Reminder for anyone interested: The National Conference for Media Reform - Minneapolis -- will occur June 6 - 8, 2008. Here's a short video created by the conference organizers. Here's an audio clip promoting the NCMR - 2008: ncmr-2008_30sec If you'd like to know more about the conference sessions or…
We all understand that Bush's 'economic stimulus' check is nothing more than an excuse for Washington politicians to try to buy your vote, just as Bush did so effectively in his 2000 campaign. The 'stimulus' has received bipartisan support, likely because incumbents on both sides of the aisle are concerned…
When "Iranian" weapons in Iraq turn out not to be Iranian, the White House is silent. That's what recently happened, based on this post at Crooks and Liars.
In the United States, the celebration of Mother's Day is kept alive mostly by the advertising of merchants. No one with a real stake in motherhood would trivialize motherhood by designating that it be recognized only one day each year. Today, a baby crow got blown out of a tree…
This computer animation was dramatic. I'd never seen anything like it. It is a lively model demonstrating how DNA is copied and how DNA is transcribed into RNA, among other things. These critical activities certainly need to zip along, given the total unraveled length of the DNA in each human…