tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69480422011-08-17T03:06:44.318ZTilvistarkreppa spendýrs frá sjónarhóli öreindar.Björn Darrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14525866851797121417noreply@blogger.comBlogger4531100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948042.post-69790202234569560782008-04-24T12:11:00.004Z2008-04-24T12:23:42.617Z

Áhugaverð grein eftir Jared Diamond í The New Yorker.In 1992, when Daniel Wemp was about twenty-two years old, his beloved paternal uncle Soll was killed in a battle against the neighboring Ombal clan. In the New Guinea Highlands, where Daniel and his Handa clan live, uncles and aunts play a big role in raising children, so an uncle’s death represents a much heavier blow than it might to most

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Ég mæli með því að þið hlýðið á meðfylgjandi upptöku (~1m:30s) úr þættinum Vikulokin, þar sem Kristinn H. Gunnarsson og Gísli Marteinn Baldursson tjáðu sig meðal annars um stöðu mála í íslensku efnahagslífi, ég ætlaði ekki að trúa mínum eigin eyrum þegar ég heyrði þetta og geri vart enn.Upptakan (~160K)Kristinn H.:En annað vil ég nefna sem mér finnst kannski ekki alveg eins gott, sem

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The Neuronal Basis of ConsciousnessEf þú hefur einhvern minnsta áhuga á mannsheilanum, meðvitund okkar og skynjun þá mæli ég eindregið með því að þú dundir þér við að horfa á þessa fyrirlestra, sem Christof Koch prófessor hjá California Institute of Technology hefur gert aðgengilega á netinu, ég efast stórlega um að þú verðir fyrir vonbriðgum.

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Hér fyrir neðan er að finna hlekki í viðtal við Noam Chomsky, þar sem hann stiklar á stóru varðandi samband Bandaríkjanna við löndin í Suður Ameríku. Verst að spyrillinn les spurningarnar upp af blaði og virkar við það afskaplega trénaður, en hvað um það, viðtalið er ekki nema ~20 min. í tveimur hlutum og vel þess virði að heyra.Hluti 1Hluti 2

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Ágæt grein um samfélagsstrúktúr hýena, það virðist meira í þessi kvikindu spunnið en maður hefur gert sér grein fyrir.Most of the research on the social brain hypothesis has focused on primates. One reason for that bias, Dr. Holekamp said, is many scientists thought that no other animals were worth studying. “Primatologists have argued for years,” she said, “that primates are unique in terms of

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Justin Produr ræðir við kólumbíska aktivistan Manuel Rozental um ástandið í Bólivíu og vandamálin sem Evo Morales stendur frammi fyrir.Bolivia on the BrinkJP: So most of the land is just privately owned?MR: Privately and also outright illegally owned, but owned. The clearest example is a fellow called Branco Marinkovic. He’s Croatian in origin, his family came to the flatlands, the eastern part

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Grein eftir John Pilger þar sem hann ræðir heimsvaldastefnu Ástralíu sem og stöðu frumbyggja þar í landi....This “top end” of Australia borders the Arafura and Timor Seas, across from the Indonesian archipelago. One of the world’s great submarine oil and gas deposits lies off East Timor. In 1975, Australia’s then ambassador in Jakarta, Richard Woolcott, who had been tipped off about the coming

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Áhugaverð grein um það hvernig trúin í BNA er alltaf að snúast meira og meira um peninga, svona eins og allt annað í því blessaða samfélagi.The Megachurch Juggernaut...Modern megachurches tend to be characterized not only in size (over 2,000 members), but in subscribing to corporate standards of operation. Conspicuously epitomizing a “market approach” to Christ has given way to the term “

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En þetta myndskeið gefur svo sannarlega tilefni til þess.Via Slashdot

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Þessi mynd segir allt sem segja þarf.Via digg

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Jæja, ætli það sé ekki við hæfi að ég byrji á að vísa á nýlega grein eftir Chomsky eftir bloggpásuna. Hér fjallar hann um morðið á Imad Mughniyeh, háttsettum meðlim í Hizbollah og setur það í samhengi sem við vesturlandabúar fáum afar sjaldan að sjá, a.m.k. ekki í þeim fjölmiðlum sem berast okkur inn um lúguna eða á öldum ljósvakans....Joy was unconstrained in Israel too, as "one of the U.S. and

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Ég held barasta að björninn sé að vakna úr bloggdvalanum, sjáum að minnsta kosti hvað setur.Það er hann Vésteinn sem fær heiðurinn af því að hafa vakið björninn í þetta sinn, megi hann lengi lifa! húrra! húrra! húrra!

