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Category: Politics
You may have read elsewhere that publishing giant Reed Elsevier has been caught copying Mike Dunford's content without permission (and copyrighting it as their own!), which is extremely hypocritical from a company that opposes the open access movement and makes...
Posted by Mo at 12:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Middle East
Regular readers will know that I rarely write about politics. But this post is an exception, as it is written in memory of my father, who died on this day 7 years ago. That's my father on the left,...
Posted by Mo at 6:34 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
The New York Times Magazine contains a long article about the close ties between evangelical Christians and the Republican party....
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Category: Cinema
The vilification of Arabs in American popular culture serves an ideological purpose: the dehumanization of America's "enemy" in the "clash of civilisations". (Via Woman of Color Blog)...
Posted by Mo at 3:38 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Iran
According to Pullitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the answer is yes....
Posted by Mo at 3:26 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
A new survey, released today by the ORB polling agency, suggests that around 1.2 million Iraqi civilians have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003. That's more than 4% of the country's population....
Posted by Mo at 9:55 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
ABC News has posted a transcript of Osama bin Laden's videotaped statement, in which he refers to Noam Chomsky as "among the most capable" of commentators on the Iraq war. And in a Mind Hacks exclusive, Vaughan has posted a...
Posted by Mo at 3:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the governmental body that regulates fertility treatments in the U.K., looks set to approve the use of hybrid embryos for stem cell research at a meeting later on today. Earlier this week, the...
Posted by Mo at 5:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
The Democratic presidential candidate answers questions about climate change, science education and health care, but there's no mention of stem cells or of evolution/creationism. Nevertheless, it's well worth reading both the interview and the comments....
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