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Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which permitted the military to circumvent the constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense.

The order set into motion the exclusion from certain areas, and the evacuation and mass incarceration of 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens.

These Japanese Americans, half of whom were children, were incarcerated for up to 4 years, without due process of law or any factual basis, in bleak, remote camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards.

They were forced to evacuate their homes and leave their jobs; in some cases family members were separated and put into different camps. President Roosevelt himself called the 10 facilities "concentration camps."

Some Japanese Americans died in the camps due to inadequate medical care and the emotional stresses they encountered. Several were killed by military guards posted for allegedly resisting orders.

At the time, Executive Order 9066 was justified as a "military necessity" to protect against domestic espionage and sabotage. However, it was later documented that "our government had in its possession proof that not one Japanese American, citizen or not, had engaged in espionage, not one had committed any act of sabotage." (Michi Weglyn, 1976).

Rather, the causes for this unprecedented action in American history, according to the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, "were motivated largely by racial prejudice, wartime hysteria, and a failure of political leadership."

Almost 50 years later, through the efforts of leaders and advocates of the Japanese American community, Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Popularly known as the Japanese American Redress Bill, this act acknowledged that "a grave injustice was done" and mandated Congress to pay each victim of internment $20,000 in reparations.

The reparations were sent with a signed apology from the President of the United States on behalf of the American people. The period for reparations ended in August of 1998.

Despite this redress, the mental and physical health impacts of the trauma of the internment experience continue to affect tens of thousands of Japanese Americans. Health studies have shown a 2 times greater incidence of heart disease and premature death among former internees, compared to noninterned Japanese Americans.

So, black rappers, black people, and other such and such groups are going to use some offensive slang ant it wont be counted as offensive, but when a white person uses them it will be SO bad an offense that it will cause them to be fired.

"Black people"? I'm black. My family and friends are black. We will not tolerate the use of those words in out presence. I think you meant to say "some black people."

Rappers? Yep, many do use those words. And believe it or not, both Al and Jesse, as well as many other influential blacks like Oprah, Rosa Parks, Bill Cosby and Chuck D have been been going after misogynistic and violent lyrics for some time

So why is this stuff so pervasive in rap music? This movie address the question, and the answer is simple: because it sells. Kirk Franklin and Yolanda Adams can produce all kinds of uplifting music, but as long as Eminem and 50 Cent sell 10 million albums, people are going to make music in that vein - and by the way, once a rap album crosses the 750,000 sales mark, it's not just black people buying it.

Just like in the Imus case: follow the money. The same people who are suing grandmothers are also the ones facilitating the production, marketing and distribution.

"Dear Member: This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by NBD Television Ltd. claiming that this material is infringing:...

But Squidoo DIDN'T violate the copyright of NBD Television Ltd., because NBD -- a London-based distributor of films about music and musicians -- DOESN'T HOLD THE COPYRIGHT TO TRIUMPH OF THE NERDS. That copyright is owned by Oregon Public Broadcasting, which made the show. I contacted Rebecca Morris, chief counsel at Oregon Public Broadcasting. She had not heard of NBD Television Ltd. and had never been contacted for permission to act on behalf of Oregon Public Broadcasting in this matter. I contacted NBD Television Ltd. And they did not reply.

Next you'll say that we're incapable of growing ears on rats right?

But when he died, Stanford didn't even have a memorial for him due to his insistence on correlation between white skin and intelligence and advocation of eugenics to weed out the undesirable darker skinned races of the world.

http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/shockley/shoc kley3.html/

I think your Bill of Rights is about as effective as ours. The government creates exceptions and work arounds of which the free speech zones are one example. Here hate speech is another example. What gets me is certain Americans who rant and rave about the first amendment like it is perfect with no exceptions.
Also you are right about problems from the fact that it is a 200 yr old document compared to ours being about 25 yrs old.
Still our supreme court has interpreted parts much wider than written, eg the search and seizure provision being a general right to privacy to the point where it is illegal to out source certain programs to the USA as your corporations are not held to the same standards, things like selling info on customers.
Just get mad when certain Americans act like your Bill of Rights is perfect and the government follows it without exception.

