Wednesday, November 25:

Elayne Clift: Women Scientists and the Nobel Prize The bad days of ignoring women scientists may be over, but there are still invisible barriers to overcome.

Harvey Wasserman: Still more fluff, lies and radiation from TMI and the new nuke media machine Like this vast core of green groups, Moody's, Standard & Poor, Citibank and a powerful cohort of financial analysts see atomic power as a horrific investment that can only be described as, well, radioactive. The risks of building a new reactor, says a recent Citibank report, "are so large and variable that individually they could each bring even the largest utility company to its knees."

Sunday, November 22:

Thomas Farrell: *The Catholic Bishops' Views About Contraception and Abortion in the First Trimester Are Ridiculous (3 comments) The Catholic bishops are wrong to ban artificial contraception and abortion in the first trimester. Therefore, American Catholics should disregard what the Catholic bishops say.

Ann Garrison: Planting bio-fuels, in Rwanda, while Rwandans go hungry Rwanda's greatest natural resource is its fertile agricultural land, but most is centralized in the hands of government elites and planted in export crops, coffee, tea, flowers, and soon, bio-fuels----while Rwandans go hungry.

Saturday, November 21:

Susan Galleymore: Melissa - Raped! -- For Band of Buddies War Series (3 comments) MELISSA stopped drinking water in the early afternoon so she didn't have to walk to the latrines after dark. Women were being raped by members of their own battalion and she didn't want to risk that. She knew the risk of dehydration in 120 degree heat but " raped by fellow troops? Wasn't going to happen to her.

Tuesday, November 24:

Iran's Nuclear Ambassador: 'We Have Nothing to Hide' Ali Asghar Soltanieh serves as Iran's ambassador to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He said,"We need guarantees that we will get fuel in return for our uranium. Given the way we've been treated by the West over the last 30 years, we have plenty of reasons to be mistrustful."

Tuesday, November 24:

Don Lieber: Depleted Uranium, The Emerging Radiation Crisis in Iraq and US Students: Vermont Takes Lead with Divestment (1 comments) The University of Vermont voted to divest from companies which produce Depleted Uranium weapons, as reports from Iraq are beginning to detail an emering radiation crisis. The U of V appears to be the first US Universityh to take this action.

Monday, November 23:

Radiation Found At Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, Site Of '79 Partial Meltdown The commission sent investigators to the central Pennsylvania plant after a small amount of radiation was detected. About 150 employees were sent home Saturday afternoon, but officials say there is no public health risk.

Friday, November 20:

Scientists restart Big Bang machine A team of scientists in Switzerland have restarted the world's largest sub-atomic particle collider for the first time since the nearly $10bn machine suffered a massive malfunction last year.

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