Archive March 2010
(Video: Liam Clancy & Tommy Makem, The Parting Glass, February 1977, National Stadium, Dublin)One year when I was a kid, my brother and I got vinyl records for our birthdays. I was jealous, because he got The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy, and all I got was The Best ...
Today The New York Times issued an admission, in the form of a column by its Public Editor Clark Hoyt, that it was wrong in its coverage of the so-called ACORN sting and had been wrong to defend its wording since the truth began to emerge. ACORN (acronym for The ...
Micheal Martin MurphyHere's a little tidbit of philosophy that I picked up from Mikey."I used to hate myself in the morning.Now, I sleep 'till noon."
(Lt. Dan Choi, Iraq war, and Capt. Jim Pietrangelo after handcuffing themselves to the White House fence in protest of the anti-lesbian/gay policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" on 18 March 2010. Photo from AmericaBlog.)Yesterday three people were arrested for an act of civil disobedience following a Human Rights Campaign ...
ONLINE GAMES, SUPEREMPOWERMENT, AND A BETTER WORLDThe premise that is being kicked around is how to use gaming modalities to restructure the way we live.John Robb has ideas about it that sound very reasonable to me. What do ya'll think?
This is Irish Music At In the Pure, Uncut Way.Good friends, gathered around, making wonderful music.Blessings to the Irish among us. Blessings too, for the half Irish like meself.Special blessings go, to thems as only wish they were Irish.
Aurora Photos President and photographer José Azel was recently interviewed by his alma mater, Cornell University (Class of ‘76), alumni magazine. In it, Azel talks about his career as a photographer, his love of telling visual stories, and being able to successfully find his way through the labyrinth of the ...
"US court rules again against vaccine-autism claims":Vaccines that contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own, a special U.S. court ruled on Friday, dealing one more blow to parents seeking to blame vaccines for their children's illness.As I've written before, the connection between vaccination and autism ...
I have a geek question in search of a serious answer or a fresh theory: I just read this article at Eureka! Science News about how the genome of an entire family has been sequenced to track how genetic mutations are handed on. The article states "Scientists long had estimated ...
Art can elucidate.(This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow.)
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