The Online Home of Jeffery MacKinnon

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Robert Caldwell, a cosmologist at Dartmouth College, explains this complex question in an easy way for us to understand.

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Some tool that I wrote myself as an addon to www.thepartylive.com. It is similar to Digg where you can submit stories, and give them a thumbs up or down. The rate that they are given a thumbsup determines the ranking on the front page.

It is still in the preliminary stages, but I think that it is stable enough to go live. So check it out at www.thepartylive.com/forums/tplnews.php

If you are registered you can submit stories to be added and you can vote on them. If you are not registered what are you waiting for. Just please don’t put in single or double quotes ‘ or ” I haven’t written something that will clean the descriptions yet and you will get an SQL error. I hope to have that bug fixed in a week when I have more time to spend on it.

Let me know what you think and if there is any features that you would like to see added.

“Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students.” Some claim the omission was inadvertant, but after another check, it’s still not on the list! Are some political forces at work here?

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Grigory “Grisha” Perelman, the genius who won fame last week spurning a million-dollar prize after revealing his solution for Poincare’s Conjecture. Is living with his mother in a humble flat in St Petersburg, co-existing on her $74-a-month pension.

Read the story, this is the type of person that we should be looking up to, not the Brad Pitts and the 50cents.

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