Month: April 2005

Compassion is an evolutionary trait

According to the New York Times, scientists have gone public with their findings regarding fossil evidence that compassion is an evolutionary trait. The toothless skull of an early human ancestor, discovered in the Republic of...

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Why media ownership matters

“When the Seattle Times publishes an op-ed on the concentration of media ownership in the hands of ‘six huge corporations’ written by Amy Goodman and her brother, I have to gasp, and then post it.”...

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Open Thread

“You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it.” -Dubya, referring to the Elian Gonzalez negotiations in Miami, April 6th, 2000. What a precursor that one was…

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New exit poll analysis by Febble

There is no doubt that Edison-Mitofsky’s exit polls failed to predict successfully proportions of votes cast for the two presidential candidates in 2004. Because the candidates were so close, and because the exit poll...

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