A probe has landed on a moon of Saturn called Titan. How do they *do* this stuff? It’s totally amazing. I’ve been watching the live NASA TV broadcast for a while now and saw the moment when apparently, the European Space Agency control center, received the first hard data from the Huygens space probe after …
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The Bush Doctrine: Softening Unilateralism
I’ve had some back and forth with the blog Bunker Mulligan about the Bush Doctrine, that is, the more Unilaterist (sp?) position taken by the current US administration versus the Multilateral, UN based actions that were the norm since WWII. There is no doubt that this doctrine, which was, as Bunker Mulligan pointed out, actually …
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Canada ups pledge to $400 million
UPDATE 1: The CBC now reports that the government has officially announced $425 million over 5 years. What’s more, personal donations from Canadians has reached $100 million including the largest single personal donation every made, $5 million, to the Canadian Red Cross coming from “Music World’ music store millionaires Kroum and Evan Pindoff. Correction I …