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Fighting Coal Ash, Bureaucracy and Confusion
As I have mentioned on this blog before, the Environmental Protection Agency is currently holding public hearings at sites around the country to hear your input on draft regulations for the disposal of toxic coal ash. This week’s blog post comes from … Continue reading
Crystal Renn: We Need To Call All Models Just ‘Models’ (VIDEO)
Crystal Renn talked to the ladies of the “Today Show” on Thursday morning about the recent controversy surrounding her weight and photographs that she said were Photoshopped to make her look thinner. She explained, “I understand a reasonable amount of … Continue reading
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Tagged body, comparison, confusion, controversy, Crystal Renn, exercise, exercise routine, look, Models, morning, photographs, retouching, Show, thursday morning, today show, video, weight, zit
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Al Gore’s Moral Confusion
To Al Gore’s detractors he is many things. An annoying gasbag. A self-righteous know-it-all. A braggart who invented the Internet. A fraud who promoted global warming as an international hoax.Such exaggerated criticism would explain why many believe th… Continue reading
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Tagged account, Al Gore, braggart, confusion, criticism, detractors, fraud, gasbag, global warming, hoax, Hotel, hotel room, many things, masseuse, moral confusion, portland hotel, warming, who invented the internet
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Will Any Republicans Join Democrats in Holding BP Accountable?
Steve Benen and Greg Sargent have been making an important point lately that hasn’t yet received the attention it deserves: to the extent that Republicans intend to oppose efforts to hold BP accountable this summer and fall, they are extremely vul… Continue reading
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Tagged Accountable, Attention, benen, bp, confusion, defense, democrats, extent, fall, first, Greg Sargent, Holding, important point, Join, oil companies, point, republicans, summer
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Financial Crisis Explained Through Comics: ‘Understanding The Crash’ (PHOTOS)
When the housing bubble popped and Wall Street did a swan dive, they created an economic whirlpool that the rest of us are still struggling to escape. Two years later, Congress is trying–and failing–to pass a financial reform to stop the lending prac… Continue reading
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Tagged banking, behemoths, confusion, crash photos, crisis, Financial, housing bubble, income homeowners, investment, investment banks, mortgage lenders, photos, press, reform, skull, Soft, soft skull press, speculators, swan dive, tight leash
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Stop the People You Love From Making You Fat
If you get a quarter from someone with a cold, you can “catch” the cold from the quarter. Even if the infected person is long gone, you can still get sick from exposure. Did you know that emotions carry the same risk, even when the person is not in your presence?
You can feel people’s needs and demands and they can create emotional and physical confusion in you, especially in close relationships, and even with people you haven’t seen in ages (like your mom who you’ve been meaning to call). I’m sure you have many stories of feeling uneasy, only to find out that someone close to you was in trouble or simply down.
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Tagged close relationships, Cold, confusion, emotions, exposure, feeling, mom, person, presence, quarter, risk, someone
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Religion and Science: Respecting the Differences
Just so there’s no confusion, I want to make my two main points right up front. First, I don’t believe that religion and science must be in competition with one another. Second, those who disagree with my first point call me an “accommodationist,” and while I don’t particularly like the term, I am perfectly content to fall into that broad category.
Let me explain and provide some context. I’m an evolutionary biologist, and I believe that science is an incredibly powerful way of understanding the natural world. Unfortunately, we live in a society that is largely scientifically illiterate. By that I don’t mean that most people don’t understand the specifics of any particular science, which is unquestionably true, but rather that most people don’t understand the nature of science. They are unable to distinguish between science and pseudoscience or, as I like to say, among science, nonscience, and nonsense. Collectively, we regularly suffer the consequences of scientific illiteracy, from poorly conceived public policies to atrocious educational practices.
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