- Culture Forecast: May 20 - May 26Read More... More on On Our Radar […]
- Should Healthy Adults Over 50 Take Statins?By Melinda Wenner Moyer(Click here for the original article)Everyone over 50 should take statins to lower their cholesterol, an editorial argued last week in The Lancet. The piece based its recommendation on a meta-analysis of 27 clinical trials published in the same issue that concluded statins significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and other cardio […]
- WATCH LIVE: TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2012TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2012 kicked off on Monday morning. Click the link below to check out live video of the conference.Read More... […]
- Jamming Tripoli: Inside Gaddafi's Secret Surveillance NetworkHe once was known as al-Jamil—the Handsome One—for his chiseled features and dark curls. But four decades as dictator had considerably dimmed the looks of Moammar Gadhafi. At 68, he now wore a face lined with deep folds, and his lips hung slack, crested with a sparse mustache. When he stepped from the shadows of his presidential palace to greet Ghaida al-Taw […]
- Four Tons Of Marijuana Pulled From OceanAfter receiving a tip yesterday, Harbor Patrol agents in California pulled about 160 bales of marijuana from the ocean off the coast of Orange County.That's more than 7,263 pounds, and agents say the street value is $3.6 million.Read More... More on Crime […]
- Zimbabwe Denies Claims Of State-Sponsored Violence Against GaysHARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe's justice minister rejected allegations that the country has state sponsored violence and he vowed not to recognize gay rights after meeting with the U.N. human rights chief on Monday.Patrick Chinamasa said he told U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay that Zimbabwe will arrest same sex partners found committin […]
- Ex-Sri Lankan army chief leaves prisonSarath Fonseka walks free after pardon by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, his former main political rival. […]
- Al-Qaeda claims deadly Yemen suicide blastBomber targets soldiers in central Sanaa on the eve of National Day, killing at least 96 people and injuring many more. […]
- Everest expeditions claim livesNepalese sources say four climbers - from Germany, South Korea, China and Canada - died while returning from the summit. […]
- Kurdish oil deal stirs Iraqi tensionsAutonomous region's oil minister outlines plans to export oil and gas to Turkey, increasing tensions with Baghdad. […]
- Deadly violence flares in BeirutAt least two killed in overnight street battles amid fears that Syrian conflict is spilling across border into Lebanon. […]
- Protesters clash with police at NATO summitDozens arrested and reports of injuries as anti-war demonstrators rally on fringes of world leaders' meeting in Chicago. […]
- John Abraham Responds To Christopher Monckton At The Yale Forum On Climate Change & The MediaA Minnesota engineering professor takes aim at what he considers vacuous arguments and what constitutes proper handling of a series of online comments and jags going beyond the point of fair and serious commentary and analysis. by John Abraham, via the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media A recent posting on The Yale […]
- Julian Bond: Obama Gave ‘Permission’ For Others To Embrace Marriage EqualityOn Saturday, former NAACP chairman Julian Bond spoke out about the organization’s embrace of marriage equality. He argued that President Obama brought the issue “to the fore… in effect giving people permission to talk about it and to think about it in ways they had not.” Bond was unconcerned that support for the President or […]
- Report: 101 People Sentenced To Die Were Later ExoneratedA new report by the National Registry of Exonerations, a joint project of Michigan and Northwestern law schools, chronicles over 2000 cases where a person convicted of a crime was later exonerated between 1989 and 2012. More than half of these exonerated persons “were cleared since 1995 in 13 ‘group exonerations,’ that occurred after it […]
- Dan Harmon Ousted From ‘Community’Friday night newsbombs are a well-known and favored sneak attack strategy, but Sony Pictures Television outdid themselves this time by announcing Dan Harmon was fired from Community before he even knew about it, though there had been rumblings in the air over the last week. The showrunner and creator’s Tumblr post in response to the […]
- Human Rights Group Accuses Egyptian Army Of TortureThe New York-based group Human Rights Watch said in a statement that Egypt’s army beat and tortured demonstrators outside of the Ministry of Defense in Cairo earlier this month. The protesters, who objected to the disqualification of an Islamist presidential candidate, told HRW the army “beat us with sticks, kicked us and punched us.” They […]
- Ukraine Pride Obstructed By Violent Counter-ProtestJust 30 minutes before LGBT activists were about to embark on Ukraine’s first-ever pride parade, Kiev police advised organizers to abandon the march. They claimed that 500 ultra-conservative counter-protesters with seemingly violent intent were en route to interrupt the celebration. Amnesty International’s Ukraine campaigner, Max Tucker, explained that the K […]
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- Upside Comics: UK charity that uses comics to promote literacyThis weekend, I took my daughter to the Kapow! comics fair in Islington, London, and happened on the Upside Comics booth. Upside is a charitable trust that promotes literacy using comics. They run comics-creation workshops for kids, produce pro-literacy comics, and bibliographies of great kids' comics. They're looking for donations of comics and gr […]
- Free edu-comic about genomics and stem cells, written by Ken MacleodKen Macleod and the European stem cell research consortium OptiStem have produced a CC-licensed educational comic about genomics called "Hope Beyond Hype." It's available as a free download, or as a &gbp;1 hardcopy, with translations to follow in many languages. 'starts with the true life story of two badly burned boys being treated w […]
- Did the Kansas legislature just accidentally prevent itself from banning gay marriage?Read the text of the "anti-Sharia" bill that passed in the Kansas state legislature last week. I'm no legal scholar, but it sure does seem like you could use this to make a case that it's now illegal to ban gay marriage in the state of Kansas. If so, that would be an amusing bit […]
- Overjoyed frog gives unicorn chaser a run for its moneyPhotographer Joel Sartore has been shooting nature for 20 years—long enough to amass a great collection of images you can check out at the New York Times. “The whole point of this project is to really be able to look these creatures in the eye and get to know them,” he said. The animals are […]
- Inside the world's most-studied forestI'm currently attending the Marine Biological Laboratory's 10-day science journalism fellowship. As part of that, I get to do some hands-on science experiments and get a better perspective on how the work of science is done and how data is collected. Along with five other fellows, I spent last weekend collecting A LOT of data […]
- How past land use affects the current landscapeDo you see how the ground level is higher on the left-hand side of this photo? To the right of the stone wall, the ground distinctly drops by a foot or more. That wall is more than 200 years old. It marks the border between what was once a plowed field (on the left) and […]
- ControlAs the months of unemployment pile up, a life once defined by order and security has become wracked with uncertainty. […]
- Entitlement Reform For the EntitledThe richer you are, the older you should have to be to collect Social Security and Medicare benefits. […]
- Westward, Ho!In the midst of war, Lincoln approved the Homestead Act, opening vast tracts of the country to settlement. […]
- Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1He was one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 20th century, but few people consider him a thinker. That would be a mistake. […]
- Andrew Johnson's Difficult TaskHow the Union's first military governor dealt with his unruly charge, the state of Tennessee. […]
- Wild Ponies and Wild WeatherWhen a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, I worry about the wild ponies on Assateague Island. […]