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The Year in Hate Religious Freedom Watch

As someone who witnessed the “acting white” syndrome, I know it’s a real phenomenon. High-achieving black students are mocked by some of their peers, because by studying and getting good grades, they’re “acting white.” In my day, “talking proper” was also cause for derision. Sarah Sparks at Education Week interviewed Thomas E. Fuller-Rowell, author of [...]

By mimicking a rare genetic disorder in a dish, researchers have found they can rewind the internal clock of a mature cell and drive it back into an adult stem-cell stage. This new “stem cell” can… This is a content summary only. Visit our website for full links, other content, and more! Thanks! Stem Cell [...]

If one is to believe Google, the top of the news today about the California stem cell agency is a story that relates how its billion effort has failed to deliver on the emotion-ladened campaign promises of 2004. The piece in the Los Angeles Times, the state’s largest circulation newspaper, was ranked No. 2 in [...]

Earlier this month, Wesleyan University’s Cardinal Conservatives club held an anti-preferences bake sale. To illustrate what goes on in the school’s admissions and hiring offices, club members priced items according to the race of the buyer. Other students protested the bake sale as offensive, apparently failing to see the irony of their counter-demonstration. Someone quoted [...]

You may be familiar with the dust-up in Wake County, North Carolina. The school board and parents wanted to end the busing policy and promote the common sense idea of neighborhood schools. Horrible people, wanting kids to attend schools closer to home. After the board approved the new plan, people protested like Bull Connor himself [...]

Dinah Gardner: Chinese activist sentenced to year in labour camp for twitter joke The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship

By Hamid Tehrani The Iranian government is not only world-class when it comes to persecuting bloggers, they have also set numerous records: from the first jailed blogger in history, to the first blogger to die in prison. Unfortunately, a new record can now be added to the list of Iran's repressive achievements: the youngest blogger [...]

María J. Barrero, Stephanie Boué, Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte. Individual cell fate decisions can vary according to changes in gene expression in response to environmental, developmental, or metabolic cues. This plasticity is tightly regulated during embryoni…. CELL STEM CELL Stem Cell Research Pros and Cons

New research has discovered that bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have phenotypic and physiological similarities with bladder smooth muscle cells (bSMCs) implying that MSCs can serve as an… This is a content summary only. Visit our website for full links, other content, and more! Thanks! Stem Cell Research