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Percentage Of Women In Legislatures Around The World
Elizabeth Warrenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren***Dear Fred,America's newly-installed Congress is 19% female (up from 17%).This percentage puts the United States at #80 on the list of...
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A Gaseous Umbilical Cord Ties Mother Stars to Baby Planets
JAN 3, 2013 Andrew TarantolaSomething never quite added up in the conventional model of solar system formation. It dictates that planets are formed from the accretion disc around a young star, but it...
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Early Christianity and Gender Equilibrium
St. Albert the GreatOne of 35 "Doctors of the Church"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertus_Magnus***Dear Fred,Thanks for your emails.I do not approve the emergence of women as a political force just...
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Official White House Photo Album, 2012
Jan. 1, 2012"A nice way to celebrate the New Year for the President was to jump in the ocean in his native state of Hawaii. He was on his annual Christmas vacation with family and friends, and went...
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Malala Yousafzai Leaves Birmingham Hospital. Will Return To Pakistan
Andrew Hoff04 Jan 2013The 15 year-old walked out of the city's Queen Elizabeth Hospital after doctors deemed her well enough to continue her remarkable recovery at her family's temporary home in the...
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Romney's Final Share Of Popular Vote? 47%.
Romney's "intelligence" sources made him so sure he'd win the presidency that he didn't bother to write a concession speech.How smart is this guy? He could have accepted Nate Silver's statistical...
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The Man Who Built The Modern South Demanded Big Role For Government
R.J. Reynolds cowed the city of Winston, N.C., into putting down rail lines to benefit manufacturers.By BARTON SWAIMRichard Joshua Reynolds, born in 1850 in Patrick County, Va., reached...
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Science gets colder than absolute zero
By Charles ChoiPublished January 04, 2013LiveScienceWhen an object is heated, its atoms can move with different levels of energy, from low to high. With positive temperatures (blue), atoms more likely...
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Women In Ancient Christianity. "From Jesus To Christ" - PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/first/women.htmlWATCHSCHEDULETOPICSABOUT FRONTLINESHOPTEACHER CENTERWomen In Ancient Christianity: The New DiscoveriesScholar Karen King examines...
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Frontline - Online access through blurbs about previous shows
1:50:44Dec. 25, 2012From Jesus to Christ: The First ChristiansThe story of the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity. Said one critic: " It's a revelation of what television can be."All...
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NPR Poll: Women are more intelligent, competent and compassionate than men
I googled the following post when today's "Morning Edition" (1-5-13) mentioned a poll in which women were considered more "intelligent, competent and compassionate" than men.Lamentably, this same post...
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Competing Bible Translations: "Righteousness" or "Justice"
Dear Fred,Thanks for Frog Hospital.You conjure a television program from our youth - a program I have not thought of in years."You Are There," moderated by Walter Konkrite....
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Republican Party seems as divided, angry as ever
Don't change a thing guys. Stay angry. Stay stupid. Stay ineffective. Just get a firm grip on your scrotum and... snip, snip.If you're unflinchingly faithful to your principles, you'll soon go the way...
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What Happened When Two Gay Men Were Harassed While Waiting for Pizza
Wasn't it Jewish fags who killed Jesus?And what was the deal with David and Jonathan?(Yes, the same David who bought one of his seven wives for 200 Phillistine...
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Welcome To The New Civil War. (Or how the old one never ended.)
"LINCOLN" - Daniel Day Lewis stars as President Abraham Lincoln in this scene from director Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" from DreamWorks Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox***Alan: Friend Steve Gibson,...
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Former Climate Skeptic Makes Time-Lapse Documentary
Tickets & ShowtimesAdd to NetflixChasing Ice (2012)TOMATOMETERAll CriticsTop Critics97Average Rating: 7.6/10Reviews Counted: 58Fresh: 56 | Rotten: 2No consensus yet.AUDIENCE83liked itAverage...
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Blighted Brooklyn Middle School Has Highest Ranked Chess Team In Nation
Tickets & ShowtimesAdd to NetflixBrooklyn Castle (2012)TOMATOMETERAll CriticsTop Critics98Average Rating: 7.6/10Reviews Counted: 45Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 1No consensus yet.AUDIENCE82liked itAverage...
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Could Reviving Earmarks Get Congress Moving Again?
Recent episodes of gridlock in Congress have some arguing for the return of legislative earmarks, which though often abused for political gain, helped get bills passed.Alan:You gotta give the devil his...
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Incomprehensible Rock Balancing
by ROBERT KRULWICHJanuary 05, 2013 6:06 AMThese rocks, says the artist, are not glued, not Velcroed. This is not a trick. Go ahead and click through our glossary of photographs. There are big rocks...
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Israeli Defense Minister Says Obama Has Done Most For Nation's Security
Ehud Barak sings praises of Obama administrationPosted byCNN's Dana Davidsen(CNN) – Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak said the Obama White House has been the most...
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