Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Monday, July 5th, 2010
Moving and being in a wedding take up lots of time. Next update will have real content. Promise!
Things in the news: World Cup! Kagan, McChrystal, BP Oil Spill (slowly fading), Economic falterings, July 4th, and did I mention the World Cup? (Oh, I suppose Wimbledon as well. And the Tour de France. And the Lebron James Sweepstakes.)
Here’s your top 5
- The Renegade General (McChrystal)(RollingStone)
- Kagan hearing write-ups.
- Who’s a scientist? 7th graders describe and draw scientists after a visit to Fermilab
- James Sturm is quitting the internet
- Life inside the North Korean bubble (BBC + video, 15 min, worth watching)
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
You know the drill –
Topics in the news: Israel, Gaza, BP, World Cup, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan
Must reads over the past two weeks
- Countdown to the BP disaster (GQ)
- What if political scientists wrote the news? (Salon)
- Science Funding: The “Broader Impacts” requirement (Nature)
- Solitude and Leadership (delivered at West Point)
- What is Israel blockading, really? (graphic, analysis)
And…one for fun BP coffee spill.
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
Happy(?) Memorial Day, everybody. Lots of long articles worth reading this time, but you’ve got the rest of the night off, right? Big news is the BP Oil Spill and the failure of Top Kill. Will the leak ever end?
 
Top 5
- The inside story on how health care reform got enacted (Cohn)
- Obama vs Wall Street (NYMag)
- The Race to the Top: Education Reform and Teachers Unions (NYT)
- Video from 25 feet below the oil slick. (abc)
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Saving the Rust Belt (Reason)
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
The BP Disaster is mindboggling. Also in the news: Britain’s elections, the Iran nuclear non-deal and sanctions, Greece, Elena Kagan, Thailand, FinReg, Carbon cap ‘n trade, Rand Paul, Arizona’s Illegal Immigration Law.
The Top 5:
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Tags: christianity, economy, fun, healthcare, international, politics, science, scotus, society, STS, world
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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Wow, light post, considering that it’s been a month. Maybe I _am_ slowly breaking the death-grip of RSS. Unfortunately, for you, that means links will be far less timely. It was hard picking a top 5 6 this time, but here they are. Real post coming soon. Just gotta deal with that pesky real life thing first…
- Politics: Killing the (public) career of a judge near you.
- Bad News: Roundup Ready Resistant weeds proliferate (NYT)
- Oil Slickonomics
- The Economics of Climate Change Reduction (NYT, Krugman)
- The Dollar ReDe$ign Project
- Vietnam, revisited (photos, warning: graphic)
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Tags: climate, economy, international, politics, science, society, STS, videos
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
Nowhere near as comprehensive as my previous endeavours, but hopefully there’s enough to keep you interested and entertained.
- Whoops, maybe flooding the developing world with cheap US agriculture wasn’t so smart after all.
- Selections from Best Science Writing on the Blogs 2009: I recommend Cosmopithecus and Bittersweet.
- The Art of the Brick (Art Gallery)
- Mashed-up Culture (NYT)
- Inspiring: 2010 Winter Paralympics (Photos)
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
Ooof, this is what happens when you don’t post for 3 weeks. There’s a huge post below the cut, so here’re my top five reads.
- Our tax code is a mess (Bartlett)
- It’s the economy, stupid
- Waterboarding detailed: (caution, some may find this disturbing.)
- Iraqi elections reactions from Iraq and the Middle East
- Nature vs genetically modified wheat: Wheat stem rust makes a comeback. (Wired)
And one for fun: 2010 SXSW mp3’s (legal)
As usual, highlights are in red.
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
I really did try to get this out last week, Livia, really I did. But I didn’t, and now this post has become bloated in size just like all of the others. *sigh*
I didn’t know how to categorize this first link, so I’ll just let it stand alone above the cut.
- Jens Galschiot’s Survival of the Fattest
There’s an inscription: “I’m sitting on the back of a man. He is sinking under the burden. I would do anything to help him. Except stepping down from his back.”
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Today is the 31st Anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, giving the Green movement another plausible reason to take the streets and protest. It doesn’t look like things are going so well this time around though.
Follow the liveblogs @
TheLede (NYT)
The Guardian
NIAC (National Iranian American Council)
Tags: international, iran, world
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
The news really doesn’t stop, does it? And I didn’t even touch the Toyota recalls… Does anyone have any interesting topics they think I should read more about? As usual, highlights are in red.
Politics
- Bipartisanship at its finest (Fallows)
I got this note from someone with many decades’ experience in national politics, about a discussion between two Congressmen over details of the stimulus bill:
“GOP member: ‘I’d like this in the bill.’
“Dem member response: ‘If we put it in, will you vote for the bill?’
“GOP member: ‘You know I can’t vote for the bill.’
“Dem member: ‘Then why should we put it in the bill?’
“I witnessed this myself.”
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