More Americans believe in a literal hell and the devil than Darwin’s theory of evolution, according to a new Harris poll released on Thursday.
Poll finds more Americans believe in devil than Darwin via Reuters
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Monthly Archive for November, 2007
With the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, the owners of the what were then America’s largest and most powerful corporations - the railroads - figured they’d finally found a way to reverse Paine’s logic and no longer have to answer to “we, the people.” They would claim that the corporation is a person. They would claim that for legal purposes, the certificate of incorporation declares the legal birth of a new person, who should therefore have the full protections the voters have under the Bill of Rights.
ThomHartmann.com - To Restore Democracy: First Abolish Corporate Personhood
In late October, without warning or any public discussion, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) notified 19 dairies that “their labels are false or misleading and need to be changed.” So, what kinds of labels were so terrible that the PDA felt they had to be removed from milk cartons immediately? Labels that told the consumer that the cows that produced the milk had not been given any artificial hormones. Examples of some of the supposedly “misleading” labels include, “Our farmers’ pledge: no artificial growth hormones;” “From cows not treated with the growth hormone rBST;” and “Free of artificial growth hormones.” As of February 1, 2008, these labels will be illegal.
Missing: Truth in milk labeling: Consumer Reports on Safety via Consumer Reports
Welcome to the fourth annual “Falsies Awards” contest, sponsored by the Center for Media and Democracy to recognize the people and players responsible for polluting our information environment. This year, we are asking you to help identify the worst spinners and propagandists of 2007. Please read through the list of nominees below and rank them. You can also nominate additional candidates in our readers’ award section.
Check out our Falsies! via prwatch.org
When you are in a group, you may feel a shared responsibility and so less individual responsibility for your actions. In this way a morally questionable act may seem less personally wrong. You may also feel a strong need to conform to social norms.
A paradox of deindividuation is that when you let go of your self, returning to you self can be an exhilarating experience. This is one of the rewards of engrossing hobbies and meditation.
Significant external stimulation helps deindividuation as it distracts you from internal chatter and rumination. This is one reason that pop and rock music (and orchestral music, for that matter) is often played loudly along with dramatic visual lighting effects.
Deindividuation via changingminds.org
The fake October news conference held by the Federal Emergency Management Agency was not the first time a Homeland Security public affairs official has acted like a reporter by asking questions during a briefing.
FEMA not the only agency to misrepresent - Yahoo! News
Some researchers are worried that digitally altered photos could alter our perceptions and memories of public events.
Fake Photos Alter Real Memories - Yahoo! News
People spend money, in large part, based on how much they think they have; and that perception, it seems, is easily manipulated. A series of experiments reported in The Journal of Consumer Research tested the malleability of people’s understandings of how much money, or other resources, they have on hand, and explored the effects on consumption.
It’s How Much You Think You Have - New York Times
We call them the dirty dozen. It’s our laundry list of the germiest places you’re likely to encounter.
by Ginny Graves
The Germiest Places in America - Health.com
Even as hundreds of millions of Chinese struggle in rural hardship, the ruling Communist Party is committed to clambering into the select ranks of global space powers, and Chang’e 1’s journey has been accompanied by a stream of patriotic propaganda.
China waxes lyrical over moon mission pictures - Yahoo! News
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