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U.S. urged to follow own human rights reporting

25 May 2012

WASHINGTON, May 24 (IPS) - The U.S. State Department on Thursday released the government's annual compendium of country-by-country human rights reports, but ran into criticism from rights groups for holding double standards.

Relativistic kinematics for musicians | Lily Asquith | Life & Physics

25 May 2012

Lily Asquith begins a guide to making music from particles A couple of years ago I became involved in a grand plan to make sounds out of LHC data. We called this project LHCsound . Recently we have revisited the idea with the aim of listening to real data produced in the proton-proton collisions happening right now, and I found myself back in my favourite place - talking to (okay, emailing ...

What's behind the NY bills to ban anonymous online comments

24 May 2012

commentary Let's take a closer look at proposed legislation in New York that would eradicate anonymous online speech. Whose interests are being served?