Obama's victory last night was literally one of the most amazing events of my thirty-five-year lifetime; I sat there with Shannon, among a group of close friends and new friends, and soaked in the history of the moment. (Annabelle, alas,

CNTNAP2 speaks volumes about why some suffer from language impairment

A disease carried by black rats spelled the end for two endemic species on Christmas Island

Expert panel gives the cold shoulder to Canada's plans for Arctic research

Propositions, congressional reshuffling will have impact on research

Proposal would ban medical research on great apes and extend oversight to most animal studies

For Idaho Democrats, Tuesday night was all about Barack Obama and Walt Minnick.After Boise election-night gatherings went wild as Obama's historic win was announced, Democratic candidate for Senate Larry LaRocco conceded his loss to Lt. Gov. Jim Risch, and sentiment

Hello All, Sigh, yesterday the Adams Greens lost their "political committee" status, since we ran no candidate, ie. did not qualify for the 'magic 5%' of highest county-wide vote total. When the Penna. Green Party lost their minor party committee

Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- * Steve Sailer looks at the exit polls. My two favorite facts: 1) 96% of blacks voted for Obama; 2) Obama took unmarried people by 65% to 33%. As far as I can tell,

I was just going to write something to the extent, when I saw Bill's comment. [actually I did - at some other place].

Certainly my favorite Churchill quote is apropos here:

It was just yesterday that we brought you a preview from Rock, Paper, Shotgun's hands-on time with Left 4 Dead. Little did we know that their preview had multiple parts!Yes, part two of their hands-on time with the game that's

This late breaking story from the Toronto-area news, reports that Brandon Crisp's body was found on Fifth Line in the Barrie area. Crisp, as you may have previously read, reportedly ran away from home after his parents took away his

A few of the staff at Left 4 Dead 411 recently had an opportunity to visit Valve for one of the last "previews" any site will ever have for Left 4 Dead prior to its release.The took away nearly an

What do you think Obama should do now? Don't be sworn in on the White House steps. Move the ceremony to the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King spoke 40 years previously. Title: Fulfill the Dream. Lessig for Attorney General.

Representative Rahm Emanuel has been offered the chief-of-staff position in the Obama cabinet. Read this interview about his involvement with NAFTA and other activities for the Clinton administration. [Editor: I removed the panicky version of this article with the links

In that what sort you get, how much you get, who you get it from, all really depends upon who you know. So Obama has been elected US President, and in the next 77 days between winning and actually "starting

The world's first climate change refugees will be relocated from their Pacific island home to Papua New Guinea by March next year." http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/05/2411248.htm "Flooding has made parts of their islands completely uninhabitable and the islands are expected to be fully

It really happened. (sorry for the slow loading times)...

Core Security Technologies issued an advisory disclosing a vulnerability that could affect millions using Adobe's Reader PDF file viewing software. Engineers from CoreLabs determined that Adobe Reader could be exploited to gain access to vulnerable systems via the use of