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22. February, 2010
"I DO not love Congress," Evan Bayh said last week, announcing that he will leave the Senate in January. I can agree, having served in the Senate from 1999 through 2006, that there are a lot of reasons not to love Congress.
19. February, 2010
The notion that randomness is bad is an aesthetic one, and appropriate to games characterized a spartan commitment to pure strategy; but that is only one valid aesthetic lens.
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10. February, 2010
Although lots of urban churches worry about those issues, the ones that can write a $1 billion check are rare.
9. February, 2010
Yes, they affirm a woman's right to choose whether or not to carry her pregnancy to term. But... something dies, something that, ten weeks into the pregnancy, has hands and a face. They're uncertain about just what that something is. And from that uncertainty arises moral anxiety.
3. February, 2010
"Securing the viability of the bridge is testament to the natural preservative qualities of sugar."
2. February, 2010
Yesterday is regrettable, tomorrow still hypothetical. But you can always listen to your body, and seize today with both hands. [Thanks, Ashley!]
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22. January, 2010
The immediate reason the word Negro is on the Census is simple enough: in the 2000 Census, more than 56,000 people wrote in Negro to describe their identity — even though it was already on the form. Some people, it seems, still strongly identify with the term, which used to be a perfectly polite designation.
21. January, 2010
Forget Tuesday and the state of Massachusetts, we have less than nine months to determine the fate of Narragansett and South Kingstown. where's the warpaint when I need it?
It's Opposite Day in Washington, as McCain's wife and daughter endorse marriage equality, while Obama's administration continues to defend DOMA.
Probiotic treatments can relieve IBD symptoms. Or you could just eat apples and that special yoghurt.
17. January, 2010
"The history of every political establishment in which this principle has prevailed is a history of impotence, perplexity and disorder." -- why the filibuster and supermajorities in the Senate are unconstitutional.
16. January, 2010
This case is about marriage and equality. Plaintiffs are being denied both the right to marry, and the right to equality under the law.
Patients with artherosclerosis, diabetes, Down's Syndrome, and Alzheimer's aren't just very unlucky. These may all be symptoms of the same disease, caused by an amyloid protein that disrupts normal cell chemistry.
11. January, 2010
Religious faiths -- Christian, Buddhist, Zoroastrian -- generally make claims about the nature of reality that conflict with the claims of other faiths. Attacking Christian religious exclusivity is to attack nearly every vital religious tradition. It is not a scandal to believers that others hold differing beliefs. It is only a scandal to those offended by all belief.
10. January, 2010
9. January, 2010
Here's the first thing you should know: The general had nothing to do with his chicken
8. January, 2010
Spooky coincidence, or mere coincidence? Ancient "golden ratio" of geometry and art just happens to exactly match nanoscale magnetic quantum resonance symmetry. This may be less of a "wow" moment and more of a "whoa" moment.
7. January, 2010
Newspapers are gonna have to think, "Okay, what can we do uniquely well? What are we gonna give you that can't be had anywhere else?"[Thanks, Ashley!]
The gradual devastation of the Amazon—the felling of thousands of square miles of forest, the clear-cutting of the jungle—has produced, paradoxically, one of the greatest archeological discoveries: a vast and complex ancient civilization.
5. January, 2010
It looks like Abraham Lincoln. It moves like Abraham Lincoln. And it quotes Abraham Lincoln. But historians say it still doesn't sound like Abraham Lincoln.