News Round Up

Did you catch the story about the big rock?  I am not sure I understand the urgency ... in this economy, but I guess art finds its way to make things happen.

So, I don't have time to get into why this story matters right now, but I think this is a rational and productive use of genetic mapping.  Read between the lines.

Nice to know that Santorum doesn't think that Republicans have a Latino problem... in fact, the only problem Republicans seem to have with Latinos is that we can't get with the conservative program ... good luck in Florida, Rick, they're just gonna love you there!

I haven't really been posting on politics lately -- though I have been following the primaries and the ridiculousness.  This story I just had to share ... enjoy -- here's one of my favorite excerpts:

"The conversation recalls nothing so much as the days when the nightly news shows couldn't stop running pseudo-health segments that featured male reporters fondling silicon breast implants. They'd cluck over their hazards and fondle away at the translucent synthetic protoplasms. Today's fondlers of ultrasound wands seem no less prurient.
It's time we sidelined the fine points of obstetrics from public discourse in an election year. Just as girlie magazines are marketed to male readers, public discourse that features women's body parts should be clearly labeled—as Playboy used to be—"Entertainment for Men."

Transvaginal probes? Entertainment for Men. Interstate abortions? Entertainment for Men."

Here are some NPR stories that I have been hording...
Goats bleat, but a new study says they don't all do it with the same accent. Host Scott Simon talks to Professor Alan McElligott from Queen Mary University of London, who co-authored a study showing that goats' voices change as they move from different environments.

Events as disparate as the cruel violence in Syria and the unnerving conditions where Apple's iPads are made in China, raise a recurring question: When do a country's internal affairs become the business of the world? And when do we make that our personal business?

In her new book, Peggielene Bartels describes going from secretary at the U.S. Embassy to king of a fishing village in Ghana. Dividing her time between Otuam and Washington, D.C., she straddles two cultures — and says she loves every bit of it.