MAINSTREAM MEDIA
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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The Island in the Wind
New Yorker - By Elizabeth Kolbert - Jul. 2 (Special Report)
For the past decade or so, Samso has been the site of an unlikely social movement. When it began, in the late nineteen-nineties, the island's forty-three hundred inhabitants had... More »
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Archaeologists Find Evidence of Workaday World Along the Nile
New York Times - By John Noble Wilford - Jul. 1 (News Report)
Archaeologists have long fixed their sights on the grandeur that was ancient Egypt, the pyramids, temples and tombs. Few bothered to dig beneath and beyond the monumental stones... More »
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Dirty engines from China pollute U.S. air
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - By Bill Lambrecht - Jun. 30 (Special Report)
With costly new anti-pollution rules looming for lawn mowers, boat engines and many other small motorized devices, U.S. manufacturers are pressing the government to halt the... More »
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Political Participation Is Partially Rooted In Genetic Inheritance
ScienceDaily - Jul. 3 (News Report)
The decision to vote is partly genetic, according to a new study published in the American Political Science Review. The research, by James H. Fowler and Christopher T... More »
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"Global Disruption" More Accurately Describes Climate Change, Not "Global Warming"
Democracy Now - By John Holdren, Amy Goodman - Jul. 3 (Interview)
Leading scientist John Holdren says "global warming" is not the correct term to use; he prefers "global disruption." "'Global warming' [is] misleading... More »
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Mapping the road to the White House, Google-style
Los Angeles Times - By Jim Puzzanghera - Jul. 1 (Blog Post)
The long road to the White House travels straight through cyberspace this year, and Google has launched a site offering several unique maps to help you follow it... More »
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Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers
New York Times - By Miguel Helft - Jun. 30 (Blog Post)
Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the last few days, after... More »
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Slowing down solar
Newsday - Jun. 28 (Opinion)
Solar energy developers and some environmentalists suggest the move smacks of heel dragging. They question the eagerness to slow down solar development while demand is... More »
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Janet Ritz: Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice
Huffington Post - Jul. 1 (Blog Post)
A new study by the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the National Center for Atmospheric Research has warned that the integrity of carbon and methane sequestering permafrost... More »
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FCC Commissioners Call For National Broadband Strategy
Public Knowledge - By Mehan Jayasuriya - Jun. 30 (Blog Post)
While there's little doubt about the benefits that such fast, cheap and widely available Internet would have--for education, employment and the economy--the million-dollar... More »
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White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail
New York Times - By Felicity Barringer - Jun. 25 (News Report)
The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency's conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency... More »
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Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive
Washington Post - By Craig Whitlock - Jun. 24 (Special Report)
The war against terrorism has evolved into a war of ideas and propaganda, a struggle for hearts and minds fought on television and the Internet... More »
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The Internet and the 2008 Election
Pew Research - Jun. 16 (Poll)
A record-breaking 46% of Americans have used the internet, email or cell phone text messaging to get news about the campaign, share their views and mobilize others... More »
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Barack Makes More News Than McCain, But It's Not All Good
Journalism.org - By Mark Jurkowitz - Jun. 18 (News Analysis)
In the first official week of the general election, the differences between Barack Obama and John McCain on issues ranging from the economy to Iraq constituted the media's main... More »
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Anti-Science Conservatives Must be Stopped
Salon - By Joseph Romm - Jun. 30 (News Analysis)
Conservatives can't stop the impending catastrophe with anti-government rhetoric. But they can prevent progressives and moderates from stopping it by blocking aggressive climate... More »
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Driller Instinct
New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jun. 20 (Opinion)
As many reports have noted, the McCain/Bush policy on offshore drilling doesn't make sense as a response to $4-a-gallon gas: the White House's own Energy Information... More »
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Obama's Official Blog is Unreadable. McCain's is Great. Why That's Bad News for the GOP.
Newsweek - By Andrew Romano - Jun. 9 (Blog Post)
And that's precisely McCain's problem: while the Obama campaign is essentially a bigger, badder, techier version of George W. Bush's legendary presidential juggernauts, Team... More »
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Bogus narratives
San Francisco Chronicle - By Jon Carroll - Jun. 19 (Opinion)
The political media, particularly the national political media, particularly the national electronic political media, exist in a vast echo chamber... More »
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Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near on Global Warming
Huffington Post - By Dr. James Hansen - Jun. 23 (Blog Post)
Changes needed to preserve creation, the planet on which civilization developed, are clear. But the changes have been blocked by special interests, focused on short-term profits,... More »
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The kindness of strangers
Prospect - By Mark Pagel - Jun. 10 (Review)
So we are a species with a short but intense history of living in relatively isolated groups. We are also a species that invented a new and powerful way of life--called... More »
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Dirty engines from China pollute U.S. air
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Jun. 30 (Special Report)
With costly new anti-pollution rules looming for lawn mowers, boat engines and many other small motorized devices, U.S. manufacturers are pressing the government to halt the... More »
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The Itch
New Yorker - Jun. 29 (Special Report)
It was right after a shingles episode. The blisters and the pain responded, as they usually did, to acyclovir, an antiviral medication. But this time the area of the scalp that... More »
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Critics' fears of atom-smasher dismissed
Associated Press - Jun. 29 (Special Report)
But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles that could... More »
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"Global Disruption" More Accurately Describes Climate Change, Not "Global Warming"
Democracy Now - Jul. 3 (Interview)
Leading scientist John Holdren says "global warming" is not the correct term to use; he prefers "global disruption." "'Global warming' [is] misleading... More »
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Young Internet Voter.com
Capital Gig - Jun. 28 (Special Report)
Earlier this week, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide released results from the Young Internet Voter of 2008 Study. We wanted to learn more about Young Internet Voters (18-35 year olds)... More »
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Mapping the road to the White House, Google-style
Los Angeles Times - Jul. 1 (Blog Post)
The long road to the White House travels straight through cyberspace this year, and Google has launched a site offering several unique maps to help you follow it... More »
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Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers
New York Times - Jun. 30 (Blog Post)
Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the last few days, after... More »
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Slowing down solar
Newsday - Jun. 28 (Opinion)
Solar energy developers and some environmentalists suggest the move smacks of heel dragging. They question the eagerness to slow down solar development while demand is... More »
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Janet Ritz: Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice
Huffington Post - Jul. 1 (Blog Post)
A new study by the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the National Center for Atmospheric Research has warned that the integrity of carbon and methane sequestering permafrost... More »
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Worse Than Grandma's Depression
Clusterf--- Nation - Jun. 30 (Opinion)
This isn't so funny anymore. Intimations of a July banking collapse rumbled though the Internet this weekend while mainstream news orgs like The New York Times and CNN pulled... More »