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Announcement

dan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:14:46 -0400

Dear Readers,

As of April 1st, Polymeme goes into a planned hiatus. As conversations get even more fragmented and move from blogs to social networks to Twitter, our meme-discovery technology - initially built for the world of blogs - needs a major upgrade to stay accurate; without accurate and comprehensive meme-tracking mechanism, we are only as good as the next link-blog... In the next few months, we'll ponder our options and decide what to do next; in the meantime, we'll keep our web-site up and running but wouldn't be updating it. If you have any thoughts on the matter, please feel free to email us at info@polymeme.com

Best,
Polymeme Team

The coming nuclear renaissance

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:19:13 -0400

THE BOSTON GLOBE : Thirty years ago this month, an accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania inflamed public opposition to nuclear power... READ MORE

Media distortion damages both science and journalism

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:19:13 -0400

NEW SCIENTIST : WHEN media reports state that scientist X of Y university has discovered that A is linked to B... READ MORE

Can space tourism survive the economic downturn?

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:19:13 -0400

WWW.THESPACEREVIEW.COM : The travel and tourism industry worldwide is suffering: one only has to see the number of great travel deals being offered by airlines and hotels to understand that things are pretty bad... READ MORE

Introducing the new Huffington Post Investigative Fund

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:19:13 -0400

PRESSTHINK : "The announcement of its birth, along with the $1.75 million starter budget, is really the launch of a new Internet-based news organization with a focus on original reporting... READ MORE

Are computer games a literary genre?

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:19:13 -0400

GUARDIAN : Sci-fi has a nobler literary tradition than you might think. Doris Lessing, Iain Banks trading as Iain M Banks and Toby Litt have all turned their hand to it... READ MORE

Number of US Facebook Users Over 35 Nearly Doubles in Last 60 Days

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:19:13 -0400

INSIDE FACEBOOK : Don’t look now, but the number of Americans over 35, 45, and 55 on Facebook is growing fast. In the last 60 days alone... READ MORE

Black is back for California drivers (actually, it never left)

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:19:13 -0400

LA TIMES BLOGS : The California Air Resources Board said Friday that it has no plans “at this time” to regulate car paint as part of a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions... READ MORE

Tracking the 'Water Footprint'

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:19:13 -0400

GREEN INC. : Last week, delegates from over 100 countries converged in Istanbul for the Fifth World Water Forum..." READ MORE

Among Climate Scientists, a Dispute Over ‘Tipping Points’

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:19:13 -0400

NEW YORK TIMES : The language was apocalyptic. Last month, a leading climate scientist warned that Earth’s rising temperatures were poised to set off irreversible disasters... READ MORE

Expanded Americorps has an authoritarian feel

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:19:13 -0400

WWW.WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM : With almost no public attention, both chambers of Congress in the past week advanced an alarming expansion of the Americorps national service plan... READ MORE

Tipping Back the Scales

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:19:13 -0400

WWW.WASHINGTONMONTHLY.COM : I n 2003, a thirty-two-year-old lawyer named Bradley Schlozman became deputy assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice... READ MORE

Let us merge or we'll die, say local papers

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:50:18 -0400

GUARDIAN : Local newspaper publishers will submit a report to the Office of Fair Trading on Tuesday calling for a massive shake-up of competition laws that could herald a wave of mergers and acquisitions once financial markets stabilise... READ MORE

How suffering became a public act

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:50:17 -0400

GUARDIAN : King George VI was discovered dead in bed in the early morning of 6 February 1952. He was 56. A few hours later I was walking home at lunchtime with a few classmates from primary school... READ MORE

Newspapers last bastion against political corruption, says creator of The Wire

polymeme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:50:11 -0400

GUARDIAN : Fictional corrupt politicians are a mainstay of The Wire, David Simon's celebrated television series about life on the Baltimore streets... READ MORE