by Robert McClure | Dateline Earth as reported on Investigate WEST | February 22nd, 2010 It’s been apparent for some time that the public is not understanding the potential magnitude of the threat of climate change. The percentage of Americans saying it’s even taking place was recently measured at 57 percent, down 14 points since [...]
Senate Republicans made a persuasive case for abolishing or reforming the filibuster on Tuesday night when they blocked a routine nomination to the National Labor Relations Board that had been held up since April. Read on: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/09/carl-levin-filibuster-cou_n_455814.html
But DSCOVR remains grounded. That fact is key to interpreting the so-called ‘climategate’ emails. by Mitchell Anderson | TheTyee.ca | January 20, 2010 The media missed the real story about the so-called “climategate” scandal. After thousands of emails were mysteriously stolen from the University of East Anglia and distributed just before the climate conference in Copenhagen, many [...]
Decision from world’s leading search engine comes amid a clampdown on the internet in China over the last year Google challenge to China over censorship by Tania Branigan in Beijing | The Guardian | Wednesday 13 January 2010 Google, the world’s leading search engine, has thrown down the gauntlet to China by saying it is no longer willing to censor [...]
For years, the secrets to great teaching have seemed more like alchemy than science, a mix of motivational mumbo jumbo and misty-eyed tales of inspiration and dedication. But for more than a decade, one organization has been tracking hundreds of thousands of kids, and looking at why some teachers can move them three grade levels [...]
Welcome to this 14th annual selection of a few of the year’s most over-hyped and underreported stories. With the news business, especially newspapers, undergoing a not-very-slow collapse (R.I.P. Post-Intelligencer), and hard news coverage usually the first victim of tightening budgets, there was more underreported news than ever this year. Fear not, however. America’s addiction to trivial [...]
This has got to be the quote of the day, if not week, month or year. Kim Barrett Johnson on Facebook referring to Rush Limbaugh’s claim, “exercise freaks … are the ones putting stress on the health care system.”
by TOVIA SMITH | NPR | December 22, 2009 It’s been taught to generations that “it is more blessed to give than to receive.” But how blessed is it when you give in order to receive? This time of year, charity is everywhere: Starbucks is helping to fight AIDS in Africa. Macy’s is giving to [...]
By STEPHEN HOLDEN | The New York Times | December 18, 2009 IS it coincidence that “Up in the Air” and “The Messenger” — the two films that best captured a sense of what it was really like to live in the United States the year the bottom almost fell out — focus on men [...]
Cartoonist Group | By Joel Pett