Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
WIRED Erin Biba 07.24.07 1 Astronaut Since manned spaceflight began in 1961, 24 US astronauts have died in astro-action — 10 during launch, six during training flights, and seven on reentry. In 1971, three Soviet cosmonauts suffocated when a malfunction caused the oxygen to leak out of their ship. Then there’s that whole riding-an- explosion-into-space […]
MoreHe writes: Davos Newbies » Blog Archive » Way short of “a detailed case”: NPR usually does a better job than most of reporting accurately and maintaining the appropriate skepticism about our country’s leaders but it let me down this morning. While I was shaving, they had a report on president Bush’s speech yesterday about […]
MoreJuly 8, 2007 A Hipper Crowd of Shushers By KARA JESELLA Correction Appended ON a Sunday night last month at Daddy’s, a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, more than a dozen people in their 20s and 30s gathered at a professional soiree, drinking frozen margaritas and nibbling store-bought cookies. With their thrift-store inspired clothes and abundant […]
MoreMedia Matters – Limbaugh: Limbaugh: Democrats are “PR spokespeople for Al Qaeda” On the July 31 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed that Democrats have “aligned themselves with the enemy” in Iraq and went on to assert: “The enemy kills more soldiers, their spokesmen here in the U.S. are the Democrats. […]
MoreIn Praise of Tap Water On the streets of New York or Denver or San Mateo this summer, it seems the telltale cap of a water bottle is sticking out of every other satchel. Americans are increasingly thirsty for what is billed as the healthiest, and often most expensive, water on the grocery shelf. But […]
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