By timothy from
Slashdot's but-it-sure-sounded-cool-at-the-time department:
The Associated Press (as carried by the Washington Post) reports that the
controversial report of
arsenic-based life-forms in a California lake (
much hyped by NASA) look suddenly less controversial, but in a way that will disappoint those who hoped that such an unexpected thing had actually been found on earth. Instead, the journal
Science "released two papers that
rip apart the original research. They 'clearly show' that the bacteria can’t use arsenic as the researchers claimed, said an accompanying statement from the journal."
USA Today's version of the story points out that the claim, and subsequent considered rejection of that claim as unsupportable "looks like a case study in how science corrects its mistakes."
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By timothy from
Slashdot's personal-autonomy-is-a-good-thing department:
Apple and many other tech companies have offered benefits to same-sex couples (and sometimes
made them a sticking point) for quite some time now, but Google is taking its position of inclusion for sexual minorities outside the company itself; the company has announced an
international campaign to promote legal marriage equality for same-sex couples, called "Legalize Love." According to CNN's version of the story, while this represents Google's policies overall, the campaign will at first "focus on countries like Singapore, where certain homosexual activities are illegal, and Poland, which has no legal recognition of same-sex couples." dot429 quotes
Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe of Google,
speaking in London Saturday at a summit where the initiative was announced: "We want our employees who are gay or lesbian or transgender to have the same experience outside the office as they do in the office. It is obviously a very ambitious piece of work."
Also at CNET.
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