Gary’s Brain Excretions

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Edge: the Third Culture has published the following interesting essay by psychologist  Jonathan Haidt.  Though it refers to American political parties, I think that his research may be useful in a Canadian context. Commentary by Daniel Everett, Howard Gardner, Michael Shermer, Scott Atran, James Fowler, Alison Gopnik, Sam Harris, James O’Donnell follow the essay. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/haidt08/haidt08_index.html [...]

Bloody fucking hell! The Green Party has been shut out of the leaders’ debates again!!!  Clearly we do not live in a democracy when corporate leaders and incumbent parties can arbitrarily decide what political messages we are allowed to hear.  It is clear that this prime minister and his corporate masters hate democracy and are [...]

There will be a live webcast of the first beam of the Large Hadron Collider at Cern on Wednesday, Sept 10, starting at 8:30 AM CEST (6:30 AM UTC, 2:30 AM EST, 11:00 PM PDT (Sept 9)).  See http://www.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam for details.

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