The Islamic Conference (OIC) has allegedly punched a hole in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by inserting the following text into some UN docs. To report on instances where the abuse of the right of freedom of expression constitutes an act of racial or religious discrimination taking into account Articles 19(3) and 20 of [...]
Read more →http://www.eemersontool.com/Home.html sort of a giant ruler that clamps on to things – possibly useful for cutting big boards in half.
Read more →http://www.wattzon.org/gameplan.htm via Jonathan Sanderson. Doesn’t really mention next gen solar, unfortunately.
Read more →WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U2 lead singer and activist Bono visited the Pentagon to discuss Africa and the fight against global poverty with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, representatives of the two men said on Wednesday. Among the topics at the 20-minute meeting on Tuesday afternoon were U.S. plans to set up a new U.S. military [...]
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Read more →If we conduct military operations on your soil and we don’t feel the need to tell your government about it beforehand (e.g., Somalia, Pakistan), you’re in the Gap. Barnett on core and gap. Other good bits from his blog of late: Chinese peacekeepers in the Sudan http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/02/the_end_of_were_not_political.html Cheap chinese equipment changing lives in Africa http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/02/yuan_diplomacy_work_the_bottom.html [...]
Read more →Nim Chimpsky was a chimp raised in the 1970s in a way close to humans, in the hope he would develop language. The results were ambiguous on the language front. But something else happened. The former graduate students in New York believe that Nim had no idea he was a chimpanzee. One of them suggested [...]
Read more →Huge public event, and people sound pissed. The sidelong glance he gives the crowd practically says just you wait, humans…
Read more →Said just after the 1:30 mark. Hilarious.
Read more →http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080301faessay87201/stephen-e-flynn/america-the-resilient.html Yep, that’s worth reading.
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