[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Arctic Lake Yields Planet’s Most Continuous Record of Ancient Climate
- [Wired: Science - Alexandra Witze]
It took the better part of a decade, $10 million, and help from the guys who build ice roads for Canadian truckers. But scientists now have the most continuous record of ancient climate ever extracted from the terrestrial Arctic.
- Photo Gallery: Best Space Station Cupola Views
- [Wired: Science - Dave Mosher]
- NOM, A Late-Stage Cancer in the American Body Politic
- [PLoS Blogs - Steve Silberman]
…NOM and other anti-gay groups poured an estimated $1 million into attack ads in a bold attempt to punish three [state] Supreme Court justices for ruling in 2009 that the state constitution applied equally to heterosexuals and homosexuals, and that both groups have an equal right to marry…
“What is so disturbing about this is that it really might cause judges in the future to be less willing to protect minorities out of fear that they might be voted out of office,” Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California… told the New York Times. “Something like this really does chill other judges.”
…What does “states’ rights” mean when NOM can parachute into your state, emboldened with cash from an elusive network of partisan and religious groups like the Mormon Church, to rewrite your constitution or unseat judges for making a decision they don’t approve of?
- Interesting Place – Mumbai
- [Interesting Facts]
Officials in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) have had all the coconuts round the city's Gandhi museum, removed.
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[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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