The Kyoto Protocol's emissions targets were woefully inadequate to avert the worst of greenhouse gas (GHG) related climate change. However, the Kyoto Protocol was the ONLY international framework for negotiating multilaterally on curbing emissions of greenhouse gasses. The Bush/Obama administration in the US and China sure did a good job destroying that framework putting multilateral efforts to ameliorate climate change on an even more glacially slow path. To quote Stephen Colbert "Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is."

as "c h a s i n g - p e r p s".

The strategies of recruiting out-of-state and foreign students reflects decades of disinvestment in public education by the state government. Where I teach the state legislature retains 100% of the control over our budget despite contributing only 1/8th of that same budget. This pattern exists in state throughout the U.S.. If you want a quality public university system get on the phone, write letters and organize to pressure your state government to fund it.

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terrorists could use that model to plan attacks!

Regenerative breaking for people!

the thing about pictures and video is that (a) they aren't memories, they're recordings, and (b) their production seriously colors the kinds of actual memories you are forming of your wife's last moments (e.g. 'ah yes, i fondly remember looking for battery charger and inserting new sd cards whilst my beloved was passing away.')

Please. Boys nowadays already are femalized way too much.

according to you? ok, according to me, boys are not "femalized" enough. why should i take your word over my own?

i stand corrected on your reading, but huh. i see left hand of darkness as pure sci-fi in that it examines the social consequences of different ways of structuring society. specifically it raises questions about the ways we construct gender and the power relations embedded in gender, by posing a fictional set of biological constraints different than our own. to me the story raises questions, not sure what was preachy in it.

the lathe of heaven i would place in a genre of sci-fi related to fundamental challenges to individual epistemology along with works by p. k. dick, and o. butler.

In other words, the criticism does not appear to be that the movie is addressed to the interests of teenage girls specifically, but that in order to address those interests and broaden the audience this "sci-fi" movie has become "too fantasy."

again raising the question: why the double standard? how many hollywood sci-fi movies have ignored "hard sci-fi" in order to appeal to sterotypical teenage boy fantasies? (unrealistic explosions, blasting and transit sounds in space vacuum, gratuitous and unlikely representations of violence, kirk dangling off the edge of yet another cliff...) yet these stylistic inclusions do not merit the same cries of alarm, that the stereotyped fantasies of teenage girls do.

the atomic radius of silicon is about 110pm, or about 0.11nm, or a little less than 1/36th of 4nm.

i think you've overly invested in capital letters.

clearly you haven't read le guin's left hand of darkness, the dispossessed, the lathe of heaven, or any of the books in her hainish cycle.

also you clearly missed the point i was making: just because den of geek finds the interests of teenage girls more objectionable than the interests of teenage boys doesn't sci-fi catering to the former any less sci-fi.

most emetic of the artwork plastered over teenage girls' MySpace pages

sure... while teenage boys' fantasies get exalted into "real sci-fi"? (like, say the recent star trek movie?) mayhap den of geek should adjust his testosterone obsession by reading ursula le guin, c. j. cherryh, octavia butler, dorris lessing, joanna rush, emma bull, oh and heck, anne mccaffrey. i can't help but imagine that it would nicely leaven the quality of questions about sci-fi he poses.

While the article does a good job of raising the question of the fuzziness of the boundary between male and female sexes, it leaves unopened the question of what role sex (or gender) should play in competitive sporting events.

For a totally hypothetical example, given their population genetic disposition to dimunitive size, should pygmies be granted their own event categories (i.e. pygmy and non-pygmy events)? Should sexual distinctions be eliminated, so that events are unisex, and we simply see asymmetric distributions of performance along gender lines by the type of event? (i.e. females generally under-performing males in strength-burst events, more parity in endurance events, and possibly more over-performance in events entailing a high degree of coordination? Of course transies kick everyone's asses at everything? ;)

I write as a jock and as a transsexual, so the questions are personal for me (although I tend towards non-spectator and less competitive jockosity).

Craigslist is mostly free, yet i wonder if they are threatened by the kind of live by/die by scenario proposed by Cuban? Or will they simply die, when someone comes along and offers a free real estate database competitive with their own, and thereby knock out their revenue?