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Are people made angry by the thought of a woman president?
So a group of political scientists are trying to figure out how people feel about a woman being president. (This research was done in 2006, so presumably the subjects weren't thinking too specifically about Hillary Clinton.) While there's been plenty of opinion polls that ask questions like "If your party nominated a woman for president, would ( Read more... ) -
Does eating locally reduce your carbon footprint?
An article in this week's New Yorker, Big Foot: In measuring carbon emissions, it’s easy to confuse morality and science raises the issue of whether locally produced food really is better for the environment.
The environmental burden imposed by importing apples from New Zealand to Northern Europe or New York can be lower than if the apples were ( Read more... ) -
Front pages around the country
The Newseum has a neat page which shows you what the front pages of newspapers around the world look like each day. You see them by moving around a map. -
Election blather
I was looking over the results from last night, and one things jumps out: in just about every state, more people voted in the Democrat than in the Republican primary -- even the ones D's don't have any expectation of winning in November. More Democratic voters in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma. (The only states where it's not the ( Read more... ) -
Politics
Christopher Hayes wrote an essay at The Nation, arguing that Obama should be the choice for progressives, which I find fairly compelling. (To be fair, i was already leaning strongly in his direction.) -
"PCR, when you need to find out who the daddy is"
Here's an ad worth listening to for a PCR machine (be warned, it's a song that plays automatically as soon as you click on the link). -
Pollitical polls again -- color me flabbergasted
Here are national poll numbers, from pollster.com:
A new USA Today/Gallup national survey (Gallup results) of 1,023 adults (conducted 1/4 through 1/6) finds ( Read more... ) -
NH polling
Since I was talking polls and politics this afternoon, i figured I'd post this follow-up. The first (post-Iowa) New Hampshire poll to include Sunday data (which is really important; Friday-Saturday polls are a lot more suspect) was just released.
From pollster.com:
A new CNN/WMUR/UNH statewide survey of likely primary voters in New Hampshire ( ( Read more... ) -
Scratch
I've been having far too much fun with Scratch, the introductory programing language (think modern day Logo) developed at MIT. Click here to see my recent doodles:
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Quick link on the Facebook Beacon
i've had several conversations recently about this new Facebook gadget that tracks what you buy and posts it to your account. Looks like it's collecting even more data than that: here's an article that would make me cancel my Facebook account if I had one.