So What’s In Your Water?
The Pentagon’s Toxic Legacy
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR and JOSHUA FRANK
The nation’s biggest polluter isn’t a corporation. It’s the Pentagon. Every year the Department of Defense churns out more than 750,000 tons of hazardous waste — more than the top three chemical companies combined.
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Today’s comments show a massive avalanche from an Indian source, burying the other comments: here Hucklebird
and SK
Sillykitty comment.
I was grateful for your audacious comment, which deserves some thought, but I do have to make one objection:
you wandering around for long period of time–fakir! yes, of course. it is a normal reaction to having had a psychotic break, or breaks
.
You are describing your own experience, not mine. At no point did I suffer a psychotic break of any kind. In fact that moment was one of the most cold-bloodedly rational of my life. Read the rest of this entry »
Maybe I should join. Sciencebloggers are confused on evolutionary science, and the ’science of history’.
Boycott Beijing
The Olympics are the perfect place for a protest.
By Anne Applebaum
A boycott would, for me, almost be an involuntary reflex, effective immediately, like freezing in your tracks. I couldn’t even turn on to a TV channel to the Olympics after the recent news from Tibet.
Cocacola et al. should have thought of that before hand.
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Caveat Venditor
The Imperial Branding of Simon Bolivar and the Cuban Revolution
By NELSON P. VALDÉS
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Human Evolution: The Few, the Proud, the Really Persistent
I’m fascinated by the implications of a new study of Native American DNA: Read the rest of this entry »
What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?
by Vernor Vinge
It’s 2045 and nerds in old-folks homes are wandering around, scratching their heads, and asking plaintively, “But … but, where’s the Singularity?” Science fiction writer Vernor Vinge–who originated the concept of the technological Singularity–doesn’t think that will happen, but he explores three alternate scenarios, along with our “best hope for long-term survival”–self-sufficient, off-Earth settlements.
It’s the Stupid Economy
By SAUL LANDAU
Counterpunch
Traveling through the country, I see the results of the economic downturn – from urban Miami neighborhoods to poor rural areas like Collinsville and Bird’s Landing north of San Francisco. In January alone, California employers cut 20,300 jobs from their payrolls. I notice more homeless people sleeping in the Oakland and San Francisco streets, or jornaleros, (day workers) waiting in vain for work! But for those who assume affluence as an axiom of life, such everyday reality seems as strange as science fiction.
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By the Numbers
Illegal Japanese Whaling in the Antarctic Reserve
By Cpt. PAUL WATSON
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The Day the Earth and Sky Traded Places
Gazan Holocaust
By JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN
Counterpunch
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Self Help: $10 billion for What?
By Emily Wilson, AlterNet. Posted February 26, 2008.
Self-help is everywhere, but does it work? One writer immersed herself in the industry for a year to find out. Tools
When performer, rock musician and writer Beth Lisick woke up Jan. 1, 2006, and the only New Year’s resolution she could think of was learning to do the splits, she decided to aim a little higher.
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A Nightmare World of Torture and Prison Guard Suicides
Confessions of a Gitmo Guard
By DEBBIE NATHAN
Counterpunch
A psychiatrist who has treated former military personnel at Guantánamo prison camp is telling a story of prisoner torture and guard suicide there, recounted to him by a National Guardsman who worked at Guantánamo just after it opened.
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via Commond Dreams
The Relationship Between Man and Nature: What a Little Bird Told Us
by Jonathan Rosen
Once upon a time, there were parrots living in America. Not the escaped kind we know today that steal away from airports and apartments to find improbable refuge in Brooklyn or Chicago, but wild parrots that evolved here in their own slow, mysterious way.
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Cruelest Species of Them All?
By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. Posted February 23, 2008.
We are, of course, but a new book on animal cruelty will make your jaw drop about how vicious humans can be to other animals. Tools
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Comment on intensedebate.com
To commenters on this blog, James, Hucklebird, sillykitty, mcgrath….
This comment above suggested a new comment system called intensedebate.com. I checked it out and it seems interesting. I installed it as an experiment.
at the site blog for history-and-evolution.com: http://history-and-evolution.com/sitblog/
Here’s a trial post:
http://history-and-evolution.com/siteblog/2008/02/22/new-comment-system-installed/
Commenters here might check it out and post some reactions, here, and or there. We could give it a try here on this blog. It might improve commenting, although I am worried about spam (they say they are so far free of spam)
When Change Is Not Enough: Seven Steps to Revolution
If history is any indication, we may be on the road to violent revolution. We got here because of the conservatives’ war against liberal government.
Alternet
Towers of Babble
The freaks and geeks in the 9/11 Truth movement are on to something—they just don’t know what
The Terrorists Still at Ground Zero, 7 World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
counterpunch
Terrorism flourishes brazenly at Ground Zero, in the new 7 World Trade Center building. Here can be found a secretive entity of fabulous wealth and power. Kingdom and corporations alike tremble at its shadow and make haste to pay it tribute. I refer to Moodys Investor Services, wholly owned subsidiary of Moody’s Corporation, which reported $2 billion in revenues in 2006.
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Three-month-old babies appear to have brain circuits dedicated to
noticing quantity, adding weight to the argument that humans possess
an innate numerical sense
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726425.600-babies-reveal-natural-gift-for-numbers.html
From R-G
The Well blog
As a health writer, I’ve read hundreds of nutrition studies and
countless books on diet and eating. And none of these has contained such
useful advice as the cover of Michael Pollan’s latest book, In Defense
of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (Penguin, 2008).
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How the mountains of Appalachia disappear
Michael Shnayerson profiles one valley’s battle against mountaintop mining.
For a practice that has drastically changed the topography of Appalachia, most Americans – even those who consider themselves environmentalists – know surprisingly little about mountaintop mining.
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Torture Does Not Work, as History Shows
by Robert Fisk
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