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"People spend so many hours working they have no idea of how much creative potential they have, but you get a taste of mental freedom you want more of it. It's an explosion of creativity." says Schmidt, quickly adding, "I'm a workaholic, but it's the type of work that's the problem. Our society is focused on work that makes stuff that goes directly into landfills. Essential work such as art,

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Áhugaverð grein um stöðu og áhrif fjölmiðla í Venesúela:"Democratization" of Venezuelan MediaVia GNN

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Chomsky skrifar í Herald Tribune:Last month a coincidence of birth and death signaled a transition for South America and indeed for the world.The former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet died even as leaders of South American nations concluded a two-day summit meeting in Cochabamba, Bolivia, hosted by President Evo Morales, at which the participants and the agenda represented the antithesis of

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Venezuela’s Chavez Says World Faces Choice Between US Hegemony and Survival.Þarna er hægt að lesa ræðuna eins og hún leggur sig.Hér er svo myndband af ræðunni af vef Sameinuðu Þjóðanna.

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Árni Johnsen ekki kjörgengur (05.08.2006)Árni Johnsen þarf að fá uppreisn æru frá forseta Íslands hyggist hann gefa kost á sér í næstu alþingiskosningum. Undirskrifalistar ganga nú um í Vestmannaeyjum þar sem skorað er á hann að taka þátt í prófkjöri í suðurkjördæmi fyrir kosningar næsta vor.Árni Johnsen fær uppreisn æru (30.08.2006)Árni Johnsen, fyrrverandi alþingismanni, hefur verið veitt

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Frjálshyggja Noams ChomskyMaría Kristjánsdóttir fjallar í nokkrum þáttum á laugardögum um Noam Chomsky, prófessor og stjórnleysingja. Málfræðingakenningar Chomskys hafa haft áhrif á þróun sálfræði og einnig tölvufræði og stærðfræði. Auk fræðistarfa er Chomsky þekktur fyrir djarfar pólitískar skoðanir og er hann mjög umdeildur jafnt á hægri sem vinstri væng stjórnmála. Fyrr á þessu ári kom út

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Summer of Goodbyes...I have nothing against the hijab, of course, as long as it is being worn by choice. Many of my relatives and friends wear a headscarf. Most of them began wearing it after the war. It started out as a way to avoid trouble and undue attention, and now they just keep it on because it makes no sense to take it off. What is happening to the country?I realized how common it had

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Ég mæli eindregið með því að fólk hlýði á þennan fyrirlestur um skilgreininguna á réttláttu stríði og innrásina í Írak, hann er áhugaverður, upplýsandi og mikilvægt mótvægi við popp-útgáfuna af gangi mála.On Just War Theory and the Invasion of Iraq:Real VideoTorrent, 360mb skrá

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Democracy and Corporate Spin's part in its downfallSummary:An excellent overview of a continually (well less on GNN) overlooked topic, the globally pervasive PR industry. As David Miller says,“The wider project of the PR industry of which the direct takeover of the channels of communication is part, is to abolish the possibility of independent journalism, whilst maintaining the appearance of

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World Bank accused over malariaThe World Bank has been accused of publishing false accounts and wasting money on ineffective medicines in its malaria treatment programme.A Lancet paper claims the bank faked figures, boosting the success of its malaria projects, and reneged on a pledge to invest $300-500m in Africa.It also claims the bank funded obsolete treatments - against expert advice....Dr

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Sam Harris skrifar á truthdig.com: Stefnuyfirlýsing trúleysingjaSomewhere in the world a man has abducted a little girl. Soon he will rape, torture and kill her. If an atrocity of this kind is not occurring at precisely this moment, it will happen in a few hours, or days at most. Such is the confidence we can draw from the statistical laws that govern the lives of 6 billion human beings. The same

