Almanac March 18 2010 highlights and birthdays
Almanac notes the 77th day of 2010 and the 88th day of winter. It lists statehood for Hawaii in 1959, Aleksei Leonov's spacewalk in 1965, a 1990 Gardner Museum art heist, notable births including Grover Cleveland and Dane Cook, sports milestones, a Dane Cook quote, Hawaii’s school system facts, NATO nuclear states, and the moon phase from March 15 to 23.
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Hawaii
United States
Aleksei Leonov
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston
Grover Cleveland
U.S
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
George Plimpton
Dane Cook
France
United Kingdom
Health care reform rush under scrutiny and deem and pass
The piece questions the rush for health care reform and the deem and pass tactic in the House. It argues the deadline pressure in an election year fosters imperfect deals and criticizes sweetheart arrangements and procedural shortcuts that dodge accountability.
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Washington
Square One
Senate
Congress
House
Nancy Pelosi
Frontier States
Finance Committee
Democratic Committee
North Dakota
Kent Conrad
Montana
Max Baucus
Wyoming
South Dakota
Utah
Centers For Medicare
Medicaid Services
Dalal Mughrabi Square sparks protests and calls to stop settlements
The piece argues Palestinians honor terrorists like Dalal Mughrabi, while Israel expands East Jerusalem building projects. It labels the Mughrabi square a provocative reminder and urges halting West Bank settlements to pursue a two state solution. It condemns moral double standards and calls for renaming the square.
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Dalal Mughrabi
West Bank
el Bireh
Israel
Dalal Mughrabi Square
Joe Biden
Fatah
Biden
East Jerusalem
Jerusalem
Middle East
Deir Yassin
Constantine Zurayk
Gaza
Binyamin Netanyahu
Stephen P Cohen
Netanyahu
West
Europe
Belfast
Washington
David Axelrod
Obama
Evolutionary theory links intelligence to liberal values study
A London School of Economics researcher argues that more intelligent individuals are likelier to adopt evolutionarily novel values such as liberalism and atheism. The theory suggests problem solving and openness to change drive these traits, implying conservatives may resist evolutionary explanations.
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London School of Economics
Satoshi Kanazawa
Social Psychology Quarterly
National Geographic Daily News
National Geographic
Kanazawa
Liberalism and atheism linked to high adolescent IQ study critique
Kevin Horrigan questions Kanazawa’s claim from UNC adolescent longitudinal data that not religious and very liberal young adults show higher teenage IQ. He notes death, life experience, and society investment shape beliefs, and that IQ tests measure learned intelligence, not native IQ. He closes acknowledging science relies on large data and is not his personal experience.
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Kanazawa
University of North Carolina
National Geographic Daily
Gender equal health care stamp marked by Medicare for all debate
Sheila Leavitt argues against Obama's health reform citing gender rating as ongoing discrimination. She warns exemptions for large employers delay bans on gender based premiums and abortion coverage, urging a single payer Medicare for All with universal coverage and reduced bureaucracy.
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Obama
National Organization For Women
National Women’s Law Center
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