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BBC News - Iranian protests spark fresh clashes in Tehran

textured — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:26:12 GMT

This picture is so fraking awesome. I can't believe they didn't include it in 'the week in pictures'! If anyone can find a larger res version of it, I would love to have it, thanks.

Quoted: New clashes take place in Tehran overnight after at least eight opposition protesters die in the worst violence for months in Iran.

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Biogas: What is it; How it is Made; How to Use it; – Part 1 of 3 @ AgriPinoy.net

textured — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:31:43 GMT

awesome.

Quoted: Biogas: What is it; How it is Made; How to Use it; – Part 1 of 3

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BBC News - Obama defends war as he picks up Nobel Peace Prize

textured — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:51:20 GMT

wha?? crazy i didn't know it was worth that much. also, did you ever notice that the bbc video player's audio slider goes up to eleven? funny shit.

Quoted: Each laureate, including Mr Obama, receives a diploma, a medal and 10m kroner ($1.4m; £865,000).

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What do ISPs charge the law to spy on you? Boing Boing

textured — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:53:59 GMT

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BBC News - 'No smoking gun' evidence in Kercher case

textured — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:34:01 GMT

"From the day Meredith's body was discovered on 2 November 2007, there is no doubt that Amanda Knox has been unfairly demonised because she is a young woman.

The sexualisation of females connected to big crimes is nothing new. "

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BBC News - Taliban detainee 'met Bin Laden this year'

textured — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:35:54 GMT

convenient timing. i wonder what's gonna happen with this story.

Quoted: A Taliban detainee in Pakistan claims to have information about Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts in January of this year.

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CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

textured — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:52:40 GMT

Human Terrain Systems is not some neutral humanitarian project, it is an arm of the U.S. military and is part of the military’s mission to occupy and destroy opposition to U.S. goals and objectives. HTS cannot claim the sort of neutrality claimed by groups like Doctors Without Borders, or the International Committee of the Red Cross. HTS’s goal is a gentler form of domination. Pretending that the military is a humanitarian organization does not make it so, and pretending that HTS is anything other than an arm of the military engaging in a specific form of conquest is sheer dishonesty.

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The True Story of Oscillococcinum

textured — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:05:20 GMT

i stole some of this stuff cause i felt like i was getting sick yesterday. it is expensive and looks cool. it was only today that i decided, 'huh, i wonder what this active ingredient actually is?' i haven't laughed this hard in a long long long time. here is an excerpt, but you should read the whole article--
"There's no logical reason to believe that anything in duck liver or heart will be an effective flu remedy. But even if there were some magic substance, the manufacturing process guarantees that it will not be in the finished product. The laws of chemistry indicate that after the 12th dilution, it is unlikely that a single molecule from the original organs will remain. Moreover, at "200C" (or "200K" or "200 CK") the concentration of the original substance would be 1 part in 100^200, which is a 1 followed by 400 zeroes. A 1 followed by 100 zeroes is called a googol. The estimated number of particles in the universe that we can see is a googol, give or take a few zeroes. So in order for one of the original molecules to be present in a container of Oscillococcinum, the mass of that container would have to be about a googol googol googol times our world, which would be incomprehensibly larger than the visible universe."

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Abiogenesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

textured — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:03:02 GMT

foucault and others talk about this, but not with so many examples. i always thought it was a beautiful thought--

Until the early 19th century, people generally believed in the ongoing spontaneous generation of certain forms of life from non-living matter. This was paired with heterogenesis, the belief that one form of life derives from a different form (e.g. bees from flowers).[8] Classical notions of abiogenesis, now more precisely known as spontaneous generation, held that certain complex, living organisms are generated by decaying organic substances. According to Aristotle it was a readily observable truth that aphids arise from the dew which falls on plants, fleas from putrid matter, mice from dirty hay, crocodiles from rotting logs at the bottom of bodies of water, and so on.[9]

In the 17th century, such assumptions started to be questioned; for example, in 1646, Sir Thomas Browne published his Pseudodoxia Epidemica (subtitled Enquiries into Very many Received Tenets, and Commonly Presumed Truths), which was an attack on false beliefs and "vulgar errors." His conclusions were not widely accepted. For example, his contemporary, Alexander Ross wrote: "To question this (i.e., spontaneous generation) is to question reason, sense and experience. If he doubts of this let him go to Egypt, and there he will find the fields swarming with mice, begot of the mud of Nylus, to the great calamity of the inhabitants."[10]

In 1665, Robert Hooke published the first drawings of a microorganism. Hooke was followed in 1676 by Anton van Leeuwenhoek, who drew and described microorganisms that are now thought to have been protozoa and bacteria.[11] Many felt the existence of microorganisms was evidence in support of spontaneous generation, since microorganisms seemed too simplistic for sexual reproduction, and asexual reproduction through cell division had not yet been observed.

The first solid evidence against spontaneous generation came in 1668 from Francesco Redi, who proved that no maggots appeared in meat when flies were prevented from laying eggs. It was gradually shown that, at least in the case of all the higher and readily visible organisms, the previous sentiment regarding spontaneous generation was false. The alternative seemed to be biogenesis: that every living thing came from a pre-existing living thing (omne vivum ex ovo, Latin for "every living thing from an egg").

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Lights at Night Are Linked to Breast Cancer - washingtonpost.com

textured — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:57:11 GMT

woah damn!

"On the basis of such studies, an arm of the World Health Organization announced in December its decision to classify shift work as a "probable carcinogen." That put the night shift in the same health-risk category as exposure to such toxic chemicals as trichloroethylene, vinyl chloride and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)."

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