SCHAEFER: Title game will undoubtedly incite unwarranted conspiracy theories
By: Mike Schaefer Nebraska never had a chance to win Saturday's game. Too many people behind the scenes wanted the Cornhuskers removed, and they had the power to do so. Standing in the H...
The Daily Nebraskan,
Mon Dec 07 08:24:53 PST 2009
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Ereaders Are a Nazi Scheme, and More Bizarre Theories From Ebooks' Sworn Enemies [...
There is a discussion to be had about whether or not ebooks are bad for writing, reading, and bookselling. There is also, apparently, a discussion to be had about whether or not ebook propo...
Gizmodo,
Mon Dec 07 17:19:14 PST 2009
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Cats aren't napping when home alone
This undated image provided by Ketchum pr shows Leo-Hector with a cat cam attached to his collar. Leo-Hector was one of fifty house cats who were given collar cameras that took a photo ever...
News Chief,
Tue Dec 08 05:46:36 PST 2009
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Leaders from 192 nations meet for climate summit
The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with diplomats from 192 nations warned that this could be the best, last chance for a deal to protect...
USA Today,
Tue Dec 08 08:24:47 PST 2009
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EVERY great tragedy in US
In reply to Open Trials Are Good For America : EVERY great tragedy in US history has unleashed a flood of conspiracy theories. There still is a lively trade in Kennedy assassination plots, ...
New Matilda,
Tue Dec 08 00:54:50 PST 2009
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Do Multitasking Drivers Have Double Standards?
When it comes to the use of cellphones and other electronic devices while behind the wheel, many people say they are worried about the dangers posed by multitasking drivers. At the same tim...
New York Times,
Tue Dec 08 04:07:37 PST 2009
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Not Quite A
A few weeks ago, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland dangerously overheated after a cooling unit failure, giving rise to fervent conspiracy theories and a slew of ludicrous doomsday pr...
The Emory Wheel,
Mon Dec 07 18:41:08 PST 2009
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Indonesia police on edge over anti-graft protest
Indonesia will deploy thousands of police to an anti-graft protest on Wednesday after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono warned that unnamed forces could hijack the rally to topple him, a s...
AFP via Yahoo! News,
Mon Dec 07 23:39:14 PST 2009
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Pakistan attacks: Officials feed suspicion that India, US are to blame
Pakistan officials are blaming 'foreign elements'
The Christian Science Monitor,
Tue Dec 08 07:51:02 PST 2009
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Climate change is latest problem that's admitted but ignored
To a psychologist, climate change looks as if it was designed to be ignored.
Washington Post,
Mon Dec 07 21:00:00 PST 2009
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Music review: John Adams goes for ecstasy in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Left C...
California is big and ungovernable, and there are many theories as to why we are the way we are. Phil Lesh, the thoughtful Grateful Dead bassist, had a good one Saturday afternoon.
Los Angeles Times,
Sun Dec 06 18:09:58 PST 2009
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U.N. official optimistic on climate accord
On the opening day of the global climate summit in Denmark, a key U.N. official said she is optimistic that there will be a binding international treaty next year to cut greenhouse gas emis...
CNN,
Mon Dec 07 18:16:32 PST 2009
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Kenya : Moi's Fiction On Coalitions Bad for Nation
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AllAfrica.com,
Mon Dec 07 06:00:58 PST 2009
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Checkmate: How Joe Lieberman Turned The Public Option Fight On Its Head
by Brian Beutler After Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) threw down the gauntlet on the public option , political observers and liberal critics had no shortage of theories. Lieberman was rebelling ...
CommonDreams.org,
Mon Dec 07 08:27:56 PST 2009
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Historic climate debate opens, with boost from US
Delegates to a pivotal climate conference welcomed an Obama administration move Monday to regulate greenhouse gases under existing clean air law, but said they still expect more.
AP via Yahoo! News,
Mon Dec 07 16:17:35 PST 2009
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The Truth Behind the Leaked Climate-Change E-Mails
The controversy over hacked e-mails from the world's leading climate scientists continues to roil. Here's what the e-mails say about the reality of global warming
Time Magazine,
Mon Dec 07 15:39:53 PST 2009
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Monday round-up
At the Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr offers some alternative theories to explain the broad scope of the cert. grant in McDonald v. City of Chicago. He suggests that the Court may not be plan...
SCOTUSblog,
Mon Dec 07 05:52:23 PST 2009
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Henry Molaison's brain lives on
Surgery left him unable to make any new memories, and now, a year after his death, researchers have begun dissecting the brain that the man known in textbooks as 'H.M.' left to science. Hen...
Los Angeles Times,
Tue Dec 08 00:18:34 PST 2009
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EPA's plan to regulate greenhouse gas raises criticism and cheers in Texas
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that greenhouse gases spewed by power plants, oil refineries and vehicles constitute a public health threat, a verdict that positions the gov...
Dallas Morning News,
Tue Dec 08 05:31:09 PST 2009
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