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Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
“After all, just 20 years ago scientists were worried about the new Ice Age.” This myth is so potent for deniers from Michael Crichton to George Will to Senator James Inhofe that even word guru and strategist Frank “death tax” Luntz made it a recommended line of attack in his super-slimy 2002 memo to [...]
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Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
If you enjoyed my "Atlas Mugged" article on mass print media and its successor, then you'll definitely want to read this recent piece by Mark Harris on the Wired Website:For 20 years, Ted Harbert worked at ABC. He started there...
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Torque Control (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Mike Glyer tagged me for a meme a little while ago. It’s the “which sf novels that have been made into films have you read'” list. Bold if I’ve read it, italicized if I started but didn’t finish. Jurassic Park War of the Worlds The Lost World: Jurassic Park I, Robot Contact Congo Cocoon The Stepford Wives The Time Machine Starship Troopers The Hitchhiker’s Guide to [...]
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Covenant Zone (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Thanks to Walker for this piece. From an interview with Michael Crichton, Wired Magazine . Sep/Oct 1993 : The tendency to characterize people's beliefs - instead of focusing on their actions - is one of the true abuses of the power of the media. Look how quickly Kimba Woods was transformed from respected jurist to Playboy bunny; just as I went from author to racist Japan-basher. In my case, what was...
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Baristanet (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Yesterday's hogorrific story sounds like the plot of a Michael Crichton thriller, and at the very least belongs in the files of Weird NJ. The story of vicious pigs was thought to be a bit of Jersey folklore, but it seems that a few decades ago, some little farm piggies escaped - or were let out - to roam the wilds. Now, multiple sightings confirm that their modern day descendants have evolutionarily...
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Microweb News (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
In it lately hundred names of fames has acclimated registered reports to entice visitors to its site Celebrity1000.com, as The Record. Cruise walked to get beginning May to the domain judge WIPO the address TomCruise. com in hands. The domain was registered already in November [...]
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Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
All the news that’s fit to capsulize! BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE $750? Around Thanksgiving, Hard Case Crime will release its 50th title, publisher Charles Ardai’s FIFTY-TO-ONE. The novel will celebrate the entire Hard Case catalogue via full-color endsheets depicting all 49 covers. But the bigger news is that in December, a deluxe edition will be issued in [...]
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sjhoward.co.uk (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
After quite a journey together, we’ve arrived at week seven of the Summer Books series. I hope, dear reader, that you’ll think us close enough by now to share some guilty secrets. If not, then who can blame you? After all, the largely monological way in which I’m bestowing my opinions upon you can hardly breed [...]
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Slattsnews (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
It seems that with every passing chilly day another learned mind joins the vocal ranks of manmade global warming doubters. And with tough economic times looming, you can bet those numbers will swell dramatically when battlers learn their power bills could well double to finance Rudd’s emissions trading frolic. Want to add more sceptics to the growing [...]
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ideonexus (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Michael Crichton, Glen Beck, the Washington Times, and the Randroids, have all equated environmentalism with eugenics, population control, and fascism. We environmentalists hate human beings, we want to exterminate the human race and have everything go back to a “garden of Eden,” to quote Crichton. So what about the anti-environmentalists? The ones who don’t believe there [...]
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ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
In "Coma," patients' brains are killed during surgical operations, and their organs sold one part at a time to the highest bidder. According to...
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Semetivae (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The list of critically endangered species is complacently long. A portion of this complacency, I'd say, is assignable to the science of cloning. Ever since the Spielberg's cinematic popularising of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, we have been seduced by the theoretical possibilities of raising, Lazarus-like, dinosaurs from their immemorial death-beds. The raising of the dead is misguidedly Christ-like...
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ideonexus (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
“civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.” - H.G. Welles It took life on Earth millions years to figure out how to digest cellulose, the hard wall that makes up the cells of plants, efficiently to get at the energy inside it. In fact, complex lifeforms, such as Cows and Termites, have to take the indirect [...]
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Threat Level (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Traditional media outlets have failed their readerships miserably by hiding behind a fake curtain of neutrality, when the facts often stack up more heavily in favor of one naked "truth," charged liberal activist and online publisher Arianna Huffington Monday morning at a conference in New...
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The Mayor of Television (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Sci Fi Channel came out with a blitheringly idiotic list the other day, which they tip with the title: SCI FI's Visions For Tomorrow "Top Things To Read, Watch, And Do To Save The World." TOP 10 BOOKS TO READ...
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