MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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From literacy to digiracy
Economist - May. 16 (Special Report)
The printed word has fought a rear-guard action against not only computers and television, but also a whole horde of digital upstarts from DVDs and video games to mobile phones,... More »
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Growing up online
PBS / Frontline - By Rachel Dretzin, John Maggio - May. 16 (Special Report)
(Video - 60 mins. - Repeat) Jessica Hunter was a shy and awkward girl who struggled to make friends at school. Then, at age 14, she reinvented herself online as Autumn Edows, a... More »
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Mom indicted in deadly MySpace hoax
CNN - May. 16 (News Report)
A Missouri mom was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in the death of a teen who killed herself over a failed Internet romance that turned out to be a hoax... More »
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Caribou Decline Tied to Global Warming
Canada.com - By Ed Struzik - May. 12 (News Report)
The High Arctic population is in such deep trouble that the Committee on the Status of Endangered Species in Canada has recommended the Peary caribou remain on the endangered list... More »
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Salmon Fishing Closes on Central Valley Rivers
TruthOut - By Dan Bacher - May. 12 (News Report)
For the first time ever, recreational salmon fishing will be closed on the Sacramento River and its tributaries this year, with the exception of a short season for late fall-run... More »
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Does the Foundation of Prejudice Lie in Native Language?
ScienceBlogs.com - May. 11 (Blog Post)
Who says religion and science can't go together well? I just read an interesting paper by Kinzler et al.(1), published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of... More »
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'Strategic Corporate Philanthropy' - WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal - By Bill Gates - May. 8 (Opinion)
How important is access to information technology? A World Bank report released earlier this year found a very high correlation between the rate of technology progress and income... More »
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Lured Toward the Right Choice
Time - May. 6 (Review)
If you want people to use less energy, you could make it very expensive--or you could just let them know how much they use in comparison with their neighbors... More »
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Credibility is not binary
Buzzmachine - By Jeff Jarvis - May. 14 (Opinion)
I've seen a couple of efforts lately to help determine who's credible online and though I understand the need and the motive, these attempts are fundamentally flawed and perhaps... More »
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Gilligan's web
Rough Type - By Nick Carr - May. 14 (Blog Post)
I think we'd all agree that the Web is changing the structure of media, and that's going to have many important ramifications. Some will be good, and some will be bad, and the way... More »
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Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain
Scientific American - By Siri Carpenter - May. 8 (News Report)
psychologists have established that people unwittingly hold an astounding assortment of stereotypical beliefs and attitudes about social groups: black and white, female and male,... More »
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Hard Drive Recovered from Columbia Shuttle Solves Physics Problem
Scientific American - By JR Minkel - May. 6 (News Report)
Researchers have finally published the results of data recovered from a cracked and singed hard drive that fell to Earth in the debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia, which... More »
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Pentagon's Accounting Mess
Portfolio - By Scott Paltrow - May. 3 (Special Report)
The basic defense budget for 2007 was $439.3 billion, up 48 percent from 2001, excluding the vast additional sums appropriated for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... More »
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Scheduling Wind Power
MIT Technology Review - By Peter Fairley - Apr. 18 (Special Report)
As wind power becomes more common, its unpredictability becomes more of a problem. Sudden drops in wind speed can send grid operators scrambling to cover the shortfall and even... More »
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How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor
Foreign Affairs - By C. Ford Runge. Benjamin Senauer - Apr. 22 (Special Report)
The enormous volume of corn required by the ethanol industry is sending shock waves through the food system. (The United States accounts for some 40 percent of the world's total... More »
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Turn the other cheek, or pop him on the nose?
Los Angeles Times - By Mark Kurlansky - Apr. 20 (Opinion)
In 1933, Mohandas K. Gandhi wrote this about his strategy of nonviolent activism, which he called the law of love: "The law will work just like the law of gravitation will... More »
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With a little training, we can recognize other races as well as our own
ScienceBlogs.com - By Greta Munger, Dave Munger - Apr. 30 (Review)
ResearchBlogging.orgHumans are exceptionally good at recognizing faces they've seen before. It doesn't take much study to accurately recall whether or not you've seen a particular... More »
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Bring on the Right Biofuels
New York Times - By Roger Cohen - Apr. 24 (Opinion)
Biofuels are suddenly being blamed for every global ill. Most of this, to borrow a farm image, is hogwash and bilge. More »
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The Gas Tax 'Holiday' Shell Game
Huffington Post - By Janet Ritz - May. 5 (Blog Post)
Nearly every expert, with the exception of a Shell Oil lobbyist, concurs: the 'Gas Tax Holiday' would be a windfall for the oil companies and offer the consumer little. More »
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Cap and trade: "inefficent and ineffective"
The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - May. 7 (Blog Post)
Over the weekend, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, two Oakland, CA EPA attorneys, speaking as private citizens, sent an open letter to every member of Congress indicating that the... More »
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Mom indicted in deadly MySpace hoax
CNN - May. 16 (News Report)
A Missouri mom was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in the death of a teen who killed herself over a failed Internet romance that turned out to be a hoax... More »
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NASA Holds Breath for Phoenix Mars Lander's Touchdown
Scientific American - May. 15 (News Report)
"Follow the water" has been NASA's mantra as it has explored Mars for signs of present or past life. It will be no different later this month when the Phoenix Mars... More »
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Documents link wind farm foes to energy firm
Boston Globe - May. 15 (News Report)
A new lobbying firm for the group opposing a wind farm off Cape Cod filed a federal document last month reporting that its work for the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound is... More »
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Australia: Biological Weapons To Control Cane Toad Invasion
ScienceDaily - May. 10 (News Report)
New research on cane toads in Northern Australia has discovered a way to control the cane toad invasion using parasites and toad communication signals... More »
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Facebook Responds To MySpace With Facebook Connect
TechCrunch - May. 9 (News Report)
Facebook will announce later today Facebook Connect, which has similar functionality to MySpace Data Availability, announced just yesterday... More »
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Does the Foundation of Prejudice Lie in Native Language?
ScienceBlogs.com - May. 11 (Blog Post)
Who says religion and science can't go together well? I just read an interesting paper by Kinzler et al.(1), published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of... More »
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'Strategic Corporate Philanthropy' - WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal - May. 8 (Opinion)
How important is access to information technology? A World Bank report released earlier this year found a very high correlation between the rate of technology progress and income... More »
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Of Myths and Men
Nature - May. 7 (Opinion)
"When physicists dismiss as a myth the charge that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will trigger a process that might destroy the world, they are closer to the truth than they... More »
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Gilligan's web
Rough Type - May. 14 (Blog Post)
I think we'd all agree that the Web is changing the structure of media, and that's going to have many important ramifications. Some will be good, and some will be bad, and the way... More »
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John McCain: Eco Warrior
The Nation - May. 12 (Blog Post)
Yikes, it's really true. John McCain is running for president as a tree-hugging liberal. No, not an all-the-time environmentalist -- rather, as a swing-state-savvy,... More »