[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Astronomers' 3D view of star exploding
- [BBC News]
Astronomers have for the first time obtained a 3D view of the aftermath of a star exploding.
- US billionaires in charity pledge
- [BBC News]
Thirty-eight billionaires promise to give at least half their wealth to charity through a campaign started by Warren Buffet and Bill Gates.
- Ancient croc had 'mammal's bite'
- [BBC News]
Palaeontologists working in Tanzania unearth fossils of a tiny ancient crocodile with unusual, mammal-like teeth.
- Philippines settled 20,000 years earlier than thought
- [A Blog About History - Sevaan Franks]
A foot bone found in a cave in the Philippines is rewriting Filipino history.
- War: What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing.
- When we hear politicos talking about "victory" in Afghanistan, I've yet to hear anyone explain what victory looks like. And yet Obama has committed 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan so that we may "win." Meanwhile we allow the Republicans to frame the debate internally on the size of the deficit, not mentioning that the biggest drains on the deficit are these seemingly endless wars with muddled and impossible-to-benchmark objectives.
- David Walker Calls Social Security a 'So-Called Trust Fund' 'Which You Can't Trust' and is 'Not Funded'
- I'm still trying to square what Walker said here. On one hand he says that the Social Security fund is "backed by the full faith of the United States government" and in the next breath he says that Social Security is "not funded".
Which is it Mr. Walker? Does the fund have the backing of the Federal government or not? Is it okay that the fund was raided and do you think that promise to the American tax payers should be honored or not? Or do you think it's alright to tell Americans that the U.S. government made a promise to them that they're not willing to keep because we had other priorities like invading and occupying countries that were not a threat to us and giving tax cuts to the rich at the same time?
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