NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
It was only a year ago that liberal elites in Washington were shoveling dirt on conservatism. James Carville was writing boastful books about 40 years of Democrat dominance, boasting in his typical way that he could call "time of death" on the Republican Party. Liberals believed their hype that Barack Obama would be that black FDR they pictured on the cover of Time magazine. Now newspaper...
MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Target Corp. said Tuesday it was pulling its Valentine’s Day “Message Bears” from store shelves after California’s attorney general raised concerns that the toys have illegal levels of lead.
FuturePundit (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The hope in some circles was that urbanization would decrease pressures on forests. A new study finds that urbanization does not help prevent loss of forests. The drivers of tropical deforestation have shifted in the early 21st century to hinge on growth of cities and the globalized agricultural trade, a new large-scale study concludes. The observations starkly reverse assumptions by some scientists...
Deltoid (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
As well as Monckton Media Watch also looked at the way Jamie Walker passed off his opinioin piece about the Great Barrier Reef as a straight news story. John Bruno dissects Walker's response. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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The space shuttle Endeavour docked with the international space station at 12:06 a.m. ET Wednesday, completing a three-day orbital chase.
Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
At least in my book. How to split up the US . The author took social networking data and split up the United States into clusters. Here's the map: Clicking through you can find the top fan pages of various nations . I noticed Megan Fox came up high on a list of many. She's #8 in Pakistan, and #2 in India. #7 in England. #6 in Saudi Arabia! Isn't that haram ? #1 in Canada, #2 in Australia, #6 in USA...
FuturePundit (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
38 percent of world's surface in danger of desertification. "Despite improvements in the LCA, it has a methodological weakness, which is a lack of environmental impact categories to measure the effect of human activities such as cultivation or grazing on the soil", Montserrat Núñez, lead author and a researcher at the Institute of Agro Food Research and Technology (IRTA), tells...
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Not looking so good for isoflavone benefits. AMES, Iowa -- A previous six-month study by Iowa State University researchers had indicated that consuming modest amounts of soy protein, rich in isoflavones, lessened lumbar spine bone loss in midlife, perimenopausal women. But now an expanded three-year study by some of those same researchers does not show a bone-sparing effect in postmenopausal women...
Respectful Insolence (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Remember how I've been following the story of two Texas nurses who were fired and prosecuted on trumped up charges, first in September and then a couple of days ago as the case went to trial? Of course you do. I made it very, very plain that I view this malicious prosecution to be a horrific miscarriage of justice that will have a potentially grave chilling effect on nurses who witness physician misconduct...
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
"hockey stick" chart indicating global warming trends the desmog blog brings us news that a previous "independent" take down of the famous "hockey stick" chart of global warming (via tree rings) turns out to be not so independent: the purportedly independent report that dr. edward wegman prepared in 2006 for the congressional committee on energy and commerce was actually...
MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The second wife of former suburban Chicago police sergeant Drew Peterson testifies at a pretrial hearing that he said he could kill her and make it look like an accident.
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Issues such as redundancies, parenting and poverty often hit the headlines -- but the crucial research behind the stories rarely gets the same attention. Without the work of social scientists policymakers would not have the necessary research evidence to back up new policies. At a Whitehall event on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Economic and Social Research Council...
Abduzeedo by design - (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
It's always a good surprise when you go at google.com search for something and you get to see another great Google custom logo. This past year was a true treasure chest, full of great designs, and I bet this year will also be a great year for these custom logos. The guys behind these are making their best to keep thinking outside the box... <!--break--> ... Very different from the first 5 or...
Deltoid (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Andrew Bolt has written a post where he pretends that comments made by Andrew Lacis about the first order draft of the summary of chapter 9 of AR4 WG1 are actually aboout the published report. Andrew Revkin asked Lacis what he thought about the published report: "The revised chapter was much improved," he said. "That's different than saying everything in there is nailed down, but I...
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shailenshpek | yesterday
NEW YORK – Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli (ahn-DRAY'-uh boh-CHEL'-ee) will perform Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" during a fundraising segment for Haiti relief at this year's Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy said Wednesday the duet will be available for download at iTunes.com/Target following the show, with all proceeds going to the American Red Cross to benefit earthquake...
raimy6p335 | yesterday
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) –Organizers for last week's "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, backed by George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean, on Monday raised the estimated amount of money it raised to more than $61 million, to date. The two-hour telethon, which aired Friday, drew an average audience of 24 million viewers in the United States to watch celebrities performing, telling tales of heroism...
ryderu0975 | yesterday
LOS ANGELES – John Travolta is flying to Haiti with earthquake relief. The 55-year-old actor and avid pilot plans to fly one of his private jets from Florida to Haiti on Monday night, according to Travolta's spokesman, Paul Bloch. The "Pulp Fiction" star will be joined by his actress-wife Kelly Preston, several doctors and Church of Scientology ministers, as well as relief supplies. Travolta and Preston...
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