Monday after Independance weekend

Hello, and welcome back from freedom. It was full of family, friends, grillin, and booze. What else could an american possibly want?




|politics|

Censoring Iraq: This week US forces censored an award winning photojournalist, Zoriah– continuing the efforts to make certain we do not see the real results of our actions in Iraq. (firedoglake.com)

The man who broke the My Lai and Abu Ghraib stories says we're closer to war with Iran than anyone knows. (npr.org)

Millions of Americans are embarrassingly ill-informed and they do not care that they are. (alternet.org)

US 'Has Nuclear Hit List' (news.bbc.co.uk)

The July 4th Lie (lewrockwell.com)

We have arrived at a time when Americans are rejecting the contents of the Declaration of Independence, and want to return to the Old World ways, where the few elite rule the many. (populistamerica.com)

Judge Rejects Bush’s View on Wiretaps (nytimes.com)

YouTube ordered to hand over to Viacom a complete log of all users’ activities, which will include a list of usernames, IP addresses, and videos that each account has viewed in the past. (dailytech.com)



|economics|


Banks are Suffering from their Own Stupidity (dailyreckoning.com)

America's Great Depression By Murray N. Rothbard (mises.org)

Deepening Cycle of Job Loss Seen Lasting Into ’09 (nytimes.com)

Starbucks To Close 600 Stores, Halves 2009 Expansion Plans (money.cnn.com)




|science|

The Father of Cognitive Neuroscience Discusses Status, Free Will, and The Human Condition (seedmagazine.com)

DNA made from nonnatural (artificial) bases. Can create stable double and triple strands. Can be used for molecular computers, memory and genetic engineering (nextbigfuture.com)

Big Pharma Is in a Frenzy to Bring Cannabis-Based Medicines to Market (alternet.org)

Scientists find that the body's own Cannabis is good for the skin (sciencedaily.com)

New study of a binary-pulsar star system further corroborates Einstein's general theory of relativity (mcgill.ca)

How Prozac sent the science of depression in the wrong direction (boston.com)

Humor Shown To Be Fundamental To Our Success As A Species (sciencedaily.com)

New Contact Lenses can now display information right in your eye (guardian.co.uk)

'Until recently we have barely admitted that physics existed as a school subject - physics, chemistry and biology have not been allowed to be mentioned in official documentation.' (news.bbc.co.uk)

Light, electricity, and magnetism are manifestations of the same thing called electromagnetic radiation (astronomynotes.com)

New Mercury Images Show Volcanoes, Magnetic Field (news.nationalgeographic.com)

Pandemic! 10 of the Deadliest Diseases - The Black Plague, Third Pandemic and Spanish Flu wiped out hundreds of millions; they have nothing on today's worst diseases (popsci.com)


|environment|


28 Billion Bottles of Water (i28.tinypic.com)

Garbage In, Megawatts Out: Ottawa will build the first gasification facility in North America to make energy from waste. (technologyreview.com)

U.S. Lifts Moratorium on New Solar Projects (nytimes.com)

Like the tobacco lobbyists who spent years denying the links between smoking and cancer, global warming denialists don't have to win the debate – they simply have to confuse the public (guardian.co.uk)

Forests Forever (forests-forever.com)

The next Prius will be partially solar-powered (reuters.com)



|fun/geek|

Websperiment! 10 Audacious Experimental and Interactive Websites (webupon.com)

WhyAmericaIsFucked.jpg (sott.net)

What Scientology Paid $8 Million To Hide (villagevoice.com)

Man on the Moon, Future and Past (boston.com)

12 Ways To Beat Depression (huffingtonpost.com)

Today is the day (istheday.blogspot.com)

When you go batshit crazy, you draw amazing things like this. (gmilburn.ca)

The reason why our products continually become less durable, and more frequently replaced. (en.wikipedia.org)