As for topless women, in the summer it is not that rare to actually see one around here walking down the road or riding her bike though it is still rare enough to get mentioned. More common on the beach of course. I also understand that in some states women have the same freedom. NY being one IIRC.
To show the culture differences between Canada and the USA the CRTC (Canadian FCC) got quite a few complaints about that Superbowl halftime. Not one was about Janet's boob, instead it was a beer commercial that some people considered racist.

As for the political issues, what I meant by black box was not the secret ballot which I think is needed for democracy to function but the mysterious voting machines which act like a black box. One never really knows if they are counting votes honestly or not and it is that not knowing that I find questionable. Here I can show up at the polling station in the morning, watch the empty ballot boxes being unloaded and verify they are empty. Stand around all day watching the voting procedure and also watch the counting procedure and every major political party does have representatives watching. Even though minor cheating is most likely still possible by eg getting on the voting list more than once generally there is no question about the elections. Also generally we only vote on one thing at a time so the people are more likely to be informed compared to you where the ballot can easily be multi page with everyone from the President down to the dog catcher being decided at once.
Also $50000 is quite a bit of money to me and $49000 more then is legal here. It seems quite a few laws are passed in the States where it seems to benefit some corporation more then the populace.

As for Marijuana I think we should agree to agree to disagree about harm that it causes. Still I don't see how you could argue that hemp that is very low in THC should be treated the same as Marijuana yet try buying some hemp product down there. Blue jeans being one example.
As for the seizure of assets, it does seem to be getting better down there but here are a couple of examples, though about money more than homes.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drug s/special/forfeiture.html
http://www.the-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20060927/NEWS/609270339/1005/news
http://www.isil.org/resources/lit/looting-of-ameri ca.html
and of course a google search shows many more though as I said it seems to of gotten better since the '90s.
The history of prohibition is quite interesting. A couple of points. The constitution had to be amended to prohibit alcohol so under that reasoning any other Federal prohibition laws would also need constitutional amendments to be legal.
Chocolate came very close to also being prohibited around the turn of the last century. Chocolate has also been being bred for

I read this somewhere, (I cant remember where, so cant attribute it correctly, but I wont take credit for it)

Hasn't Google already been doing this for a couple years now?

A Novel Datacenter Concept

Which is apparently based on a Cringely article from 2005, which may or may not have been lucidly based on a Google project.

Innovation at its finest.

The probable answer lies in one of Google's underground parking garages in Mountain View. There, in a secret area off-limits even to regular GoogleFolk, is a shipping container. But it isn't just any shipping container. This shipping container is a prototype data center. Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to cram the greatest number of CPUs, the most storage, memory and power support into a 20- or 40-foot box. We're talking about 5000 Opteron processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. The idea is to plant one of these puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid.

The probable answer lies in one of Google's underground parking garages in Mountain View. There, in a secret area off-limits even to regular GoogleFolk, is a shipping container. But it isn't just any shipping container. This shipping container is a prototype data center. Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to cram the greatest number of CPUs, the most storage, memory and power support into a 20- or 40-foot box. We're talking about 5000 Opteron processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. The idea is to plant one of these puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid.

I don't recall the company, or country involved, I saw a documentary on it last year.

The company was a Bechtel subsidiary. And the country was Bolivia. Check out this piece that PBS did on the water crisis in Bolivia.

Your post isn't as silly as you thought. people in south America had to pay north American corporations for clean drinking water not so long back. If they refused to pay, their water was just cut off.

I don't recall the company, or country involved, I saw a documentary on it last year.

Company was a subsidiary of Bechtel. Country was Bolivia.

Here's a link to a piece by PBS.

I just had a story submission that answered this very question: "Narcissist Technology: Did Mamma Lie?"

Unfortunately it dribbled out of the Slashhot Firehose.
Fortunately you can still read about it elsewhere:

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2007/03/h as_myspace_contributed_to_gen_1.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-esteem27fe b27,0,225486,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines
http://www.statenews.com/op_article.phtml?pk=40058

the claim that a few days without air traffic over a small percentage of the earth can cause it to be "measurably hotter". I doubt that.

Fred Hoyle of the British Academy of Science and mathematician Chandra Wickramasinghe decided to calculate the probability of life coming into existence anywhere in the universe. Their results? Utterly impossible.

