I can’t get my head round this whole racist thing with Barack Obama. I mean I knew it would be an issue, but I never thought it would be quite this deep. Check out the Al Jazeera clip below, it’s much worse than the BBC article I posted earlier and I couldn’t quite get my [...]
Tehrangeles is a word used to describe the Iranian diaspora in Los Angeles. Traditionally they have been Republican supporters. Many voted for George Bush in the previous elections.
Alan Turing (1912-1954) was a key person in computer science. We owe him a lot, but one of the most interesting things he introduced is the Turing test. In 1950 he wrote a paper, which asked the question of whether a machine can think. Since the term “think” is so subjective, he proposed to [...]
Apparently it is legal to dump children of any age in hospitals in Nebraska. So parents and other family members are coming from other states to do just that… A quote from the article:
“I certainly recognise and can commiserate and empathise with families across our state and across the country who are obviously struggling with [...]
Tanzanian albinos have staged a protest to raise awareness of their problems. They are being killed so that witch doctors can make potions out of their body parts.
Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen. He was 15 when he was taken into custody by US soldiers in Afghanistan. He is now 23 and still has not been sentenced. He remains in Guantanamo and the Canadian government is not doing anything to help him (Omar Khadr is the only Western national remaining in Guantanamo, [...]
