OpinionJournal - Climate of Fear
Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence.
BY RICHARD LINDZEN
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDTAlarm rather than genuine scientific curiosity, it appears, is essential to maintaining funding. And only the most senior scientists today can stand up against this alarmist gale, and defy the iron triangle of climate scientists, advocates and policymakers.
M. Lindzen is Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT.
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Duke exposed | Salon.com News
The rape allegations against the university’s lacrosse team have laid bare racial tensions in Durham, and united town and gown against the same target: The “privileged.”
TPM Muckraker April 10, 2006 05:18 PM (Printable Format)
AP: Phone Jamming Case Touches White House
The AP has a story this afternoon about James Tobin’s contacts with the White House around Election Day, 2002, the day that the New Hampshire GOP jammed the phones for Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts. Tobin was the RNC’s New England Regional Political Director at the time, and a key figure in orchestrating the jamming.
via Talking Points Memo
Pro-Life Nation - New York Times
Pro-Life Nation
By JACK HITT
Published: April 9, 2006
It was a sunny midafternoon in a shiny new global-economy mall in San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador, and a young woman I was hoping to meet appeared to be getting cold feet. She had agreed to rendezvous with a go-between not far from the Payless shoe store and then come to a nearby hotel to talk to me. She was an hour late. Alone in the hotel lobby, I was feeling nervous; I was stood up the day before by another woman in a similar situation. I had been warned that interviewing anyone who had had an abortion in El Salvador would be difficult. The problem was not simply that in this very Catholic country a shy 24-year-old unmarried woman might feel shame telling her story to an older man. There was also the criminal stigma. And this was why I had come to El Salvador: Abortion is a serious felony here for everyone involved, including the woman who has the abortion. Some young women are now serving prison sentences, a few as long as 30 years.
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The Chronicle: Daily news: 04/07/2006 — 04
When scientists perceive injustice in their workplace, particularly regarding how rewards are distributed, they are more likely to compromise their integrity, the researchers found.
What’s more, the correlation is stronger for scientists whose “scientific identity is vulnerable,” Mr. De Vries said. Younger researchers and women in male-dominated fields were more likely to respond to perceived injustices by cutting corners.
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Squidoo : Top 100 List
Really cool site with organic, user-created content. Similar to google base?
Libby Claimed Bush Authorized Plamegate Leak - April 6, 2006
APRIL 6–A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal grand jury that President George W. Bush authorized him to leak information from a classified intelligence report to a New York Times reporter. Details of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s testimony were included in a court filing made yesterday by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who is prosecuting Libby for perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements in connection with the probe into the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity.
via The Smoking Gun
Funny how these things disappear from our radar only to pop back up again (or not)…
Wow. This is just stunning!!! Now I have something to do this summer!!!!
SpokePOV: LED Bike Wheel Images
Spoke POV is an easy-to-make electronic kit toy that turns your bicycle wheel into a customized display! The project includes a free schematic design, open source software for uploading and editing stored bitmap images, and a high-quality kit with all the parts necessary to build your own.
Tired: A red blinker on your seatpost
Wired: Programmable full-wheel images in any color
via Make originally…
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