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Does this sound familiar? A quantitative prediction is inconvenient for some heavily invested folks. Legitimate questions about methodology morph quickly into accusations that the researchers have put their thumb on the scale and that they are simply making their awkward predictions to...

Yikes, this won't help the ballooning costs of healthcare: By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent 10:00PM GMT 01 Nov 2012 Many hospitals have failed to invest in...

Here's some strange news... Found in a meth house in Colorado were files on 23 conservative candidates for Montana state legislature. The files consisted of surveys and mailers, as well as some finance details, with one folder labelled "Montana $ Bomb." The documents pointed to one outside...

Specifically, if you buy something made in a different country, can you sell it in America? Everything from iPhones to textbooks could be illegal to sell if you don't first acquire the permission of the copyright holder of something made in China for example. The case surrounds the first-sale...

As Tropical Storm Leslie has swung by and heads towards Newfoundland, the storm dropped a lot of precipitation in Atlantic Canada, and is continuing to bring large downpours of rain. School were closed today and some people evacuated. Some pictures from the flood circulating today...

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In Uganda. The most deadly outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever since discovery of the Ebola virus occurred in 2000, killing 224 people. As of right now it's at least 16 deaths. Terrifying disease. Ebola outbreak in Uganda deemed under control - World - CBC News

Hah, a Reagan appointed judge, sitting on the Seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals: I've become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy Federal Judge Richard Posner: The GOP Has Made Me Less Conservative : It's All Politics : NPR

Seems the marketing department at Merck Schering Plough may have stepped in it big time. The FTC is now investigating, as Merck released a chewable formulation of their Claritan allergy medication, with cartoon characters on the box, and free stickers inside! How they didn't anticipate the...

Some interesting research out this week supports a hypothesis that was recently proposed for idiopathic Autism, which in laymen's terms refers to a genetic predisposition towards Autism of an individual and an unknown environmental trigger. Not all Autism has unknown causes, which is an...

So I just happened across this story from Houston, and I was wondering if there are any laws like this in Canada still? Maybe some local laws, or some provincial ones? Maybe there are some truancy laws and you just never hear of it? I read it and thought WTF? The laws the law, but it seems a...

Was Nick Hanauer’s TED Talk on Income Inequality Too Rich for Rich People? | Business | TIME.com Their slogan is “ideas worth spreading.” But the folks at TED – the Technology Entertainment and Design nonprofit behind the TED Talks, beloved by geeks and others interested in novel new ideas –...

Minn. Republican Party gets eviction notice - Local News - Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN - msnbc.com ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota's debt-plagued Republican Party has been served with an eviction notice for its party headquarters after failing to pay its rent payments since August. The...

Hitting a woman on a cross-walk, firing bullets into traffic, and smashing into cars on the road. Video at the link: PressTV - [VIDEO] Videos show Blackwater in Iraq running over woman

Rick Santorum: Candidate Obama, the anti war, government nig-uh... - YouTube 8O Most Awkward Wheel Of Fortune Moment Ever - YouTube

In 2008, the Harper Conservatives were able to pass changes to our food safety system that reduced the funding to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, ultimately resulting in fewer inspectors employed, and fewer inspections of food manufacturing premises. In place of regulators, food...

Pretty good :lol: Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up (feat. Eminem) - YouTube

Canada is following the lead of other countries such as the US and Australia in producing an open data portal. It can be searched by keyword, and will return hits from over 11,000 government databases, including the StatsCan CANSIM data, Environment Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada...

This article in the Atlantic is a few months old now, but the topic is a good one. Educational reform. With all the chatter about BC teachers and such, I thought this was a good read, and particularly a very good contrast of the differences between many countries/societies. Finland has been...

The Republican Presidential nomination campaign is getting uglier. The Santorum campaign has injected the story of Romney's family vacation in 1983 into the campaign. Appaently, the dog carrier was strapped to the roof of a packed station wagon for a twelve hour trip from Boston to Canada...