August 2009
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January 2009
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November 2008
2 posts
“One of the most notorious cases involved Belgian-born, U.S.-based writer Misha...”
– http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/11/18/ugly.briscoe.court.ap/index.html
October 2008
3 posts
August 2008
3 posts
ALS mice - Nature
“You might create a mouse in your lab and distribute it to ten different people,” he says, “so there’s ten different colonies all over the world, and they’re all diverging from each other, genetically. So when I’m publishing my paper I’m talking about this mouse, and you think you have the same mouse in your hands. But do you really?”
phosphine →
But I never encountered anything as nauseating or alien like PhePHMe: The memory is stil with me - the most sickly and sweetish smell of rancid gasoline combined with rotten water melons, with undertones of stale sweat, pig carcass, a hint of garlic, moldy oranges, russian-made aftershave and a cheap household air freshener… its a whole package, and rather sweet one - like isonitriles or...
July 2008
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June 2008
2 posts
“It’s frightening to think about what they might do,” he said.”
– NYT
May 2008
3 posts
“‘I think it’s very bad,’ said neighbor Laura Valdez, who has...”
– http://www.click2houston.com/news/16185550/detail.html
Phylotaxis →
March 2008
2 posts
February 2008
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December 2007
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November 2007
7 posts
But the guy kept insisting that he be allowed to perform “his own test” which he claimed would prove he was not drunk. So finally, just out of curiosity, the police officer acquiesced — with no guarantees. “So the guy takes off running, and all of a sudden he goes into this cartwheel/back flip, with his cowboy boots on, and his legs go counter-clockwise, and he lands it,...
“All I can say to you young folks out there is be careful,” he said....”
– Zoey Zane
October 2007
24 posts
“applied to the nation. The soft pedal on this emotion, the loud on that,
army...”
“Oh, my god,”
Rowling concluded with a laugh,
“the fan fiction.”
– see n-n
The real price of freedom
THEY hate our freedoms.” So said George Bush in a speech to the American Congress shortly after the attacks on America in September 2001. But how well, at home, have America and the other Western democracies defended those precious freedoms during the “war on terror”?
The past six years have seen a steady erosion of civil liberties even in countries that regard themselves as liberty’s...
