Julia Lesage's Bookmarks

Interview with Greg Grandin, whose book is a good follow up to Naomi Klein's "The Shock Docrtine"; he sees US intervention in Latin America as the "workshop" that comes into fruition in Iraq policy and the "war on terror"

Tags: politics, space, theory, politicaleconomy, activism, history, progressive on 2008-06-21 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.democracynow.org

web site of cultural geographer Derek Gregory, who has available major essays about the Iraq war and how the US misleads people about ethnic conflict.

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more fromweb.mac.com

roundup of some music you might not know

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more frommusic.guardian.co.uk

Rigorous clinical evaluations confirm the torture inflicted for months by US personnel on 11 detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay. Read reports and sign Physicians for Human Rights petition to US government.

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more frombrokenlives.info

poignant and angry first person narrative from a grade school teacher hugely affected by an immigration raid in her town

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Founder of delicious leaves Yahoo, which had stalled on developing a new version of the site that it had purchased; no ads on site, no development of it, same old story; Yahoo also dropped its good podcasting directory.

Tags: business, del.icio.us, history, Internet, podcast, socialbookmarking, usability on 2008-06-20 and saved by5 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.techcrunch.com

blog of sci-fi author Charles Stross; many good links to and comments on science news

Tags: fiction, links, literature, science, litblogs, space, theory, Research on 2008-06-19 and saved by6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.antipope.org

encyclopedia of scientific terms and their critical or philosophical dimensions like developments in science (chao theory, complex systems studies, theoretical biology) and some related philosophical writings

Tags: definitions, hypertext, theory, science, space, overviews, portals, presentation on 2008-06-19 and saved by4 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.christianhubert.com

a great blog for women travelers has good advice; one tip--audiobooks weigh nothing if you put them on your iPod.

Tags: audio, tips, travel, space, how-to on 2008-06-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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extensive 8-month journalistic investigation of US military prisoner abuse; documentation and narratives from former prisoners included

Tags: US, progressive, politics, activism on 2008-06-18 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.mcclatchydc.com

important PDF documents: US torture and the medical evidence; rape in war; effect of current interrogation techniques

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more fromphysiciansforhumanrights.org

From Senator Bernie Sanders, who asked readers to write about what was going on in their lives economically. He received over 600 responses and it seems the middle class is not doing well.

Tags: culture, politicaleconomy, politics, narrative, news, US on 2008-06-16 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.sanders.senate.gov

impending mass die-off of species we don't even know about

Tags: US, space, sustainability, Research, science, politicaleconomy, politics on 2008-06-16 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromblogs.tnr.com

Simulations by global climate models show that when sea ice is in rapid decline, the rate of predicted Arctic warming over land can more than triple. Clear explanation of a complex process.

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more fromwww.ucar.edu

Obama--who taught law at the University of Chicago for a decade--is thoroughly embedded in the mind-set known as the Chicago School. Naomi Klein tells how Obama pays too much heed to free market, no regulation advisors.

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more fromwww.thenation.com

McCain made a terrible joke that newspapers would not print. It should let all women know where he stands on gender issues: " "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."

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more fromwww.salon.com

"sleep can make memories more stable, so that they are more resistant to interference and decay"; and coffee-loaded all-night studying can make the information just slide away

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It could be used to reinforce conventional paper, produce extra-strong sticky tape or help create tough synthetic replacements for biological tissues--still made from wood pulp

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more fromtechnology.newscientist.com

links to the work of many excellent documentary photographers with notes on the context of their photos

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I love the idea of vertical or high rise farming. It is already practiced in the Netherlands. Find out more about it here.

Tags: design, science, sustainability, tips, theory, tech, space, politicaleconomy on 2008-06-16 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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