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A lack of sleep is associated with all types of diseases, including Alzheimer's and cancer. Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab—reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to fight disease and change our lives for the better.

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Right. Google's new policy is the one that's actually regressive.

If anybody wants to hear a dispassionate discussion of the issues, try here:

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/red...

The StackExchange Podcast had a excellent review of the events at Peer1.

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/11/se-podcast-36-we-got-hit-by-a-hurricane/
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/66762703-stack-exchange-stack-exchange-podcast-36.mp3

You may not be a native English speaker, so you may not be aware of the fact that we have no gender-neutral, third person, singular pronoun for a person. One must choose either "he" or "she" or the much more awkward "he/she."

I just recently discovered "Lexicon Valley" podcast through Slate.com, and they have a podcast (I think it's this one: Lexicon Valley #8: When Nouns Grew Genitals), where the guest professor makes a strong case for using "they" as a gender-neutral, 3rd person singular pronoun.

i.e. "I was talking to my friend, and they said, '...'" It's perfectly clear in that case that the friend is singular.

Otherwise, I agree with your points from both posts.

Cheers.

Yes, there are very few credible scientists that have dissenting views on climate change. The big problem that's holding back real climate change policy reform in Washington is that a large minority of American's are uniformed about what the scientists think. Yale's Project on Climate Change Communication project published Global Warming's Six Americas in May 2011 (pdf) that concluded: 97% of climate scientists agree that climate change is real and caused by humans...but 35% of American adults are dismissive, doubtful, or disengaged about climate change.

ScienceFriday interviewed Anthony Leiserowitz of Yale's Project on Climate Change Communication today. You can listen to the audio: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/sciencefriday/scifri20120504-hr1.mp3

Until we shrink the 35% of non-believers, Washington will probably continue to drag their feet. We have an Ad Proposal to Teach America that Climate Change is real and caused by humans. Our hope is the Ad will help shrink the 35% of non-believers so there is more pressure on the policy makers in Washington to fix the global warming problem.

To your second point: there is actually a special interest group that does just that: iPac http://ipaction.org/.

To quote the site:

"IPac is a nonpartisan group dedicated to preserving individual freedom through balanced information policy.

We believe that technological innovation and individual creativity are vital to the future of this country. We believe that a prosperous and democratic society depends on freedom for all individuals to pursue scientific invention and artistic expression. Unfortunately, new, more draconian copyright and patent laws threaten to stifle these freedoms and restrict public participation in science, art, and political discourse."

Also: In TWiT#49a (http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://me dia.libsyn.com/media/twit/TWiT49AH.mp3) iPac is explored further.

You are so right, listen to this pod cast.
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://med ia.libsyn.com/media/twit/TWiT49AH.mp3
From twit.tv http://twit.tv/node?from=10