2006

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2006-12-13

Rebecca Traister: 'Paris Hilton is more than a punch-line-rich pest. She is poisonous and culty and insidiously evil, and her tyranny must end.'

Kansas Outlaws Practice of Evolution

2006-11-26

Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do ...a letter from Michael Moore

Researchers use a 38,000 year-old bone fragment to study Neanderthal DNA.

Red meat linked to breast cancer.

Scientist proves vampires a mathematical impossibility.

A twelve year-old Texan girl gets liposuction.

One possible cause of mass extinctions.

They're bringing Paxil back.

2006-03-12

Conservation groups use a legal case to force action on climate change.

Teaching intelligent design 'threatens scientific literacy among schoolchildren.'

Stockwell Day wants a national ID card for Canadians.

Overheard in New York

29% of Americans still believe Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks.

Gary Leupp: Stopping the War on Iran, Before It Starts

A day in the life of Natalie Portman.

2006-01-29

Richard Heinberg: A Letter from the Future

With Stephen Harper now in power, Alberta moves to privatize health care.

Jane Kay: 'In the past few decades, the Arctic average temperature has risen at almost twice the rate as the rest of the world.'

Google censors itself for the Chinese government.

Lazy Sunday, SNL's Chronic of Narnia rap.

2006-01-02

Carolyn Abraham: Would you gaze into a genetic crystal ball?

Hero cat phones 911 to save owner.

Devanie Angel: 'Big business thinks Radio Frequency Identification tags are great. Privacy-rights advocates fear the tiny chips will invite corporations and the government into our personal lives.'

US soldiers home on leave are ordered to praise the American war effort in Iraq.

Pope Benedict XVI says Christmas has been polluted by consumerism.

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