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If you can afford it, please consider kicking in a few dollars to help the tornado victims. Via Monkeyfister:
A report by the Education Department was just released showing that, as usual, the existing educational inequities are being rewarded and exaggerated with inequities in distribution of education funding;
Consumers beware! A survey of 500 poultry-processing workers in Arkansas found that 62 percent said they have gone to work when they were sick. Why? Only 9 percent of the workers reported they had access to earned sick leave.
It's an ugly little open secret that Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas have constitutions that explicitly forbid atheists from holding st

NOVA scienceNOW has been a pretty decent science podcast for a while now. I wonder if it's popularity sparked the attempt at a tv series - not that I have any idea how popular it is. NdGT is an excellent public face for science though and really entertaining to watch, I'll definitely check it out for the first few episodes.