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Two recent time lapse videos of the Northern Lights have crossed my path recently. They combine two of my perennial fascinations - time …
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Rob Stein at the Washington Post adds some more reasons to the nuclear pile. There are many reasons why humans fear radiation so …
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So why are we so collectively scared of nuclear power? Bradford Plumer interviewed some cultural historians in an attempt to answer …
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The recent nuclear catastrophe in Japan captured my attention for most of the past week since the March 11 earthquake. Based on the …
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Today Noam Chomsky, still kicking it at the age of 82, addressed a standing-room only crowd at the Cox Auditorium on the campus of the …
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NetLibrary is a horrible interface for reading or doing research. Suppose I want to look up “Clifford Geertz” in the …
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Back in October 2002 Paul Wellstone, the Minnesota Senator, was killed in a small plane crash in Northern Minnesota. The memorial …
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I don’t know and I don’t care very much whether Jared Loughner tried to assassinate Gabrielle Giffords for political …
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Stephen M. Gardiner from the University of Washington visited UTK today to speak about climate change and environmental ethics. He …
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From Paul Rosenberg at OpenLeft I headed over to Salon and Heather Havrilesky commenting on NBCs new television series “The …
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