Yoga Journal: Yoga Poses, Classes, Meditation, and Life - On and Off the Mat - Namaste. The Improbability of God. The Improbability of God by Richard Dawkins from Free Inquiry, Volume 18, Number 3. Much of what people do is done in the name of God. Irishmen blow each other up in his name. Arabs blow themselves up in his name. Imams and ayatollahs oppress women in his name. Celibate popes and priests mess up people's sex lives in his name. Jewish shohets cut live animals' throats in his name. The achievements of religion in past history -- bloody crusades, torturing inquisitions, mass-murdering conquistadors, culture-destroying missionaries, legally enforced resistance to each new piece of scientific truth until the last possible moment -- are even more impressive.
Why do people believe in God? So ran Paley's argument, and it is an argument that nearly all thoughtful and sensitive people discover for themselves at some stage in their childhood. What do all objects that look as if they must have had a designer have in common? This is not a circular argument, by the way. Return to Top. Ancient Civilizations. Bizarre animals. Causes of Poverty. Author and Page information by Anup ShahThis page last updated Sunday, September 28, 2014 Almost half the world — over 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day.The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (567 million people) is less than the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined.Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).
Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nations. Why is this? Poverty Facts and Stats Poverty Around The World. BookMooch: exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter. Things That Are Not In the U.S. Constitution. Have you ever heard someone say, "That's unconstitutional! " or "That's my constitutional right! " and wondered if they were right? You might be surprised how often people get it wrong. You might also be surprised how often people get it right. A lot of people presume a lot of things about the Constitution.
One critique of this page is that it is full of nit-picks. The Air Force The Constitution was ratified in 1787, long, long before the advent of the airplane. Congressional Districts Congressional Districts divide almost every state in the United States into two or more chunks; each district should be roughly equal in population throughout the state and indeed, the entire country. The Electoral College The concept of the presidential elector is certainly in the Constitution, but never is the group of people collectively referred to as "The Electoral College. " Executive Orders Executive Privilege Freedom of Expression (Absolute) Freedom of Speech and Press God Innocent Until Proven Guilty. VIDEO: Just another day punking the Chamber of Commerce - Greenpeace USA Blog.
TheEnvironmentalist A Place For Breaking News and Commentary by Climate Apple’s Tim Cook sets bar for corporate climate leadership Keystone XL Pipeline Reject and Protect: Cowboys and Indians in the capitol Green Internet Participate in Greenpeace’s Earth Day Vine Challenge! Stay Connected Stay informed about breaking news stories and topics that will keep you current. Latest News 24 Apr Arctic 0 Waddle you do to celebrate World Penguin Day? 17 Apr Keystone XL Pipeline 0 Reject and Protect: Cowboys, Indians, and Ranchers unite against Keystone XL Next week, an alliance of farmers, ranchers, and tribal communities will be coming to Washington DC. About Greenpeace Visit Greenpeace USA online Blogger login Categories Latest News Check it out real life documentaries of how climate change affects our lives Visit Postcards From Climate Change.
New neuroimaging analysis technique identifies impact of Alzheimer's disease gene in healthy brains. Brain imaging can offer a window into risk for diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). A study conducted at the University of Kansas School of Medicine demonstrated that genetic risk is expressed in the brains of even those who are healthy, but carry some risk for AD. The results of this study are published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. Investigators used automated neuroimaging analysis techniques to characterize the impact of an AD-risk gene, apolipoprotein E (ApoE4), on gray and white matter in the brains of cognitively healthy elderly from the KU Brain Aging Project.
They found that healthy elderly individuals carrying a risk-allele of the ApoE4 gene had reduced cognitive performance, decreased brain volume in the hippocampus and amygdala (regions important for memory processing), and decreased white matter integrity in limbic regions. These type of brain changes are also found in people with AD. This research was conducted in the laboratory of Jeffrey M. Sarah Palin Arriving At Book Signing In Michigan. Happy Hour Roundup. Using Google Wave for a week - it's still great! - Gobbledygook - Martin Fenner's blog on Nature Network. Following up from my post last week , below is a suggested list of features that should be supported in documents written in scholarly markdown.
Please provide feedback via the comments, or by editing the Wiki version I have set up here . Listed are features that go beyond the standard markdown syntax . The goals of scholarly markdown are to support writing of complete scholarly articles, don’t make the syntax more complicated than it is today, and don’t rely on HTML as the fallback mechanism. In practice this means that scholarly markdown should support most, but not all scholarly texts – documents that are heavy in math formulas, have complicated tables, etc. may be better written with LaTeX or Microsoft Word. It also means that scholarly markdown will probably contain only limited semantic markup, as this is difficult to do with a lightweight markup language and much easier with XML or a binary file format. Cover Page Optional metadata about a document. Typography Tables Figures Math. Lost Inside Google Wave? 5 Waves To Make Your Life. If you are brand new to Google Wave (aren’t we all?)
