Archive October 2009
Maggie and Mary Jo Atkins Barnett, December 1956, at the British Embassy Christmas Party in Kolkata, India. photo from Meta Watershed,Donations Still NeededMaggie's surgery is scheduled for 7:30 am Central Time today (Friday.) It will last quite some time. I will likely speak with her for a minute or so, ...
Maggie and Mary Jo Atkins Barnett, December 1956, at the British Embassy Christmas Party in Kolkata, India. photo from Meta Watershed,Donations NeededMaggie called me two minutes after midnight this morning my time, 2:02 am in Austin, Texas. She was in more pain than I've ever heard her.Said she'd not been ...
The Republicans in their ever present wisdom, and before the ink is on the paper for the merged senate and house health care bill are already saying that they want a longer and longer debate time. More delays more wing-nut-townhall-teabagger style politics, ultimately more dead Americans. according to rollcallDemocratic negotiations ...
Aurora partner agencies Agence Vu and NOOR photographers were featured in the September 29, 2009 edition of Newsweek in the Overseas Edition. Continue reading to view their published work. (Featured image above by photographer Jan Grarup of Aurora partner agency Noor.)
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An absolutely insane anti-abortion law (not yet in force) has been passed by Republicans in Oklahoma.Rachel Maddow lays out the details. *shudders*H/T The Huffington Post.
photo Gerald Herbert/APCongratulations, Mr. President. (no pressure there...)crosspost FL
Add one more thing to the list of mysteries, theories, and unsubstantiated ideas that will be confirmed/denied/debunked if CERN ever gets the Large Hadron Collider up and running: hyperdrive spacecraft propulsion.
In 1924, German mathematician David Hilbert published a paper noting a pretty amazing side effect to Einstein's relativity: a relativistic ...
Stairs Hack!(cross post from FL)
A Picture With A Thousand Words On It...Is Worth Ten Thousand WordsIn a previous post, I took the media to task for its appalling myopia about the full-throated roar of the crazies railing against President Obama and why said crazies are doing so. I said...“Now, the news media beyond ...
“There's a thin li-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-innnnneee...”As a kid, I remember these cool, old IBM-sponsored commercials that ran during NFL football games, showing a slo-mo replay of a controversial moment in a game—some borderline-ish play that could be ruled one of two different ways, testing the layman viewer's knowledge of the sometimes ...
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