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Pink "iPods" for Democracy!The employees of Voice for Humanity, in a fever of righteous idealism, traveled six hours on donkeys and horses through the remotest parts of the Afghanistan countryside. They were on a mission: to deliver what they thought was an invaluable literacy tool for Afghans. Pink for women, silver for men.They were custom digital audio players resembling the trendy iPod, made

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Gallup: More Than Half of Americans Reject Evolution, Back BibleA Gallup report released today reveals that more than half of all Americans, rejecting evolution theory and scientific evidence, agree with the statement, "God created man exactly how Bible describes it."Another 31% says that man did evolve, but "God guided." Only 12% back evolution and say "God had no part."Gallup summarized it this

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Mohammed Cartoon Madness and Understanding

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Gaman að geta sett hér inn jákvæða frétt til tilbreytingar og viti menn, fréttir verða vart jávæðari en þetta:The Cochabamba water revolt – which began exactly six years ago this month – will end this morning when Bechtel, one of the world’s most powerful corporations, formally abandons its legal effort to take $50 million from the Bolivian people. Bechtel made that demand before a secretive

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"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."We Could Be Ignoring The Biggest Story In Our History

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Prove Christ exists, judge orders priestAN ITALIAN judge has ordered a priest to appear in court this month to prove that Jesus Christ existed.The case against Father Enrico Righi has been brought in the town of Viterbo, north of Rome, by Luigi Cascioli, a retired agronomist who once studied for the priesthood but later became a militant atheist.Signor Cascioli, author of a book called The Fable

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Venezuela's Path...Considering still another key domain of social life, media, the emerging pattern continued. A look at the daily newspapers showed that of the first 25 articles, reading from the first page forward, fully 20 were broad attacks on or highly critical of Chavez. The rest were on entirely other topics. And this was typical, day after day, I was told. The papers are privately held

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On the Iraq Election, with Andy ClarkNoam Chomsky: ...I should just bring up a kind of a truism. No rational person pays the slightest attention to declarations of benign intent on the part of leaders, no matter who they are. And the reason is they're completely predictable, including the worst monsters, Stalin, Hitler the rest. Always full of benign intent. Yes that's their task. Therefore,

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Court: No 'intelligent design' in classHARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- "Intelligent design" cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial.Dover Area School Board members violated the Constitution when they ordered that its biology curriculum

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Greetings from Idiot AmericaThere is some undeniable art—you might even say design—in the way southern Ohio rolls itself into northern Kentucky. The hills build gently under you as you leave the interstate. The roads narrow beneath a cool and thickening canopy as they wind through the leafy outer precincts of Hebron—a small Kentucky town named, as it happens, for the place near Jerusalem where

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Nóbelsræða Harolds Pinter er skyldulesning. Heyrirðu það, SKYLDULESNING.Hana finnurðu hér:Harold Pinter – Nobel Lecture - Art, Truth & Politics

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With the miasma of “Intelligent Design” slowly poisoning our intellectual discourse, it is amazing to consider that a significant percentage of scientists—40 percent!—still believe that reason and faith are compatible. Science, we are often told, “cannot prove that God does not exist”; religion and science “address different questions”; there are two “magisteria” given for human contemplation,

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Reexamining ReligionPervez Hoodbhoy is a well-known physicist who teaches at the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan. He is also well-known for his frequent and intelligent interventions in politics. In an article entitled Miracles, Wars, and Politics he writes: PervezOn the morning of the first Gulf War (1991), having just heard the news of the US attack on Baghdad, I walked into

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Does Using The Word 'Propaganda' Help Corporations?Marketing is propaganda. Positioning propaganda as distinct from other forms of marketing is state-of-the-art persuasion.The definition of Propaganda varies greatly by source. The Catholic Church coined the word “propaganda” in 1622 within the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, which was commissioned by Pope Gregory XV. One of Pope Gregory’s

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The Rise Of America's New EnemyTo the man in the bus, and to Beatrice whose children are being immunised and taught history, art and music for the first time, and Celedonia, in her seventies, reading and writing for the first time, and Jose whose life was saved by a doctor in the middle of the night, the first doctor he had ever seen, Hugo Chavez is neither a “firebrand” nor an “autocrat” but a

