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I didn't see a post on this yet, sorry if one exists. http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3067222.ece Cut: The newly formed Equality and Human Rights Commission, successor to the Commission for Racial Equality, said it was studying Dr Watson's remarks " in full". Dr Watson told The...

I promised I would post this once it got published. Not sure who might be interested, but it's only 8 pages or so. I own the copyright to this version. Yer free to do what you want with it, as long as you don't sucker someone else into buying it, or use it in anyway for profit (not sure how...

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Four men who were considered racial agitators back in the 1960s had assassination attempts made upon them. Three were successful. Is there a pattern here? Do you think there was a conspiracy to silence these men? Malcolm X, assassinated February 21, 1965 New York City NY...

I am teaching a Critical Thinking class, using Schick and Vaughn's great book "How to Think about Weird Things". There is a discussion about the so-called 100th monkey, and the gist of the discussion is that there never was a 100th monkey. The story sounded plausible, so no one checked up on the...

Twice in the last week I have read the claim that, contrary to recent statements that race is a social distinction, not a genetic one, the "race" (whatever that means) to which an individual belonged can be determined from an examination of his bones alone, presumably independent of information...

This is a response to an exchange begun in the Who are your heroes of reason? thread. I felt it was derailing the thread and suggested the start of a new one but it hasn't come to pass. However, I still feel compelled to comment on this issue. The last two posts of the thread (On this issue)...

Barabaro injured out of the starting gate. Favorite horse in Baltimore Preakness Stakes is taken away by veterinary ambulance, probably never to run again. Who predicted that tragic outcome? Anyone?

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/13/australia.racial.unrest.ap/ I don't know what kind of powers they have in mind, but I think Spider-Man powers would be really cool, and very useful in fighting crime even after the riots are over. Another good suggestion would be the rock-skin...

I'm hearing alot about people determining your Race by your DNA,and I've heard about how it's done and there just seem to be way too many flaws in it to get an accurate answer as to someone's race. This is how it's done... They go around the world getting different DNA samples from thousands...

Can you believe them.... "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did." -- Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA), quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "overheard" in a conversation with lobbyists. "Baker explains later he didn't intend flippancy but has long wanted to...

If I had to pick the to two democrat senators who are trying to get their image in order for 2008, I would have to say they are Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. What is interesting is the 180 degree difference in their tactics. Hillary Clinton seems to be following the path of least resistance...

I didn't know what category this should fall under except maybe "social issues". I have been trying to find an objective definition for "race" as in African American or Italian. Referring to someone's skin color, facial features or birthplace are all questionable. The first two are subjective...

Hello everyone I know how delicate a subject "race" is and how talking about race is.Im not trying to be racist or anything like that,I am simply trying to get everyone's thought's on exactly where human's came from and where they went. My First question is...Why is race such a delicate...

Asean: Terrorism has no race or religion BY HAH FOONG LIAN VIENTIANE: Asean leaders have adopted a joint declaration to reject any attempts to associate terrorism with any religion, race or nationality. In the Asean-Japan joint declaration for co-operation to combat international terrorism...

Ok, it was Stuart Scott on ESPN when he was doing the highlights of the Washington - Green Bay game... I just wanted the thread title.

Last night there was a debate between Carson and Coburn who are running for the US senate. They both said they support Bush and the war was justified in removing Saddam. In fact, the democrat (Carson) said we should have removed Saddam in 1991. Is Carson breaking with his party? Is it...

As a derivative of the "If not God, then Who?" thread by Cleo in R&P, I read about elephants paying "reverence" to the bones of dead elephants, and El Greco (I think) saying that in a few thousand years, this would give rise to the elephant's first religion, should they last that long...

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/7959692.htm

Are Bush's recent space thingies in response to a growing 'threat' from China's space program?

Here it is: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=00055DC8-3BAA-1FA8-BBAA83414B7F0000 Basically it asks whether race exists and the answer is "yes" but differences within a group outweigh those between groups, and its not "race" as we know it. For example, they don't...

In the Africa topic, things kind of went haywire a little and became a discussion about blacks in America. So let's make this a separate topic. It is long overdue. This is going to be a long post, but please bear with me. Read it all. As some of you know, I spent some time on the...