Evolutionary theory does not address how life itself came about. Abiogenesis is a distinctly different field. But even so, life exists--we know that already. It's a bit odd to posit that something that has already happened is impossible. We may not know the agency (Hoyle was a fan of panspermia, for example) but that life exists indicates that life can come into existence.

...also attempted to calculate the probability that life sprang into existence spontaneously. His results? Utter impossible.

Again, life exists, so I'd temper the "utter impossible" assessments. Considering that we, along with the men whose assessments you're trumpeting, don't know exactly how life came about, I'd take their calculations with an ounce of salt. You might be overestimating how impossible something is when it's actually just improbable. Shuffle one deck of cards, and the probability of coming out with any particular arrangement is one over a 68-digit number. Two decks of cards? One over a 166-digit number. It is trivially easy to do things at your dining-room table that are mind-staggeringly improbable. That's the problem with trying to assess the probability of something that already happened--it may have been improbable, but now it's a fait accompli, so it no longer makes sense to say it's impossible.

Stephen J. Gould, one of the greatest defenders of evolution, was also troubled by issues that he saw within evolution. As a result, he came up with the theory of punctuated equilibrium. He postulated that there were sudden leaps in evolution that left no transitional forms.

This is false, and is a deliberate mischaracterization by creationists of what Gould wrote. I'm sorry you were duped by this, but you might want to do an internet search for creationism and quote-mining. Here is a good link where you can read what Gould actually thought about those transitional fossils that you've been told he thought didn't exist. Again, I'm sorry you were lied to. It's hard enough to have a conversation about this complex of a subject without some creationist authors basically lying about what some scientist did or didn't say.

Take for example the eye.

I'd love to, primarily because it's one of the most frequently explained examples of how complex structures can evolve piece by piece. Wikipedia has a good article on the subject, and if you search around there are others. I've read good explanations by Dawkins, and others. Even PBS has a decent article. Basically any light-sensetive cell would give an organism an advantage over his competitors, and over time any further advantages would accrue as they develop. You are underestimating the power of accumulated changes.

Another stake in the heart of evolution is the absence of transitional forms.

There are many articles covering transitional fossils. They are real, we have thousands of them, and they can be easily viewe

According to this report, there are a couple of executive orders involved. It's hard to blame Carter in particular, since later presidents could have changed policy, and Ford was opposed to reprocessing as well. I found another decent source on PBS.

We came from apes. Apes came from monkeys. Monkeys came from lemurs. Lemurs came from rodents. Rodents came from some earlier mammal. That mammal came from reptiles. Reptiles came from amphibians. Amphibians came from fish. And so on. In fact, the biggest evidence of this IS embryology. Do some research on it some time. There's a reason human embryos have a tail, and are indistinguishable from nearly every other land dwelling embryo for quite a large amount of it's development.

Correction...the theory goes that we did NOT come from apes but from a common ancestor...from wikipedia:

Since the time of Carolus Linnaeus, the great apes were considered the closest relatives of human beings, based on morphological similarity. In the 19th century, it was speculated that their closest living relatives were chimpanzees and gorillas, and based on the natural range of these creatures, it was surmised humans share a common ancestor with other African apes and that fossils of these ancestors would ultimately be found in Africa.

Also see http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/faq/cat0 2.html.

That's not the 'Potentially embarassing' part Cringely refers to, which is Steve Job's "Good Artists Copy, but Great Artists Steal" quote. Mildly inconvenient if you're in a Patent Law suit. But there is a funny story behind the part you cite. Jobs *did* feel embarrassed about that (for different reasons), and called up Gates to apologize. It went like this:

Jobs: "Bill I'm calling to apologize. I saw the documentary and I said that you had no taste. Well I shouldn't have said that publicly. It's true, but I shouldn't have said it publicly."
Gates: "I'm glad you called to apologize, Steve, because I thought that was really an inappropriate thing to say."
Jobs: (smirking uncontrollably) "You know it's true, it's true you have no taste."

Andy Hertzfeld (Original Mac Programmer) was there when the call was made: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/001 .html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool /

Makes you think of the topic in a whole different light.

They already are, and they are killing it in the process.
Haven't anyone seen "Merchants of Cool" ??
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool /

What makes these trademark shenanigans all the more peculiar is that at the same MacWorld show this week Apple introduced another product called Apple TV, which it first demonstrated last year under the name iTV. ... Well, it turned out that Elgato Systems makes a product called EyeTV (pronounced "iTV" obviously), which is a line of Macintosh video capture devices -- some with tuners -- so Apple backed off and changed the product name to Apple TV.

