DowbrigadeThe Revolution Will Not Be Televised, But It Will Be BloggedHopeful News Item of the Day- May 30, 2008 MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) Bahrain&8217;s king has appointed a woman believed to be the Arab world&8217;s first Jewish ambassador as the country&8217;s envoy to Washington. Lawmaker Houda Nonoo said she was proud to serve her country &8220;first of all as a Bahraini,&8221; adding she was not chosen for the post because of her religion. &8220;It is a great ...http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade/2008/05/30/hopeful-news-item-of-the-day/ Forcast for Jupiter - Cloudy and Windy- May 22, 2008 Using data from NASA&8217;s New Horizons spacecraft and two telescopes on or near Earth, an international team of scientists has found that one of the solar system&8217;s largest and newest storms Jupiter&8217;s Little Red Spot has some of the highest wind speeds ever detected on any planet. Jupiters &8220;LRS&8221; is an anticyclone, a storm ...http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade/2008/05/22/forcast-for-jupiter-cloudy-and-windy/ These Genes are Killing Me- May 22, 2008 When we consider such far-flung modern phenomena as professional sports, presidential politics and the popular press, we are constantly reminded that the central problem facing the human race at this stage of our march across the history of our planet is the conflict between our genetic inheritance and our current living situation. Our genetic inheritance comprises ...http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade/2008/05/21/these-genes-are-killing-me/ Lilac Tuesday and Artificial Intelligence- May 21, 2008 Every May, without fail, the Dowbrigade drifts into a fragrant nostalgic reverie when the lilacs come into bloom. We grew up in upstate New York, near Rochesters Highland Park, which together with the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, claim to be the largest collections in the world, and in our neighborhood every house had ...http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade/2008/05/21/lilac-tuesday-and-artificial-intelligen... |