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Republican politicians usually stay away from “affirmative action.” If the topic doesn’t come up in conversation, most don’t bring it up. If it does come up, they stick to platitudes. I’m waiting for the Republican who includes racial preferences in his platform, with a campaign promise to abolish this practice in government. The Center for [...]

New research has converted mouse skin cells directly into cells that become the three main parts of the nervous system. The finding is an extension of a previous study (post) by the same group… This is a content summary only. Visit our website for full links, other content, and more! Thanks! Stem Cell Research

Yesterday’s Christian Science Monitor reports that as the fighting goes on in Syria, the conflict is moving from a popular uprising to a confrontation between Sunnis and Shiites, explaining: The regime’s reliance on Alawite militiamen, known as the Shabiha, to help suppress the 10-month uprising is mirrored by elements of the armed rebel forces rallying [...]

The most alluring facet of Electronica is its up to date tendencies. It employs distinct instruments alongside the most current song arrangement tools. When it is truly being produced, an artist employs distinct styles to produce and record their music. The genre encompasses a vast assortment of records that are electronically developed. The Industry This [...]

This January 28 marks International Privacy Day. Different countries around the world are celebrating this day with their own events. In EFF, we are calling on governments to repeal mandatory data retention schemes. Mandatory data retention harms individuals' anonymity, which is crucial for whistle-blowers, investigators, journalists, and for political speech. It creates huge potential for [...]

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Today is the United Nations’-declared annual International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. Haaretz reports on plans in countries across Europe for marking the day. The January 27 date was chosen because it is the anniversary of the liberation in 1945 of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by Soviet forces. The United [...]

This post was originally published on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Deeplinks blog. Yesterday, Twitter announced in a blog post that it was launching a system that would allow the company to take down content on a country-by-country basis, as opposed to taking it down across the Twitter system. The Internet immediately exploded with allegations of [...]

Last week, the Center for the Study of Free Expression (CELE) at Argentina’s University of Palermo released Towards an Internet free of Censorship: Proposals for Latin America [Hacía una Internet libre de censura: Propuestas para América Latina] [es]. With contributions by leading policy experts from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S., the book [...]

It used to be that a newborn baby was permitted to travel on the passport of one of their parents. Now, however, it is a requirement that every US citizen, including a newborn, have their own individual passport. When travelling within approximately two weeks, parents may apply for an expedited American pasport for newborn. Parents [...]