But it's not fucking true, because people have been using this diet (or a form of it) for years to prevent seizures, some forms of which depend on glucose in the brain to occur. You simply can't use them as the basis for a "study" because you have to do a controlled, blind study for anyone to take you seriously.

It's known that a high-protein diet slightly raises the risk of osteoporosis in women. Sorry, no cite right now, but the point is that you need to take supplements and such. It's important to realize that we didn't evolve to live very long; some people in some idyllic parts of the world have enjoyed long lifespans because there was nothing in particular around to kill them (such as several tribes of Native Americans, who simply did not have enough domesticable animals to release many diseases into their population until whitey came and did it) but in general the world is done with you once you're past breeding age.

In fact the Atkins diet explicitly states that you need to not only take vitamin supplements, but in some occasions oil supplements, although you can get the oils you need by eating avocado and macadamia (sp?) nuts. You also need to drink more than the usual amount of water, to keep your kidneys flushed - and it also helps with the breath problem, which usually goes away within the first two weeks anyway. It is dangerous to allow ketones to build up in your system, so you keep yourself well-hydrated and thus flushed.

Let me share with you a snip of a PBS interview of Gary Taubes, author of the controversial NYT article What if it's all Been a Big Fat Lie?

[...]The idea was, when you follow immigrants from one country to another, they tend to adopt the heart disease rates and cancer rates of the country they've moved to, so that suggests that it's not genetic, it's environmental. And then the question is: What is the environmental factor?

In the '50s, '60s, and '70s, there were a school of British researchers who said it's sugar, flour, white rice, what we now call "easily digestible carbohydrates" or "high glycemic-index carbohydrates." The diet doctors pushing low-carbohydrate diets, like Atkins and Taller and people like this, were sort of disciples of these British researchers. They read some of their writing, ad the idea was, primitive peoples, when they adopt Western diets, [they] adopt Western diseases as well: diabetes, heart disease, obesity, the foremost ones; some cancers -- colon cancer and breast cancer.

These British researchers pushed this theory and it kind of got run over by the dietary fad, cholesterol, heart disease dogma. [Other] researchers said: Well, if sugar and refined carbohydrates don't raise cholesterol, then they can't cause heart disease. Or if we can't prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that every country that has a high sugar consumption has high heart disease, then that means the theory's not true.

There were two different standards at work. In the heart disease dogma, every piece of positive evidence supported the hypotheses and moved it forward, and every piece of negative evidence, contradictory evidence, was ignored. In the refined carbohydrates theory, every piece of negative evidence was proof that the theory was wrong, and every piece of positive evidence was ignored. So you had two entirely different standards. One of them moves forward to become the theory we're living by today, this idea that if we cut back on fat, we'll be healthier. And the other sort of gets squelched.

(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/d iet/interviews/taubes.html)

Anyway, make your own decision, don't just believe what the medical establishment has been trying to tell you for years. Remember when they said salt was the worst thing on the planet? Then they retracted that, basically said it was hard to eat too much salt a

That is absolutely correct. Ketosis, of course, should not be compared to ketoacidosis; the latter is what the former does to some people with impaired systems. I actually wrote a fairly long article on the Atkins diet for Everything2 because the writeups under that node were largely incorrect. I got inspired to write it by a NYT article entitled What if it's all Been a Big Fat Lie? by Gary Taubes. (Especially read that last link if you are still a doubter, although it does not appear the entire article is there.)

The shut down was for the secondary coolant, not the primary.

Reference? This PBS interview isn't 100% clear, but it strongly implies that coolant was completely shut off to the plant: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reac tion/interviews/till.html.

I think we might be able to agree about the desirability of distributed power generation.

Distributed power generation is definitely preferable, simply from a political perspective - decentralizing money makes lobbying less annoying. Unfortunately, I'm still not convinced that the technology really exists to compete economically with just letting the electric meter spin forwards.

Here's what you're forgetting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Global_energy_u se_from_1980_to_2004.jpg. Nuclear fission could provide every watt of the power on that graph and more, but instead we're talking about solar and building more coal plants.

