This morning, as political and financial leaders from around the world convene at the World Economic Forum, one of the central issues under discussion will be a strategy for Haiti's recovery.
Four American Jewish groups are urging the US Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision that could lead to Israeli officials being slammed with civil lawsuits in the United States.
Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than city bankers, according to a new method of calculating the value of different jobs published today. The new economics foundation (nef) called for a "fundamental rethink" of how the value of work was recognised and rewarded.
Once upon a time, some brave scientists had a noble dream of ridding our food of the plague of nutrients.
LONDON – The United States was "hell bent" on a 2003 military invasion of Iraq and actively undermined efforts by Britain to win international authorization for the war, a former British diplomat told an inquiry Friday.
You have found/run over a copy of Sarah Palin's "book." Now what?
Former TV teen idol Kirk Cameron has been on a crusade for years to discredit the theory of evolution.
Scientists in Norway have identified a mutated form of the swine flu virus that is raising concern because it was found in two patients who died of the flu and a third who was severely ill with the disease, officials announced Friday.
The July 1998 issue of The American Journal of Medicine explains it as follows:
By the year 2020, you won't need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using nothing more than their brain waves.
It must be stated over and over again: the Fox News Channel is not a news channel. It's a Republican party propaganda channel. As such, its first amendment right to say whatever it likes ought to be protected, but not its "right" to call itself "news".
Religion has the hallmarks of an evolved behavior, meaning that it exists because it was favored by natural selection. It is universal because it was wired into our neural circuitry before the ancestral human population dispersed from its African homeland.
Recent breakthroughs in bionics and lab-grown body parts — along with news last month that a Swiss research team aims to recreate the intricacies of the human brain within a decade — show science is rapidly creating many of the parts needed to build a fully functional human a …
Over the past century, violent images from World War II concentration camps, Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Iraq, and many other times and places have been seared into our collective consciousness.
Don't just blame poor education for our nation's scientific illiteracy -- but our politics and pop culture
After eight years of doing research (in the words of the former NIH director), with one hand tied behind their backs, scientists now have ethical guidelines for embryonic stem cell research that will channel federal support to the science that makes the United States a leader in …
I am writing from Athens, doing what might loosely be described as "work," with some rather bad news.
Americans pride themselves on being scientifically sophisticated, and on living in the age of science.
In light of the shootings at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C.
Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday, CNN reported.
eWEEK Labs provides (almost) everything you need to know now about Windows 7, Microsoft's update to its client operating system—and what some are seeing as its Vista do-over.
Many in Britain and the United States are in mourning for what's taken as the suicide of the American (or Thatcherite, or Chicago-school) model of capitalism, accompanied by the non-interventionist state that hands the national economy over to business and financial leaders to …
I'm always on the lookout for religion's latest counter-arguments, the new rhetorical approaches that God People are constantly fine-tuning for use in pimping the righteousness of faith (and for demonstrating the moral dissoluteness of agnostics like myself).
"This morning, NASA successfully launched the world's first gamma ray shuttle to the galactic center of the Milky Way. Once there, geo-astronauts say they can mine and harvest enough raw antimatter to power Earth's energy needs for the next decade.
Anyone who thinks evolution is for the birds should not be afraid of swine flu. Because if there's no such thing as evolution, then there's no such thing as a new strain of swine flu infecting people.
This morning, as political and financial leaders from around the world convene at the World Economic Forum, one of the central issues under discussion will be a strategy for Haiti's recovery.
We've learned a lot of scary stuff about Massachusetts Senate candidate Scott Brown in the past 10 days.
Key aspects of the climate are changing faster than expected and if we stay on our current emissions path, we face catastrophe. In 2009, the scientific literature caught up with what top climate scientists have been saying privately for a few years now:
Center-Right Values, Principles, Ideology, Philosophy & Polices have failed and that the country is looking for a new direction.
While some people (who shall remain nameless) go about their day preaching hate and division there are good people, like CNN's medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, making a difference.
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Hamid!
MMMMM! Rebecca has been out browsing, I see...
She has to be at home! .....Eric needs her!......an I need a female presence in the house.
They adopted me you know.
MMMM.....So....keep the greetings brief !
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