… the site (but if you do, please contact us ). The main purpose of the migration is to make the site a little more future-proof.
We’ve also been working on implementing a co-authorship capability (as you can see here). From now on, after you make a post, you can contact us if there is also a co-author. After the editors add the co-author to the post, it will show up in their …

… the results aren’t too surprising, but there’s a lot of information here. The results are based on interviews with 1608 respondents, and the sample was weighted to reflect the national demographics of the United Kingdom.

At the top of the list, 73% of people own digital cameras, while 62% own mobile phones that have access to the Internet; while near the bottom, only 27% have …

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… Staff cabinet. According to our sources, admiral William Fallon made clear that if such an order was given, he would refuse to follow it and would hand in his resignation along with the entire Centcom headquarter’s. So far only the Navy and Army’s superior officers’ resistance has prevented the neoconservatives and the Air Force to launch the operations.
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… the twentieth century. However, since 2005, law enforcement agencies and media organizations have sparked a renewed interest in gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), dubbed “the world’s most dangerous gang” by the FBI. Thus far, the few existing investigations of MS-13, mostly in government reports and media segments, have centered almost entirely on enforcement issues …

… view” is perfectly clear is a scenic tour of how General Motors, beginning in 1922, dismantled urban mass transit across the United States and made mobility contingent upon the gas engine. By buying up trolley systems through its shadow subsidiary, National City Lines GM systematically gutted those streetcar companies and made efficient, reliable, clean transportation a endangered …

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… our political values, they posit that genes may play an important role in determining our politics by driving us towards certain “natural tendencies”. This approach, of course, is not without its critics (PDF).
Not having any training as a scientist, I wonder how one might go about connecting social behavior to genes in a way that would be scientifically rigorous. These studies …

… the year. They don’t last long.

A few months ago I took a fallen tile from the Barcelona metro. Days ago I spotted a vacant spot in this row of beautiful tiles near my home and decided to try and interact with the cool mathematics. I guess the best part of the story is that a few blocks from my place is a construction site and in one of the waste bins in the street there were …

… banking services in the US, Wal-Mart has succeeded in opening a bank in Mexico. It plans to open 80 more by the end of 2008. Located within their stores, the banks are targetted at low-income earning households. Their early success, plus their increased lobbying spending, point to renewed efforts at entering the industry in the US. As in Mexico, these banks would be directed at the …

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… monetary and banking systems, raises a number of questions that relate to the US subprime crisis, not to mention the global financial system at large. Moving from a monetary system based on barter to one based on debt, the documentary highlights the increasing risk and perhaps inevitability of a major economic crisis. Of course, we’ve heard about scenarios such as this before, and how …

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… the various security mechanisms meant to prevent this sort of fraud, Jerome Kerviel was able to hide his transactions from controllers. It appears that Kerviel did not perpetuate the fraud for his own gain. In the words of this Washington Post article *, Kerveil was “creating losses through successive transactions of buying dear and selling cheap.”
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… global warming in a video created entirely by using still images.” Click here to see the film.

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