Linux users have been profiled by market research firms for a long time now. If you want proof, check out this transcript from Frontline's "The Persuaders":

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pers uaders/etc/script.html/

Do a text search for "linux" on that page, then back up a bit and read it in context. If you watch the show online, it's even better - and more creepy. They don't call 'em "persuaders" for nothing. :-)

It looks like PBS NOW agrees with you.

A few more ideas....

1) Assuming at least some of these asteroids will be passing Earth before they come back 100+ years from now (or however long) and then actually hit the Earth. Why not, as they are passing by, specifically as they have *passed* the Earth, nuke them from behind?

2) Same idea as #1, but instead get some modified HUGE rockets with robotic modifications to fly up to the asteroid, and then auto-magically grapple onto the 'Earth/rock' base of the asteroid, and then tilt to a different direction & fire the engines in a different direction, thereby 'flying' the asteroid in a different path... even if only by 0.002 degrees or whatever, that might make all the difference. Depending on the size of the asteroid, you might of course, need anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred or even thousands of these rockets.

3) Implement a Tesla death ray machine on a satellite above Earth's atmosphere (or "Star Wars" defense system). Possibly even a few of these around every planet or moon in the planets around our Galaxy (yeah I know this is not an overnight implementation plan), and then as asteroids are on their way towards or away from Earth - BLAST 'EM! Related links:
Tesla Death Ray: http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_wendwar.html
Star Wars Defense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Ini tiative

4) How about instead of wasting all those nukes in disarming strategies, hand them all over to the UN, and have the UN work with NASA to ship them all into some outer space orbiting satellites on the moon or better yet, Mars, and then aim them at ASteroids for anti-Armagedon purposes? I suggest Mars, because if that system ever gets hacked and somebody points a missel towards Earth, at least we'll have time to counter-Skud the Nukes.

5) Ship into outer space a few million tonnes of SOLID rock & position it in our own sweet time such that any asteroids coming towards Earth hit that first with the idea of slowing down, possibly shattering or deviating the asteroid (depending on density of rock, shape (i.e. cone with point on end facing asteroid), etc).

6) Same as #5, but attach some propulsion system behind the conned shape rock. Maybe even melt several meters of metal on the tip of the cone to re-enforce it & ensure asteroid gets split in half... then propulsion system slowly but surely accelerates the cone towards the asteroid thereby having an even greater impact and minimize asteroid's success in hitting or hurting the Earth as much.

7) Create about 10,000 solar powered spider like robots (I forget the movie reference now) with drill-heads. Ship said spider robots in a few rockets & have the rockets dump the payload onto the asteroid. Then over the period of however long before it hits Earth, the robots with AI and heat and/or solar power or something-powered will have the mission to drill the astroid into a thousand pieces.

8) Learn how to make little black holes. Create one in the trajectory of the asteroid... and POOF... asteroid gone!

9) Ask our Area 51 alien 'friends' for assistance & more ideas :-D

9.5) Carve out HUGE multi-million or billion tonne stone or ice chunks out of Mars or some future uneeded planet, and propel these chunks in a somewhat controlled fashion BY the asteroid, such that it will distort the trajectory path simply with its own gravitational pull.

10) Get the scientists to hurry the hell up and understand how to project solid matter into Astral planes, and then either with advanced human minds or with machines with the physics to do this, teleport the asteroid out of thin vaccuum (can't be air ;-) into an astral plane where it would not have a physical impact to the Earth.

11) Send rockets up to dump payloads of corrosive acid onto the asteroid such that it deteriorates into a thin mist before hitti

How about a direct link...

"I'm more than a little saddened to see historical entities like newspapers (anyone keeping up with Knight-Ridder?) and AM stations going down the tubes. But such is the cost of evolution."

Um, I know it is the current fad to predict the death of something (like it's gospel or something). But I suggect you read this before proclaiming something dead.

BTW here's my contribution to the "3D Mars" story, since Taco has a retarded posting limit. Map the Mars photos to a globe and put a skybox around it. Then with the gravity feature one can walk around Mars. Megatexture should really help here.

"He opposes the inheritance tax, like his dad..."

I don't know about Bill Gates, but William H. Gates Sr., the father of Bill Gates, supports the inheritance tax.

From Now with Bill Moyers: "There's a campaign to restore the inheritance tax. And it's being led, believe it or not, by some of the country's richest people including Bill Gates, Sr. ..."

