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Monthly Archives: November 2003
Global Attention Profiles [Harvard]
Thursday, November 27, 2003
Which countries are getting media attention? This dynamic map shows you…
Humans Are Unsustainable [Discovery]
Thursday, November 27, 2003
1,000 Times Too Many Humans?
A study that compared humans with other species concluded there are 1,000 times too many humans to be sustainable.
The study, published in the current Proceedings B (Biological Sciences) by the Royal Society, used a statistical device known as “confidence limits” to measure what the sustainable norm should be for species populations. [...]
Hideous parasites living off humans [BBC]
Thursday, November 27, 2003
Worms poking out of unsuspecting diners noses, women with fly larva hatching from her head. Meter long tapeworms pulled out by shocked bottom wipers.
These stories and more from the BBC special on parasites.
Salon lauds the superb “In America”
Thursday, November 27, 2003
Fiona and I saw this movie a few weeks ago. It was superb. Salon agree. [Registration required]
We also saw the Clint Eastwood directed “Mystic River” that weekend. It too was superb.
Chicks unite to increase parent-pestering, Coordinated begging extracts more food
Thursday, November 27, 2003
From Nature:
Children accompanying their parents on Christmas shopping trips: take a tip from black-headed gull chicks, and team up with your siblings to increase pester power.
Gull nestlings put aside their differences and coordinate their begging to extract the maximum amount of regurgitated food from mum and dad, French researchers have discovered.
It flies in the face [...]
Man jailed for killing burglar
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
I know that the nature of the courts means that there is not and ought not to be too much uniformity in sentences. Judges are supposed to use their discretion to weigh up the merits of cases and defendants before passing judgement and sentencing. Despite this I keep finding myself overwhelmed by a sense of [...]
A profile of Hezbollah ( Party of God) - the worst of the radical Islamo-facists
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
“This week in the magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg writes about the world’s most successful, and perhaps most dangerous, terrorist organization, Hezbollah, or Party of God, which is based in Lebanon. Before September 11th, had murdered more Americans than any other terrorist group—two hundred and forty-one in the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut [...]