Nice: Scientists working for the UN say that they have eradicated a virus which can be deadly to cattle. If confirmed, rinderpest would become only the second viral disease - after smallpox - to have been eliminated by humans. Rinderpest is prevalent in the Middle East,...
Obviously, the increasing share of the nation's wealth that went to the finance sector was the result of a strict meritocracy.
Shorter Rabbi Yehuda Levin: I used to think that Carl Paladino was a guy who stood up for traditional family values. But then I heard that his enjoyable emails might.
The Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict has just released a report on damage to civilians and civilian infrastructure in Pakistan. Haven't read the whole thing yet, but here's a clip from the executive summary: Headlines focus on the horrors of terrorism in Pakistan, but CIVIC's...
My column on piracy, metrics, and grand strategy is up at World Politics Review: Most notably, the report highlighted the lack of any good cost-benefit analysis of the anti-piracy effort..
I blogged heads with Michael Moynihan of Reason magazine yesterday. Here we talk about the absence of foreign policy in the 2010 midterm elections:
The brief but apparently quite influential education of Christine O'Donnell. ...via Jacob Levy in comments, another take.
Since March, 1 person each from New Caledonia, Benin, Haiti, Malawi, Cook Islands, French Guiana, Laos, Bhutan, Turkmenistan, Suriname, Gambia, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, Zimbabwe, Monaco, and Guyana have.
So who to root for in game 5? The Rays are, in terms of results, a better team -- better record, better run differential in a better division. Whether the.
Good, even if a higher Court is likely to stay the order pending an appeal. Of course, the appropriate course here is for the DOJ not to appeal the ruling. Particularly given that the policy's persistence owes itself to the Senate's anachronistic, countermajoritarian rules this case...
Shorter Ken Buck (as DA): Once you're previously consented to have sexual relations with someone, the consent then applies to future cases in which you didn't consent. The defense of.
This rundown of various "green burial" methods is truly fantastic. The winning method, in my view, involves being turned into a flushable soup:Alkaline hydrolysis, also known as Resomation (which is.