- This Class of Geography Students Found Bin Laden’s Hideout Long Before the CIA | GOOD • by Ben Jervey
- Two years ago, a class of UCLA undergrads pretty accurately predicted the the location where Osama Bin Laden was hiding out. The students, working under UCLA geography professors Thomas Gillespie and John Agnew, used geographical theories and GIS software to home in on the world’s most wanted fugitive.
- Science Insider explains:…
- Here’s the kicker. Gillespie focus isn’t national security or terrorism or intelligence or any sort of political geography. He works on ecosystems.
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- (Call for action) The GOP to teenage girls: Why aren’t you giving birth? | by Amanda Marcotte
- Check out this video
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- Birth of the Deathers | Hullabaloo by digby
- …it’s an article of faith that the administration might have faked the death of bin Laden, ostensibly for electoral purposes. …
- Wouldn’t you think they’d wonder why the President would do this 18 months before the election? It’s hard to see the advantage there. …The government has a history of lying and there’s every reason to be skeptical, but there are some conspiracy theories that just don’t make a lot of sense and this is one of them.
- …the question of whether the president could order an assassination was settled some time ago. They assert the right to keep prisoners in jail forever and kill American citizens, and nobody cares, so why in the world would there be any domestic blowback for ordering the death of the world’s most wanted man?
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