Asteroid 7107 Peiser ist nach mir benannt.
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=7107

Asteroid 11956 Tamarakate ist nach unserer jüngsten Tochter benannt.
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=11956

Mit Asteroid 7307 Takei hat die International Astronomical Union gestern den schwulen Star Trek star geehrt.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-5635.html

Die iranische Regierung hat unterdessen Protest eingelegt und bestreitet energisch, daß es schwule Asteroiden gibt.

The Burmese government’s recent shutdown of the country’s Internet connections amid pro-democracy protests was a new low for what is already one of the most censorious nations in the world. Earlier this year, the OpenNet Initiative—a collaboration among researchers at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Toronto—found that the nation’s rulers blocked 85 percent of e-mail service providers and nearly all political-opposition and pro-democracy sites. (See “Internet Increasingly Censored.”) All this in a nation in which less than 1 percent of citizens have Internet access in the first place.

Last week—after images of the beatings of Buddhist monks and the killing of a Japanese photographer leaked out via the Internet—Burma’s military rulers took the ultimate step, apparently physically disconnecting primary telecommunications...

Environmental advocates have finally managed to put the issue of global warming at the top of the world’s agenda. But the scientific, economic, and political realities may mean that their efforts are too little, too late.

As the world’s leaders gather in New York this week to discuss climate change, you’re going to hear a lot of well-intentioned talk about how to stop global warming. From the United Nations, Bill Clinton, and even the Bush administration, you’ll hear about how certain mechanisms—cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gas emissions, carbon taxes, and research and development plans for new energy technologies—can fit into some sort of global emissions reduction agreement to stop climate change. Many of these ideas will be innovative and necessary; some of them will be poorly thought out. But one thing binds them...

England im Herbst, the same procedure as every year. Wenn sich die Blätter zu färben beginnen und der Regen wieder kälter wird, dann ist nicht nur der Sommer vorbei, sondern die Parteitagssaison beginnt. Parteitage - das klingt für Deutsche nach Änderungsanträgen, Sitzordnung nach Landesverbandszugehörigkeit und Kampfkandidaturen. Aber auf der Insel wird man nach all dem vergeblich suchen. Parteitage oder ‘party conferences’, wie sie hier heißen, haben mehr mit Party denn mit Konferenz zu tun. Für vier Tage treffen Parteiführung und -volk zum gemeinsamen Umtrunk aufeinander und das in der Regel an einem Ort abseits der üblichen Zentren der Macht. Für diese Zeit ist die Provinz der Mittelpunkt der Welt, zumindest glauben dies Provinzler wie Parteifunktionäre gerne.

Das nordwestenglische Blackpool hat es dieses Jahr wieder...

Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore’s controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday.

The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of ‘brainwashing’ children with propaganda by showing it in the classroom.

Stewart Dimmock said the former U.S. Vice-President’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, is unfit for schools because it is politically biased and contains serious scientific inaccuracies and ‘sentimental mush’.

He wants the video banned after it was distributed with four other short films to 3,500 schools in February.

Mr Justice Burton is due to deliver a ruling on the case next week, but yesterday he said he would be saying that Gore’s Oscar-winning film does promote ‘partisan political views’. This means that teachers will have to warn...

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Jeder Leser, der verstehen will, warum die islamische Kultur von heute keine Zukunft hat, sollte den folgenden Aufsatz eines eminenten, pakistanischen Physikers gründlich lesen.

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This article grew out of the Max von Laue Lecture that I delivered earlier this year to celebrate that eminent physicist and man of strong social conscience. When Adolf Hitler was on the ascendancy, Laue was one of the very few German physicists of stature who dared to defend Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity. It therefore seems appropriate that a matter concerning science and civilization should be my concern here.

The question I want to pose—perhaps as much to myself as to anyone else—is this: With well over a billion Muslims and extensive material resources, why is the Islamic world disengaged from science and the process of...

When Anil Godhwani and his brother, Gautam, looked into creating a community center for Indian-Americans in Silicon Valley, they turned to the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco as a model.

When the Hindu American Foundation began, it looked to groups like the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center for guidance with its advocacy and lobbying efforts.

Indian-Americans, who now number 2.4 million in this country, are turning to American Jews as role models and partners in areas like establishing community centers, advocating on civil rights issues and lobbying Congress.

Indians often say they see a version of themselves and what they hope to be in the experience of Jews in American politics: a small minority that has succeeded in combating prejudice and building political clout.

Sanjay Puri, the chairman of the...