SCIENCE / TECH: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!

The CRIB's periodically fugacious concerning the scientific & technological ...

• I'm fascinated by old (even deceased) publications ... this is great ...
  

  Google has added a magazine rack to its Internet search engine. As part of its quest to corral more content published on paper, Google Inc. has made digital copies of more than 1 million articles from magazines that hit the newsstands decades ago.
  
  For now, the old magazine articles can be found only through Google's search service for finding digital copies of books. But the Mountain View, Calif.-based company plans to eventually include magazine articles in its general search results.
  
  Users who want to restrict the scope of their inquiries to magazines can choose that option through the book search's "advanced" function.

  [Yahoo! News]


• Excavation unearths British Mensa ...

  British archaeologists have unearthed an ancient skull carrying a startling surprise — an unusually well-preserved brain. Scientists said Friday that the mass of gray matter was more than 2,000 years old — the oldest ever discovered in Britain. One expert unconnected with the find called it "a real freak of preservation."

  [Yahoo! News]


• SANCTITY OF LIFE: OK and rain causes wet grass ... duh? [Black Kettle]
  


• Faith & Science have been at war for 3 centuries: a commentary. [First Things]


• Somnambulism yes but somnpostalism? Naw! [Telegraph UK; h/t Brain Terminal]


• Ten 2008 health stories FOX News thinks you need to know about ... [FOX News]


• KID'S HEALTH: CDC recommends "23 vaccine injections (item 3) for kids by time they turn 2two years old" What are they thinking? [FOX News]

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SINS: They will find you out!

For thousands of years man has tried to hide his dark side, to redact his history, and to spin events in such a way the harsh things of life simply tickled their ears (2 Timothy 4:3-4).

But the sins of man will always rise to the occasion (Numbers 32:21-23).

Who lies beneath the more than 30 white metal crosses — bearing no names or dates or other details — at a makeshift cemetery near the grounds of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, where youngsters were routinely beaten and abused in the 1950s and '60s.

Two memories exist of this time 50 years ago; one recalls horror and abuse, the other recalls juvenile delinquents getting their just rewards. Time will tell; the state of Florida plans a forensic investigation.

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PALIN: Superlatives unnecessary!

We Are Sarah’s People | Brussels Journal
Matthews, Olbermann, Brokaw Scoff at Palin's Slams on Media | NewsBusters
CNN’s John King Self-Criticizes Media’s ‘Language’ About GOP | NewsBusters

The CRIB realizes it is preaching to the choir when it reacts to last night's Sarah Palin RNC speech, but these thoughts need to be recorded by this observer:

First, Joshua Trevino sums it up for his European audience in The Brussels Journal ...

I don’t know how it played on TV. I don’t know what the news media said. I don’t know how the pundits assessed the speech. I don’t know what narratives the blogs are spinning. I only know what I saw. I only know what I felt. I only know what effect Sarah Palin had on the thousands of men, women and children assembled to hear her accept the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States. I only know what word describes all that best.

The word is electric.

Second, blindfolds are now standard issue for the American press and they are almost 100% effective. For example ...

CRIS MATTHEWS: Pat I recognize a tactic here. Start a fight with the press. Establish your underdog status. Take them on. Win public approval. Is that what's going on here with the candidacy and nomination of Sarah Palin?

PAT BUCHANAN: No I think it's utterly foolish to say that Sarah Palin has started a fight with the press. The press has been savage on her and feral on her. Ever since she was nominated she's been an obsession of the press. She's been attacked. Her daughter's pregnancy has got two or three stories on the front page of the New York Times. It has been a disgraceful performance by the press. Fred Thompson took it on last night and I certainly hopes she takes it on tonight. Because quite frankly it is a battle that the press started and the conservatives and the Republicans really ought to finish.

MATTHEWS: Well it could be said, Pat, that your part of that strategy right now, because of what you're saying. Savagery is a strong word.

...

MATTHEWS: It seems like this is old political tactics. Start a fight with the media, the establishment. Portray yourself as the underdog.

EUGENE ROBINSON, WASHINGTON POST: Absolutely, absolutely. Look, who knew that Republicans were so sensitive and finely attuned to any whiff of sexism or ageism or anything like that? I wasn't aware that the Republicans were, were such hothouse flowers about all this stuff.

...

NORAH O'DONNELL: There is one important thing to point out. The media is not attacking Sarah Palin. The media has done investigative pieces, in their job, about the way Sarah Palin was chosen.

That so many, with so much to offer, can offer so little, and be so unaware of it is beyond shameful.

And, third, a few partially objective media types other than Buchanan are seeing the same thing ...

JOHN KING [in a moment of self-critique]: To say the Right is running the Republican campaign -- if that means these people are the Right, then Carl's exactly right. But we didn't say, during the Democratic convention... all those delegates down on the floor -- you know, many of them were members of the Left.

And also this ...

ANDERSON COOPER: I will also say I didn't hear people talking about who was the speech writer for any of the Democrats' speeches.

GLORIA BORGER: Right.

COOPER: It seem we're only highlighting who the speech writer is for her speech.

Okay, you see it, now what? There in lies the conundrum for the American media ... if history is any indicator - NOTHING!

They will, collectively, go right on abusing members of any class of people who do not agree with them and their worldview.

Christianity, Election 2008,
Media bias, MSM, Palin, Religion

CHILD ABUSE: The Dems corner the market!

Palin's 17 year-old daughter is pregnant | FOXNews.com

And so are the 17 year-old daughters of a lot of parents.

Given the chance, the grown up "children" that have become the current party and their immature supporters, the democrats lose no time abusing anyone and everyone that is not a part of their worldview ... even children.

I love the grace and compassion expressed in the Palin family's response to the Dem's attack dogs ... I pray you agree.

Christianity, Election 2008,
Palin, Politics, Religion