From Alternet.org: "Case Against Inheritance Tax Is Bogus", By Chuck Collins and Bill Gates, Sr., AlterNet. Posted September 15, 2005.

The reason is obvious -- without the inheritance tax, the US would develop a wealthy aristocratic class. This is one of the main reasons the founding fathers broke away from Britain and developed a constitutional Republic.

During the eighteenth century, it was common for writers and journalists to use pseudonyms, or false names, when they created newspaper articles and letters to the editor. Franklin used this convention extensively throughout his life, sometimes to express an idea that might have been considered slanderous or even illegal by the authorities; other times to present two sides of an issue, much like the point-counterpoint style of journalism used today.

When Ben was 15, [his brother] James created the 'New England Courant', the first truly independent newspaper in the colonies. When denied the option to write to the paper, Franklin invented the pseudonym of 'Mrs. Silence Dogood' who was ostensibly a middle-aged widow.... Neither James nor the Courant's readers were aware of the ruse and James was unhappy with Ben when he discovered the popular correspondent was his younger brother. Franklin left his apprenticeship without permission and in so doing became a fugitive.

(Nowhere does it say that the solaris servers are running telnet. But our IT organization has a connection to a state agency, and today the state agency warned us they had a virus on the rampage. That agency has one of those solaris servers running in one of our mini data centers.)

Yes, but it requires a wired Internet connection. I only have Wifi. Thus the Catch-22. It's impossible for me to get Internet with Ubuntu unless I already have Internet.

Here are a couple of ways to use that wireless access:

If you have access to a Mac laptop with wireless and it is running OS X, you can go to the Sharing preferences panel and share the wireless connection it is using back out the ethernet port. The Mac will handle address translation, DHCP etc, just plug it in and it should work. (turn off the firewall, IIRC that causes problems with DNS lookup). I believe the ability to share the net connection was introduced in OS 10.2.x, but it didn't remember the settings through restarts until 10.3.x.
(Add an ethernet hub or switch and run all of your machines from the laptops net connection if you like)

If you have an extra Linksys WRT54G router with wireless, flashed the Sveasoft firmware and put in Client Mode, it can effectively function in reverse as an external wireless adaptor. I've seen these routers turn up for as little as $1 U.S. at thrift stores.

(Credit for the last tidbit goes to the I. Cringely PBS column)

Don't knock PBS. They have the best content of all OTA broadcast television signals. In a couple weeks I will be moving to a location where OTA television is the only option (aside from satellite). My only problem with this? GPB isn't broadcasting an HD signal yet. I should be able to get PBA, but I prefer GPB's schedule to PBA's. But, since they are both PBS stations, I will still be able to get my News Hour fix; albeit, and hour later than on GPB.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stoneage/clovis.html

On PBS there was an episode of Nova all about this. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stoneage/

There is a PBS Nova show on this topic which discusses several alternative theories to the Clovis first one. America's Stone Age Explorers http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stoneage/ It was recently airing (again) so you may be able to catch it again.

Slashdot got scooped by Nova .

This is a big issue in the Frontline Growing Old special(watch it free). The fact is that health care is not elastic. People will want to be healthier no mater what the cost. I'm sure all the dead people would agree with me. But the issue is that doing quintillion bypass surgery and having someone live for years in bed is not natural and the body can't take it. You get strange diseases from lying down etc. It's quite horrible and I find it more humane to end one's life quickly than suffer for years and years and leave huge debts to your children.

Oh so you're working for Google then?

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_200 70119_001510.html

Crows, it appears , will also use tools to get at grubs they otherwise wouldn't be able to kill and eat. Some critters are smart that way. There are also now observed cases of mother dolphins passing along tool-using culture in food-gathering.

For those of you that are interested in this story, I highly recommend the PBS Frontline documentary The Age of AIDS. Being too young to really understand the events in the news which unfolded around its discovery, it truly changed the way I look at this disease.

i believe i saw this, or something very like it, on an episode of scientific american frontiers almost a year ago . it's even possible to watch that portion of the episode online, provided you're willing to use either real or windows media.

i believe i saw this, or something very like it, on an episode of scientific american frontiers almost a year ago . it's even possible to watch that portion of the episode online, provided you're willing to use either real or windows media.