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POPSWatching Whales Watching Us
The question of sonar’s catastrophic effects on whales even reached the Supreme Court last November, in a case pitting the United States Navy against the Natural Resources Defense Council. The council, along with other environmental groups, had secured two landmark victories in the district and appellate courts of California, which ruled to heavily restrict the Navy’s use of sonar devices in its training exercises. The Supreme Court, however, in a 6-to-3 decision widely viewed as a setback for the environmental movement, overturned parts of the lower-court rulings, faulting them for, in the words of Chief Justice John Roberts’s majority opinion, failing “properly to defer to senior Navy officers’ specific, predictive judgments,” thereby jeopardizing the safety of the fleet and sacrificing the public’s interest in military preparedness by “forcing the Navy to deploy an inadequately trained antisubmarine force.” In his decision, Roberts went on to minimize, in a fairly
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POPSScience Fiction And most profoundly, it is found in our own minds :) (thx to Bookyards for the link)
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POPSBattlestar Galactica - intelligence rare on TV As Homo sapiens and Cylons perpetrate atrocities upon one another throughout the season, as consequences overwhelm the antagonists, humanity becomes a rare quality found in unlikely places. It is a poignant, telling reminder of possibility for a divided world.
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POPSWhat makes us humans? Just watched it. Interesting adaptation. The story spans around the question of whether Jerry (an anthropoid) is entitled to basic human rights. The argumentation paints an ironic picture of what being human is all about in the view of main stream society.
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POPSRucker's Postsingular is a free, CC download! Rudy Rucker has posted his kick-ass, weird-ass post-cyberpunk novel Postsingular to the net as a free, Creative Commons-licensed download. I reviewed Postsingular when it came out earlier this month: everyone should read RR
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POPSScream Awards Most Vile Villain Ralph Fiennes, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Most Memorable Mutilation: Dismembered In Car Crash, Grindhouse And there is more...
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POPSDoris Lessing, a pioneer of a unique Sci.Fi style While the light on Ms. Lessing's work is mostly emphasizing her pioneering role as feminist and socialist, it is worth noting that Ms. Lessing contributed immensely to the fantasy/Sci.Fi genre, through some of the finest works of her time.
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