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An Oxford graduate student by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his Ph.D. research in protein structure get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.

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Gaza Fulbright Scholarships Reinstated

After a rapid media outcry, the US and Israel have come together to reinstate the Fulbright Scholarships initially revoked from several students from Gaza due to Israel-imposed travel restrictions. From The New York Times: JERUSALEM -- The American State Department...

Posted on June 2, 2008 4:30 AM • 0 Comments •

Israeli-Imposed Travel Restrictions Force Palestinians to Lose Fulbright Scholarships

On one metric, at least, Israel appears worse that apartheid South Africa.

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Posted on May 31, 2008 11:30 AM • 13 Comments •

US to Consider No Longer Calling Mandela, ANC "Terrorists"

You can file this one under "should have been done about twenty years ago." From the Mail & Guardian: Lawmakers on Tuesday debated legislation to remove former South African president Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) from an...

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Posted on May 7, 2008 8:57 AM • 1 Comments •

South African Unions Prevent the Delivery of Arms to Unstable Zimbabwe

Now that the Chinese ship An Yue Jiang--which was delivering arms from China to Zimbabwe--has been turned away for good, there are two significant aspects of this story upon which we should reflect. The first is that the true heroes...

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Posted on April 28, 2008 6:10 PM • 0 Comments •

From the Archives: My 9/11 Story

Last year, I recounted my personal experience on September 11, 2001, and I offered some commentary about what that day--and the events of the ensuing year--meant to me and to American politics in general. I've reposted my 9/11 story again...

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Posted on September 11, 2007 8:46 AM • 2 Comments •

Barack Obama: Not Waffling on Cuba

He calls for bilateral talks and unrestricted Cuban American visitation and remittance rights.

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Posted on August 21, 2007 4:50 PM • 2 Comments •

This Says It All

On Bush and Iraq

Posted on January 11, 2007 8:26 AM • 0 Comments •

My 9/11 Story

When I was a freshman in college, at Texas A&M University, on Tuesday and Thursday mornings I had two classes back-to-back in the same lecture hall. Because of a weird scheduling fluke, these classes were about 45 minutes apart, though....

Posted on September 11, 2006 8:46 AM • 5 Comments •

Self-Deception, from Biology to the Battlefield

Robert Trivers was the first to describe the theory of reciprocal altruism and Noam Chomsky is... well... Noam Chomsky is the man (not to be confused with The Man). What happens when you bring together in one room the evolutionary...

Posted on September 7, 2006 8:07 PM • 1 Comments •

On the Front Lines with BT

Lines were drawn in the sand, artillery stood armed and ready, and tensions ran high. Neither side was willing to budge, and despite the seemingly endless conflict having already tested the resolve of both sides, it looked like things were only just beginning to get rough. The whole scenario was regrettable--war always is--but it felt inevitable at the time.... Besides, how else was I going to get internet access in my house?

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Posted on August 23, 2006 7:45 AM • 5 Comments •

Ask a ScienceBlogger: The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty as a Science Policy Success

One success of science influencing policy in a good way that might not be so obvious was the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which was largely influenced by the work of one scientist, Linus Pauling.

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Posted on July 4, 2006 9:33 PM • 5 Comments •

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