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It's making good time on the way to Nova Prospekt.

awesome JTZ. So glad to see a fellow bossa nova sifter.

Hello there, check out my Bossa Nova play list and see if you like any =)

Generally speaking, the President doesn't have any control over earmarks. He can veto bills that contain them, but otherwise it's purely a Congressional thing.

Earmarks allow members of Congress to direct money to projects (usually to one in the state/district they represent), without going through the full appropriations process.

I was mostly thinking about the 2nd most mentioned earmark John McCain lists as pork: a study of the DNA of bears (with a joke about not being sure if it's a criminal or paternal issue).

There's a similar earmark Palin requested for her state: $3.2 million for a study of seal genetics.

In reading the full discussion, a lot of people were saying there isn't any reason to believe there's something wrong with either study (except McCain's grandstanding about it). But then some people claiming to be research scientists said using earmarks for studies is a bad way to get funding for research, since it bypasses the normal peer review process.

Just curious if you'd had experience with seeing something like that bypass the peer review.

Probably those particular ones wouldn't have gone through the DoD at all, though.

With stem cells, I'd be willing to bet the politicians have at least watched a Nova special on them, so they're not totally ignorant. Most of the conversation centers around the ban on creating new stem cell lines, and moral vs. practical considerations of lifting or retaining the ban (a conversation that very much echoes the abortion debate).

Is there something about stem cells that they should know that would change the nature of the debate? (e.g., we don't really need more lines, there's no ethical problem with getting more lines, they're not important to current research, etc.)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3313/03.html

Hi mty-
Just wanted to let you know I removed the Long flag from this video because it's just shy of the requisite 10 minute length.

Finally watched it, btw. Excellent post.

*promote!
great episode, and therefore no surprise that majortom liked it as much as i did:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Nova-Ghost-in-Your-Genes

*killing this copy

it's a great show. catch it here:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Nova-The-Ghost-in-Your-Genes

For some reason the "modify video details" link isn't present on discarded videos, I got in touch with Lucky to have him correct the embed.

Also, I'd like you to know I don't like calling out dupes, but I thought for sure I had submitted the Ghost in your genes vid a while back, and after digging through my discards found it.

I sincerely appreciate your response, and your offer for a promote.

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ping from ground control

In reply to this comment by Majortomyorke:
Not sure if it matters, but this is a dupe of a discard (back when videos got discarded if they didn't get enough votes) http://www.videosift.com/video/Nova-The-Ghost-in-Your-Genes

ping from ground control

In reply to this comment by Majortomyorke:
Not sure if it matters, but this is a dupe of a discard (back when videos got discarded if they didn't get enough votes) http://www.videosift.com/video/Nova-The-Ghost-in-Your-Genes

Not sure if it matters, but this is a dupe of a discard (back when videos got discarded if they didn't get enough votes) http://www.videosift.com/video/Nova-The-Ghost-in-Your-Genes

thanks!

i do my best sifting on slovenian time.

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Hilarious urban legend. It reminds me of the Chevy Nova in Mexico, where "no va" means no go, but 'Nova' has the same meaning as it does in the states.

Ich bin ein apple fritter.

Thanks!
let's spread that bossa nova love! Here is another one that was swept under the PQ tide! http://www.videosift.com/video/Adriana-Calcanhoto-Devolva-me