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Paying Attention To Renewable Energy Subsidies
K.L — over at Democracy in America — traces the history of energy subsidies in the United States and laments the fact that renewable energy doesn’t seem to get a fair share of the pie: [Energy]...
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Edward Snowden: Neither Hero Nor Whistle-Blower
By now, anyone with even a remote interest in current affairs is well aware of the story of Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old Booz Allen Hamilton employee and ex-CIA analyst behind Glenn Greenwald’s...
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Obama Administration Withdraws From Plan B Fight
The Obama Administration decided that it will comply with a court order to allow Plan B emergency contraceptives to be sold over-the-counter to girls of all ages: The Obama administration on Monday...
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Scariest Chart Of The Day
Andy Lee Robinson’s creative “Death Spiral” of Arctic Sea ice coverage, over-time, illustrates the problem: Joe Romm considers the future: Many experts now say that if recent volume trends continue we...
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New Atheism’s Problem Is Our Problem Too
Written by Cato: I stumbled upon this video last night: Watch the first 10 minutes or so and bear witness to a huge problem that pervades society—one that we rarely articulate or engage, but is at the...
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Supreme Court Rules That Your Genes Cannot Be Patented
Hurray for common sense! The Supreme Court says companies cannot patent human genes, a decision that could profoundly affect the medical and biotechnology industries. In a unanimous decision, the court...
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What Happens To Women Who Can’t Get An Abortion?
Spurned on by the fact that abortion clinics all have “gestational deadlines” — meaning they can and will turn away women who are at a later stage of pregnancy than they allow for — Dr. Diane Greene...
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Photo Of The Day
A 102 year-old transport ship called the SS Ayrfield, which after outliving its usefulness was towed to Homebush Bay in Sydney Australia, has in the last few decades transformed into a floating forest:...
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The U.S Federal Government Is Making You Fat
Written by Cato: Why are Americans so fat? The answer might be simpler than you think. Despite decades of fighting obesity with programs and literature like Food Pyramid or MyPlate – aimed at helping...
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The Best Of The Week On Left And Center
The most popular posts this week were The Youth Of Today Basically Can’t Read Anymore, Cato’s really awesome New Atheism’s Problem Is Our Problem Too, What Happens To Women Who Can’t Get An Abortion,...
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Obama’s Climate Change Rollout Casts Light On A Broken GOP
This afternoon, in a speech at Georgetown University, President Obama will lay out a barrage of energy and climate policies to tackle global climate change, based almost entirely on the use of...
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Hunger Modifies Behavior, Affects Pathways In The Brain
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried conducted experiments on the fruit fly, Drosophila, and have found that hunger not only modifies behavior and mood, but affects...
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700K Year Old Horse Yields World’s Oldest DNA Sequence On Record
According to a new study carried out by a group of expert researchers and published in Nature, the oldest DNA to ever be found comes from a horse. The researchers sequenced the DNA of a 700,000...
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Hitchslapping The Ten Commandments (Video)
The late journalist and commentator offers some changes to the Decalogue: Hitchslap (Def): The process of utterly obliterating an opponent’s entire (usually religious or political) argument, usually in...
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Mapping The Anti-Science, Climate Denying 113th Congress
Tiffany Germain, Ryan Koronowski and Jeff Spross relay their shocking findings in a recent survey of climate change deniers in Congress: Despite the overwhelming scientific consensus and high costs to...
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Doubting “Darwin’s Doubt”
Gareth Cook reviews Stephen Meyer’s upcoming New York Times bestselling book “Darwin’s Doubt”, which he calls “a masterwork of psuedoscience“: Most absurd of all is the book’s stance on knowledge: if...
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Quote For The Day
“If you can approach the world’s complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the...
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Best Of The Week
The most popular posts of the week were Doubting “Darwin’s Doubt”, Southern States Move Quickly To Suppress The Black Vote, our coverage of A Revolution In Egypt: Why We’ll Be Here Again Soon, and the...
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Modern Language & Speech Can Be Traced Back To Neandertals
Since the discovery of Neandertals 200 years ago, scientists have been gathering copious amounts of data indicating that our last common ancestor shared a lot more in common with us than previously...
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Proving Global Warming True, With One Chart
In a new report, the World Meteorological Association finds that, ”The period 2000-2010 was the warmest decade on record since modern meteorological records began around 1850″: It’s just more effective...
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