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The New York Times (registration required) has an article about this fellow suspected of making bombs who was mistakenly set free. They suggest that it was due in part because the US and Iraq have just too many people in detention. But what kind of forensic evidence would there be to finger...

Several posters, mainly Ian, have made the analogy that the brain is like a TV set, receiving and interpreting signals from the mind, rather than, in fact, generating the mind. The analogy seems consistent, up to a point, but I have a few questions: 1. A TV set (or radio, or other receiving...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – A new study – the largest to date of public attitudes about genetic discrimination – finds that 40 percent of people already undergoing genetic testing are worried that participation might affect their future insurance coverage. "This study supports the view that...

A small non-profit biotech research organisation in Australia is set to change the biotech industry. CAMBIA has found a new way of transferring genetic material to plants. It bypasses the heavily-patented agrobacterium transformation (AT) method. Researchers have placed this tool in the public...

"When the first patient, who was told by Ms Kamper not to make use of conventional medicine, died, I raised the matter in the Dáil with the then Minister for Health, Micheál Martin. My concern was that somebody else might die and, unfortunately, this has happened." Health Department set to...

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Oh my god I feel so sick at this. To jerks like Limbaugh who said abuse was no worse than fraternity hazing, let hear what they have to sayabout THIS! Also here.

Take a look at this infuriating throwback: Cross Burned On Black Minister's Lawn WTF. I'm really angry - though, even more maddeningly, not surprised - at this incident, or these incidents rather. What is this, the Sixties? Holy &$@%.

...the placebo effect. This past Sunday I was traveling in the truck to pick up a buddy and go to the cottage. I turned on the tune box and almost every station was selling religion, homeopathic remedies, diet fads, get rich schemes etc etc etc. It dawned on me that everyone gave testament to...

The craft has been racing through space for five years to get itself into a position on Friday where it will be within 300 km of the "dirty ice-ball". Stardust will photograph the object and grab particles streaming away from its nucleus for return to Earth in 2006. Scientists believe the...

Story This is going to be interesting.

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