Yostivanich

“Let’s do a quick study of our own. Five peo­ple are quoted in this arti­cle. Two of them work for Fox. All of them assert that admin­is­tra­tion offi­cials are either wrong in sub­stance or polit­i­cally fool­ish to crit­i­cize the net­work. No one is cited sup­port­ing Dunn’s crit­i­cisms or say­ing that it could make sense, morally or polit­i­cally, for Obama to chal­lenge the network’s power. It’s a text­book exam­ple of a biased news story.”

“Thanks to a new online mar­ket, Deep­Dyve, I’m never fur­ther than a click away from those relax­ing and enlight­en­ing sci­en­tific papers. The site, launched today, offers full-text search of sci­en­tific arti­cles along with 99 cent down­loads and a sub­scrip­tion ser­vice that allows fans of Clin­i­cal Chem­istry to read as many sto­ries as they’d like” Looks inter­est­ing, use­ful tool for research.

Only rea­son this is get­ting is posted is due to the main photo. I love the image of the stu­dents being apa­thetic or ignor­ing the pledge, real Amer­ica people.

“The dam­age to the new Ares I-X rocket, which launched from Florida Wednes­day on a short test flight, was spot­ted by a div­ing team sent to recover the booster’s first stage. The first stage — a giant solid rocket booster — was dented near its base. NASA spokesper­son Amber Philman told SPACE.com that the space agency is still await­ing word on what may have caused the damage.”

“The depart­ment has high­lighted six ben­e­fits to tackle what it called “mis­con­cep­tions and mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tions” of the exist­ing laws, poli­cies, and reg­u­la­tions. The cur­rent rules were writ­ten in May 2003.”

“Ken Cuc­cinelli, the Repub­li­can can­di­date for attor­ney gen­eral in Vir­ginia, recently made remarks to a news­pa­per in which he said, “Homo­sex­ual acts are wrong.” He declined to com­mit to a nondis­crim­i­na­tion pol­icy enforced by for­mer attor­ney gen­eral Bob McDon­nell, now the Repub­li­can can­di­date for gov­er­nor.” To be polite what an ass.

Really nice look­ing font.

“It started two years ago as a bare-bones ser­vice, offer­ing lit­tle more than the abil­ity to post 140-character mes­sages. Then, it out­sourced its idea gen­er­a­tion to its users. The com­pany watches how peo­ple use the ser­vice and which ideas catch on. Then its engi­neers turn the ideas into new fea­tures.” Best way to build a busi­ness let your users decide.

“So, Molly and I decided to do a pre-nup. We told friends that we intended to do a pre-nup and the reac­tions were, per­haps, unsur­pris­ing. Most looked at me with dis­dain, as if it were some­thing I was forc­ing her to do. But we held firm because we knew the data: 80% of all divorces are related to money issues. Over half of credit dis­tress issues come from an estranged spouse.” I’m totally for pre-nups.

Some very cool Hal­loween images.

“In the early 1990s before a vac­cine was avail­able for chick­en­pox, about 50 chil­dren and 50 adults died from the dis­ease each year. Some deaths still occur in unvac­ci­nated individuals.”

“US firm Garmin fell 18% after details of Google Maps Nav­i­ga­tion were revealed. Dutch firm Tom­Tom fell 9.5% when mar­kets closed on Thurs­day. The Google appli­ca­tion promises free real-time, turn-by-turn direc­tions for peo­ple to fol­low on their phones.”

“Now… Some of these unpre­pared talks have been won­der­ful. The spon­tane­ity is great, and if a speaker knows their topic they don’t really have to pre­pare in the tra­di­tional sense. So it’s not the qual­ity of the talks, it’s the qual­i­fier. If you aren’t pre­pared, or if you hastily put together your pre­sen­ta­tion, just don’t tell the audi­ence. Just per­form at your best and keep the pity and embar­rass­ment to yourself.”

