The New York Times reports that the Evolution biology subject has disappeared from a list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students. The Education department has described this as a Clerical Mistake but others are skeptical about this. ‘Scientists who knew about the omission also said [...]
Science has just named its top breakthrough for 2005.
EVOLUTION IN ACTION!
It’s based on all of the remarkable advances in evolution in 2005, such as the comparison of the human and chimpanzee genomes, which just happens to have been featured in the Kitzmiller trial.
The full issue is available at the Science Magazine site.
On Tuesday, the most serious hack demonstration to date took place in Leon County. Supervisor of elections Ion Sancho has announced that he will never again use Diebold in an election.
Correct results should have been: Yes:2 ; No:6
However, just as Hursti had planned, the results tape read: Yes:7 ; No:1
The results were then uploaded from [...]
26 Nov
- The Politics entry posted on November 26th, 2005.
Found this very interesting via MeFi:
Don’t Bomb Us. In response to credible reports that Bush wanted to bomb al-Jazeera’s HQ in allied Qatar (discussed here and here on MeFi), Al Jazeera staffers start their own English-language blog. Their site contains remembrances of their fallen colleagues, firsthand accounts of US attacks on their offices, links to [...]
Interesting links and stuff:
London on Technorati
London on Flickr
London Bomb Blasts
Metroblogging London
Google News
CNN Timeline
WikiNews
Wikipedia Entry
London Transport Site
Bomb Locations on Google Maps
28 Jun
- The Politics entry posted on June 28th, 2005.
Direct democracy doesn’t scale, but representative democracies lose touch with the public. What to do? “Societal-Scale Decision-Making Using Social Networks“, by Marko Antonio Rodriguez and Daniel Joshua Steinbock, suggests an intriguing possibility based on social networks. Instead of voting for preselected candidates, you assign voting power to whoever you trust - dividing it among several [...]
As I told the author of CSSImport in my email about this subject, while I can appreciate good design and hard work, I see links as endorsements. The distortions in the articles on Awaken America are rather unbelievable.
