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Whoops...a bit of a backlash for BBH Labs, looks like they stepped in something smelly:It sounds like something out of a darkly satirical science-fiction dystopia. But it’s absolutely real — and a completely problematic treatment of a problem that otherwise probably wouldn’t be mentioned in...

The co-chair of Santorum's campaign, Rev. O'Neal Dozier: Santorum co-chair: Romney should ‘renounce his racist Mormon religion’ | The Raw Story An African-American pastor affiliated with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is demanding that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney...

Politico Mistakes State Flag for Union Flag, Idiocy Ensues See that flag? It is the state flag of Wisconsin. On the top there is the name of the state, "Wisconsin," and on the bottom is the year that Wisconsin was admitted to the union. Politico reporter Donovan Slack thought that this...

Takes this pill and call me in the morning? Some researchers at Oxford university have discovered that a pill might be able to treat somebody with racist and other prejudiced beliefs. Propranolol, is an old drug of the beta-blocking class which has been used to treat a wide variety of...

Some registered Republican climate scientists relaying their frustration with the GOP leadership: GOP Not Listening to Its Own Scientists on Climate Change | InsideClimate News Kerry Emanuel:No GOP candidates or policymakers want to touch the issue, and those of us trying to educate them are...

Documents reveal Koch-funded group's plot to undermine climate science - CSMonitor.com Heartland burned by 'DenialGate' memos - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com Someone calling themselves "Heartland Insider" has leaked internal documents from the Heartland Institute, who were one of many...

Ouch...that's gonna cause a stir :lol: There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy. The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold...

A Republican state senator from Oklahoma City introduced a bill Tuesday that would ban the use of aborted human fetuses in food, despite conceding that he's unaware of any company using such a practice. Okla. Senator Wants Ban on Human Fetuses in Food - ABC News 8O Who thinks of this stuff...

The Scientist published last month their list of the top 5 scientific scandals, reflecting on some high profile retractions and controversies: Five New Scandals in 2011: More than 100 retractions expected The work of Diederik Stapel, who headed the Institute for Behavioral Economics Research...

Rex is listening in on callers for his Cross Country Checkup program. In the short trip to the corner store I heard Canadians mention the election and death of Jack Layton, a Vancouver man interested in the buying up of properties by Asians (particularly Chinese, was that you Dumpy?), and a man...

...and it cost American tax payers $666,000 to test the hypothesis. Wow. Good thing that debt problem was solved.

Sounds like a good idea!ATLANTA - State Representative Scott Holcomb (D-Atlanta) introduced legislation requiring members of the General Assembly to pass a drug test before taking office. "This bill is really very simple. If the General Assembly is going to pass laws requiring struggling...

Cojones, Chutzpah, Couilles. So this is week old news now, but it's news to me. The former CEO of AIG Hank Greenberg, who now leads Starr International, the largest shareholder of AIG (before the government bailout) is suing the US Government. The lawsuit alleges that the US government acted...

FIS - Worldnews - BP's reservoir continues to leak oil into Mexican Gulf: scientists The Gulf Coast is reeling from reports that fresh oil rising from BP's Macondo Reservoir – ground zero of last year's massive spill – is coming ashore, again. Scientists have confirmed the existence of a...

Representative Joe Walsh (R) recently announced that the Family Research Council action committee had named him a "True Blue" member of Congress for his "unwavering commitment and consistent support in defense of life and the family," this despite a suit for over $100,000 in unpaid child...

Mississippi to vote on 'personhood' : Nature News On 8 November, Mississippi voters will not only decide who should lead the state, but also indicate whether they agree with the candidates about the status of embryos. The Initiative 26 ballot measure proposes to amend the state's constitution...

China Won’t Ape US in CO2 Levels as that Would be “World Disaster” | CleanTechnica The world's climate scientists have agreed for some decades, and increasingly so, that global emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide must be curtailed to keep some semblance of the climate that we...

In a few threads there have been some posts about the political leaning of this forum, and Canada. I thought about going back and looking at the older threads on the same topic, but I thought I would rather look at current and active posters' responses. So, it's the political compass that many...

At work today this spawned a lot of conversation. For some context, the virus is a flu-like virus that causes a disease called Infectious Salmon Anemia. In Atlantic salmon populations this virus can cause massive mortality, greater than 70%, all the way up to 100% in naive (having no...

The pine beetles are in the beginning phase of a massive range expansion. Winter temperatures are now rarely cold enough to keep the beetle larvae in check, and every year the beetles kill more lodgepole pine. This expansion in range has brought them to the forests in Alberta, where the forest...