“In 1906 I indulged my temper by hurling invectives at Neo-Darwinians in the following terms. “I really do not wish to be abusive [to Neo-Darwinians]; but when I think of these poor little dullards, with their precarious hold of just that corner of evolution that a blackbeetle can understand—with their retinue of twopenny-halfpenny Torquemadas wallowing in the infamies of the vivisector’s laboratory, and solemnly offering us as epoch-making discoveries their demonstrations that dogs get weaker and die if you give them no food; that intense pain makes mice sweat; and that if you cut off a dog’s leg the three-legged dog will have a four-legged puppy, I ask myself what spell has fallen on intelligent and humane men that they allow themselves to be imposed on by this rabble of dolts, blackguards, imposters, quacks, liars, and, worst of all, credulous conscientious fools.”
~George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methusaleh: A Metabiological Pentateuch (1921)
Secret State of North Korea highly cited by BC
Democracy Now!
Tiny, family-run newspaper wins Pulitzer Prize for taking on big business Poynter Institute. Well worth a read for Iowa’s complexity.
~George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methusaleh: A Metabiological Pentateuch (1921)
Democrats push anti-Russian campaign at “tax day” protests WSWS This is pathetic. These people do not understand what is in a tax return. They won’t find the sort of information they are screeching will be there.
AS tensions between North Korean and the US heighten fears of a nuclear war, here are the times the world has come perilously close to annihilation only to be saved by smart diplomacy, incompetence or good luck.
FRONTLINE shines a light on the hidden world of the North Korean people, revealing how ordinary citizens are resisting one of the world’s most oppressive regimes
457 Visas: targeted jobs 'rarely if ever' are brought into Australia
Trump to overhaul visa program for high-skilled workers The Hill. A handwave. Studies are a way to kick the can down the road. They also allow vested interests to weigh in.
Democracy Now!
Tiny, family-run newspaper wins Pulitzer Prize for taking on big business Poynter Institute. Well worth a read for Iowa’s complexity.
Threatened Himalayas: What do we know? The Third Pole
How the Government Is Turning Protesters Into Felons Esquire
Artificial Intelligence and Law: A Six Part Primer – Professor Daniel Martin Katz, Chicago Kent College of Law (Updated Version 03.17.17) – PowerPoint Presentation – 271 slides.
Rachel Whetstone leaves Uber because of “lack of appetite for… drama” (LOL) Pando Daily “Head of Communications and Public Policy
More Evidence That Charter Schools Are a Taxpayer Ripoff That Delivers Poor Results
A damning new report from California shows that charter schools are a grift that profits investors at the expense of taxpayers and children.
Via Science – Dalmeet Singh Chawla – “…the Initiative for Open Citations(I4OC), a project aiming to make citation data free to all, formally announced today by six organizations, including the Wikimedia Foundation, publisher Public Library of Science, and the open-access journal eLife. So far, the initiative has partnered with 29 journal publishers to enable anyone to access citation data from about 14 million papers indexed by Crossref, a nonprofit collaboration that promotes the sharing of scholarly information. And more publishers are likely to sign on, says Mark Patterson, executive director of eLife, in Cambridge, U.K. Conversations about opening up citation data initially took place this past September at the eighth Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing,in response to a report that found that just 3% of almost a thousand publishers depositing data on Crossref were making citation data open. In practice, that meant that citation data were available for just 1% of the roughly 35 million papers on Crossref, says Dario Taraborelli, head of research at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, California…”
Kristine Tidgren, Summary Judgment Narrows Issues for First Syngenta Trial (Ag Docket)
Lew Taishoff, DE NOVO MEANS DE NOVO. “Or as a much finer writer than I put it, ‘A lawyer is not to tell what he knows to be a lie: he is not to produce what he knows to be a false deed; but he is not to usurp the province of the jury and of the judge, and determine what shall be the effect of evidence—what shall be the result of legal argument.'”
I was always taught that an honest search for the truth would lead to God. If an atheist is searching for truth then he/she is on the same journey we all are.
Anthony Horan Campbelltown
As
investigations continue into Russian interference into the 2016 presidential
elections, former top intelligence officials said they worry it's only the
beginning of a long, insidious fight.
I was always taught that an honest search for the truth would lead to God. If an atheist is searching for truth then he/she is on the same journey we all are.
Anthony Horan Campbelltown