Cousin Eddie: “Twitter Was Full!”
Apparently, Twitter had a problem with frozen timelines today. The fail whale must be working overtime. Let’s give him a much-deserved break and have Cousin Eddie do the honors…
Archive for October 2009
Paul Krugman: The Politics of Spite
Another great column by Paul Krugman in the NY Times:
…the modern conservative movement, which dominates the modern Republican Party, has the emotional maturity of a bratty 13-year-old.
But more important, the episode illustrated an essential truth about the state of American politics: at this point, the guiding principle of one of our nation’s two great political [...]
Welcome to the Family (Tree), Ardi!
The discovery of Ardipithecus ramidus (”Ardi”), an early hominid species that predates Lucy by over 1 million years, is a truly amazing find.
AP: Before Lucy came Ardi, new earliest hominid found
The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about “Ardi,” a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in [...]