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POPSWestmoreland calls Obama ‘uppity' Absolutely amazing. To speak in such a snobbish/old money way, would not be tolerated at this level by Australians. A part of the culture that should be changed. And to further show ignorance, L W is shepherded into a world of name calling.
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POPSWas Dr. Ivins a "mad scientist"? This case presents a great many mysteries which may never be solved. The most troubling revelation, however, had nothing to do with Dr. Ivins. It has come to light that the White House, in the days following the attacks, pressured the FBI to blame Al Qaeda. That is a far more scary plotline than the story of a single mad scientist.
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POPSHousing Covenants that endorse segregation I've seen these covenants turn up in title reports - they are shocking to read. "The covenants were not enacted by the government but were private contracts between homeowners. Owners who sold their house to a black family, for example, could be sued for damages by other homeowners in the neighborhood. Black home buyers could also be sued. In 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Shelley vs. Kraemer that covenants were unenforceable."
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POPSOlder Brain May Be Wiser “For the young people, it’s as if the distraction never happened,” said an author of the review, Lynn Hasher, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute. “But for older adults, because they’ve retained all this extra data, they’re now suddenly the better problem solvers. They can transfer the information they’ve soaked up from one situation to another.”
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POPSComedy Centrals 100 best Comedians 44. Joan Rivers 43. Dave Chappelle 42. Flip Wilson 41. Jon Stewart 40. Mort Sahl 39. Billy Crystal 38. Bill Maher 37. Martin Lawrence 36. Jim Carrey 35. Phyllis Diller 34. Buddy Hackett 33. Andy Kaufman 32. Albert Brooks 31. George Burns 30. Garry Shandling 29. Milton Berle 28. Jack Benny 27. Jay Leno 26. Ray Romano 25. Bob Hope 24. Redd Foxx 23. Steven Wright 22. Robert Klein 21. Dennis Miller 20. Sam Kinison 19. Bill Hicks 18. Jonathan Winters 17. Don Rickles 16. Ellen Degeneres 15. David Letterman 14. Bob Newhart 13. Robin Williams 12. Jerry Seinfeld 11. Johnny Carson 10. Eddie Murphy 9. Roseanne Barr 8. Bill Cosby 7. Rodney Dangerfield 6. Steve Martin 5. Chris Rock 4. Woody Allen 3. Lenny Bruce 2. George Carlin 1. Richard Pryor
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POPSFull Yale Video Courses Available Online for Free! I personally recommend Professor Shelley Kegan's "Philosophy of death" class. It's a very interesting set of videos. You watch the entire course in your browser with good audio and video. He also gets into Plato's phaedo. Have a look!
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POPSTwenty science fiction novels that may change your life Cryptonomicon (2000), by Neal Stephenson The Mount (2002), by Carol Emschwiller Perdido Street Station (2002), by China Mieville Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003), by Cory Doctorow Pattern Recognition (2003), by William Gibson Newton's Wake (2004), by Ken MacLeod Glasshouse (2006), by Charles Stross
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POPS♫ Cellist Jacqueline du Pré ♥ - glimpses of eternity The embedded video is linked to my Jacqueline du Pré playlist on YouTube. (Overall duration: almost 1,5 h.) Jacqueline du Pré and Kathleen Ferrier - these two great British artists died when they had scarcely reached the fifth decade of their lifes. Their personalities will never be forgotten, and their art is living on. "Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood Of rapture so divine." (P.B. Shelley - To a Skylark) (See also morgainelefaye's Jacqueline du Pré clip .) Addendum: J. du P.'s biography on Oxford DNB podcast
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POPSAntarctic Iceberg Calving The images are records of antarctic expeditions where amongst other things photos were taken of iceberg 'calvings,' where a large iceberg breaks up into smaller pieces. the pictures were taken from 2000, until the end of the Antarctic research season in 2006, on page 3. The clipped pictures,are icon sized, but can be seen with greater magnification at the site. Due to the relationship between surface area and volume, the smaller icebergs become, the quicker they melt
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POPSone step closer to building artificial human brain Markram believes that with the state of technology today, it is possible to build an entire rat's neocortex, which is the next phase of the Blue Brain project, due to begin next year. From there, it's cats, then monkeys and finally, a human brain. Markram is banking on Moore's law holding steady, as a computer with the power of the human brain, using today's technology, would take up several football pitches and run up an electricity bill of $3bn a year. But by the time Markram gets around to mimicking a full human brain, computing will have moved on.
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POPSMad about the man Comic by Kate Beaton . History is Rad and she's going to come up with more.. List: 1- Soren Kierkegaard 2- Benedict Arnold 3- Agnes McPhail 4- Mary Shelley 5- Queen Elizabeth I 6- Emperor Norton 7- Benjamin Disraeli 8- Nikola Tesla 9- Genghis Khan 10- David Hume
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