Let Us Eat Fish By RAY HILBORN UW , Published: April 14, 2011 NY Times Yuko Shimizu, NY Times THIS Lent, many ecologically conscious Americans might feel a twinge of guilt as they dig into the fish on their Friday dinner plates. They shouldn’t. Over the last decade the public has been bombarded [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ideas’
April 17th, 2011 - 10:06 am § in America
BREAKING NEWS: Philadelphia Orchestra Declares Bankruptcy
Google: The acclaimed Philadelphia Orchestra said Saturday it would file for bankruptcy. It is the first major US performance ensemble to do so during the nation’s current economic turmoil. It is believed they are filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy that would allow them to continue with certain [...]
Nigeria Votes, on Passover
Ed. The election in Nigeria may well be much bigger news than the soap opera in Libya. Nigeria is the largest state in Africa and, in may ways, the one with the most promise. With oil wealth, a sizable educated populace, an engrafted tradition of democracy, a truly multicultural society, and gre[...]
April 16th, 2011 - 8:54 am § in Environment, Religion
Frank Lutz: How to Keep NPR Funded!
from the Dianne Rheems show: There are five different types of people for you to reach out to. Rejecters, Disagreeables, Neutrals, Accepters and Embracers. Each one of those terms means something. You need to forget the Rejecters because there’s nothing you can do to influence them. “The[...]
PETITION: Free Ai Weiwei
On April 3, internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained at the Beijing airport while en route to Hong Kong, and his papers and computers were seized from his studio compound. Now the Guggenheim Foundation is leading the call for his release. Update: The Museum of Contemporary Art[...]
Man<>Chimp
E!News Published: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 – 13:38 in Biology & Nature Chimpanzees and humans are minimally different genetically, but the small differences are what make us human, according to a team of researchers who identified segments of non-coding DNA missing in humans that exist in [...]
Let WGU manage the Huskies!
Now that Western Governors Washington is a Washington state university, why not ……? Imagine, without a need for faculty to annoy the athletes, their graduation rates would be wonderful! Imagine, for far less than the cost of athletic scholarship, WGU mentors could assure us that every at[...]
April 12th, 2011 - 1:46 pm § in Misc.
Michael Jackson Statue Erected in London
from the Independent: Michael Jackson – Fulham’s chairman Mohammed al Fayed says that fans can “go to hell” if they don’t like the new statue of the pop legend Ed. Seattle has Lenin and London has the successor to the Beetles. Makes sense to me! [...]
April 10th, 2011 - 11:45 am § in Schools & Colleges
Defunding public education means Washingtons’ kids GET lost.
Ed. I aplogize for the pun, but someone needs to kick our representatives in the ass .. their ass and not the horse’s ass. Russia is ahead of us. With the fall of the evil communists, the evil capitalists have gone a long way to flush Russia’s once great education system down the dra[...]
A Wish For Passover
Ed. Passover is now a week away. A wish for Passover from Americans for Peace Now. Ed. BRS and I are long term members of PeaceNow and striongly recommend it to all of our friends, Muslims, Jews, Zionists, and Palestinians. Their stand for Peace is why I am so upset by the death of Mer [&helli[...]