May 2011
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“More proof of its corporate structure: As odd as it sounds, al-Qaida had...”
– Al-Qaida’s Paper Trail: A ‘Treasure Trove’ For U.S. : NPR
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Google Earth tool shows proximity of nuclear...
Nuclear power plants are often located in highly populated areas.
That’s because they were designed to provide electricity for people. And the closer the plants are to those people, the less energy required to get that power there.
So, just how close are these plants to people? And how many people are we talking about?
Those were the questions the journal Nature and Columbia University ...
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Taliban gunmen have killed the headteacher of a... →
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PBS NewsHour: NewsHour Publishes Videos,... →
Great use of social media and Tumblr…
newshour:
As websites for the NewsHour, Frontline and PBS remain under attack by hackers, the NewsHour has published its transcripts and videos from Monday night’s broadcast to Tumblr for the time being.
Thanks for your patience as we work to get everything back to normal.
Obama Names ‘Pragmatic’ Gen….
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PBS NewsHour: Memorial Day Reads →
newshour:
If you need something to read or watch you’re in luck: Reporter Molly Finnegan whipped up a list of some of our great Memorial Day related stories.
‘The Returning Dead’: “Each night I make a drink and wait for them/ They have become the day’s concluding news” -Wyatt Prunty wrote the “The Returning Dead” as a response to the NewsHour’s Honor Roll [May 31, 2010]
“War is long periods...
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18 of 26 Joplin Globe reporters lost their homes... →
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The Globe Publisher Michael Beatty was quoted by the paper as saying employees began reporting for work minutes after the tornado hit, redoing Monday morning’s edition and making it to the press just one hour late. “It was amazing,” Beatty said in the story. “These people came in who had lost their homes completely. But they were just dedicated to their jobs, to getting the story out.”
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Germany debates limiting access to intel years... →
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Drone missiles fired by the United States killed a German citizen last October for the first time, a man known to the public only as Bunyamin E. German government officials have since begun debating whether its legal for them to supply the United States with counterterrorism intelligence if the information could lead to a German citizen losing their life. Der Spiegel reports that...
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Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism →
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Have a good holiday weekend, everyone!
In the dictionary under “brilliant things that improve our lives,” see this.
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Wind power creates unique job opportunity for . .... →
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Bin Laden Considered Cutting a Deal for Pakistani... →
In a visit to Pakistan today to reset strained U.S.-Pakistani relations in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, Secretary of State Hillary Clintonreiterated that the U.S. has no evidence that any senior Pakistani officials knew bin Laden was hiding in the country. But, according a New York Times report this morning,U.S. officials have uncovered evidence that bin Laden considered cutting a deal...
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Missouri county with response role faced criticism... →
ageofperil:
Missouri’s Boone County is located in the central part of the state, well away from the town of Joplin where crushing tornadoes in recent days have left over 100 people dead and hundreds more injured.
Boone nonetheless has been impacted by the ugly weather and dispatched a task force to help in Joplin’s response effort. During 2009, watchdogs working for the Department of...
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WatchFrom PBS NewsHour: Four-Legged Comrades: Alpha Dogs Serve in Military Missions Overseas
The handlers at Marine Corps Base Quantico unanimously agree that Rex is the meanest dog they have. He has put six or seven handlers in the emergency room according to current handler, Sgt. David Olszak. “But with me,” says Olszak, “he’s a sweetheart. He’s never once tried...
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California Watch: State opens seismic retrofit... →
Big news from California. After California Watch’s On Shaky Ground investigation into the seismic safety of California’s schools, the state is opening the seismic retrofit fund to thousands of schools.
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State officials voted yesterday to expand access to a $200 million fund created for urgent seismic repairs at California’s public schools.
The move came in...
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“We’re getting to a gap between what the public thinks the law says and what the...”
– There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says | Danger Room | Wired.com
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“Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite...”
– BBC News - Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images
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Climate change causing allergies, researchers say
Apocalyptic images of global climate change include drought, rising sea levels, suffocating coral reefs and emaciated, drowning polar bears. But a new study points to some of the more immediate and mundane side effects of global warming: runny noses, itchy eyes and persistent coughs.
Researchers say allergies are on the rise, and it’s the result of warmer temperatures and happier...
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Watchcaliforniawatch:
From CBS News: The debate on child farm labor: In agriculture, children as young as 12 are allowed to work unlimited hours outside of school. Byron Pitts reports on the “Migrant Stream” and the families who are part of it whose children work alongside them in the fields for minimum wage.
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Daily in Pakistan digs through Wikileaks docs for... →
ageofperil:
An English-language daily newspaper in Pakistan known as Dawn is sifting through sensitive documents made public by the anti-secrecy site Wikileaks in search of new information about how the country’s government operates. Among the findings included in a package of stories called the Pakistan Papers:
The general support for drone strikes from both the military and civilian...
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Scientists may have found quake warning signal
Scientists may have found a way to predict earthquakes.
According to a team of NASA and Russian space and physical scientists, in the days before the March 11 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, the atmosphere directly above the epicenter rapidly heated up.
In a presentation at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, the researchers presented data indicating that starting on March 3, the...
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From Gizmodo: Photos of the tsunami hitting the Fukushima nuclear power plan.
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“There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a...”
– From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Social Media | Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse - Blog
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“Most of the our days were spent listening to the sounds of young men being...”
– Al Jazeera’s Dorothy Parvaz Describes Her Syrian Detainment (via theatlantic)
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Good Sam lotto winner buys equipment for police... →
ageofperil:
Budget shortfalls are forcing cities nationwide to cut services or come up with creative solutions for keeping police on the beat and buses on time. Berkeley County in West Virginia is using lottery revenues, but not the way you would expect. A local named Randy Smith promised himself after ferocious blizzards last year that if he ever won the lotto, he’d buy snowplows for the...
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Perilous: Texas House to TSA: 'No groping' →
ageofperil:
From Reuters with an Austin dateline: The Texas House of Representatives late on Thursday approved a bill that would make invasive pat-downs at Texas airports a crime, after a former Miss USA said she felt ‘molested’ at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport last month. … The proposal would classify any airport inspection that ‘touches the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of...
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Newseum launches YouTube channel dedicated to... →
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Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and... →
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“When I had first arrived at SQU in October, students told me about another bus...”
– Jackie Spinner, a former Washington Post staff writer, reflects in College Media Matters on her efforts to launch an independent student newspaper called Al Mir’ah in Oman. She has also launched student newspapers in Iraq.
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Perilous: Peril in perspective: A look at 20 years... →
From the Tumblr account of our homeland security reporter, G.W. Schulz.
ageofperil:
So I’m new to Tumblr and haven’t figured out just yet how to embed visualizations. That means we’re stuck with screengrabs for now until I can get some help next week. The Tableau chart above performs a useful role in the meantime, and another version is available here.
There are a few things to keep in mind...
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A House Appropriations Subcommittee has stripped... →
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POGO database tracks SEC regulators who have gone... →
govtoversight:
Our new report shows that more than 200 former SEC employees have taken jobs in the last five years representing firms before the SEC.
