One of my favorite books ever is Spent: Sex, Evolution and Consumer Behavior, by Geoffrey Miller (2009). I have lately been interested in trying to locate lower level personality differences that are predictive of political attitudes, and Miller offers such an analysis in chapter 9. To begin the chapter, Miller…
Did you see snow recently? No, not with your eyes, but with an electron microscope (and see here). Or with a photomicroscope.
I spotted this video featuring lots of trick pool shots. I barely know how to shoot pool, and I didn't know you could make these sorts of shots.
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Here's a good source for information about whistleblowers: Whistleblowers Protection Blog.
Established in 1988, the National Whistleblower Legal Defense and Education Fund (“the Fund”) is a non-profit public interest law firm that works in conjunction with the National Whistleblower Center. The attorneys for the Fund represent employee whistleblowers who have reported malfeasance in private corporations and government agencies.
You don't see many of these Guantanamo exit interviews in the American media. This particular story about a man named Saad Iqbal Madni was published by a website called The World Can't Wait. The way he was treated by American officials is despicable. We desperately need to make sure that the story of American torture at Guantanamo, and elsewhere is fully told, and that it never happens again. If you are a United States Citizen, this activity was done in your name.