See Case Study: How a notorious spammer was brought down via Twitter for a rundown on the recent events related to Dennis Markuze a.k.a. Dave Mabus.
I still don't agree that it was Twitter that brought Mabus down. Yes, it was the medium, and a very powerful one at that, but it was carrying...
A group called Minnesota Majority is said to have deployed over 10,000 people to polling stations across Minnesota in what is being called "an aggressive campaign to fight what organizers claim is a widespread problem of voter fraud."And, in so doing, have launched a major episode of voter...
A fairly accurate and well done, and more up to date, account of what has gone on with the Marc Hauser investigation is here, in a piece punished in the New York Times by Nicholas Wade: In Harvard Lab Inquiry, a Raid and a 3-Year Wait.
It is very clear that the Fourth Estate is on the verge...
Park mangers say they euthanized "an aggressive, habituated, and human-food-conditioned black bear" Tuesday out of "concern for visitor safety." But it was also a result of stupid people making unnatural food available to the bear.
The adult female bear had been seen frequenting the Slough...
Having read my colleagues blog posts and many comments thereon and elsewhere, I want to suggest that we consider the new blog, "Food Frontiers," a little differently than some have suggested (see my original post) and, actually, welcome it to the Sb fold.
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Certain individuals who shall not be named (or linked to) by me on this blog have been making the usual petty and annoying nuisance of themselves. But there is some justice on the Internet, and the slapping upside the head happens here. Enjoy. Or throw up a little in your mouth. Either way...
I've spent a fair amount of time at the Harvard Law School. In fact, I was there when Barack was there. I didn't attend the school, but I drank beer in the school's beer hall, lived in a dorm shared by the law school and the science area, and cut through the main law school building on my way...
I've spent a fair amount of time at the Harvard Law School. In fact, I was there when Barack was there. I didn't attend the school, but I drank beer in the school's beer hall, lived in a dorm shared by the law school and the science area, and cut through the main law school building on my way...