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BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Prop 8 Ruling on Tuesday -- A Guide to Understanding What's Happening - Poliglot
[ UPDATE: THE NINTH CIRCUIT HAS RULED - " BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Strikes Down Proposition 8 on Narrow Grounds. " ]
I just posted a blog post on the MIT Media Lab blog officially taking a position against SOPA and PIPA. This is a longer blog post co-authored with Ethan Zuckerman describing the issue in more detail. SOPA - the Stop Online Piracy Act - and a sister bill, PIPA - the Protect IP Act - seek to minimize the dissemination of copyrighted material online by targeting sites that promote and enable the sharing of copyright-protected material, like The Pirate Bay.
Why we need to stop SOPA and PIPA - Joi Ito's Web
s Person of the Year, from 1927 to 2011 - TIME
TIME's Person of the Year is bestowed by the editors on the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.
By now we have all heard the latest in the months-long debate over reducing the nation’s deficit — barring a last-minute miracle, the congressional super committee tasked with finding at least $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction will fail to come to an agreement. Cue handwringing by pundits lamenting the inability of both Democrats and Republicans to compromise. The notion that both sides share in the blame is an easy line for commentators to repeat, but it isn’t true.
How Republican Tax Intransigence Sank The Super Committee: A Timeline | ThinkProgress
The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide if Obamacare is constitutional, and in particular, whether the individual mandate is constitutional.
The Fate of Obamacare | Mother Jones
On Saturday February 19th, the crowd around the Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin grew to 70,000.
The ‘Madison Method’ for crowd control
The Breathing Earth simulation Welcome to Breathing Earth . This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.
Breathingearth - CO2, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time
Here's a fun tidbit fact-checker extraordinaire Aaron Ross dug up when we were shipping my Assignment: Ohio feature for the November/December issue. With the help of student-aid guru Mark Kantrowitz , Aaron was verifying that the majority of the student loans taken out in the United States haven't yet been paid back. Just how much in outstanding loans are we talking?
Stat of the Day: Don't-Lend-College-Students-Money Edition | Mother Jones
Though a recent congressional report announced recession-driven rises in poverty rates in 46 states, Utah is coming close to achieving its 10-year goal of eliminating chronic homelessness. The solution of the state is simple: give homes to the homeless.
How Utah Will Soon End Chronic Homelessness