How Polling Places Can Affect Your Vote
Thursday 19 August 2010
by: Tom Jacobs | Miller-McCune
From: TruthOut.com
Researchers argue the physical location of the polls not only affects how many people vote; it may also influence last-minute decisions regarding which box to mark or lever to pull.
Political pundits seldom pause to ponder polling places. Unless the lines in [...]
New York Times Op-Ed
July 25, 2010
Who Cooked the Planet?
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Never say that the gods lack a sense of humor. I bet they’re still chuckling on Olympus over the decision to make the first half of 2010 — the year in which all hope of action to limit climate change died [...]
New York Times Editorial
July 9, 2010
A Climate Change Corrective
Perhaps now we can put the manufactured controversy known as Climategate behind us and turn to the task of actually doing something about global warming. On Wednesday, a panel in Britain concluded that scientists whose e-mail had been hacked late last year had not, [...]
Everyone should view the video animation at
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/52591
It illustrates what I knew we were headed for on the first day of the spill. Given enough incompetence, inaction, and corporate complicity, we are on our way to spoiling the north sea and polluting the British Isles (not that they need any help with pollution). Ultimately, we could [...]
Peering Over the Fortress That Is the Mighty Cell
New York Times Science Article
By NATALIE ANGIER
When J. Craig Venter announced at a news conference the other day that he and his co-workers had created the first “synthetic cell,” he displayed the savvy graciousness of an actor accepting an Academy Award.
Dr. Venter, [...]
May 28, 2010
One Cell Forward
New York Times Editorial
In a recent issue of Science magazine, the genome pioneer Craig Venter announced that he and scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute had created a “synthetic cell.” Mr. Venter heralded it as “the first self-replicating species we’ve had on the planet whose parent is [...]
consortiumnews.com
Pharma Invades Water Supplies
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
April 20, 2010
Editor’s Note: Though the pharmaceutical industry and some government officials have downplayed the risks, there remains a growing public concern about the impact of trace amounts of various drugs and chemicals entering the water supply [...]
The Unbearable Lightness of Reform
Saturday 27 March 2010
by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
That wickedly satirical Ambrose Bierce described politics as “the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
Bierce vanished to Mexico nearly a hundred years ago - to the relief [...]
By Les Blumenthal, McClatchy Newspapers , Mcclatchy NewspapersSun Mar 7, 12:01 pm ET
WASHINGTON — Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth’s oceans, particularly off the United States’ Pacific Northwest coast, could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change, scientists say.
They warn that the oceans’ complex undersea ecosystems and fragile food chains could be disrupted.
In some [...]