Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy @!$%#...what a ride!", Anonymous

The Bush Administration Is Quietly Cutting Off Birth Control Supplies In Africa

Seeded on Thu Oct 9, 2008 7:24 AM EDT (The New York Times)

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The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world's poorest women in Africa.Thus the paradox of a "pro-life" administration adopting a policy whose result will be tens of thousands of additional abortions each year — alo …

world-news, bush, republican, gop, africa, pro-life, birth-control, contraception, anti-choice

The real John McCain - The Make Believe Maverick

Seeded on Sun Oct 5, 2008 11:14 AM EDT (Rolling Stone)

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On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between the scion of four-star admirals and the son of a prizefighter turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant …

politics, mccain, fake, liar, womanizer, war-hero, mccain-first

90% of Americans will pay less income tax under Obama than McCain

Seeded on Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:06 AM EDT (Daily Kos)

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Today, CNN posted an article online summarizing the Tax Policy center's report comparing John McCain and Barack Obama's proposed tax plans. It is available here.

politics, obama, barack-obama, mccain, election, john-mccain, election-2008, taxes, election-news, income-tax

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14 y-o girl sent to prison for being raped, judge goes on vacation

Seeded on Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:49 AM EST (KOB.com - New Mexico News)

The district attorney's office is getting renewed criticism after throwing a girl in jail believed to have been raped. But Kari Brandenburg says her office was just trying to protect her.

us-news, rape, albuquerque, brandenburg, j-michael-kavanaugh, new-mexico-victims-rights-project

Teen jailed for not aiding her rape case

Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:41 AM EST (abqtrib.com)

A 14-year-old Albuquerque girl was jailed for five days this week because she refused to testify against the stepfather prosecutors say raped her.

us-news, rape, albuquerque, j-michael-kavanaugh

Keepon & the BeatBots: "Don't You Evah"

Seeded on Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:49 AM EST (beatbots.org)

Keepon is an interactive robot designed to communicate attention and emotion through rhythmic movements to children with social-development disorders such as Autism. Research:

entertainment, psychology, dance, communication, sociology, robot, wired, spoon, beatbots, dont-you-evah

Peanuts creator Schulz's secret life of misery revealed

Seeded on Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:01 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Good Grief, Charles Schulz. The creator of the beloved Peanuts comic strip was a shy, lonely man who used his child-like drawings to depict a life of deep melancholy, according to a controversial new biography. ...

entertainment, charles-schulz, david-michaelis, schulz-and-peanuts, peanuts-comic-strip

Research reveals that fertility may be a stripper's best accessory

Seeded on Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:43 AM EDT (KOB.com - New Mexico News)

UNM researchers examine strippers for fertility study.Short video clip.

science, sex, new-mexico, attraction, fertility, strippers, universtiy-of-new-mexico

Natural Insect Repellents You May Have Around The House

Seeded on Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:32 AM EDT (stretcher.com)

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Natural insect repellents that you may already have in your kitchen or bathroom. Save money while avoiding those pesky bugs.

home-garden, marines, bees, insects, vicks, yellowjackets, baby-powder

Forget about parallel parking... this car drives sideways!

Seeded on Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:26 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Nissan Motor Co. on Friday unveiled a new version of its egg-shaped Pivo concept car that can drive sideways and has a small robot to assist with navigation or calm down angry drivers.

technology, robots, nissan, electric-cars, tokyo-motor-show, pivo-2

Mother-of-pearl inspires super-strong plastic

Seeded on Fri Oct 5, 2007 10:03 PM EDT (New Scientist)

A plastic made at room temperature from clay and a common ingredient of paint and glue is a strong as steel and a match for materials made using much higher temperatures.

technology, nanotechnology, montmorillonite, nicholas-kotov, plastic-steel, polyvinyl-alcohol

New Mexico allows patients to grow own marijuana

Seeded on Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:53 AM EDT (KOB.com - New Mexico News)

Starting Sunday medical marijuana will be legal in New Mexico. But now the Department of Health has dropped a bombshell: It will allow people who qualify for medicinal pot to grow it in their own homes. ...