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Kansas, Where "Ignorant" is the New "Educated"Kansas: People say that it's flat. But to me it seems to be going downhill.Somewhere right now in Kansas, there is a little child who may grow up to be a brilliant scientist. She may make fantastic contributions to science, and future generations may remember her as one of the brightest intellectual lights of her time. But if so, it will be despite

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Project Censored presents the 10 biggest stories the mainstream media ignored over the past year.JUST FOUR DAYS before the 2004 presidential election, a prestigious British medical journal published the results of a rigorous study by Dr. Les Roberts, a widely respected researcher. Roberts concluded that close to 100,000 people had died in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Most were

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Kallar eftir málþingi um markaðssetningu sem beinist að börnumIngibjörg Þ. Rafnar, umboðsmaður barna, segir að sér berist margar kvartanir og ábendingar um að auglýsingar, sem höfða eiga til barna og sýndar eru í sjónvarpi í kringum barnatímana, séu ótilhlýðilegar. Sumir foreldrar kalli eftir því að tilteknar auglýsingar verði bannaðar, t.d. þær sem auglýsi sætindi og óhollt fæði. Vill hún að

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Rage of French Youth Is a Fight for RecognitionLE BLANC-MESNIL, France, Nov. 5 -- Mohammed Rezzoug, caretaker of the municipal gymnasium and soccer field, knows far more about the youths hurling firebombs and torching cars on the streets of this Paris suburb than do the police officers and French intelligence agents struggling to nail the culprits.He can identify most of the perpetrators. So can

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Mar del Plata, Argentina – A hemispheric summit meant to help create jobs and spread democracy throughout the region opened today with large-scale anti-US demonstrations and deep divisions among participating nations about the Bush administration’s expanded free-trade agenda. Tens of thousands of protesters marched the streets of this seaside resort calling for Bush to be expelled from the

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We Now Live in a Fascist StateSummary:An impressive beginning, in line with what the world has come to expect from the innovative Americans, but we can do better. The early twentieth-century fascisms didn’t enter their golden age until the proletariat in the countries that gave them birth had been reduced to abject poverty. The music and the marching songs rose with the cry of eagles from the

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Bush's Veil Over HistorySECRECY has been perhaps the most consistent trait of the George W. Bush presidency. Whether it involves refusing to provide the names of oil executives who advised Vice President Dick Cheney on energy policy, prohibiting photographs of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq, or forbidding the release of files pertaining to Chief Justice John Roberts's tenure in the

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One Face, One Neuron - Storing Halle Berry in a single brain cellExactly how the human brain works to record and remember an image is the subject of much debate and speculation. In previous decades, two extreme views have emerged. One says that millions of neurons work in concert, piecing together various bits of information into one coherent picture, whereas the other states that the brain

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Watching TV may damage children's brain development, leading to increased anti-social behaviour, new research claims.There is also a correlation between the amount of TV children watch and the degree of educational damage they suffer, according to the report by Aric Sigman, an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society.And significant long-term damage occurs even at so-called modest

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Gerin oil (or Geriniol to give it its scientific name) is a powerful drug which acts directly on the central nervous system to produce a range of characteristic symptoms, often of an antisocial or self- damaging nature. If administered chronically in childhood, Gerin oil can permanently modify the brain to produce adult disorders, including dangerous delusions which have proved very hard to treat

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Hugo Chavez: "If the Imperialist Government of the White House Dares to Invade Venezuela, the War of 100 Years Will be Unleashed in South America"

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US Troops In Iraq use 250,000 Bullets for every rebel killedSummary:A US government report says that US forces are now using 1.8 billion rounds of small-arms ammunition a year. The total has more than doubled in five years, largely as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as changes in military doctrine.Estimating how many bullets US forces have expended for every insurgent killed

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Court case may determine how evolution is taught in USSummary:In the town of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 11 parents of children who already attend the nearby Dover High school or who will in future, together with the American Civil Liberties Union, are suing the Dover Area School District for voting in new rules that will encourage children to consider alternatives to evolution such as “intelligent

