March 11, 2010 Biking Directions on Google Maps In the US, Google Maps now offers step-by-step biking directions; bike trails outlined directly on the map; and a new Bicycling layer that indicates bike trails, bike lanes, and bike-friendly roads.
March 9, 2010 Judge Jim Gray on The Six Groups Who Benefit From Drug Prohibition In 1992, Jim Gray, a conservative judge in conservative Orange County, California, held a press conference during which he recommended that we rethink our drug laws. Today, more and more Americans are coming to the realization that prohibition's costs — whether measured in lives and liberties lost or dollars wasted — far exceed any possigoogle analyticsble or claimed benefits.
March 8, 2010 Toxic Testosterone Culture — Why Women Leave Business Dr. Patrick Dixon, Futurist and author of 12 books on global trends including Futurewise and Building a Better Business discusses why women the best talent in junior management, but poorly represented in senior management.
March 5, 2010 Haiti Prisoners on the Run After Quake Several prisons in Haiti were destroyed when the devastating eartquake hit the country in January, and about 3,000 inmates fled. About 300 have been recaptured, but police say many of the others have armed themselves and are again robbing, raping and terrorising the public. Al Jazeera's Steve Chao, reporting from the capital, Port au Prince, meets one notorious gang member now living in hiding.
March 4, 2010 American Family Association Wants Killer Whale Stoned The American Family Association, a religious right group, is urging that Tillikum, the whale that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando, be stoned to death. Citing Tilly's history of violent crime, the group slammed SeaWorld for not heeding Scripture: According to the ancient civil code of Israel, "When an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner shall not be liable." (Exodus 21:28)
March 2, 2010 Obama Caught Lip-Syncing Speech After Obama slips up during an address on health care, White House officials are forced to admit the president occasionally uses a backing track for important speeches.
March 1, 2009 Symphony of Science - The Poetry of Reality The Poetry of Reality is the fifth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It features 12 scientists and science enthusiasts, including Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Jill Tarter, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Feynman, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking, Carolyn Porco, and PZ Myers, promoting science through words of wisdom.
