Right now there is a horrific conflict happening between Israel and Palestine. Horrific. Israel is given full faith and credit of the United States, along with much of our media. Palestine is brutally suffering. Over six hundred dead. Yesterday, when statistics were more accessible, I found only 2 i...

First Mono-game hits the Apple AppStore - Miguel de Icaza Mono on the iPhone? very cool. congrats to Migel and crew. (tags: iphone blurst raptorcopter mono) Elijah’s Blog » Blog Archive » GNOME DVCS Survey results interesting results from looking at DVCS preferences w/in the GNOME community. git...

IAM NOT certain, but I think it was Dean Smith who said he really did not look closely at statistics until several games into conference play. Like so much the great North Carolina coach said (or probably said), there is wisdom in that....

The euro seriously rose in December, giving some room to eurozone importers while the British pound dramatically fell, therefore depressing UK's clothing import market. The decline of the dollar in December should also further limit US apparel imports in the near term. Exporters in India and Pakista...

January 7, 2009By David Flores Southern California quarterback Mark Sanchez starred in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, only a few hours after Western Kentucky basketball player Orlando Mendez-Valdez recorded the first triple-double in school history. That Sanchez and Mendez-Valdez, a 2004 Lanier Hi...

Megan McArdle links to this story about Meaghan Cheung, the SEC investigator who missed the Bernie Madoff scheme, despite being tipped off to it in writing. "Why are you taking a mid-level staff person and making me responsible for the failure of the American economy?" an upset Meaghan Cheung, with ...

The following, while lengthy, is a plethra of information and facts specific to depression and women. Here are the facts about depression in women. In the U.S. about 15 million people experience depression each year. The majority of them are women. Unfortunately, nearly two-thirds of those women do ...

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By Joseph Romm The imminent reality of peak oil production should be clear to all by now. Now some very serious people are suggesting that there is a lot less accessible coal out there than most folks believe. If we are nearing peak coal (and peak oil), then we would need to embrace the rapid transi...

The Bismarck Tribune says we shouldn’t, and that there are better solutions for the problem of traffic accidents among teenagers: North Dakota has a larger population of older citizens than most states and, therefore, a larger percentage of the population of senior citizens that drive. Likewis...