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Military Requests Medics from Anarchist Relief ProjectSummary:The Common Ground Clinic and other projects are being organized on a cooperative, non-hierarchical basis, which stresses the importance of solidarity instead of charity. This process requires lots of organization, communication and frequent meetings. The volunteers and residents have two meetings each day. . The first meeting in the

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Federal judge declares Pledge unconstitutionalA federal judge declared Wednesday that the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional, a decision that could potentially put the divisive issue back before the U.S. Supreme Court.The case was brought by the same atheist whose previous battle against the words "under God" was rejected last year by the Supreme Court on

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Hér er að finna fína grein af hinu ágæta vefriti 3 Quarks Daily, þar sem Robin Varghese fjallar um þau alvarlegu áhrif, sem ríkisstyrkir í vestrænum landbúnaði hafa á kjör bænda í þriðja heiminum.The link between farm subsidies in the West and poverty in the Third World is fairly straightforward, even if many don’t quite see the linkage. It’s no secret that farms subsidies in the West are

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Don't dumb me downOK, here's something weird. Every week in Bad Science we either victimise some barking pseudoscientific quack, or a big science story in a national newspaper. Now, tell me, why are these two groups even being mentioned in the same breath? Why is science in the media so often pointless, simplistic, boring, or just plain wrong? Like a proper little Darwin, I've been collecting

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Adbusters

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...eftir þessa alllltof löngu letipásu.Hér er nokkuð athyglisverð grein, þar sem einhver spekingur kennir brotthvarfinu frá Gaza um hamfarir síðustu viku í Bandaríkjunum og nefnir því til stuðnings afar gáfulega hluti eins og t.d:Gaza's Jewish communities were located in Israel's southern coastal region; America's southern coastal region now lies in ruins.ogKatrina, written in Hebrew, has a

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Good Things Happening in VenezuelaSummary:The author after a recent visit: “President Hugo Chavez, proved to be an educated, articulate, remarkably well-informed and well-read individual. He manifests a sincere dedication to effecting some salutary changes for the great mass of his people, a person who in every aspect seems worthy of the decent and peaceful democratic revolution he is leading.

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U.S. Scientists Create Zombie Dogs"U.S. scientists have managed to revive dead dogs to life, by using a technique similar to cryogenation, in which the dogs' blood was drained and replaced by a cold, saline liquid. A couple of hours, their blood was replaced, and an electric shock brought them back to life with no brain damage. The technology will be tested on humans within the next year."

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Washington Post: Chinese dragon awakensChina is building its military forces faster than U.S. intelligence and military analysts expected, prompting fears that Beijing will attack Taiwan in the next two years, according to Pentagon officials. U.S. defense and intelligence officials say all the signs point in one troubling direction: Beijing then will be forced to go to war with the United

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Legalized abortion responsible for decline in crime rateSummary:Canadian abortion rights activist Dr. Henry Morgentaler was recently awarded an honourary doctorate by the University of Western Ontario. While anti-choice activists in the U.S. are bolstering their efforts to have a woman’s right to choose repealed, I think the right to reproductive choices will continue to be protected here, in

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Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th CenturiesHér er að finna einstaklega áhugaverðan lista yfir bækur sem, samkvæmt bandaríska afturhaldinu, eru skaðvænlegustu bækur síðustu tveggja alda. Þessi listi veitir afar góða innsýn inn í huga þessa fólks. Bara sú staðreynd að þessi listi sé til ætti að segja alveg helling.

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Í áhugaverðri grein sem ég las fyrir stuttu er talað um samfélag öfga-kristinna, sem myndast hefur í Colorado Springs, nokkurnvegin í miðju Bandaríkjanna, sem kallast Nýtt Líf (e: New Life). Samfélagið myndaðist í kringum kirkju sem stofnuð var af auðkýfingnum Ted Haggard, á 9. áratugnum, eftir sýn sem hann fékk í bíltúr um svæðið. Ted er þessa dagana í forsvari fyrir National Association of

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... er þetta:See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.Héðan: President Participates in Social Security Conversation in New YorkFundið á Fark.com.

