Thomas L. Friedman Reporting: Addicted to Oil

Seeded on Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:35 PM EDT (Discovery.com)

Thomas L. Friedman is my favorite journalist, so I when I heard he was finally doing another "Thomas L. Friedman Reporting" special on the Discovery Times channel, I just had to promote it.

oil, gas, global-warming, gasoline, ethanol, alternative-energy, bio-fuels, greenvine, thomas-l-friedman, flex-fuel

Saying 'Good job' might be harmful for children

Seeded on Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:46 PM EDT ()

"...In a troubling study conducted by Joan Grusec at the University of Toronto, young children who were frequently praised for displays of generosity tended to be slightly less generous on an everyday basis than other children were.

children, science, psychology, behavior, parenting, deveopment

Church Official Calls for Review of Tiananmen Killings - New York Times

Seeded on Sun Jun 4, 2006 5:51 PM EDT (The New York Times)

This is fantastic news for freedom and openness in China. Every step away from censorship is a step towards a better society.

china, vatican, church, asia, tiananmen-square, world-news, censorship, joseph-zen

What to show those who won't see An Inconvenient Truth because of Al Gore

Sun Jun 4, 2006 5:40 PM EDT

This is a copy of an email I sent to my parents who are far-right christian conservatives. I told them they should see An Inconvenient Truth and they dismissed it as rediculous and just Al Gore propaganda (no doubt because Bill O'Reilly told them to think this).

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science, al-gore, partisan, an-inconvenient-truth, greenvine

Al Gore did actually do a lot for the Internet

Seeded on Tue May 30, 2006 1:57 AM EDT (politechbot.com)

In a letter written by Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf (who invented TCP/IP, the main data transfer protocol of the internet), they explain what Gore did for the creation of the internet. Kudos to Mr. Almost President!

technology, internet, al-gore, al-gore-invented-the-internet