The world’s largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind’s biggest data challenge from the earth’s most powerful accelerator. Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), …
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
How about those modesty police? In Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, where the rule of law sometimes takes a back seat to the rule of God, zealots are on a campaign to stamp out behavior they consider unchaste. …
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Constructivism. Determinism. It is all a bunch of hooey. ResearchBlogging.org A recent paper published by PLoS (Culture Shapes How We Look at Faces) throws a sopping wet blanket on widely held deterministic models of human behavior. …
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Neal Stephenson writes ambitious books. I got hooked with Snow Crash(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), an amazingly imaginative book about near-future virtual worlds; Zodiac(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll) is required reading for anyone interested in chemistry …
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The Jackson County School Board has taken action against a teacher who apparently made racial commentary on presidential candidate Barack Obama. According to parents and students in Greg Howard’s seventh-grade social studies class, …
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tags: Hebridean Black-faced Sheep, Scotland, Image of the Day. Hebridean Black-faced Sheep near Arnol (Isle of Lewis, Scotland). Image: Dave Rintoul, Summer 2008 [larger view]. Read the comments on this post…
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The offal refers to…. ….those parts of a meat animal which are used as food but which are not skeletal muscle. The term literally means “off fall”, or the pieces which fall from a carcase when it is butchered. …
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It doesn’t include any clips produced since the vp debate, but it is a pretty good countdown of Palin’s “greatest hits” (with a guest appearance by an overprotective and embarrassed John McCain!); …
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tags: John Scopes, Scopes Monkey Trial, Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial, evolution, creationism, religious fundamentalism, education. Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: John Thomas Scopes. Image: Watson Davis (1896-1967), …
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My father was an old fashioned “physician and surgeon,” something we don’t have today. He did everything: delivered you, took out your appendix or tonsils, treated your parents heart disease, your childhood diseases, your broken bones, …
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