April 2012
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Exxon Mobil's tax rate drops to 13% even though... →
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March 2012
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Wonklife: Paul Krugman on the failure of economics... →
Should we be surprised, then, that economic policy makers, after responding fairly effectively to the banking crisis, proceeded to lose the thread? What happened, in fact, was that to a large extent policy makers ended up going for economic doctrines that made them feel comfortable, that…
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Voter fraud, by the numbers. From 2000-2007 there...
think-progress:
32,229 UFO sightings
352 deaths by lightning
9 possible cases of voter impersonation
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Newly Discovered Plant Bows Down and Buries Its... →
From the article: A botanist has discovered a new species of plant in eastern Brazil whose branches bend down upon bearing fruit and deposit seeds on the ground, often burying them in a covering of soft soil or moss. This trick is an example of geocarpy, a rare adaptation to survival in harsh or short-lived environments with small favorable patches. The adaptation ensures seedlings germinate near...
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“IMPORTANT FACTOID NUMBER 1: Since 1971, the postal service has not taken a dime...”
– Jim Hightower, “The Post Office is not broke — and it hasn’t taken any of our tax money since 1971” (via ryking)
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Pope Calls Health Care An 'Inalienable Right,'... →
shiracoffee:
And since Santorum and Gingrich are good Catholics, you KNOW they will now become advocates of universal health care… right?
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Other Stuff: The Case For A Single Payer... →
sarahlee310:
letterstomycountry:
In a 2009 interview, Jon Cohn sat down with Dr. Michael Chen, Vice President and CFO of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Bureau, the government office in charge of managing Taiwan’s government-run health insurance program. Some excerpts from the transcript, via PNHP:
Jonathan Cohn (JC): You have what most people refer to as single payer health insurance -...
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C-SPAN: Supreme Court Oral Arguments on Health... →
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“Ever since puberty, ever since I was 11 or 12, I’ve had cyclical depression....”
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Rachel Maddow on depression (via nprfreshair)
Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything as insightful or moving from Maddow.
(via jonathan-cunningham)
Rachel Maddow: never not awesome
(via foulmouthedliberty)
Would never have guessed. (via sarahlee310)
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“Nonviolence is perhaps the most exacting of all forms of struggle, not only...”
– Thomas Merton (via azspot)
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World's Smallest Dolphin Down to Just 55... →
March 23, 2012
From the article: The planet’s smallest dolphin, which typically measures just a meter and a half in length, is now on the verge of extinction, with only 55 mature individuals alive in the world, according to a new survey on their population.
The child-sized Maui’s dolphin, also endearingly called the “popoto”, is a subspecies of the Hector’s dolphin...
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Chronic Stress Spawns Protein Aggregates Linked to... →
ScienceDaily
Mar. 26, 2012
From the article: Repeated stress triggers the production and accumulation of insoluble tau protein aggregates inside the brain cells of mice, say researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new study published in the March 26 Online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The aggregates are similar...
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“This was a train wreck for the Obama administration…This law looks like it’s...”
– CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin on the way the wind seems to be blowing during the Supreme Court hearings. (via tpmmedia)
Why this might not be bad for Obama and his reelection bid.
(via cheatsheet)
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Global warming close to becoming irreversible... →
mohandasgandhi:
“This is the critical decade. If we don’t get the curves turned around this decade we will cross those lines,” said Will Steffen, executive director of the Australian National University’s climate change institute, speaking at a conference in London.
Despite this sense of urgency, a new global climate treaty forcing the world’s biggest polluters, such as the United States and...
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State (Republican) governors plan to show support... →
humanformat:
sarahlee310:shortformblog:
3 U.S. governors to tour remaining “pink slime” beef production site source
Just fine with “slime”: The above (REPUBLICAN) Governors (Rick Perry of Texas, Sam Brownback of Kansas, and Terry Branstad of Iowa) will be joined by Lieutenant Governors Rick Sheehy and Matt Michels, of Nebraska and South Dakota, respectively.
These gubernatorial superfriends...
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