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The Scientific Method

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan laments the inability of the scientific community to come together and deliver a solid answer on global warning. The reason why? The scientists have political agendas:
“You would think the world’s greatest scientists could do this, in good faith and with complete honesty and a rigorous desire to discover the truth. […]

Graduate Student Unionization - a dead issue?

In spring quarter of last year I was quoted (without my permission or knowledge, incidentally) in an article on graduate student unionization in the Stanford Daily. http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=17037&repository=0001_article. It’s not clear to me what the fuss is about, as a TA or RA at Stanford you are usually a graduate student with whatever benefits incur […]

Google Earth - too much of a view?

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453620.076388889.html
This article, “Google Earth images compromise secret installations in S. Korea” partly answers my first question when I found out about Google Earth. How are they handling sensitive satellite data?
Other countries have objected, out of national security concerns:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/indepth/featureitems/s1432602.htm
http://www.webpronews.com/insidesearch/insidesearch/wpn-56-20050811GoogleEarthContinuesToRaiseSecurityConcerns.html
The White House is censored already. Is the information in Google Earth really easily obtainable by other means […]