It's clear that the Tsarnaevs are jihadist terrorists, and we can stop dancing around that fact.

A week ago, no one knew what a pressure cooker bomb was. Now, everyone does. But where does the idea come from?

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I joined two new human networking sites today. One was LinkedIn, a professional networking site. The other was Google+, a social networking site. The contrast was very interesting; I used this post's userpic for both, but I found virtually everything else different between the two sites ( Read more... )

A couple months ago, I went through my Apache logs to check if a friend had downloaded an updated program I'd written. While browsing through the logs, I noticed that one of Margaret's picture pages was being hit several times a day. The page was this one ( Read more... )

greyautumnrain said I should post about the Fukushima reactor accident. Right now, what seems relevant is a comparison with other major commercial reactor accidents, namely Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

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Curious about what Yahoo knows about you? Check it out here ( Read more... )

Have you ever wondered why food is so cheap? Food - including restaurant meals - is only about 15% of the average American's budget, according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics. Contrast that with housing, at 42%, or transportation, at 18 ( Read more... )