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Why We Do

2010-03-06T21:07:51Z

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Why I love spring in Portland

2010-02-28T01:37:50Z

So beautiful!
Soft petals dropping in air pregnant with nectar and life.

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American Conservative: Hispanics don’t commit more crimes than whites

2010-02-23T21:57:36Z

The evidence presented here powerfully refutes the widespread popular belief that America’s Hispanics have high crime rates. Instead, their criminality seems to fall near the center of the white national distribution, being somewhat higher than white New Englanders but somewhat lower than white Southerners. Taken as a whole, the mass of statistical evidence constitutes strong support for the “null hypothesis,” namely that Hispanics have approximately the same crime rates as whites of the same age.

Full Story (via Technoccult)

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FBI formally closes protracted 2001 anthrax case

2010-02-19T21:22:44Z

WASHINGTON – After seven frustrating years probing the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings, the FBI closed the case Friday, concluding a mentally unhinged government researcher acted alone in the attacks that killed five people and unnerved Americans nationwide.

Many details of the case have been known, but newly released FBI documents paint a fuller portrait of Dr. Bruce Ivins as a troubled scientist whose career was teetering toward failure at the time the letters were sent. As the U.S. responded to the mailings, his work was given new importance by the government and he was even honored for his efforts on anthrax.

via news.yahoo.com

I call shenanigans.

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Holy Shrine of the Saint Groucho Marx Orange #haileris #marxgasm

2010-02-17T19:21:01Z

He doth appear to us, the believers! Hail Eris! Discord be praised!

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We Are Doomed

2010-02-11T22:41:37Z

First the snuggie. Now this? COME ON PEOPLE

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Antikythera computer from 2000 years ago more complex than first imagined

2010-02-06T20:56:48Z

The findings, published in Nature, are probably best described as “mind blowing.” Devices with this level of complexity were not seen again for almost 1,500 years, and the Antikythera mechanism’s compactness actually bests the later designs. Probably built around 150 B.C., the Antikythera mechanism can perform a number of functions just by turning a crank on the side.

via io9.com

Been following the Antikythera phenomenon for most of my life…since I gained interest around age 11. It is so amazing that people overlook simple – yet mind-blowing – discoveries such as this.
Don’t you understand? We had advanced computers and calculating mechanisms 1500 years before ANYTHING ELSE of its kind was seen. And this device was seemingly mass-produced. The encroaching hordes of religious warriors and dogmatic belief systems have set us back thousands of years.

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Mini Daddy, or WHY???

2010-01-31T08:00:15Z

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WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN???

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iPad vs Stone

2010-01-30T22:57:08Z

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California passes cannabis legalization bill

2010-01-13T03:56:27Z

California lawmakers finally passed Assembly Bill 390, the Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act by a 4-3 vote. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano from San Francisco introduced the bill, and will be pushing for it to be on this year's upcoming public ballot. This is the first time in US history that a bill that seeks to legalize cannabis has passed any legislative body.

"This is a significant vote because it legitimizes the quest for debate, legitimizes the quest for discussion," Ammiano said. "This is far from over. Not only did we get it out of (the) public safety (committee), but members are now willing to say, yes, this is worthy of discussion."

Advocates hailed the narrow passage of the bill — it was approved by the Assembly Public Safety Committee on a 4-3 vote — as a major breakthrough that will lead to a national legalization movement

The bill would place a $50 fee on each ounce of marijuana sold to pay for drug education and treatment. Board of Equalization Chairwoman Betty Yee, who has endorsed the bill, said legalization would raise $1.4 billion in state revenues.

This is not a total victory, as the bill immediately faces an opposing vote in the California State Assembly Committee on Health. But it is a real step towards ending the prohibition and war on cannabis. (via OSI Gazette)

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