ScienceDr. Sames at Columbia has retracted 4 more papers, as of June 15, in addition to the previous 2 full and one partial retraction. The graduate student who was primarily responsible for the work in question has to my understanding had her PhD revoked, but this may still be an open question. The University has had a 3 month investigation into ( Read more... )

Juan Cole has an excellent article at Salon on the burgeoning civil war in Iraq.

Cecilia Fire Thunder, president of the Oglala Sioux tribe in South Dakota, has declared that she "will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has ( Read more... )

Feminism
Hugo Schwyzer on moderation in feminism

UK Judges have been told they ought to slash sentences for rape. To further improve justice for the <10% of women who even pursue a rape case and secure a conviction against the rapist.

For those of you wondering the outcome of the trial of the gang-rapers who videotaped their assault, they got 6 ( Read more... )

New York Magazine reports on the Cuddle Puddle, a group of "post-gay" students at a selective public high school in Manhattan. I think it over-extrapolates how things are for youth today, but it's an interesting read nonetheless.

Glass: Liquid or Solid Brief article in layman's terms about the myth, the legend, of liquid glass at room temperature ( Read more... )

Al Gore spoke for Martin Luther King Day in Washington about the decline of robust democracy under the current (and several former) administration(s) and what we as citizens can do about it. I continue to be impressed with his speech writing (or writers.. I have no idea if he writes them himself). The Raw Story has the full text of the speech and ( Read more... )

Yahoo! news reports that a riot that has been reported as a race riot for 100 years and was used as an excuse to usher in the era of Jim Crow laws in North Carolina was in fact a white supremacist insurrection. I think this is a great example of how race relations in the past have greatly affected how people live today.

Michael Berube writes about ( Read more... )