us-news, marijuana, new-mexico, pot, medical-marijuana

Mushrooms become source for eco-building

Seeded on Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:06 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

More at home on a pizza, mushrooms certainly aren't a typical building material, but Bayer thought they just might work when given the assignment two years to create a sustainable insulation.

technology, mushrooms, green-building-product, greensulate, sustainable-insulation

Bamboo bike quite the offshoot

Seeded on Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:55 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Craig Calfee, a bike builder who is considered one of the country's elite, has hopes of providing Ghana's desperately poor with bicycles made of bamboo. "It's a great bike," said Runyan, 63, who rode it in Hawaii's Ironman triathlon last year.

odd-news, cycling, ghana, bicycle, bamboo, bamboo-bike, craig-calfee

Greg LeMond's History of Sexual Abuse Brings New Drama to Floyd Landis Doping Hearing

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2007 10:28 AM EDT (TIME)

Floyd Landis' sleepy, scientific arbitration hearing morphed into a pulp-fiction blockbuster Thursday, replete with revelations of sexual abuse, allegations of threatening phone calls and even a Donald Trump-style firing.

sports, cycling, doping, lance-armstrong, floyd-landis, greg-lemond, corrupution

'What might have been' key in evaluating behavior

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2007 7:53 PM EDT (EurekAlert!)

"What might have been" or fictive learning affects the brain and plays an important role in the choices individuals make – and may play a role in addiction, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers and others in a report that appears online today in the Proceedings of the Na …

health, psychology, gambling, addiction, psychiatry, drug-abuse, neuropsychology, fictive-learning

Floyd Landis: USADA breaks own rules to get to Armstrong

Seeded on Fri May 11, 2007 10:51 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Floyd Landis claims the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's lead attorney approached his lawyer offering "the shortest suspension they'd ever given an athlete" if Landis provided information that implicated Lance Armstrong for doping.

sports, corruption, cycling, doping, lance-armstrong, floyd-landis, usada

Prince Phillip probes system of bodily waste used by astronauts in space

Seeded on Thu May 10, 2007 11:24 AM EDT (BBC News)

A tour of a space facility in the US apparently prompted Prince Philip to ask how astronauts deal with "natural functions" in space. So how exactly do they go to the toilet (or should that be the loo)? ...

odd-news, nasa, astronauts, bodily-waste, space-toilet, way-too-much-information

Genetic Roots Of Bipolar Disorder Revealed By First Genome-wide Study Of Illness

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2007 9:10 PM EDT (Science Daily)

The likelihood of developing bipolar disorder depends in part on the combined, small effects of variations in many different genes in the brain, none of which is powerful enough to cause the disease by itself, a new study shows.

health, mental-health, genetics, psychiatry, neurology, bipolar-disorder, manic-depression, lithium, genetics-technology, nimh-genetics-initiative

'Sumo' offers brain disease hope

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2007 8:53 PM EDT (BBC News)

Boosting levels of a protein in the brain could be a way of treating diseases such as epilepsy and schizophrenia, scientists suggest. ...

health, psychiatry, neurology, schizophrenia, epilepsy, sumo, antipsychotic-medicine, synaptic-activity

'Mini-cells' could stop side-effects of chemotherapy

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2007 9:13 AM EDT (New Scientist)

Could bacteria be the future of cancer therapy? It may sound unlikely, but mini-cells have been created that can carry high-dose combinations of drugs to exactly where they are needed without releasing them into the general circulation.

health, cancer, chemotherapy, oncology, bacterial-nanoparticles, bispecific-antibodies, engeneic-delivery-vehicles

Brain sculpting: Can culture dictate the way we see?

Seeded on Mon May 7, 2007 9:42 AM EDT (New Scientist)

Culture can shape your view of the world, the saying goes. And it might be more than just a saying: a new study suggests that culture may shape the way our brains process visual information.

science, culture, neurology, object-recognition, environment-dependent-visual-development

The 25 wonders of the world -- How many have you seen?

Seeded on Thu May 3, 2007 9:51 AM EDT (The Times)

According to Rough Guide, these are the 25 most spectacular places around the world that promise not to disappoint those who make the effort to visit them.

travel, contest, wonders-of-the-world