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“The prosecution has strong incentives to try to tell the story of the war, rather than focus narrowly on successful conviction. This is the international tribunal’s signature case — especially after the termination of the Milosevic prosecution — and it will be heavily institutionally invested in the outcome and the legacy it creates, the more [...]
My latest piece, exploring the Karadzic arrest, has just been published over at Pajamas Media
Pajamas Media » Shocked Serbians Celebrate Karadzic’s Capture
I am not sure if I am entirely signed up to this list. I think the medical point may be wrong.
Even with the human genome in hand, geneticists are split about how to deal with issues of race, genetics and medicine.
Some favor using genetic markers to sort humans into groups based on ancestral origin – [...]
This is apparently a video “taken from a commercial jetliner en route to Crete while over Serbia.”
How long before the Radical Party picks this up as “proof” of CIA activity over Serbia or the CIA uses this as “proof” that Serbia has acquired some sort of North Korean flying WMD to use for ethnically [...]
This post is a about Michael Totten’s report “A Dark Corner of Europe” Part 1. You need to read this article for this post to make sense. Michael Totten’s article is mostly very good article, and I, perhaps unfairly, am focussing only on the negatives here.
Michael Totten is a great independent journalist who I [...]
Ever since I read Timothy D. Wilson’s magnificent “Strangers to Ourselves“, I have been fascinated with the fact that we often know less about ourselves than our closest friends and family (thanks probably to our many cognitive biases) .
Enter MIT’s Reality Mining Project:
[O]ur ultimate goal is to create a predictive classifier that [...]
Augean Stables, makers of “Pallywood” and “Birth of an Icon“, have put up a ten-minute documentary on the Gaza Beach explosion that killed seven of the Ghalia family on June 9, 2006.
Once again a gut-wrenching tragedy looks highly suspect and staged by the Palestinian propaganda machine.
YouTube - Gaza Beach Tragedy: Exploiting Grief
Gaza Beach [...]
From the New York Times:
Researchers in New York believe they have solved one of the great mysteries of the flu: Why does the infection spread primarily in the winter months?
The answer, they say, has to do with the virus itself. It is more stable and stays in the air longer when air is cold and [...]
Don’t you love it when one form of hocus-pocus reinforcing another?
In today’s example, a website claims to tell you about your past life just by you inputting your birth date (in this life). The “analysis” then return a personality description of you in your last life that is a classic restatement of the [...]
Interesting people these. Their Blasphemy Challenge is pretty bold (refused to participate myself…you know…Pascal’s wager and all that) .
If there is one problem I have with Militant Atheists, it is their tendency to gratuitously attack Christians but avoid taking on militant Theists of all religions. It is pretty easy to insult and provoke people [...]