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Creationism: God's gift to the ignorantScience feeds on mystery. As my colleague Matt Ridley has put it: “Most scientists are bored by what they have already discovered. It is ignorance that drives them on.” Science mines ignorance. Mystery — that which we don’t yet know; that which we don’t yet understand — is the mother lode that scientists seek out. Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay

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Eyðing Amazon-regnskógarins hefur sjaldan verið hraðari en núMogginn tekur fram að með eyðingu skógarins sé verið að búa til ræktarland, en lætur það liggja á milli hluta að ræktarland þetta sé undir sojabaunir, til útfluttnings.Ítarlegri frétt BBC:Amazon destruction acceleratingÚr þessari athyglisverðu skýrslu (pdf):Since the early 1990s, Brazil has accelerated the pace of economic

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The minds boggleHér eru umsagnir nokkurra vísindamanna, þar á meðal Dawkins, um kvikmyndina What the #$*! Do We Know!?, mynd sem er víst óðum að öðlast költ status í Bandaríkjunum. Nokkuð skondið, svo ekki sé meira sagt.Úrdráttur í sem fæstum orðum gæti verið eitthvað á þessa leið: #$"%?*! drasl.

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India's suicide epidemic is blamed on the BritishSummary:The current link between aid and economic liberalization has forced developing countries to adopt policies that do harm to their own people. In India, the suicide rate among farmers (typically a low risk group) has skyrocketed due to overwhelming debt and shame, debts that exceed 5 – 10 times a normal income yet pale in comparison to some

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The Attack on ScienceSummary:Lest we forget the war of reason being waged in America that has been swept under the rug and utterly ignored by the media, may this quote be a reminder, “As you know, we’re studying safe levels for arsenic in drinking water to base our decision on sound science, the scientists told us we need to test the water glasses of about 3,000 people. Thank you for

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Hér er áhugaverð grein úr New York Times, þar sem talað er um nýjasta útspil Bandaríkjamanna gegn andspyrnunni í Írak, Generálinn Adnan Thabit, alvöru rudda sem svífst víst einskis. Early one evening, I [Peter Maass] was sitting in his office when an officer entered with a click of his heels—an Iraqi salute of sorts. He reported to Adnan that a rebel weapons cache had been discovered, and Adnan

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Iraqi Labor Leader: We Will Defend Our Oil

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Land Of The Dead

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The Most Important Thing You Don't Know About "Peak Oil"The world powers are positioning themselves for war. The war is over who can take the most oil. Those who secretly long for the coming collapse will be in for a shock. The initial oil shortage, when it does come, will certainly be a serious inconvenience, but the events which proceed after that are going to humble us all to the core.

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Though Experiments: When the Singularity is More Than a Literary Device: An Interview with Futurist-Inventor Ray KurzweilPælingarnar hans Kurzweil eru alltaf jafn hressandi :).

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Naomi Klein: The Rise of Disaster CapitalismIn January Condoleezza Rice sparked a small controversy by describing the tsunami as “a wonderful opportunity” that “has paid great dividends for us.” Many were horrified at the idea of treating a massive human tragedy as a chance to seek advantage. But, if anything, Rice was understating the case. A group calling itself Thailand Tsunami Survivors and

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Afar áhugaverð grein, ekki láta hana fram hjá ykkur fara: Scientist Urges Dormant Eggs to Life to Test Evolution.Ég reyndi að draga út úr henni meginatriðin en það gekk ekkert voðalega vel, best að lesa hana bara í heild :).

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Study shows many coeds have strong spirituality; 8 of 10 believe in GodContrary to what many think, today's college campuses are hotbeds of religiosity and prayer, according to the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California.A survey of 112,232 current freshmen attending 236 colleges and universities (18 percent of them connected with religions) sponsored by the institute

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'The New Aristocracy'I am scanning a list of the 154 federal programs that President Bush would either zero out or slash in his fiscal-2006 budget, which Congress is now considering. It represents a triumph for the handful who—with Bush conservatism’s chief cheerleader and theoretician, Grover Norquist—would “drown” the federal government “in the bathtub.” In fact, it is an American tragedy in

