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Friday, November 28th, 2008This isn’t the U.S. Capitol, but it’s still neat!
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Challenged Ballots: You Decide
Thursday, November 20th, 2008The Senate race in Minnesota STILL isn’t decided!
The race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat and former comedian Al Franken was too close to call after the votes were counted. In fact, after over 2 MILLION votes were counted, the difference was less than 300 votes.
LESS THAN 300 VOTES!!!
(Don’t ever let anyone EVER tell [...]
What’s up with the Women?
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Wow! I found this story absolutely fascinating.
Ladies – take pride in the Granite State, New Hampshire!
All Things Considered, November 9, 2008 · The presidential election was not the only historic political moment last week: In New Hampshire, voters elected 13 women — out of 24 total members — to the state Senate, making it [...]
Google Does Elections
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008This is pretty cool.
Google has a feature on maps.google.com where you can analyze the polls! It’s pretty cool and you can look at everything at once, not just one site.
http://maps.google.com/
Click on “Electoral Votes Estimates” and play away!
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War of the Worlds: The Mass Media Creates PANIC!
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008On Monday we talked a lot about the Mass media and how it affects politics and politicians.
From WNYC:
An examination of the power of mass media to create panic. In Radio Lab’s very first live hour, we take a deep dive into one of the most controversial moments in broadcasting history – Orson Welles’ 1938 radio [...]
Electoral Vote News Bits
Monday, October 6th, 2008Some news on the upcoming race!
Obama has the upper hand in Ohio according to the Washington Post.
The GOP (Republican party) in Virginia is worried that Obama may win the state.
John McCain has decided to stop campaigning in Michigan. His fate now hangs on three states, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
There’s a new poll out in [...]
A More Perfect Constitution
Sunday, September 21st, 2008This week we’ll spend a lot of time talking about how we can change the Constitution. Every year dozens of amendments are proposed to the Constitution an in the entire history (230+ years) of the United States, we’ve only approved 27 amendments. Of those 27, the first 10 (the Bill of Rights) were more like [...]
Hurrican Ike’s Heading Toward Texas
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008It appears that Ike could hit the Texas coast sometime this weekend. It’s a slow moving storm that has already caused havoc in Cuba and killed a few people.
Track the storm here.
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Brain Size Does Matter
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008The Scientific American claims that larger brain sizes may correlate with higher IQs!
In humans, brain size correlates, albeit somewhat weakly, with intelligence, at least when researchers control for a person’s sex (male brains are bigger) and age (older brains are smaller). Many modern studies have linked a larger brain, as measured by magnetic resonance imaging, [...]
Presidential iPod Mix
Friday, August 15th, 2008On the eve of the Democratic and Republican conventions, Blender Magazine polled Barack Obama and John McCain for their top 10 songs.
Sen. John McCain
1. Dancing Queen ABBA
2. Blue Bayou Roy Orbison
3. Take a Chance On Me ABBA
4. If We Make It Through December Merle Haggard
5. As Time Goes By Dooley Wilson
6. Good Vibrations The Beach [...]