The Carpetbagger Report

Look, I know this was just another verbal slip. McCain has been incompetent about foreign affairs for quite a while, and in the grand scheme of things, it’s relatively inconsequential that he keeps referencing a country that ceased to be in 1993. He’s said far worse.

But the raison d’etre of John McCain’s entire presidential campaign is the notion that he’s an expert on foreign policy, thanks to his decades of experience as a Washington insider. When the foreign policy expert keeps referencing a non-existent country, it’s not unreasonable to mention that maybe his expertise isn’t quite as impressive as his campaign and the political media establishment would like us to believe.

Guess I should really step up that Wii-fit work-out routine, huh?
BBC NEWS

Being physically fit could hold back the advance of Alzheimer’s disease, US researchers have suggested.

Take a look at the comments and the theft becomes even more blatant.

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents

The Computing Community Consortium “supports the computing research community in creating compelling research visions and the mechanisms to realize these visions” and steals copyrighted design layouts from A List Apart magazine. (Judging by the color scheme, they stole the layout from Issue No. 254.)

Here’s an interesting new study that might shed some light on the causation of and possible treatments for Autism. It should be noted, however, that many of the children studied suffered from other neurological problems and had parents who were related. Whether a study of the general population would yield the same results are not is unclear.

washingtonpost.com

New research suggests that some cases of autism arise from defects in genes that can be turned on or off by mental activity, a finding that sheds light on the devastating condition and might eventually lead to strategies to treat it.