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March 8th, 2011 - 5:41 pm § in Schools & Colleges, Science

Imperial College takes on Elsevier and Wiley Blackwell

Felix Online, the online news of Imperial College in the UK, reports (in an article by Kadhim Shubber) that Deborah Shorley, Director of the Imperial College London Library, is threatening to end the library’s subscriptions to journals published by Elsevier and Wiley Blackwell, two of the major [...]

March 8th, 2011 - 5:11 pm § in Politics, UW

UW in Your Community Map

Great tool!  This is an interactive map  for finding out where UW students and faculty come from, who represents them in the legislature, and UW resources available to people in the district. Use this link to get to the map. You may want to use the tool if you plan to meet with your legislators [&[...]

March 8th, 2011 - 1:37 pm § in America, Hypocrisy, Misc., Politics

Women’s Rights Under Attack as IWD Turns 100

While waves of democratic demands sweep across North Africa and the Mideast, rights that women have come to take for granted in the last generation are under attack here in the U.S. Under the banner of the astroturf Tea Party, Republicans have been busily untying all corners of the social safety net[...]

March 8th, 2011 - 1:37 pm § in Religion, Science

Religion on Campus.

Religious apologists like Dr. Ecklund fail to understand that the problem is not intolerance of faith.  In my experience, even though most of my colleagues are likely atheists, those that are religious … Hindu, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Mormon mix perfectly well. The problem on cam[...]

March 8th, 2011 - 6:51 am § in Uncategorized

Web Freedom

I think the time has come for a constitutional amendment adding freedom of the web to our existing first amendment rights. My immediate reason for this came from the mess last week when Gmail went down: As most of those affected by the Gmail outage return to their inboxes, a lingering sense of uneas[...]