IPCC Debacle from the horse’s mouth
There is a good posting on the Real Climate blog about the IPCC AR4 blow back that is happening. I think this gets to the heart of it: To those familiar with the science and the IPCC’s work, the...
View ArticleJohn Cleese on Extremism
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View ArticleTwo thumbs up for Bloomberg
“This nation was founded on the principle that the government must never choose between religions or favor one over another. The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city,...
View ArticleRestore Truthiness, Help a Teacher
The folks over at Reddit, who got the ball rolling on trying to get Colbert to hold a Restore Truthiness rally in DC in October, found a new way to get his attention. Colbert is on the board of Donors...
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Godwin’s Law Redux
* Godwin’s Law was an observation from 1989 that the longer an internet argument goes on, eventually hitler or nazis will be invoked. 20 years later it gets invoked in meat space quite often. Related...
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Deaths per Terrawatt Hour
The folks at Next Big Future did an analysis of deaths per unit energy produced back in 2008, which was republished recently due to the media’s focus on the Japan reactor. (There is also a many eyes...
View ArticleA tale of two tech teams
The Atlantic just published an in dept look at the Tech team behind the Obama campaign. It’s a little personality heavy, because they are trying to make tech interesting to the average reader, but...
View ArticleThe backstory on the Shrimp on a Treadmill
Exactly how much taxpayer money did go into the now-famous shrimp treadmill? The treadmill was, in fact, made from spare parts—an old truck inner tube was used for the tread, the bearings were borrowed...
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This Is How Fast America Changes Its Mind
As the Supreme Court considers extending same-sex marriage rights to all Americans, we look at the patterns of social change that have transformed the nation. Source: This Is How Fast America Changes...
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Do Demographics impact Leadership?
This morning on NPR there was a piece with Howard Dean about how older leaders should step aside and make way for a new generation. This has popped up in politics a bunch of times over the past couple...
View ArticleMany-Eyes and Pork per Capita
Above is one of the many cool visualizations already in many-eyes (direct link here for rss readers that don’t display it), a social visualization site from IBM. I’d heard a little bit about the site...
View ArticleThe truth, with pictures
…because I’ve seen this a couple of places now, and more people should realize that cutting taxes on > 90% of americans is being called raising taxes by the media. …because expanded offshore...
View ArticleSin Fest is Awesome
And you should read it every day, as it’s been this awesome for weeks.
View ArticleThe Daily Show: ending the war on science, the only war we were winning
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View ArticleJohn Hodgman, funny and meaningful as always
John Hodgman was the headliner at the White House Correspondent’s dinner last night, and the intertubes have his speech up already. It’s classic Hodgman, both humorous and meaningful. Check it out on...
View ArticleDear Sinfest, you are awesome
I love both the art and the message in sinfest, this sunday’s strip was just awesome:
View ArticleA generation makes such a difference
The last bit of media that was playing as we came in for approach to JFK from Berlin was an episode of Mad Men. This was an original configuration 767, so there was just the big central screens in...
View ArticleMaybe it’s citizen anchors, not citizen journalists
I found this really insightful. We like to say new media is allowing us all to be journalists. But it’s probably more accurate to say it lets us all be anchors. Sure, the Internet also allows people...
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