Re: Human-Animal Hybrid Ban

2006-02-04 Thread Patrick Sweeney
Hi folks, Does this mean a big-screen version of "Manimal" is out? Patrick Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: The Radioactive Boy Scout

2006-02-04 Thread Patrick Sweeney
I enjoyed "Bobby Fischer Goes to War." It focuses on the 1972 match with Boris Spassky in Iceland, of course, but also covers the careers & psychologies of the two chess masters, U.S.-Soviet relations, and a lot more. It skips analyzing the arcana of the chess matches except to explain a revealing

Sciencey

2006-02-04 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
>From Eschaton: After sending a bunch of 24 year olds from the Heritage foundation to help fuck up Iraq, the Bush administration has given 24 year old campaign interns the authority to tell scientists what science is. A week after NASA's top climate scientist complained that the space agen

Human-Animal Hybrid Ban

2006-02-04 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://tomburka.com/archives2/2006_02.php#000900 White House Staff Hit Hard By Human-Animal Hybrid Ban Chickenhawks at Risk, Among Others A ban on human-animal hybrids announced by President Bush in his State of the Union address has many senior White House staffers panicked, and the NIH, whic

Re: The Radioactive Boy Scout

2006-02-04 Thread Julia Thompson
Patrick Sweeney wrote: Hi folks, I'm currently re-reading "The Radioactive Boy Scout" by Ken Silverstein. It's the true story of a teenager near Detroit who tried to build a breeder reactor in his back yard shed in the 1990s - the EPA eventually had to clean it up. It's an interesting read, thoug

The Radioactive Boy Scout

2006-02-04 Thread Patrick Sweeney
Hi folks, I'm currently re-reading "The Radioactive Boy Scout" by Ken Silverstein. It's the true story of a teenager near Detroit who tried to build a breeder reactor in his back yard shed in the 1990s - the EPA eventually had to clean it up. It's an interesting read, though the author has a strong

Re: Cool space picture

2006-02-04 Thread David Hobby
Michael Harney wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: I was looking up the Horsehead Nebula for a friend, and happened across this -- what a nifty cosmic Rorschack (?sp) test! http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060119.html I see: -a saint (or other bearded fellow with outstretched hand) -a frontal vie

Something that might be of interest

2006-02-04 Thread Julia Thompson
A Field Guide to Quackery and Pseudoscience: Part 1: http://photoninthedarkness.blogspot.com/2006/01/field-guide-to-quackery-and.html http://tinyurl.com/bsejv Part 2: http://photoninthedarkness.blogspot.com/2006/01/field-guide-to-quackery-and_15.html http://tinyurl.com/ahm9d Part 3: http://photon