Archive for November, 2008
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Friday, November 28th, 2008I, for one, welcome my new alien overlords. Creepy, but very cool.
Bush to be Remembered for Helping Iraqis, Hurting Americans
Friday, November 28th, 2008It’s really too bad when an American President considers as one of his principal achievements something “he” did for the people of another country: “I’d like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace,” Bush told his sister, Dorothy Bush Koch, in a conversation recorded for the [...]
Happy Thanksgiving! Eat Too Much!
Thursday, November 27th, 2008Happy Thanksgiving! On this other most American of holidays, I refer you to the Ayn Rand Institute: Thanksgiving celebrates man’s ability to produce. The cornucopia filled with exotic flowers and delicious fruits, the savory turkey with aromatic trimmings, the mouth-watering pies, the colorful decorations — it’s all a testament to the creation of wealth. Thanksgiving [...]
Anti-Aging Drugs – Just What the Doctor Ordered?
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008Very cool: Early but intriguing research on mice suggests a new mechanism of aging, and possibly a way to stall it. Drugs designed to target one aspect of aging also seem to help repair DNA damage and regulate gene activity, preventing them from going haywire with the stresses of time. “In principle, we now could [...]
Momma Bear and Momma Bear
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008But, they should still be able to get married: Puzzled Japanese zookeepers have cleared up a mystery over a lack of chemistry between a couple of polar bears as both turn out to be female, a Japanese zoo said Wednesday. Tsuyoshi, a four-year-old “male” polar bear, and his 11-year-old female partner, Kurumi, have been living [...]
Mark Cuban Misses the Principle Again: Cable vs. the FCC
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008Again, Mark Cuban’s a smart guy, but again he misses the principle: You may not know it, but the cable industry is fighting a battle for the future of the internet. In the grand scheme of things, I think both the FCC and the Cable and Satellite industries want to see the internet thrive. In [...]
Indian Navy Sinks Fishing Trawler, Army Targeting Carpool Lanes
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008Oops: The ship that an Indian navy frigate sank last week was not the pirate “mother ship”, as first claimed, but was actually the hijacked ship itself, U.S. military sources told NBC News Tuesday. The report contradicts earlier claims made by the Indian navy, which said its frigate fired in “self-defense” at a pirate ship [...]
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