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Var að horfa á afar góða mynd, Hotel Rwanda, og las í kjölfarið þessa grein um ástandið í Darfur, þar sem því er lýst hvernig þúsundum hefur verið slátrað og milljónir eru í lífshættu vegna yfirvofandi hungursneyða og ofbeldis.Við lok greinarinnar er maður rifinn all harkalega aftur inn í sinn verndaða vestræna raunveruleika, með auglýsingu, sem spyr hvort manni finnist maður vera að borga of

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Fossil Records Show Biodiversity Comes And GoesA detailed and extensive new analysis of the fossil records of marine animals over the past 542 million years has yielded a stunning surprise. Biodiversity appears to rise and fall in mysterious cycles of 62 million years for which science has no satisfactory explanation. The analysis, performed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's

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MIT developing $100 laptops for children...Negroponte and some MIT colleagues are hard at work on a project they hope will brighten the lives and prospects of hundreds of millions of developing world kids.It's a grand idea and a daunting challenge: to create rugged, Internet- and multimedia-capable laptop computers at a cost of $100 apiece....The mission: to make laptops as ubiquitous as cell

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Okay, We Give UpFrom the April 2005 Issue of Scientific American.There's no easy way to admit this. For years, helpful letter writers told us to stick to science. They pointed out that science and politics don't mix. They said we should be more balanced in our presentation of such issues as creationism, missile defense and global warming. We resisted their advice and pretended not to be stung by

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The dysfunctional society: US billionaires on the rise—roads, bridges in decayTwo recent reports cast light on the impact of growing social inequality in the US. The first, the annual inventory of the very rich compiled this month by the business magazine Forbes, tracks the wealth of the world’s billionaires, and their increasing numbers in the US. The second is the “report card” issued by the

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Surprisingly Complex Behaviors Appear To Be 'Hard-wired' In The Primate BrainScientists have long known that many of the behaviors of lower organisms are innate. In the insect world, for example, instinctive behaviors predominate. Birds have a larger repertoire of fixed behaviors than dogs.In primates, voluntary or learned behavior predominates. So neuroscientists have assumed that in primate

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A New Screen Test for Imax: It's the Bible vs. the Volcano [Bugmenot.com]Several Imax theaters, including some in science museums, are refusing to show movies that mention the subject - or the Big Bang or the geology of the earth - fearing protests from people who object to films that contradict biblical descriptions of the origin of Earth and its creatures....People who follow trends at

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Öldungadeild Bandaríkjaþings samþykkir lög til að bjarga lífi heilaskaddaðrar konuÖldungadeild Bandaríkjaþings samþykkti í kvöld lög til að reyna að tryggja að búnaður, sem notaður hefur verið til að dæla næringu í æð alvarlega heilaskaddaðrar konu, verði gangsettur á ný. Búnaðurinn var aftengdur á föstudag að ósk eiginmanns hennar en ættingjar konunnar hafa barist fyrir því að henni verði haldið

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Afghanistan: 'One Huge US Jail'Outside Kabul, Afghanistan is bleaker, its provinces more inaccessible and lawless, than it was under the Taliban. If anyone leaves town, they do so in convoys. Afghanistan is a place where it is easy for people to disappear and perilous for anyone to investigate their fate. Even a seasoned aid agency such as Médécins Sans Frontières was forced to quit after five

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[Sr. Örn Bárður] fjallar um fréttastjóraráðningu í stólræðuHér er predikunin sjálf.Presturinn er starfsmaður einnar elstu fréttastofu veraldar, kristinnar kirkju, sem heldur úti fréttaflutningi um landið allt og raunar veröld víða með því að flytja stöðugt fréttir af mesta viðburði mannkynssögunnar....[Örn] sagði að starf fréttamannsins væri um margt líkt starfi prestsins sem líka segði

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Karpinski sagði 11 ára dreng hafa verið meðal fanga í Abu GhraibSagði Karpinski [fyrrverandi yfirmaður fangelsisins] m.a. frá því að hún hafi oft talað við yngstu fangana í fangelsinu, þ. á m. dreng sem hafi litið út fyrir að vera átta ára. „En hann sagðist vera næstum orðinn 12 ára. Hann sagði mér að bróðir sinn væri þarna með sér. Þeir vildu fá að fara til mömmu sinnar og báðu mig að hringja í

