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Josh Feit, of Seattle’sThe Stranger wrote the following on last week’s tragic events:

However, I’ve noticed a weird thing about the Seung-Hui Cho story. The guy gives a screed that is 99% focused on class, and well, no seems to be talking ( Read more... )

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Sorry about the lack of posts. I decided to take a brief hiatus while finishing up my degree, and working on other random web based projects.

My latest project can be found at Condensed News.com, in a mostly finished form. Let me know ( Read more... )

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On the electability of Rudy Giuliani, from the ever awesome blog of Andrew Sullivan:

and finally…

Do you honestly think that people will elect a man who wants to keep us in Iraq for four more years? Americans might vote for victory but ( Read more... )

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Britain’s Telegraph.co.uk brings us this required reading to put you in that special mood:

The findings of one of the largest experiments in the science of attractiveness shown here challenge current thinking about the differences between ( Read more... )

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A rather intriguing article by The Christian Science Monitor’s Ilene Prusher on the efforts of Daniel Adamson and Mahmoud Twaissi to trace the historical steps of Abraham. However, this is more than a simple missionary trip:

The ends, ( Read more... )

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That’s right folks, starting tomorrow the House of Representatives will go through 36 legislative hours of debate, or a total of 5 minutes per representative. Here’s what the Dems will need to win the debate and actually get something done ( Read more... )

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From an Ars Technica report on a new paper published in the Journal of Political Economy:

Entitled “The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis,” the study matched an extensive sample of music downloads to American ( Read more... )

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Alan Boyle from Cosmiclog gives a look at Evolution Sunday:

The calendar boasts plenty of religious holidays, but how many scientific holidays can you name? One of the red-letter days is coming up on Monday, when more than 850 events ( Read more... )

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From Boston.com:

-In its 371-year history, Harvard University has been led by puritans and patriots, by clergymen and congressmen.

But so far, the country’s oldest and wealthiest university has never been led by a woman.

That seems likely ( Read more... )