By Andy Bloxham (Telegraph UK) The BBC has dropped a climate change episode from its wildlife series Frozen Planet to help the show sell better abroad. Frozen Planet, on BBC One, is the latest big budget series from the BBC’s Natural History Unit in Bristol, which was made in association with Discovery Channel and The [...]
November 15, 2011
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By Geneva Sands-Sadowitz (The Hill) Republican Rep. Allen West (Fla.) cited the movie “G.I. Jane” while defending the use of waterboarding as a military tactic Monday, saying the controversial practice has yielded useful intelligence.” “The president is the benefactor of a lot of information that came from waterboarding,” said West on Fox News. “Furthermore, in the [...]
November 15, 2011
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November 12, 2011
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By Curtis Cartier (Seattle Weekly) Feast your eyes on the Mini Piglet! This pressure-formed pig-shaped pork monstrosity is a revolution in culinary alliteration (looks and tastes like the animal it began as). And it’s on sale at Costco right now! via ‘Mini Piglet’ Is Costco’s Most Horrid Meat Abomination – Seattle News – The [...]
November 11, 2011
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By George Monbiot (The Guardian UK) The findings of the psychologist Daniel Kahneman, winner of a Nobel economics prize, are devastating to the beliefs that financial high-fliers entertain about themselves. He discovered that their apparent success is a cognitive illusion. For example, he studied the results achieved by 25 wealth advisers across eight years. He found [...]
November 9, 2011
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By Adele Stan, Nov 2, 2011 (AFL-CIO Now) In its fourth quarter earnings report released last week, Apple Computer revealed that 2/3 of its on-hand cash – some $54 billion — is squirreled away outside the boundaries of the United States, presumably to avoid paying its fair share of taxes. In the meantime, reports Students [...]
November 3, 2011
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BERLIN (AFP) – A cleaning woman at a German museum who mistook a sculpture for an unsightly mess has destroyed the valuable artwork beyond recognition, a spokeswoman for the western city of Dortmund said Thursday. The cleaner at the city’s Ostwall Museum went to work on the Martin Kippenberger installation titled When It Starts Dripping [...]
November 3, 2011
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By Simon Stern and Trudo Lemmens (The Scientist) In August, we proposed, in an article in PLoS Medicine, that medical “guest writers” might be sued for fraud. For some time, commentators have called for sanctions against academic doctors who agree to sign their names to articles that are planned and developed by medical writing companies and [...]
November 2, 2011
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By Joe Nocera (NY Times) On Friday, the law firm of Steven J. Baum threw a Halloween party. The firm, which is located near Buffalo, is what is commonly referred to as a “foreclosure mill” firm, meaning it represents banks and mortgage servicers as they attempt to foreclose on homeowners and evict them from their [...]
October 29, 2011
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