March 2012
167 posts
February 2012
29 posts
George (Comanche Boy) Tahdooahnippah barely had enough time to work up a sweat.
Tahdooahnippah, a middleweight boxer with Comanche and Choctaw ancestry, registered a first-round knockout over Ty (Hooligan) Brown in the main event of a card held on Saturday at the First Council Casino Hotel in Newkirk, Oklahoma.
Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won Pakistan’s first Oscar on Sunday, for her documentary Saving Face, which depicts the story of women disfigured by acid attacks….
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seemed happy with a report from mining operation J.R. Simplot Company—but other scientists were unnerved by the two-headed trout…
It took 25,000 supercomputer processors and 11 days to calculate the motions of 180 billion simulated electromagnetic particles in space. But the effort may have yielded at least a partial resolution to a longstanding mystery: What makes the aurora borealis leap and glow?…
LA PUSH, Wash. – Risk of tsunami is something that has always been top-of-mind for residents of this Quileute village on the Pacific Ocean. And now, debris washing up on Quileute’s shores from the March 11, 2011 quake and tsunami in Japan is a reminder that what happened on the other side of the Pacific could happen here…
Today’s golden wheat fields differ from those cultivated by our ancestors. In the Huffington Post, Dr. Mark Hyman calls the modern grain “FrankenWheat,” a crop scientifically engineered over the past 50 years to contain what Hyman labels a Super Starch, a Super Gluten and a Super Drug….
February 17 was a warm sunny day, a far cry from what we have come to expect for a winter day here in the Northeast, and I should have been out enjoying it. Instead, I spent most of the day indoors, within a darkened conference room on the University of Albany campus, observing the second annual Bioarchaeologists’ Northeast Regional Dialogue Conference, or B.A. NeRD as they cutely refer to it. I was there for the simple reason that I know the legacy of anthropology; I know that when the guns were put away …
A YouTube video titled, “The Enduring Native – How Native American Culture has been Preserved,” by Dartmouth College students Jesse D.L. Beamish, John A. Steward and Thomas A. Cheese, discusses how the Apache culture has endured the many challenges it has faced… .
A renewable energy venture in the Puget Sound area of Washington State virtually turns manure into money… .
A storm of outrage ripped through Seattle after the shooting death of Ditidaht First Nation carver John T. Williams on August 30, 2010 by a city policeman. There were marches in the streets, angry demands for justice and an investigation by the police department. The officer resigned after he had been cleared of all criminal charges by the King County prosecutor’s office, and a U.S. Justice Department investigation found widespread use of excessive force by Seattle police, a report released in December 2011 said.
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The notion of heterosexuality did not exist even per se among Europeans before contact. In fact, the Germans were instrumental in inventing it in the 1860s, a new book argues… .
The Associated Press published a story today highlighting the deep racist ties of the United States, that are shown through names of towns, lakes, reservoirs and other areas …
