Never have toves been so slithy or a film so brillig. Tim Burton’s spectacular reimagining of Alice in Wonderland, which had its royal premiere in London last night, takes Lewis Carroll’s famous Jabberwocky poem and makes it a 3-D epic for the next generation.
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Traditionalists may quibble with Burton’s Gothic ride through the Alice books, but his hallucinogenic humour is true to the originals. Plus you don’t get a cast any better than this. Read the rest of this entry »
An 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Chile early Saturday, killing at least 214 people and triggering tsunami warnings for the entire Pacific basin, including the Hawaiian Islands. LIVE VIDEO COVERAGE from Hawaii below.
A bill passed by the Utah House and Senate this week and waiting for the governor’s signature, will make it a crime for a woman to have a miscarriage, and make induced abortion a crime in some instances.
For quite a while it seems that the Israelis are preparing to go to war. Not only do they engage in highly publicized military maneuvers, but they have also issued political threats, assassinated its political opponents in neighboring countries, using Mossad trained hit teams and; have now publicized their new “747 style long range drones to attack its neighbors in the Persian Gulf; especially Iran. They have consistently tormented and oppressed the non-Jewish people in Gaza and the West Bank, both Muslims and Christians through its forced Nazi style occupation and expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza ignoring even international condemnation. Yesterday in the Huffington Post Mrs. Tzipi ,the former Foreign Minister of Israel applauded the use of assassination teams giving further rise to the fact that Israel’s Mossad carried out this political murder in Dubai.
Copy-paste from the independent Political Fact Checking website.
“Climategate”
Hacked e-mails show climate scientists in a bad light but don’t change scientific consensus on global warming.
December 10, 2009
Corrected: Dec. 22, 2009
Summary
In late November 2009, more than 1,000 e-mails between scientists at the Climate Research Unit of the U.K.’s University of East Anglia were stolen and made public by an as-yet-unnamed hacker. Climate skeptics are claiming that they show scientific misconduct that amounts to the complete fabrication of man-made global warming. We find that to be unfounded:
When I tell people that there’s a symbiotic relationship between science and liberalism, it turns out that what I usually need to define is not “symbiotic,” which most folks understand to mean mutually beneficial, but “science” and “liberalism.”
The word science is used today to describe the work of the thousands of researchers who conduct or monitor experiments, interact in scientific organizations, and publish in refereed journals. They belong to the world’s only genuinely international community, and their findings are applicable from here to the far reaches of the universe.
Wired.com marks Presidents Day weekend with brief vignettes of three of our techiest presidents: Washington steered national policy toward an embrace of science, Jefferson made a significant contribution to paleontology, and Lincoln devised and patented a gimmick for lifting stranded boats.
The Library of Congress has this manuscript of George Washington’s first State of the Union address.
Washington’s Advice
Jan. 8, 1790: During his first — and the nation’s first — State of the Union address, President George Washington urges the young nation to encourage the sciences and literature, calling knowledge “the surest basis for public happiness.”
He also called for importing “useful inventions from abroad” while encouraging homegrown genius to flourish, by means of offering patent protection for inventors.
Washington was trained as a surveyor, and he attached great importance to the study of science and literature. His views also reflected the general attitude of the gentry toward classical education. The Founding Fathers, most of who came from this class, were children of the Enlightenment, the philosophy of rationalism that rose in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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