Drawing The BP Oil Disaster To Florida Keys Today's MODIS / Terra satellite image is the most cloud-free we've seen in many days, and what it reveals is disturbing: part of the still-massive Gulf oil slick has apparently been entrained in the strong Loop Current, and is rapidly being transported to the southeast toward Florida. The total area covered by slick and sheen, at 10,170 square miles (26,341 km2), is nearly double what it appeared to be on the May 14 radar satellite image, and is bigger
Think Progress - CA lawmaker proposes bill to keep away TX's textbooks (which call slavery the "Atlantic triangular trade"). Under Yee's bill, SB1451, the California Board of Education would be required to look out for any of the Texas content as part of its standard practice of reviewing public school textbooks. The board must then report any findings to both the Legislature and the secretary of education.
The bill describes the Texas curriculum changes as “a sharp departure from widely accepted historical teachings and a threat to the apolitical nature of publ
Pharyngula - Good news from California Texas has been using their excessive and unwarranted influence on textbook content to insert right-wing propaganda and lies into the entire nation's school books. I am pleased to see that California has taken the first steps to reduce Texas wingnuts' influence.
It seems that Judge Walker is being anything but sympathetic to Cooper's case, took him to task hard and got him caught in a humiliating bundle of contradictions:
Walker: If the Prez’s parents had been in Virginia when he was born, their marriage would have been unlawful. Doesn’t that show a TREMENDOUS change in the institution of marriage? doesn’t that show evolution? Isn’t that correct?
Cooper: Racial restrictions were never a feature of the institution of marriage. (laughter in our courtrtoomm)
Cooper: These restrictions were loathesome, and a detail. "Man and woman" has been universal, across time and all societies.
walker: Is the evidence going to show these racial restrictions are different than the restrictions imposed by Prop 8?
(like a bug pinned to a piece of wood)
Cooper: Naturally procreative instincts....
Walker: Only purpose?
Cooper: Basis of marriage is procreation. It is a pro-child societal institution.
Walker: Many things attend marriage, will your evidence show that those are all secondary to procreation?
Cooper: This is about deinstitutionalizing marriage...
Walker: Yes, you say that. But will your evidence show that?
Also interesting, Olson and David Boies, who were on opposite sides of Bush v. Gore, are both on the anti-prop-8 side.
The judge is probing extensively whether or not the problem would be solved if the state of California “got out of the marriage business.” He and Olson had a colloquy about whether domestic partnership for all would solve the problem. Olson had to have a note handed to him from his team to say that only opposite-sex couples over 62 can have domestic partnership. Judge Walker is very interested in seeing what change has occurred that should force the federal judiciary to enter the issue. He wants to know what evidence will show that makes the matter worthy of judgment.
This is what I've been saying for years should be done. If the right wants to define marriage as a religious institution, then let churches have their marriage, but there should be no collusion between churches and government in that sense. What a church calls a "marriage" and what a government considers a legal partnership should not have to legally coincide. I say let governments issue partnerships (to EVERYONE who is a consenting adult of sound mind, of course) and let individual religious institutions decide whether or not to "marry" people. That won't have any affect on the partnerships either way, of course, but it would take away the ability of wingnuts to act like governments allowing people to marry who they want somehow goes against some biblical principle that the state has no right to worry about in the first place.
Defying Gravity Great scifi drama on ABC. I'm really enjoying this, as overly dramatic as it is. Watch it on ABC.com: The crew of the Antares begins its mission, embarking on a six-year journey to explore the planets in the solar system.
Activist Who Staged Gun Interview At Obama Event Was Prominent Defender Of '90s Militia Ernest Hancock, the online radio host who staged an interview with an assault rifle-wielding associate at the Obama event in Arizona yesterday -- and was himself armed with a 9 millimeter pistol -- was a vocal supporter and friend of right-wing anti-government militia members who were convicted of conspiracy and weapons charges in the 90s.
Men, Women Divided Over Sex Bill Religion is awesome! "After two people get married, the Bible says that they become one one flesh. How is it possible to rape what is yours?"
Building block of life found on comet | Science | Reuters The amino acid glycine, a fundamental building block of proteins, has been found in a comet for the first time, bolstering the theory that raw ingredients of life arrived on Earth from outer space, scientists said on Monday.
Seriously Italian: Zabaione, My Way dessert with three basic ingredients and a bit of practice at whisking over a water bath, you are rewarded with a warm, boozy, egg-y cloud of deliciousness, the down comforter of the dolci universe.
Tex Avery's Tomorrow Cartoons | Retrofuture.com This series of four Tex Avery directed cartoons were made in the early 1950s for MGM. They comprise a uniquely visionary take on cars, TV, homes and farms of the future. Avery's non-stop invention is on display throughout as are the laughs. In glorious Technicolor
My Jewish Learning: Shakshuka Probably the most popular egg dish in Israel is shakshuka, one of those onomatopoeic Hebrew and North African words, meaning "all mixed up." The most famous rendition of this tomato dish, which is sometimes mixed with meat but more often made in Israel with scrambled or poached eggs, is served at the Tripolitana Doktor Shakshuka Restaurant in old Jaffa.
Study catches two bird populations as they split into seperate species A new study finds that a change in a single gene has sent two closely related bird populations on their way to becoming two distinct species. The study, published in the August issue of the American Naturalist, is one of only a few to investigate the specific genetic changes that drive two populations toward speciation.
