BurningbirdPhilipp Lenssen posted on the new Google News commenting feature, where people can submit comments for news items that show up at news.google.com. The folks of Google describe this procedure, as soliciting commentary from those people ‘involved’: We’ll be trying out a mechanism for publishing comments from a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It’s almost 8pm, the air conditioner has been on for seven hours solid, and it’s still close to 85 in my room. You can feel the heat pulse through the wall, which is a little unnerving. I can’t even imagine what it’s like for people without air conditioning. I’ve also […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Susan Kitchens points out that the number of women in the freshmen class at Caltech has increased from 28.5 last year to 37 percent this year. That’s a significant rise, even though it doesn’t match other tech colleges (42 to 47 percent), or colleges in general (with 57 percent women). […]
Susan Blumenthal provided one of the best in-depth analysis of Presidential candidates health care plans, in objective, side-by-side comparison of all the candidates: Republican and Democrat. In explaining the charts, she wrote: With our current sick care system, Americans cannot afford — socially, politically, economically, or otherwise — to remain on the sidelines. We have a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It’s not bad enough that St. Louis in August is characterized by hot, muggy days, with lousy air quality. It’s not bad enough that we’ve just had our first human case of West Nile Virus in the county, and that the dangerous tick alert is still ongoing. It’s not terrible […]