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Comment is free: Wily Clinton exposes Obama's innocence
Seeded on Tue Aug 7, 2007 12:52 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
If Barack Obama wants to be taken seriously on foreign policy, he needs to learn some new tricks, and a few old ones too.
Nation & World | Outsourcing the elderly: Low-cost care, made in India | Seattle Times Newspaper
Seeded on Mon Aug 6, 2007 3:11 PM EDT (The Seattle Times)
After three years of caring for his increasingly frail mother and father in their Florida retirement home, and faced with spending his family's last resources to put the couple in an affordable nursing home, Steve Herzfeld "outsourced" his parents to India.
Indian law on generic drugs is upheld - International Herald Tribune
Seeded on Mon Aug 6, 2007 2:11 PM EDT (International Herald Tribune)
Indian drug companies will be free to continue making cheap generic drugs, increasing the flow of affordable drugs to patients in the developing world, after a seminal challenge to patent laws in India was rejected by the High Court in Madras on Monday.
The iPhone is a piece of @!$%#, and so is your face.
Seeded on Fri Aug 3, 2007 4:18 PM EDT (thebestpageintheuniverse.net)
An unbiased review of the iPhone.
Intel Opens Up Multicore Development Library
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 5:59 PM EDT (hpcwire.com)
Intel announced it was making its Threading Building Blocks (TBB) template library available to the open source community under the GNU General Public License.
Technology Review: Simpler Programming for Multicore Computers
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 5:55 PM EDT (EW.com)
New multicore machines are basically small-scale supercomputers, and in order to take full advantage of the computing power they offer, software must be written with multiple cores in mind--a time-consuming and difficult task.
The Porn Myth - Naomi Wolf - Cover Story
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 2:19 PM EDT (New York Magazine)
In the end, porn doesn't whet men's appetites—it turns them off the real thing.
Retired General Is Reprimanded in Tillman Case - New York Times
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 12:18 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Lieutenant General Philip Kensinger failed to follow procedures requiring him to notify the Tillman family and top officials about the investigation into the possibility of friendly fire and then lied to two sets of investigators about when he knew that Corporal Tillman's death …
The Subconcious Brain - Who's Minding the Mind? - New York Times
Seeded on Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:11 PM EDT (The New York Times)
New studies reveal a subconscious brain that is far more active, purposeful and independent than previously known.
Emotional recall is in your genes - health - 29 July 2007 - New Scientist
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:49 PM EDT (New Scientist)
Your ability to recall emotional events – such as meeting the love of your life, or the trauma of a painful car crash – is governed by a common variation in a single gene, according to a new study.
Basketbawful: Word of the Day: The Stern Button
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:28 PM EDT (basketbawful.blogspot.com)
The Stern Button (thuh sturn but'-n) noun. A device that is used to instruct NBA officials -- possibly via small bursts of electric shock -- when to make a call and when to swallow the whistle.
What Finnish Grandmothers Reveal about Human Evolution: Scientific American
Seeded on Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:05 PM EDT (Sciam)
Biologist Virpi Lummaa of the University of Sheffield in England, aided by genealogists, has pored through centuries-old tomes (and microfiche) for birth, marriage and death records, which ended up providing glimpses of evolution at work in humanity's recent ancestors.
Alarm over Indian glacier's hasty retreat - International Herald Tribune
Seeded on Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:28 PM EDT (International Herald Tribune)
Indian glaciers are among the least studied in the world, but a nascent research offers a snapshot of the consequences of global warming.
Stock markets rise and fall according to a new world pecking order - International Herald Tribune
Seeded on Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:51 PM EDT (International Herald Tribune)
A look at world stock market movements since the February plunge shows that major markets now tend to move more in line with each other than ever before, reflecting the dominance of global companies.
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