A Red Titi monkey sits in a tree in London Zoo’s new exhibit ‘The Clore Rainforest Lookout’ opens on May 24, 2007 in London. The new $2.1 million development features a central biome housing living rainforest trees that are home to groups of tiny monkeys, sloths and birds. By Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images.
You can do it. Or can you?
Frm politics to the corporate world. What joy.
Move over, Calvin Klein. There’s a new Christian perfume. And it’s called "Virtue."
George Borjas blogs some striking data. Arnold Kling has a cow:
[Borjas] blogs his research showing that immigration increases black crime by reducing black wages. In other words, "The immigrants made me do it." I’m not surprised by the result, but I’d think the obvious solution (drug legalization aside) is harsher punishments for a few thousand murderers, not exile for millions of hard-working immigrants.
A reader writes:
In old fashioned one-on-one confrontations with nation states (or schoolyard bullies) muscle power can be a leading asset, but when confronting a new era of wide-spread technological empowerment of disparate populations, unrestrained muscle power becomes self-defeating clumsiness. The musclehead approach of this administration and most of the Republican candidates will for now and for the future lead to Gulliver-esque results for this nation and those who align themselves with it. What’s happening in Iraq is the future; they’re learning from it, but we certainly don’t seem to be doing the same.
Maybe this is Romney’s secret:
The researchers found that the new adult neurons showed a pattern of changing plasticity very similar to that seen in brain cells in newborn animals. That is, the new adult brain cells showed a "critical period" in which they were highly plastic before they settled into the less plastic properties of mature brain cells. In newborn animals, such a critical period enables an important, early burst of wiring of new brain circuitry with experience.
What’s more, the researchers’ molecular analysis showed that the plasticity of new adult neurons depended on the function of one of the same types of receptors that is associated with learning-related processes in newborn animals.
It’s on the decline. I almost miss my teenage Japanese girls.
A close look at the Pentagon’s deployment orders.
I take the view of Obsidian Wings:
The early narrative on the Iraq funding debate is that Democrats "lost" and Bush "won." Sorry, but I don’t buy that. People need to view this particular skirmish – and its inevitable, entirely-predictable conclusion – through a longer-term lens. If Bush "won," it’s the most Pyrrhic victory of all time.
…the Democrats should stop sulking and be happy with the result – because of their spending bills, the parties are polarized on an issue where the public overwhelmingly and increasingly supports the Democratic position on the war. For this reason, the "capitulation" should instead be a time for offense…
For similar reasons, Bush and the GOP should think twice before celebrating their victory. Very often, people lose sight of the substance of a debate because they get too caught up in the horse race. Sure, in some sense, Bush "won," but what exactly did he win? He successfully obtained blanket authority for endless, escalating war – the one issue that cost the GOP Congress and will likely cost them more in 2008.
