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Well, well, well... What Twins Reveal About The Science Of Faith I am frequently asked by journalists to recall the most surprising finding of our twin studies. The study of religion and belief in God is the one that always comes to mind, and the results are not easily accepted by many...

Sooooooooo......let's see... via wuwt story: Sea Ice News Volume 4 number 4 – The Maslowski Countdown to an ‘ice-free Arctic’ begins | Watts Up With That? comment of the year: What a coincidence! I was just finishing my Arctic ice free compilation. Here is a compilation of ice-free...

AFP - Swedish high jumper Emma Green-Tregaro has repainted her nails after being warned by the IAAF that the rainbow colours she sported in qualification in support of gay rights were a breach of regulations. Russian pole vault gold medallist Yelena Isinbayeva has provoked a furore at the...

IPCC struggles to explain lack of global warming — natural factors vs. ‘blip’ derp IPCC struggles to explain lack of global warming — natural factors vs. ‘blip’ | JunkScience.com

via The surprising ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4th, 1776. In other news, your 31-year-old friend still complains his mother doesn't let him play the stereo loud after 9:00pm It’s a simple question — perhaps so basic that it’s been overlooked. How old were the key participants of...

Korean War veteran puts up four American flags outside his residence. Building management at the federally subsidized housing unit takes them down without notice. Yeah, that's probably not a good idea The management of a federally subsidized housing facility in Georgia took down the...

Love your produce manager Reporter lives for a year as an undocumented farm worker, gains newfound respect for Walmart. Of course, living in a house with 20 other people eating only rice and beans would make anyone go insane Sometimes all the food slogans we live with are totally...

as centenary of conflict looms A German envoy has urged Britons not to be too triumphant when they celebrate the centenary of the First World War over fears that it will cool relations between the two nations. Andreas Meitzner, the country's special envoy to the centenary of the conflict...

Hey...maybe nanny bloomie ain't so bad after all. Reshaping New York - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Last October, at the foot of a rocky hillside near here, at a spot known as Degelen Mountain, several dozen Kazakh, Russian and American nuclear scientists and engineers gathered for a ceremony. After a few speeches, they unveiled a three-sided stone monument, etched in English, Russian and...

A TIME magazine reporter set off a Twitter spat on Saturday when he controversially suggested that WikkiLeaks founder Julian Assange be killed in a drone strike. Michael Grunwald was pressured into deleting the offending tweet after it was greeeted with hostility online - particularly by...

Riot Suspect Arrested After 'Liking' His Own Photo On Police Facebook Page It turned out to be pretty easy to track down some of the suspects in last month's riots in Huntington Beach: some couldn't resist bragging about what happened after the U.S. Open of Surfing. One suspect in particular...

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Yeah, sorry about your luck pal. Via Very odd that these credentials were not helpful! Very odd indeed. "BUT I BOYCOTTED A TEL AVIV FILM FESTIVAL!!" Yes, this John Greyson. Upstanding, delightful fellow. Oddly Enough, Being a Card Carrying Member of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid and...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) - A Northern California man accused of downloading illegal images to his cellphone while being interrogated has pleaded not guilty to possessing thousands of child porn files. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports (Police say Boulder Creek man downloading...

Well, well, well. What do we have here? OTTAWA – Canada’s national police force is violating the rights of some Canadians trying to access RCMP documents, according to the country’s information watchdog. Access to Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault says over the past months her office...

Not to alarm anyone who lives in the Southwest and enjoys drinking water, but it looks like the Colorado River is starting to dry up

via sda A New Month, A New Protest Earlier this year, "activists" tried to force the Pidgin restaurant...

preserve after rich countries fail to pay up QUITO, Ecuador — President Rafael Correa said Thursday that he has abandoned a unique and ambitious plan to persuade rich countries to pay Ecuador not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon rainforest preserve. Environmentalist had hailed the...

What an excellent idea. :lol: NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest crime-fighting idea had a lot of people riled up on Friday. The mayor wants to fingerprint more than 600,000 people who live in public housing. He said it would be done to make the projects safer...