How the aphid got its wings | Mystery Rays from Outer Space
We discovered that the production of the winged morph in asexual clones of the rosy apple aphid, Dysaphis plantaginea, is dependent on their infection with a DNA virus, Dysaphis plantaginea densovirus (DplDNV). Virus-free clones of the rosy apple aphid, or clones infected singly with an RNA virus, rosy apple aphid virus (RAAV), did not produce the winged morph in response to crowding and poor plant quality.
Consolidation in Organic Processing
Concentric diversification has occurred through the introduction of organic versions of mainstream brands, and the introduction of private label organics. These trends are expected to continue, and strongly support the conventionalization thesis as it applies to off-farm segments of the organic food industry.
Sardines Get a Modern Makeover - washingtonpost.com They call themselves the Sardinistas. Along with Shelley, the conspirators are an environmentalist, a veteran commercial fisherman and a semi-retired entrepreneur and marine biologist. For several years, the "cell" has been meeting informally to gorge on sardines and wine. Now, the Sardinistas are forging a plan to produce canned sardines and prepared foods. Their message: These are not your grandfather's sardines.
Decision Day on California's Prop 8 Yes, the right wing is losing on gay rights issues. That is, very precisely, why they're more dangerous now than they have been in the past. Their impending irrelevance is not a reason to worry less; it's a reason to worry more. And getting Prop 8 overturned in the courts would ignite the situation, because it will hit absolutely every angry-making right-wing button there is:
From Scratch, Ginger Ales That Zing - NYTimes.com GINGER ALE is an age-old remedy for sick children and grown-ups alike. Now, homemade ginger ale is appearing on drink menus across the country under happier circumstances.
Bubbling | TPM More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when we were looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Companion Planting Peppers and pigweed or ragweed, Cabbage and dill, Potatoes and sweet alyssum, Collards and catnip, Strawberries and love-in-a-mist, Roses and chives
Great article by Chris Mooney on the Antivaccination movement In discounting the dangers of both the MMR vaccine and thimerosal, the IOM had multiple large epidemiological studies to rely on. For MMR, the IOM examined 16 studies. All but two, which were dismissed because of serious methodological flaws, showed no evidence of a link.
Psychedelic Healing?: Scientific American Mind-altering psychedelics are back but this time they are being explored in labs for their therapeutic applications rather than being used illegally. Studies are looking at these hallucinogens to treat a number of otherwise intractable psychiatric disorders, including chronic depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and drug or alcohol dependency.
General : Links - Antivax, Woody Allen, Religious Agendas, Time Machine
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Great article by Chris Mooney on the Antivaccination movement In discounting the dangers of both the MMR vaccine and thimerosal, the IOM had multiple large epidemiological studies to rely on. For MMR, the IOM examined 16 studies. All but two, which were dismissed because of serious methodological flaws, showed no evidence of a link.
Psychedelic Healing?: Scientific American Mind-altering psychedelics are back�"but this time they are being explored in labs for their therapeutic applications rather than being used illegally. Studies are looking at these hallucinogens to treat a number of otherwise intractable psychiatric disorders, including chronic depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and drug or alcohol dependency.
Shouts & Murmurs: Tails of Manhattan: Humor: The New Yorker Two weeks ago, Abe Moscowitz dropped dead of a heart attack and was reincarnated as a lobster. Trapped off the coast of Maine, he was shipped to Manhattan and dumped into a tank at a posh Upper East Side seafood restaurant. In the tank there were several other lobsters, one of whom recognized him. Abe, is that you? the creature asked, his antennae perking up.
Op-Ed Columnist - The Culture Warriors Get Laid Off - NYTimes.com Twice as many Americans have a great deal of confidence in the scientific community as do in organized religion. How the almighty has fallen: organized religion is in a dead heat with banks and financial institutions on the confidence scale.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Enter Stephen Fry's Twitter universe Stephen Fry - wit, writer, raconteur, actor and quiz show host - is also a self-confessed dweeb and meistergeek. As he confesses "If I added up all the hours I've sat watching a progress bar fill up, I could live another life."
How did dinosaurs sit down? That question has an answer: they crouched like birds. A 198 million year old fossil trackway from Utah has preserved a pring of a theropod dinosaur taking a break, resting with hands curled inward and knuckle down, and legs bent. Except for the forelimbs, of course, it's very birdlike.
Good Math, Bad Math : It Never Stops: Another Silly Creationist Argument This isn't a valid proof. Given contradictory premises, you can draw a line of logical inference to any conclusion. But it's a meaningless exercise. The same flawed inferences can "prove" that God can't exist; or that God must exist; or that time can't exist at all; or that 1 = 2.
THE FOIE GRAS WAR - New York Post I honestly don't know enough to decide what I think of the foie gras conflict... but I know it must be delicious :)
Diagramming the Obama Sentence - The Millions My view is also that nobody's above the law, and, if there are clear instances of wrongdoing, that people should be prosecuted just like any ordinary citizen, but that, generally speaking, I'm more interested in looking forward than I am in looking backwards.
Measles on the rise in Australia and Switzerland, too Not only was the data for the Anti-Vaccination movement faked, but now it's caused a record measles increase in Switzerland and Australia. It's also on the rise in the UK.
Whale ancestor fossil shows birth and life on land Discovery of a near-term fetus positioned for head-first delivery provides important evidence that early protocetid whales gave birth on land. This is consistent with skeletal morphology enabling Maiacetus to support its weight on land and corroborates previous ideas that protocetids were amphibious. Specimens this complete are virtual �Rosetta stones providing insight into functional capabilities and life history of extinct animals that cannot be gained any other way.
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