March 2010
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Independent Journalism: Send Ted Rall Back to...
“Now that the war in Afghanistan is a hot topic in the American press, I would like to return—to see what has changed and how life is going for Afghans, especially those in the remote provinces in the southwest where Western reporters never venture. I would like to report on the situation in comic and essay form, and compile the results in a book that would be a follow-up to “To...
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Why I would make a great Pope:
rstevens:
Dress the same every day
Don’t listen to other people
Believe stupid paranormal bullshit
Look good in a hat
Aspire to supervillainy
if only I didn’t respect women, this would be a done deal.
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“Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you...”
– Wangari Muta Maathai
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Possible new human ancestor found in Siberia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Genetic material pulled from a pinky finger bone found in a Siberian cave shows a new and unknown type of pre-human lived alongside modern humans and Neanderthals, scientists reported on Wednesday.
The creature, nicknamed “Woman X” for the time being, could have lived as recently as 30,000 years ago and appears only distantly related to modern humans or...
dream with me a second
rstevens:
Of a world where Joe Biden hosts The Price is Right for a week.
I’d buy two TVs.
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Tebow's Prayer Request Denied
“At the Scouting Combine, the Wonderlic exam is administered to players in groups. The 12-minute test is preceded by some brief instructions and comments from the person administering the test. Per a league source, after the person administering the test to Tebow’s group had finished, Tebow made a request that the players bow their heads in prayer before taking the 50-question exam....
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The Asteroid Belt
Steven Cloud: why doesn't the asteroid belt coalesce?
Cananopie: I noticed that the orbits between Mars and Jupiter (where the asteroid belt is) looks as though there ought to be a planet there instead of the asteroid belt. Has it ever been considered that the asteroid belt was maybe a destroyed planet?
The Answer
Thank you for your question! The fact that the asteroid belt has such a well-defined, high concentration of asteroids suggests two things. One, that they are fragments of a planet that broke-up long ago, or two, that they are rocks that never managed to accumulate into a genuine planet. Currently, scientists tend to favor the latter explanation. According to Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan, the authors of the text book "Astronomy Today", 1993 edition, "There is far too little mass in the belt to constitute a planet, and the marked chemical differences between individual asteroids strongly suggest that the asteroids could not all have originated in a single planet. Instead, astronomers believe that the strong gravitational field of Jupiter continuously disturbs the motions of these chunks of primitive matter, nudging and pulling at them, thereby prohibiting them from aggregating into a planet. The existence and composition of the asteroid belt joins the general properties of the planets and their moons on our list of features that any theory of solar system formation must explain."
- NASA
Steven Cloud: fucking nasa
Cananopie: The culmination of humanity prior to our generation just winced with what ease I found the information
Steven Cloud: haha
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Peter Watts may serve two years for failing to...
“If you don’t comply fast enough with a customs officer, he can beat you, gas you, jail you and then imprison you for two years. This isn’t about safety, it isn’t about security, it isn’t about the rule of law.
It’s about obedience.
Authoritarianism is a disease of the mind. It criminalizes the act of asking “why?” It is the obedience-sickness that...
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"Enemy Belligerent" Act Could Set U.S. on Path to...
The bill is only 12 pages long, but that is plenty of room to grant the president the power to order the arrest, interrogation, and imprisonment of anyone — including a U.S. citizen — indefinitely, on the sole suspicion that he or she is affiliated with terrorism, and on the president’s sole authority as commander in chief. (Via AlterNet)
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c4ndice asked: I dont really have to ask anything... but I just saw your name on a list and well, my dad's name is Steven Cloud!
Universal health care tends to cut the abortion... →
buchino:
In Britain, only 8 percent of the population is Catholic (compared with 25 percent in the United States). Abortion there is legal. Abortion is free. And yet British women have fewer abortions than Americans do. I asked Cardinal Hume why that is.
The cardinal said that there were several reasons but that one important explanation was Britain’s universal health-care system. “If that...
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
– Voltaire
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WatchAmazing video: “Discovering a whole tiny world in my father’s small garden.”
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reneengstrom asked: Good morning, Steven
I'd like to know if you are the Keith Jarrett penis manager
I'd like to know if you are the Keith Jarrett penis manager
Anonymous asked: Good morning
I'd like to know if you are the Keith Jarrett pianist manager
I'd like to know if you are the Keith Jarrett pianist manager
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Pijohos: saw a dude in a prius throw an ipod out of his window Pijojos: it was DIVINE Steven Cloud: wow, if you could have taken a picture… that would be our generation’s ‘dust bowl mom’ picture
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Science Proves Sharing Works
“Good acts — acts of kindness, generosity and cooperation — spread just as easily as bad. And it takes only a handful of individuals to really make a difference.” (Via Science Daily)
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WatchRecord Makers Promo - Mrzyk & Moriceau
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Free will is an illusion, biologist says
I had no choice but to post a link to this article.
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You May Already Be An Anarchist
“It’s true. If your idea of healthy human relations is a dinner with friends, where everyone enjoys everyone else’s company, responsibilities are divided up voluntarily and informally, and no one gives orders or sells anything, then you are an anarchist, plain and simple. The only question that remains is how you can arrange for more of your interactions to resemble this model.”...
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Evolution Yakety Sax
In 1971, biologists moved five adult pairs of Italian wall lizards from their home island of Pod Kopiste, in the South Adriatic Sea, to the neighboring island of Pod Mrcaru. Now, an international team of researchers has shown that introducing these small, green-backed lizards, Podarcis sicula, to a new environment caused them to undergo rapid and large-scale evolutionary changes. Read More.
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