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Haiti's Political and Economic Earthquake

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.

Jewish group warns Israei officials at risk for civil suits

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.

Call for 'fundamental rethink' of value of work

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.

The 6 Weirdest, Scariest Processed Foods

Once upon a time, some brave scientists had a noble dream of ridding our food of the plague of nutrients.

UK diplomat: US was 'hell bent' on Iraq invasion

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.

Top 10 uses for "Going Rogue"

You have found/run over a copy of Sarah Palin's "book." Now what?

Kirk Cameron's Crusade To Crush Evolution As Silly As It Sounds

Former TV teen idol Kirk Cameron has been on a crusade for years to discredit the theory of evolution.

Norwegian scientists raise concerns about mutated form of swine flu - washingtonpost.com

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.

Aspirin Kills 400% More People Than H1N1 Swine Flu

The July 1998 issue of The American Journal of Medicine explains it as follows:

Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020

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.

Fox News's Faux News

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".

The Evolution of the God Gene

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.

Humans 2.0: Replacing the Mind and Body

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 …

Why is There Peace? - Steven Pinker

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.

Why America is Flunking Science

Don't just blame poor education for our nation's scientific illiteracy -- but our politics and pop culture

Back to the Future

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  …

How to Make It in the Afterlife

I am writing from Athens, doing what might loosely be described as "work," with some rather bad news.

America, Land of the Irrational

Americans pride themselves on being scientifically sophisticated, and on living in the age of science.

Right-Wing Violence Is Very Real and Very Dangerous

In light of the shootings at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C.

Military Burns Unsolicited Bibles Sent To Afghanistan

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.

10 Things You Need to Know NOW About ... Windows 7

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.

As Smash-and-Grab Capitalism Collapses, the French Economy Shines

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  …

These God Pundits Can Give You a Splitting Headache

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).

Physicists Take First Steps to Harness Antimatter

"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.

Swine Flu Is Evolution in Action

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.

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