Step-mother denies water to her step-daughter because of a power struggle between her and a helpless 14 year old girl
Lawrence Lessig gives a brilliant keynote at the National Conference on Media reform.
Dr. Laura Hamblin, working on gathering Iraqi refugee's oral histories, tries to raise money for a five year old girl to get a cochlear implant.
UVSC Pipeline to stop publishing. Vegor Pedersen hangs up his sometime anonymous blogging on Utah Valley State College.
Old piece about rebelling against book sellers.
Torbin and Travis take the wild adventure to Sicily to film Alex Caldiero in his homeish haunts.
Medical researchers are homing in on a wonder drug that may significantly reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many other diseases -- sunshine.
Fish again sings the most perfect song of academic freedom and proper teaching I've heard.
Logging and petroleum search threatens yet uncontacted tribes in South America.
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Conservative bloggers have speculated that my use of "@!$%#" indicates that I possess an impoverished vocabulary, a thesis that I reject as pretty @!$%#ing stupid and in fact rather cromulent. Actually, I curse online as a conscious choice.
Agents in red wine, perhaps not limited to resveratrol, may contribute to longevity in ways similar to famine diets.
A little strategically placed makeup quickly turns the wimpiest of male barn swallows into chick magnets, amping up their testosterone and even trimming their weight, new research shows.
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Dr Stanley Fish explores the problematic of normalcy, launching from the perspective of an angry autistic who doesn't want to be cured, drawing a comparison from the movie X-Men and exploring the battle between groups that want to eliminate deviations from a norm and those who wa …
"U.S. craft beer is probably the most diverse and interesting brewing scene in the world," beer aficionado Cass Enright said at a recent dinner in Toronto at the Academy of Spherical Arts to celebrate the Ontario launch of Southern Tier Brewing's India Pale Ale.
Grateful Dead converse sneakers. Kinda cool looking, but so damned commercially insipid. Maybe I'll paint my own.
You can look at almost anything on Google. Just don't try to sneak a peek of the homes in the private community of North Oaks.
Donna Jean and the Tricksters to play in SF.
UVSC helped build this families home.
Now here's a stupid call: Your student ID is also a Visa card. Can you say "corporate education"?
Dunkin' Donuts and Rachel Raye teamed up for an ad that featured a black and white scarf, and Michelle Malkin and her idiotic minions scared the company into pulling the ad lest consumers think a scarf makes one a terrorista.
Dick Cavette remembers growing up in Lincoln, Nebraska with Jimmy McConnell. A decade later, I lived many of the same pranks and "playing out" activities on those wonderful summer evenings I remember.
What goes around, comes around.
New York Governor David A. Paterson directed state agencies to begin the process of recognizing same-sex marriages that are performed in jurisdictions that allow the marriages.
Walter Bender left "One Laptop Per Child" because he is committed to Sugar, the open source software OS that he hopes will significantly impact children's learning.
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The wife John McCain callously left behind:
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