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Scienceblogs continues to implode. By my count, 19 bloggers have left. (Carl Zimmer has regularly updated information here , and you can fo...

So this is going around. Mel Gibson rants in the style of Margaret Atwood, and most bloggers apparently sound like David Foster Wallace. I ...

The other day, people working at the WTC site uncovered a boat. This was the first or second article I read about it. I made a poem entirel...

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Embedding is disallowed, but here's a link - hot off YouTube! - to Robert Whitaker on Book TV* talking about his book Anatomy of an Epi...

Distressing about reports concerning Honduras the past few months is the extent to which they can work to normalize the situation there. The...

It was a decade ago, searching for the latest articles on anarchism, that I first came across Eben Moglen . It was this piece - "Anarch...

Very solid, contextualized reports on the Bajo Aguán from the RNN : Also, * more journalists murdered * "U.S. Advises Security Appren...

Following up on and drawing from recent conversations, I have a series of questions for accomodationists: 1) Do you, personally, believe in ...

Ay. So the recent flap concerns the NSF’s decision to remove questions on evolution and the Big Bang from its scientific literacy report . P...

I have been collecting reports on those struggling for justice in Honduras and the violence they've faced , but these two recent report...

Here’s a recent interview from Guernica: “Chomsky Half Full” My favorite part: Guernica: So what are you recommending? Noam Chomsky: I thi...

I don’t know much about Andrew Sullivan. I know enough to be sure that we’re not in agreement politically or in terms of religion. But when ...