NASA lacks funds to find killer asteroids

Seeded on Tue Mar 6, 2007 1:05 PM EST (CNN)

"NASA officials say the space agency is capable of finding nearly all the asteroids that might pose a devastating hit to Earth, but there isn't enough money to pay for the task so it won't get done.

nasa, science, asteroid, government-funding

The man who might have been -- and could still become -- President.

Seeded on Sun Mar 4, 2007 9:10 PM EST (New Yorker)

"Saturday Night Live" is erratic in middle age but rarely cruel.

politics, president, gore, 08-race

It's God vs. Satan. But What About the Nudity?

Seeded on Sun Mar 4, 2007 1:51 PM EST (The New York Times)

NY Times article: "Paradise Lost," John Milton's 17th-century epic poem about the fall of Lucifer (a Gustave Doré interpretation of a heavenly skirmish is at left), is being developed as a film. But some Milton scholars are skeptical.

film, arts, ny-times, paradise-lost

U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions

Seeded on Sat Mar 3, 2007 12:12 PM EST (The New York Times)

"The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast through the next decade as they did the previous decade, according to a long-delayed report being completed for the United Nations.

bush, global-warming, united-nations, us-news, greenhouse-gas

The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts - By Milan Kundera

Seeded on Sat Mar 3, 2007 12:06 PM EST (The New York Times)

"Milan Kundera (who writes these days in French) is perhaps the best, certainly the best-known, Czech fiction writer since Kafka (who was arguably more German than Czech anyway).

books, arts, ny-times, book-review, kundera

Pentagon Whistle-Blower on the Coming War With Iran

Seeded on Fri Mar 2, 2007 11:30 PM EST (Truthdig)

"Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski (ret.), a veteran of the Pentagon with firsthand experience of the administration's cherry-picking of intelligence, reveals why Bush thinks he can win a war with Iran, why few politicians are serious about withdrawal and why "when they call Iraq a su …

bush, iraq, iran, pentagon, war, military, us-news

10-Minute Wikipedia Lessons for President Bush (Lesson 1)

Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:44 PM EST

In this series of posts I will discuss some things that President Bush could have learned had he spent a little time each day reading Wikipedia during his first months in office.

Continue reading this entry ...

iraq, politics, wikipedia, president-bush, u-s-government

Practical Fusion, or Just a Bubble? - New York Times

Seeded on Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:37 PM EST (The New York Times)

Brian Kappus, a physics graduate student at U.C.L.A., tipped the clear cylinder to trap some air bubbles in the clear liquid inside. He clamped the cylinder, upright, on a small turntable and set it spinning.

physics, ucla, science, fusion

Breath Test Helps Spot Lung Cancer - washingtonpost.com

Seeded on Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:41 PM EST (The Washington Post)

The future of lung cancer detection may involve a simple, inexpensive breath test that can pick up the chemical "signature" of patients with the disease, a new study suggests.

cancer, health, lung

Five western states to bypass Bush on climate - washingtonpost.com

Seeded on Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:16 PM EST (The Washington Post)

Five Western U.S. states have formed the latest regional pact that bypasses the Bush administration to cut emissions linked to global warming through market mechanisms, according to Oregon's governor.

global-warming, politics