Master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell tells the tale of the Norden bombsight (1/2 the cost of the Manhattan Project), a groundbreaking piece of World War II technology with a deeply unexpected result.
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part of The Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Memorial Lecture @ UC Berkeley. In it
Thomas E. Ricks a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) that concurrently with his duties at CNAS, Ricks writes an online blog for ForeignPolicy.com called, "The Best Defense," and serves as contributing editor for Foreign Policy covers the drastic changes implemented by Richard Marshall (general) and present situation regarding command structure and selection.
a consumer group that stands up to powerful interests whenever they threaten our health and safety, our financial security, or our right to fully participate in our democratic society.
a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1970 by John Gardner as a vehicle for citizens to make their voices heard in the political process and to hold their elected leaders accountable to the public interest.
Flirty Fishing (FFing) was a form of religious prostitution practiced by the Children of God/The Family cult from 1974 until it was officially discontinued in 1987.
guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone.
online payment system that sidesteps credit cards completely. Unlike PayPal, Dwolla doesn't take a percentage of the transaction. It only asks for $0.25 whether it's moving $1 or $1,000.
The men and women running SAC in 1960 essentially put the entire planet’s population at risk by deliberately disabling the PAL safety mechanisms. Perhaps we should keep that in mind before we put too much trust in the people charged with our nation’s
A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics
special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows (logical and expected this is why China and other states stay away of windows, even some tastes of Linux must have been compromised)
The Vatican newspaper has published an article saying "intelligent design" is not science and that teaching it alongside evolutionary theory in school classrooms only creates confusion.
This letter was submitted to U.S. president George W. Bush via the Swiss embassy in Tehran on May 8, 2006, originally written in Persian. This translation provided by the Islamic Republic News Agency, official news agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Every day, except Sundays and holidays, between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., anyone, of any age, from anywhere can telephone 212-340-0849 and ask most any question.
historical abstracts compiled throughout the decades. Some of the data were scanned as an effort to make historical abstract information available to the public. The display of data will continue as historical records become available.
"Probably, 40 or possibly even 50 percent of marriages will end in divorce if current trends continue. However, that is only a projection and a prediction."
9 drawings done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's.
a media research group out of Sonoma State University which compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country's major national news media. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Censored
Copyright was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks... talk by Richard M. Stallman
from Hauser, Robert M. 2002. "Meritocracy, cognitive ability, and the sources of occupational success." CDE Working Paper 98-07 (rev). Center for Demography and Ecology, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
A creator forewarned is a creator forearmed. This site is devoted to all authors and creators of works in the United States. It aims to make clear why you might want to keep your copyrights, and to provide information both to help you hold on to your righ
This story is also the story of the decline and fall of the British university and the corruption of the academic ideal . That is why this essay carries two titles - a personal one and a social one.
Adapted from a Z Media Institute talk, June 2007 - « UN Charter which says that—in Article 2—the threat or use of force in international affairs is a crime. “Threat or use of force.” »
highlight of twelve of the most important US laws when it comes to blogging and provides some simple and straightforward tips for safely navigating them.
explores the apparent madness at the heart of US military intelligence. With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Jon Ronson examines the extraordinary - and plain bizarre - national secrets at the core of George W Bush's war on terror.
site to educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing the information and tools necessary to evaluate the threat of surveillance and take appropriate steps to defend against it.
Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War. But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the Lusitania on its final journey in May 1915. Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had been right all along in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and was a legitimate military target.