“But the older I get, the more com­fort­able I am in my own skin and with my own ideas, the more I think that’s a bull­shit sex­ist par­a­digm. Of course it’s impor­tant to be self-aware and man­age one’s emo­tions dur­ing an argu­ment, but I think pre­tend­ing as if the issue you’re argu­ing about has no per­sonal sig­nif­i­cance or emo­tional res­o­nance is actu­ally a dis­em­pow­er­ing and, of course, inau­then­tic place to come from. My power these days comes from com­bin­ing both intel­lec­tual rigor with emo­tional authenticity.”

“Ms Ostrom won the prize with fel­low Amer­i­can Oliver Williamson for their sep­a­rate work in eco­nomic gov­er­nance. The Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley aca­d­e­mic has argued that hier­ar­chi­cal organ­i­sa­tions such as com­pa­nies rep­re­sent alter­na­tive gov­er­nance struc­tures, which dif­fer in their approaches to resolv­ing con­flicts of interest.”

“Why does an embar­rassed, guilty silence descend on the nation each Colum­bus Day? Because peo­ple don’t know how to cel­e­brate the blos­som­ing of West­ern civ­i­liza­tion over the past five cen­turies with­out seem­ing to rejoice in the mis­ery of Amer­i­can Indi­ans. Mod­ern his­to­ri­ans have dis­torted the facts, find­ing fault with Colum­bus, Amer­ica, and West­ern civ­i­liza­tion for evils and tragedies that they did not create—while extolling mys­ti­cism and trib­al­ism, which actu­ally are the causes of history’s dark­est chap­ters.” How the heck does Colum­bus Day be a cause for the cel­e­brat­ing the whole entity of West­ern cul­ture, that and I also love the idea of decid­ing that West­ern cul­ture is more impor­tant than other.

“A Chi­nese court has sen­tenced six peo­ple to death for mur­der and other crimes dur­ing eth­nic riots in Xin­jiang region in July, state media have said.” That’s what you get for protest­ing in China.

“There are still plenty of peo­ple brows­ing online, but not so many buy­ers. In the sec­ond quar­ter, the num­ber of vis­i­tors to e-commerce sites who even­tu­ally bought some­thing shrank for most sites from the year before, by as much as 30 per­cent for Zappos.com and 26 per­cent for Gap, accord­ing to comScore.”

“What we must under­stand is that the same fac­tors which lend cul­tural sig­nif­i­cance to athe­ism also make it a part of our iden­tity which many of us view as wor­thy of cel­e­bra­tion. There is a rea­son that many of us would extend con­grat­u­la­tions to some­one who told us that they were an ex-Christian who was just begin­ning to explore athe­ism. We see it as an accom­plish­ment to have escaped the dom­i­nate cul­tural par­a­digm and ally one­self with what is real rather than merely what is pop­u­lar. We athe­ists may not agree with one another on many issues, but it means some­thing to most of us to know that we share mem­ber­ship in the sub­cul­ture of atheism.”

“The US sec­re­tary of state has said that a mil­i­tant attack on Pakistan’s army HQ is evi­dence of an increas­ing threat against the author­ity of the state.”

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“Sci­en­tists have cre­ated part of the jaw joint in the lab using human adult stem cells. They say it is the first time a com­plex, anatomically-sized bone has been accu­rately cre­ated in this way. It is hoped the tech­nique could be used not only to treat dis­or­ders of the spe­cific joint, but more widely to cor­rect prob­lems with other bones too.”

“Express­ing out­rage that a video show­ing a “defaced flag” with “graf­fiti splat­tered all over it” is a final­ist in a Demo­c­ra­tic National Com­mit­tee con­test, Fox News and Sean Han­nity ignored des­e­cra­tion of the flag by Fox News’ own Glenn Beck, with Fox News con­trib­u­tor Michelle Malkin declar­ing that “the defac­ing of the flag, of course, is well within the main­stream of far-left pro­pa­ganda tac­tics.” Pres­i­dent Bush also pre­vi­ously defaced a U.S. flag.”