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$1 Million Question - Will Math Expert Accept Prize?

Seeded on Sat Mar 20, 2010 7:16 PM EDT (The New York Times)

"Seven years ago, a reclusive Russian mathematician, Grigori Perelman, startled the scientific world by claiming to solve one of the most famous and intractable problems in mathematics, called the Poincaré conjecture, and then disappearing back into St. Petersburg. '

world-news, problems, mathematics, clay, fields-medal, perelman, poincare, poincare-conjecture, conjecture

The Moment of Psycho [Book Review]

Seeded on Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:50 PM EDT (Cinaste)

Seeded by jfxgillis

"For a writer whose book's central concerns are sex and violence, Thomson shies away from sex and raises his middlebrow nose at violence, leaving his as well as Hitchcock's chief subjects buried in the swamp."

film, movies, arts, psycho, alfred-hitchcock, classic-cinema

Right-Wing Nervous Breakdown

Seeded on Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:54 PM EDT (TIME)

Seeded by jfxgillis

This is becoming a rather difficult week for the wingnuts. Glenn Greenwald details the insanity prevailing among the neocons on the question of Israeli settlements.

politics, obama, republicans, health-care-reform, joe-klein, joke-line

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Is Health care a test of Friedman's Mantra of Privatization and that's why there is so much debate?

Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:34 AM EDT

By economics101

"Most New Orleans schools are in ruins, as are the homes of the children who have attended them. The children are now scattered all over the country. This is a tragedy.

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Correctly Political: Screwing the Blue Pooch

Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:22 AM EDT

By jfxgillis

Although I have argued this case informally on a number of occasions, since the rock and the hard place are here at last, the rubber is meeting the road, the push has been shoved, the fishing or cutting of bait must now happen, and the time has come for the pot to have its busine …

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politics, democrats, congress, health-care-reform, pelosi, blue-dogs, most-recent-article, keith-poole, wilentz, bailyn

Memorable Moments from the [C-SPAN] Video Libray

Seeded on Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:03 PM EDT (C-SPAN.org)

Seeded by jfxgillis

Holy Moly!!! There goes my Summer. C-SPAN goes free, complete, 23-year video archive.

congress, democrats, politics, republicans, cspan

Kill The Bill Part Two

Seeded on Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:50 AM EDT (The Heritage Foundation)

Seeded by lisaed

But in reality, none of these discussions really matter.

insurance, taxes, democrats, politics, president, healthcare, unemployment, afl-cio, obama, house-of-representatives

Breaking: Dem Source: CBO Says Health Bill Cuts Deficit, Costs $940 Billion

Seeded on Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:01 AM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

Seeded by jfxgillis

The bill would reduce the deficit by $130 billion in the first ten years, and potentially by $1.2 trillion in the second ten years (though CBO always warns that projections into the second decade are extremely unpredictable).

politics, obama, cbo, pelosi, health-care-reform

Catholic opposition to health bill fades

Seeded on Thu Mar 18, 2010 3:37 AM EDT (The Boston Globe)

Seeded by jfxgillis

.... A coalition of 59,000 nuns released a letter yesterday calling on Congress to approve the overhaul, defying the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which opposes the measure.

bishops, politics, obama, catholics, nuns, pelosi, health-care-reform, stupak

Miley Cyrus and American Exceptionalism

Seeded on Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:27 PM EDT (Think Progress)

Seeded by jfxgillis

There's been a fair amount of attention lately to Ramesh Ponnuru and Rich Lowry's absurd article on American exceptionalism. More enlightenment can probably be obtained by considering Miley Cyrus' treatise on the matter, "Party in the U.S.A."

world-news

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