From today’s Washington Post:
Paul Krugman, a Princeton economics professor and New York Times op-ed columnist, won the Nobel Prize in economics today for his theory on how economics of scale shape international trade.
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In its announcement, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said, “Traditional trade theory assumes that countries are different and explains why some countries [...]
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Obama To Media: “Back Off” Palin Pregnancy
Published by September 1st, 2008 in Election 2008 and News. 0 CommentsObama To Media: "Back Off" Palin Pregnancy: “‘Let me be a clear as possible: I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people’s families are off limits,’ Obama said, ‘and people’s children are especially off limits.
‘This shouldn’t be part of our politics,’ he continued, ‘It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance [...]
Bill Moyers explains why:
Our media institutions, deeply embedded in the power structures of society, are not providing the information that we need to make our democracy work. To put it another way, corporate media consolidation is a corrosive social force. It robs people of their voice in public affairs and pollutes the political culture. And [...]
There really is magic in those mushrooms
Published by July 1st, 2008 in Miscellaneous, News and Technology. 0 CommentsFor years I have believed that everyone should experience, at least once, a full fledged mushroom trip. A 2006 study shows that the long term effects of such a trip are both profound and positive.
From Wired magazine:
For the 2006 study, Griffiths recruited 36 people who hadn’t previously taken the drug. Six were given a ritalin [...]
Happy Birthday to the Man who should be President
Published by March 31st, 2008 in News and Politics. 0 CommentsAl Gore turned 60 today and kicked off a new campaign to cool the planet.
The Alliance for Climate Protection’s “we” campaign will employ online organizing and television advertisements on shows ranging from “American Idol” to “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” It highlights the extent to which Americans’ growing awareness of global warming has yet [...]
The Center for Public Integrity has a project which created a database which documents the lies which led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
935 comments from 8 top administration officials including President George W. Bush are documented in the story:
On at least 532 separate occasions (in speeches, briefings, interviews, testimony, and the like), Bush and [...]
“As the mortgage market has become more segmented and as risk has become more dispersed, market discipline has in some cases broken down and the incentives to follow prudent lending procedures have, at times, eroded.”
– Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, December 18, 2007
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Yet Another Republican Who is “Not Gay!”
Published by October 31st, 2007 in News and Politics. 0 CommentsSPOKANE, Wash. - A Republican state legislator from southwest Washington had sex with a man he met at an erotic video store and then told police he had been targeted in an extortion attempt, according to police documents released Tuesday.
State Rep. Richard Curtis, R-La Center, who on Monday declared, “I have not had sex with [...]
From Reuters:
Afghanistan produced 93 percent of the world’s opium in 2007, up from 92 percent last year, the annual UNODC report said.
“No other country has produced narcotics on such a deadly scale since China in the 19th century,” a UNODC statement said.
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Fuel for 9/11 Conspiracists
Published by August 22nd, 2007 in Iraq, Middle East, News and al Qaeda. 1 CommentI have been thinking about yesterday’s article in the New York Times about the company responsible for the current demolition project at the Deutsche Bank building in NYC.
First, a little background on the Deutsche Bank building. This building was originally damaged during the events of 9/11/2001 and is currently being deconstructed/demolished. Just a [...]