And a bit confused, then you are going to love this post. The goal here is to point you in the right direction on the wave to get updated content and help. Please keep in mind you must be logged into your Wave account in order for the links in this post to connect you! I have another amazing guest author to thank for this article. He is Twitter’s resident Google Wave Jedi Master and you can follow him on Twitter at @wavejedimaster. He describes himself as a pro-waver and he graciously takes time out of his schedule to help others on the Wave or on Twitter. If you are one of those that just arrived to Google Wave it is quite possible that you feel a little lost about what is going on and how things work. To help you find your way here is a list of 5 Waves you shouldn’t miss: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
We hope you’ll find these links helpful, and my the Wave be with you! Obama Nominates Pesticide Executive to Be Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative. Science & Environment Articles | Unintended Consequences Dog Island Restorations | Miller-McCune Online Magazine. This article originally appeared on Nov. 16, 2009. In the northern Channel Islands off California, a cat-sized native fox is making a dramatic comeback, thanks to a 10-year, $22 million multifaceted program to save it from extinction. The last of the resident golden eagles, a nonnative species that was snacking on foxes like kids in a candy store, was removed in 2006 and transported to the far-off northern Sierra Nevada. Also, fish-eating bald eagles, a territorial sort that was once native to the islands, were reintroduced to help chase off its red-meat-eating cousins.
It’s just one piece of a Herculean effort by the National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy to turn back the clock, untangle scrambled ecosystems and restore some of the wildness that was lost when the islands — often called California’s Galápagos — were settled by European ranchers in the mid-19th century. “The populations in the wild are doing great,” said Tim Coonan, the park biologist. Rachel Maddow on "Joe the Obstructionist" | the joshua blog. Chomsky: Iraq Invasion ‘Major Crime’ Designed to Control Middle East Oil. Photo by John Soares via Chomsky.info Political activist Noam Chomsky says that although President Obama views the Iraq invasion merely as “a mistake” or “strategic blunder,” it is, in fact, a “major crime” designed to enable America to control the Middle East oil reserves.
“It’s [“strategic blunder"] probably what the German general staff was telling Hitler after Stalingrad,” Chomsky quipped, referring to the big Nazi defeat by the Soviet army in 1943. “There is basically no significant change in the fundamental traditional conception that if we can control Middle East energy resources, then we can control the world,” he added.
In a lecture at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London Oct. 27th, Chomsky warned against expecting significant foreign policy changes from Obama, according to a report by Mamoon Alabbasi published on MWCNews.net. Alabbasi is an editor at Middle East Online. Chomsky is professor emeritus of linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. FDL Action » Why Is Lieberman Scared of Big, Bad Rachel Maddow? IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession « Public Citizen. [youtube= If you are a fan of deep discussions about financial policy and international market forces, then you’ll want to check out this video from a panel discussion held last week at Public Citizen’s offices in Washington, D.C. The panel focused on the International Monetary Fund’s role during the global financial crisis and included Public Citizen President Robert Weissman, Mark Weisbrot, co-cirector of the Center for Economic Policy Research, James Roaf of the IMF, Asia Russell, the director of Health GAP and Jo Marie Griesgraber, executive director of the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition.
Weisbrot presented a report that found that “31 of 41 countries with current IMF agreements have been subjected to pro-cyclical macroeconomic policies that, during the current global recession, could be expected to have exacerbated economic slowdowns.” Below is the question and answer portion of the discussion. [youtube= Twitterface | Design Your Interface. Tweepi – Twitter Follow Management With Stats. By Alok Saboo – Follow @truvoip Twitter is a great platform bringing together millions of people for you to interact. The challenge, however, is to identify the subset of this twitterverse that is relevant for you. The value that you can derive from Twitter is a function of the quality of people that you interact with. Today, I will present a great tool – Tweepi – that makes the onerous task of finding and following quality people a cakewalk. Tweepi presents a geekier, faster way to manage your Twitter experience. It currently has four tools and hopefully we will more in the future.
Geeky Follow: Before you can prune your friend list, you need to build your friend list. After you enter the popular user, Tweepi will provide the list of users following the popular tweep and also provide various statistic about them, such as location, number of followers, tweets, replies, RTs, etc. Flush: While Twitter encourages interaction, you may find several users following you back.
Bill Moyers: How Can the U.S. Be an Empire and a Democracy at the Same Time? | World. October 19, 2009 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The following is a transcript from Bill Moyers' interview with journalist Mark Danner on his new book, Stripping Bare the Body, broadcast on PBS's Bill Moyers Journal.