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Study: Newborn euthanasia underreportedEuthanizing terminally ill newborns, while still very rare, is more common in the Netherlands than was believed when the startling practice was reported a few months ago -- and experts say it also occurs, quietly, in other countries....In 2002, doctors at University Medical Center Groningen helped create the so-called Groningen protocol, a list of standards

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Pólska kirkjan hvetur þingmenn til að fella frumvarp um réttindi samkynhneigðraKirkjur í Póllandi, þar á meðal kaþólska kirkjan sem er mjög áhrifamikil, hvatti þingmenn í dag til að fella frumvarp þar sem kveðið er á um réttindi samkynhneigðra para.Pólska kirkjuráðið segir í bréfi að með samböndum homma og lesbía „sé sett spurningarmerki við grundvallarstoðir samfélagsins.“Frumvarpið var samþykkt

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Næstum helmingur Norðmanna styður aðskilnað ríkis og kirkju47% þátttakenda í könnuninni sögðust vilja að ríki og kirkja yrðu aðskilin, en 41% sögðust vilja að áfram yrðu tengsl þarna á milli. 3.912 manns tóku þátt í könnuninni sem Dagbladet lét gera. Í svipaðri könnun sem gerð var árið 1992 sögðu 60% þátttakenda að þeir væru andsnúnir aðskilnaði ríkis og kirkju, en aðeins 26% voru þá hlynntir

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What Iraq's checkpoints are likeYou're driving along and you see a couple of soldiers standing by the side of the road - but that's a pretty ubiquitous sight in Baghdad, so you don't think anything of it. Next thing you know, soldiers are screaming at you, pointing their rifles and swiveling tank guns in your direction, and you didn't even know it was a checkpoint.If it's confusing for me - and

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Human Rights Record of the US in 2004Police violence and infringement of human rights by law enforcement agencies also constitute a serious problem. At present, 5,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States use TASER – a kind of electric shock gun, which sends out 50,000 volts of impulse voltage after hitting the target. Since 1999, more than 80 people died from TASER shootings, 60 percent

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Obesity-Causing Gene FoundIt discovered that there is a link between the human gene TGFBI and obesity.TGFBI, a gene on human chromosome 5, has been so far known to be closely related to many diseases, including corneal epithelial adhesion.After studying 779 diabetic patients and 316 healthy people, the team found that the TGFBI gene has 28 kinds of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), of which

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Report: Space burst could be new objectA strange and powerful burst of radio waves from near the center of our galaxy may have come from a previously unknown type of space object, U.S. astronomers reported on Wednesday.Other experts nicknamed the mysterious source a "burper" and said there would be a race to scan for similar radio bursts."We hit the jackpot," said Scott Hyman, a professor of

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Börn giftast hundumForeldrar barna sem fá fyrst tennur í efri góm skipuleggja slíkar athafnir „í þágu friðar og velsældar fyrir allt samfélagið“ þar sem slíkur tannvöxtur þykir „óheillavænlegur“. „Í slíkum tilvikum er hjónaband með hundi ein leið til að bæja frá hinu illa,“Er það eitthvað minna vitlaust að hella vatni yfir börn og fara með galdraþulu til að losa þau undan einhverju sem kallast

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Code as Design: Three Essays by Jack W. ReevesFundið á /.

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HérThere’s a document called The Essentials of Post Cold War Deterrence that was released during the Clinton years by the Strategic Command, which is in charge of nuclear weapons. It’s one of the most horrifying documents I’ve ever read. People haven’t paid attention to it.The Strategic Command report asks how we should reconstruct our nuclear and other forces for the post-Cold War period. And

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The Handover That Wasn'tBefore his departure, CPA chief Paul Bremer issued 100 Orders to dramatically restructure Iraq's economy to fit free-market ideals. And no Iraqi, including future elected officials, can undo them....The most important tools being used by the Bush administration to maintain varying degrees of economic and political control in Iraq are the 100 Orders enacted by L. Paul

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