RhetoricVille

Barack Obama has caused a political dust-up with a remark he made last week at a closed-door fundraiser in San Francisco. Speaking of working class Americans, he said: “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade […]

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The Brits are way ahead of us on planning for the big Bird Flu pandemic. For example, leaders over there have put together a mass burial plan. They aren’t talking about it in public, but the BBC is reporting it, and has gotten its mitts on a copy, so you know it’s true. . . […]

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“At this week’s Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications conference, AT&T COO Randall Stephenson told his listeners that increased bandwidth was no longer of great importance to consumers. . . .” AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections “irrelevant”
The article goes on to quote Stephenson as saying that there is no discernible difference Comcast’s 6 Mbps and DSL’s 1.5 […]

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A study reported in the current issue of Nature suggests that intelligence is linked to brain growth patterns in adolescence. According to one of the researchers, “It’s not that brainy children have more grey matter. The story of intelligence is in the trajectory of brain development.”In the study, researchers split children into three groups on […]

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From AFT Higher Education:
Free Exchange on Campus, a broad coalition of student, faculty and civil liberty groups that includes the AFT, has launched its first campaign for free speech and described its activities at an audio news conference on March 16.
Free Exchange outlined its plan to protect academic freedom and the free exchange of ideas […]

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