Climate Propaganda: The Luntz Memo
Alan mentioned this in class tonight: the Luntz memo. “First, assure your audience that you are committed to ‘preserving and protecting’ the environment, but that ‘it…
Read articleFocus the Nation
http://www.focusthenation.org/ Global warming is a defining issue for our time – and today, is a big day. On Jan 31st, on campuses across the US, Focus…
Read articleIraqi Blogger and Journalist Killed in His Home
Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi, an Iraqi journalist and member of the Alive in Baghdad blog, was killed in his home yesterday (tip: NowPublic). He would have turned…
Read articleThink you have what it takes to run the AMS?
Its that election time of year once again! Nominations close on January 11th 2008. More information can be found here .
Read articleMaking a list,checking it twice: My Holiday Reading
I can’t stop thinking about Doris Lessing’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. I’ve always prided myself on being a bookworm, but her words…
Read articleWhat’s Your Anthrome? or “If you Can’t Save Them, Name Them After Yourself”
Humanity has greater impact on global environment than “natural” forces Say goodbye to those old cliche, “pristine” environmental biomes embraced by our misguided ecology brethren of…
Read articleMaldives 3: Return from the island paradise
Although it barely made a blip in world news, a conference of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) was held in the Maldives approximately 10…
Read articleFree Movie Nights by Cinema Politica
Check this out, a student in one of my classes just told me about, Cinema Politica at UBC. Every Wednesday they show a movie at the…
Read articleWhy still care about landmines?
To many around the world who live without the daily fear of being injured or killed by a landmine, the movement to ban these indiscriminate weapons…
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SENSibility 8: The Supercarrot
By Allen Sens,
A genetically engineered carrot has been developed in the US that greatly increases human absorption of the calcium within the vegetable. I am not making this…
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