Private Military in Iraq: On the Path to Fascism

Iraq has produced a huge string of disturbing realities.  Here’s another one.
“The Pentagon’s increasing reliance on outsourcing military functions raises important questions about accountability and the chain of command,” says Smith. Through conversations with top military commanders, policy planners, military experts, and contractors, “Private Warriors” explores some of the dangers in bringing in the private [...]

Can Dying Coral Be Reborn?

The World is fast losing it’s coral reefs. Is there a way to replenish them?

Arctic Sea Ice Continues to Decline

More evidence of melting Arctic sea ice
“There are huge changes going on,” said Julienne Stroeve, a lead author of the new study and a researcher at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. “Just with warm waters entering the Arctic, combined with warming air temperatures, this is wreaking havoc on the sea [...]

Why Bloggers Blog, and Why Some Don’t

Andrew Sullivan responds to David Dobbs quitting the Blogging Scene (he’ll still run his own smaller blog where he can blog less frequently, but he’s quitting the act of daily blogging at Seed Sci Blog).
Here’s Dobbs:
I say this recognizing that some … find no conflict between blogging and doing solid, admirably accomplished and serious work [...]

Medieval Irish Monastic Poem … or Bored Scribbling

All are keen
To Know Who’ll Sleep with blond Aideen
All Aideen herself will own
Is that she will not sleep alone
–Anonymous Medieval Irish Scribe (gleaned from the book, “How The Irish Saved Civilization” by Thomas Cahill).  Apparently this scribe–who wrote this poem in the margins of a work he was transcribing–was doing a bit of day dreaming.