'The government told us to do it' This week environment minister Ben Bradshaw urged shoppers to teach supermarkets a lesson by dumping wasteful packaging at the cash till. It's not often a member of the government recommends direct action. What would the big chains make of it? We sent three writers to find out ...

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,1948065,00.html

The sad cost of war:

USA deaths: 2,787
UK deaths: 119
Iraqi deaths: 44,043

http://www.icasualties.org/oif/
http://www.iraqbodycount.org

The future the lecture?
09.26.2006 - UC Berkeley offers courses and symposia through Google Video

Physics 10 - Lecture 01: Atoms and Heat

Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents. Spring 2006. Professor Richard A. Muller. The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events. Topics covered may vary and may include energy and conservation, radioactivity, nuclear physics, the Theory of Relativity, lasers, explosions, earthquakes, superconductors, and quantum physics. [courses] [physics10] [spring2006]

If you want to call Jet Blue and ask about their regulations against Arabic script, you can use the following numbers:

I AM NOT A TERRORIST

Martha's Vineyard group

Martha's Vineyard group
Originally uploaded by johncumbers.

I'm at a course on the biology of aging, at Woods Hole. It's been a fantastic opportunity to hang out with people studying aging and hear talks from lead scientists in the field. Also my first experience with C.Elegans, a worm used a lot in the study of aging. I've been here for 3 weeks now and going back to Brown on Saturday.

more infor here: http://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/special_topics/bag.html