December 2011

Yahoo News: Some Asians’ college strategy: Don’t check ‘Asian’

Top schools that don’t ask about race in admissions process have very high percentages of Asian students. The California Institute of Technology, a private school that chooses not to consider race, is about one-third Asian. (Thirteen percent of California residents have Asian heritage.) The University of California-Berkeley, which is forbidden by state law to consider race in admissions, is more than 40 percent Asian — up from about 20 percent before the law was passed.
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Noting that most Ivy League schools have roughly the same percentage of Asians, he wonders if “that’s the maximum number where diversity is still good, and it’s not, ‘we’re being overwhelmed by the yellow horde.”

Dailymail.co.uk: Climate change episode of Frozen Planet won’t be shown in the U.S. as viewers don’t believe in global warming

An episode of the BBC’s Frozen Planet documentary series that looks at climate change has been scrapped in the U.S., where many are hostile to the idea of global warming.

British viewers will see all seven episodes of the multi-million-pound nature series throughout the Autumn.

But U.S. audiences will not be shown the last episode, which looks at the threat posed by man to the natural world.

It is feared a show that preaches global warming could upset viewers in the U.S., where around half of people do not believe in climate change.

I saw this in a petition sent out by Change.org asking Discovery Channel to air the final (seventh) episode. It’s frightening that Discovery Channel is not showing this episode because it might upset those that are too ignorant to believe in climate change.

You DO NOT want to be near the business end of a hippo when this happens.

Telegraph: Astonishing accident involving eight Ferraris ‘world’s most expensive car crash’

You don’t see carnage like this even in a Fast and the Furious movie.