Continuous Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Saving Time seems to serve three major purposes: Health: keeping sunrise roughly constant relative to when work or school starts makes modern routines easier on our circadian rhythms,...
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It seems that some people are angry that a Kurdish-language version of Firefox exists. The mozilla.feedback newsgroup has been full of posts about Kurdish, many of them similar to this message. Who...
View ArticleElders
Bill Clinton's biggest mistake was not his involvement with Monica Lewinsky. His biggest mistake was firing Joycelyn Elders. If he had listened to Joycelyn, though, maybe he wouldn't have made the...
View ArticleProtesting for gay marriage
I joined yesterday's protest in San Francisco against the passage of proposition 8. I'd like to be able to say that I went only because I am outraged about counterproductive discrimination based on...
View ArticleHappy Loving Day
Shortly after returning from their DC wedding, Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested at their home in Virginia. Their crime? He was white and she was not. Virginia's courts found that since the...
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Improving democracy
An overview of how democracy can go wrong, even when everyone has good intentions PNG · PDF · SVG · Fork on LucidChart Election algorithms Top left: We should reevaluate our choice of election...
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