4 hours ago by Dan McShane

Kara Whittaker contacted me early this Fall to see if I was interested helping on a paper she was working on regarding slope instability screening tools developed by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. I was honored to help. In the process I learned a lot and found new curiosities ...

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4 hours ago by Policy Lass

“Laws are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made.” Often misattributed to Otto von Bismarck, this is a truism well appreciated by the policy analyst and policy maker alike. I just spent a day in a policy seminar on the policy process put on by our local graduate school in public polic ...

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7 hours ago by Jeremy

I’ve long thought that getting rid of the Aswan High Dam would be the best way Egypt could improve its food security. New video from Biofortified, how to pollinate carrots and beets. Hey Lawyers; time to study the commons! Including genetic resources? h/t capri. Today’s gene banks will save the worl ...

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8 hours ago by reuters

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Angus MacSwan AMMAN/BEIRUT | Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:28am EST AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces unleashed new tank and rocket bombardments on opposition neighborhoods of Homs on Saturday while diplomats sought U.N. backing for an Arab plan to end 11 months of bloodshed in ...

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8 hours ago by Max Baumann

A brief synopsis of our policies by a non-member Adam Rundle.

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11 hours ago by axt

Unzaehlige Organisationen haben fuer heutigen Samstag zu bundesweiten Demonstrationen gegen ACTA aufgerufen, so auch in Leipzig (Augustusplatz, Versammlungsbeginn 14:00, Demonstrationsbeginn 15:00). Hintergrund, sehr bildlich erklärt: Anonymous: Stop ACTA (de)

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12 hours ago by The Foot

So sure enough the primary school in London, Downhill Primary in Haringey, that Michael Gove wanted to force into academy status but fought back has been re-inspected and put into "special measures" meaning that they have to accept Gove's judgements. This seems to be a modern tactic in education fro ...

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15 hours ago by ipswichspy

I want to take you back in time, not very far, to a time when Labour were in Government. Chris Mole was the Member of Parliament for Ipswich and Ben Gummer was just a candidate. Proposals surfaced to “move” heart services to Cambridge. We discovered that the Government’s reforms of the NHS meant tha ...

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16 hours ago by admin

ABC News AP Sources: Obama Revamping Birth Control Policy ABC News Rushing to end a political uproar, President Barack Obama on Friday will announce that religious employers will not have to cover birth control for their employees after all, The Associated Press has learned. The administration inste ...

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17 hours ago by marty mankins

Today's top news story was the Obama administration bowing to pressure from the Catholic church on the forced coverage of contraception to all businesses. Last time I checked, just about every organized religion is a business with employees, an accounting department and benefits. Religion has gotten ...

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