Bill Moyers: President Obama has been holding one meeting after another trying to decide whether to escalate the war in Afghanistan. He would do well to hold off another discussion until he has sent everyone home for the weekend to read this new book with the provocative title, Stripping Bare the Body , and a cover that holds the eye like a magnet. The subject is politics, violence, and war, and running through it is an old truth often forgot: you start a war knowing what you are fighting, but in the end you find yourself fighting for things you had never thought of. In the meantime, you make decisions that inflict on people in far-off places suffering you never imagined. Danner: Exactly. Danner: Exactly. Moyers: Why? Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog! Go!: Fox News Isn't News. Fox News Boycott » Fox & Friends Helps Prove White Houses Case. Posted on Oct 20, 2009 in Fox & Friends | 3 comments Fox & Friends hosts Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy were gabbing away with Dana Perino about how wrong they think it is that the Obama administration is finally standing up against the numerous falsehoods and manipulations aired by Fox News.
Below are quotes from Steve Doocy, a video clip and an excerpt from the Newsweek article he refers to. DOOCY: And you know it’s funny Dana, I didn’t do a thorough search, but I did do a little Google thing. The New York Times came out against it, The Nation refers to, says there’s a word for what the President and his aids are doing and that’s “whining” and refers to the President as the “Whiner-in-Chief”, the Baltimore Sun thinks it’s stupid, and the Newsweek column said that it is essentially un-American. The Newsweek article actually states the exact opposite – that Rupert Murdoch and Fox News are un-American. Original Story Share this article. Countdown with Keith Olbermann Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Bill Maher: “We [Americans] Are Not A Good People” CNN's Reliable Sources: FOX News Flaunts White House War.
Fox's Scott -- repeatedly caught cut and pasting GOP research as own -- defends Fox from GOP-research arm claims. Look out: Obama is sending his minions to your house. The deep history of a conspiracy theory. IN THE HIERARCHY of scary-looking devices, the Census Bureau’s new handheld computers fall somewhere below the staple remover, and only a little above the hole punch. The boxy units, about the size of a checkbook, allow the department’s field workers to collect and transmit information electronically, including GPS positions, so houses and apartments get placed in the right location in its records.
In early April, when census agents began the address canvassing that is the initial phase of every decennial count, they carried these handhelds for the first time. This milestone initially stirred the same buzz as an Agriculture Department report on projected avocado yields. But as census canvassers took their handheld computers down city streets and exurban cul-de-sacs and backcountry lanes, something started to happen. “They show up at your house, and you look down, and you ask what they are doing,” says Alex Jones, the syndicated radio host. Creeped out, people were. Recycling Atomic Waste: Nuclear Materials Stored In Siberian Parking Lots - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International.
The largest utility company in Europe, Électricité de France, has been accused of storing nuclear waste in an open air car park in Siberia. An investigative documentary called the "Nuclear Nightmare" that screened on Tuesday in Germany and France accuses the company of sending nuclear waste to a town in Siberia where it is then stored in metal containers in a parking lot. The containers, the makers of the documentary -- French documentary director Eric Guéret and French journalist Laure Noualhat of the newspaper Libération -- report, are in the Siberian town of Seversk, formerly a secret "closed city" where there are several nuclear reactors, plants for reprocessing uranium and plutonium as well as storage and production facilities for nuclear weapons.
Although the Russian town now appears on maps, entry into the area is still restricted to locals. It's Nuclear Waste -- But Not As We Know It "You have to be careful. Nuclear Recycling: 'The Technology Could Be Improved' U.N. Report Spurs Barbs Over Peace in Mideast. Michael Shermer: An Open Letter to Bill Maher on Vaccinations. Cars that Run on Cow Power? Limbaugh conspiracy theory: Obama "corrupt[ed]" November elections, Nobel, NFL new-owner bidding process, etc. Harry Reid is the worst leader ever! Lieberman doesn't support Baucus Bill.
VIDEO: 1 in 3 women in military are raped. Buchanan attacks Sharpton for getting Imus "dropped off the air for two words at 6:15 in the morning" Defending Limbaugh, Buchanan says "this is blacklisting," which "liberals used to condemn" Judge Closes Pretrial Hearings to Public in Blackwater Case - washingtonpost.com. Arianna Huffington, STFU. Twitter’s Top 10 Celebrity Avatars of 2009. - Tremendous News! Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent 1 of 9. CNN's Anderson Cooper & Guests Debate The White House vs. Fox News.
Insurers Adopt Tobacco Strategy, Make Case for the Public Option. Is Lou Dobbs Going To Fox? | TV. Rachel Maddow Takes on the Man Doing Corporate Agribusiness's Dirty Work.