Ukrainian troops in their surrounded barracks talk with armed men, believed to be Russian soldiers, in the village of Perevalnoye, outside Simferopol. Photo: DPA The Ukraine crisis is the worst in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall and diplomacy is now essential to avoid military escalation, G[...]
Archive for March 3rd, 2014
March 3rd, 2014 - 2:45 pm § in Uncategorized
White Man Accepts Oscar for Black Movie?
Man bites dog? At last night’s Oscars, 12 Year a Slave won the Oscar as the Best Picture. Accepting the award was . Brad Pitt! The faux feelings of political correctness were all too evident.[...]
March 3rd, 2014 - 12:36 pm § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge: What is it?
A. A baby parrot B. Cartoon character from new Disney movie. C. Brazil’s mascot for the South American Football Championship D. Cloned T Rex from Regeneron’s Dinosaur Project E. Australian National Zoo’s new marsupial parrot. [...]
March 3rd, 2014 - 10:10 am § in Uncategorized
FAUX SCIENCE
Earth’s gravity affects gene expression New York, March 2 – The Earth’s gravity, or the lack of it, surely affects us in more ways than one, and some of them in unexpected manner – for instance the expression of genes. In the case of cancer, some tumours are much less aggress[...]
Are Robots Writing Papers? Embroidering Facts Leads to Pubication
Nature reports that computer-generated fake papers are flooding academia Jeremy Stribling, Dan Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn. three MIT graduate students created SCIgen, a computer program that writes academic papers. In 2005, they submitted one of the papers to a conference, and it was accepte[...]
March 3rd, 2014 - 2:50 am § in Misc.
Palestine: Save the Children
Six decades since the Arab states invaded Palestine and occupied the west bank of the Jordan and Gaza, there are still Arab children, now called Palestinians, living in refugee camps. Any fair person recognizes that the Palestinians live in a bad situation. A civil society built while under occup[...]
March 3rd, 2014 - 1:53 am § in Misc.
THE Ave: Who complained about our dawg?
Of Huskies, Owls and Family Feuds Last Fall Ana Mari Cauce, our Provost and a friend, asked me to remove our dog because someone had complained that the dog and W made this site look like a official UW site. I explained that TA’s dog was drawn (by me) to look like one I saw at […][...]
Seattle Times Editorial: Turns out the UW athletic department is not ‘self-sustaining’
How well does the UW Athletics Program serve the needs of Washington State kids interested in athletic careers? “To the extent that he thought about public colleges at all, it was only to revel in memories of 1969, when he captained the University of South Carolina football team” [...]