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That use of the word “Myrtus” — which can be read as an allusion to Esther — to name a file inside the code is one of several murky clues that have emerged as computer experts try to trace the origin and purpose of the rogue Stuxnet program, which seeks out a specific kind of […]

via usatoday.com “Knowledge” is an already secular term. Would there be a story if 86% of people who believed there was such a thing as oxygen could not detail the scientific process by which oxygen was produced? Religious faith and scientific knowledge have always had a differantial (Derrida) relationship. Would the principal investigators of this […]

At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, […]

At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, […]

Academics fear that government cuts may force poorer students to abandon the arts for vocational courses. Photograph: Paul Barton/Corbis Fears are growing of a “gentrification” of arts and humanities degrees as new figures reveal that the courses have become the preserve of wealthy students. Statistics released to the Observer by the Sutton Trust, an influential […]

via huffingtonpost.com This is kind of amazing. Posted via email from sam han’s posterous

Jean-Luc Godard, the 79-year-old director of movies like “Breathless” and “Alphaville,” has come to the support of James Climent, a photographer who faces a fine of 20,000 euros ($26,520) for violating musical copyrights. Mr. Climent, who lives in Barjac, a picturesque old town of artists and organic farmers in the Gard region of southern France, […]

The Austerity Zone: Life in the New Europe via nytimes.com This is worth clicking through. Posted via email from sam han’s posterous

via slate.com Yup. Basically. Posted via email from sam han’s posterous

via theatlanticwire.com The whole scientifically-prove-Biblical-events thread in religion and science is interesting. Posted via email from sam han’s posterous