Issuepedia:Filing Room/to file

This page is for miscellaneous bits of information which might be useful in the future.

To File

2006-05

• 2006-05-07: Contra Contraception by Russell Shorto: long NY Times article about the political Right's war on contraception

2006-04

• http://www.samizdata.net/ seems to be primarily British, but I haven't read it thoroughly
• 2006-04-05: a bill Microsoft Corp. helped write ... will open your personal information to warrantless searches: as I understand it, this might even apply to any titchy little utility you download off the net; if the EULA gives the software author permission to mess with your hard drive, then they can do so and you couldn't take any action against them. Picture virus authors putting together quicky "helpful" utilities and slapping on a permissive EULA just to get legal access to more computers.

2006-03

• 2006-03-26 Military's 'good Muslim' to speak at Duke: James Yee was held on charges "which later evaporated"
• 2006-03-11 Former top Bush aide arrested for theft: need to accumulate a list of wrongdoings in Bush's administration versus those in previous administrations; Brin often states that Clinton's administration had not one single conviction (how many accusations, and from whom?)

2006-02

• found 2006-02-16:
  • Artificial Intelligence From the Bible: file under Unusual interpretations of the Bible, maybe? Main site seems to be crusading against scientific fundamentalism, so should probably be filed somewhere too.
  • xshirox journal entry: maybe for page listing Interesting Discussions on topics that don't necessarily fit squarely into an Issuepedia page but nonetheless touch on a lot of relevant topics
• 2006-02-09 Your taste in music is shaped by the crowd agrees with the more general study in consumer bias favors market leader

2006-01

• found 2006-01-30: Kleercut: Kimberly-Clark's destructive tree harvesting practices (corporations article?)
• 2006-01-25
  • Monkey cops keep clans together: material for possible article on human social organization (here or in Soc/Psych section of HTYP?)
  • Hurricane Katrina: Who was hit? Who will return?
  • EVEN WITH MORE FREE TIME, WOMEN FEEL NO LESS RUSHED, STUDY FINDS
• 2006-01-24 Unhappy marriages detrimental to self-esteem and health
• found 2006-01-19 Republicans for Humility "Country before Party"; Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances
• found 2006-01-18 A Force More Powerful: seems related to Anti-War
• 2006-01-11 New Orleans residents bulldoze city workers: the real estate industry is apparently using "cleanup" as an excuse to claim property in NOLA; see also The Second Battle of New Orleans
• 2006-01-10 Anthroposophic lifestyle reduces risk of allergic disease in children: for alternative medicine article either here or in HTYP (homeopathy)
• found 2006-01-10: [1] [2] - possible fodder for more Rhetorical Deceptions
• 2006-01-09 Role models influence ethical behavior
• 2006-01-08 GMOs: Unborn babies could be harmed: data that GMOs are harmful, and also GWB wants to force Europe to use them
• found 2006-01-07
  • The Future Is Here, But Do News Media Companies See It?: possible inspiration for a discussion of how newspapers should maintain an online Issuepedia-like catalog of leads, photos, data, etc. as part of the process of reinventing themselves
  • Operation Clambake: "Undressing the Church of Scientology"
  • Is religion a virus?
  • Rhetorical Goons: about debating with Christians
  • What to do about rational discontents?, i.e. those who malign the idea of rational discourse
  • '2006-01-05 Abstinence is healthy goal for teenagers but research critiques abstinence-only educational policies: for eventual Sex Education article
• 2006-01-04
  • 13 things that do not make sense: includes interesting results on the placebo effect, homeopathy, and cold fusion
  • Abramoff pleads guilty in lobbying scandal: background on Jack Abramoff and other NeoCons
• 2006-01-03
  • Exploring the limits of presidential power after 9/11
  • New study links reputation to media bias

2005-12

• 2005-12-21 Fear of death may factor into who we vote for: specifically, subtle reminders of mortality caused people to switch votes from Kerry to Bush
• 2005-12-15 Emphasis on individuality in college admissions disadvantages minority students: culture does matter
• 2005-12
  • American Rapture: more evangelical connections to the White House
  • Rapture Ready: more evangelism
• 2005-12-08 NASA's AURA Satellite Peers Into Earth's Ozone Hole and it was smaller this year, but maybe only because of global warming
• found 2005-12-05: http://www.funnystrange.com/quiz/ -- Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Usama bin Laden seem to agree about an awful lot (including, though not mentioned here, Falwell's attempt to shift the blame for 9/11: "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way�all of them who have tried to secularize America�I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'")
• 2005-12-02 The War on Christmas

2005-11

• 2005-11-24 Memo May Have Swayed Plan B Ruling: conservative doctor's "minority report" may have nixed contraceptive drug
• 2005-11-11 The Greening of China
• 2005-11-09 U.S. usage of white phosphorus in Fallujah
• 2005-11-08
  • [http://thismodernworld.com/2461 It�s Chalabi Day!]
  • McClellan Deflects Questions on Torture
  • Rainforest Conservation Worth The Cost, University Of Alberta Shows for eventual article on biodiversity
• 2005-11-07 TomDispatch: as of 11/7, lots of interesting bits about various Bush administration shenanigans
• 2005-11-06 The Week in Sustainable Vehicles: some links relevant to global warming , dependence on oil
• 2005-11-06 Renewable Energy's Investment Hockey Stick: renewable energy investment appears to be on the verge of taking off
• 2005-11-04 Cheney Pushes Senate for CIA Exemption: interesting glimpse of Dick Cheney's position on torture
• China, Tibet and Chinese nation: China's official (?) position on Tibet

2005 ??

• Network 2005 (free video, with reviews): 'A professor and 60 Minutes producer speaks candidly about the impetus for suppression of reality in media coverage of the so-called "war on terror".'

Earlier

• 2004-11-29 The Infamous Brad - Christians in the Hand of an Angry God: part 1 part 2 part 3 by J. Brad Hicks
• 2003-07-07 http://www.opinionjournal.com/medialog/?id=110003713 for eventual page on Ann Coulter

Done

• (done 2006-01-10) 2005-12-22 Banter over Bias Shields the Real Problem of the Media: possibly for Moving the Fulcrum article (Moving the Center?) See also I Drew This: [3] [4]