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08.19.11 | 4:21 am
Bachmann Not Trimming Her Sails

Our TPM2012 reporter Evan McMorris-Santoro reports from on the ground in South Carolina.

08.18.11 | 2:58 pm
From the Federal Dept of Awesome

New “pod cars” debut at Heathrow Airport. Mineta San Jose Intl Airport may be next.

08.18.11 | 2:41 pm
TPM Is Hiring (Designer/Developer)

TPM is hiring a Designer/Developer and a Technology Fellow to join our news app development team in our New York City office. Details here.

08.18.11 | 12:41 pm
IBM Creates Brain Chip

IBM creates new silicon computer chip which emulates the function and processes of the human brain rather than relying on basic computer chip architecture that has remained roughly the same since the 1940s. And they’ve taught it to play pong.

08.18.11 | 11:10 am
Just The Usual Mix-Up

Darrell Issa staffer: No, I didn’t change my name to conceal that I used to work for Goldman Sachs — I did it to honor my Transylvanian heritage.

08.18.11 | 10:08 am
Huntsman Comes Out of Science Closet #itgetsbetter

After Perry dismisses evolution as a “theory that’s out there,” Huntsman jumps on twitter and says “I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.”

08.18.11 | 8:46 am
Coburn Goes from Bad to Worse

A story just moved in the Tulsa World that has the Senator saying some odd things about Medicare and then some kinda unfortunate things about President Obama.

First, back to the future with Chicken Care … Read More

08.18.11 | 8:27 am
Population Boom

Global population has officially passed the one billion mark. Of cars, that is.

08.18.11 | 8:08 am
Wall Street Knows It

I’m really just flagging what David noted in the post below. But it’s worth two posts or more. Wall Street is telling us (now noting Morgan Stanley’s explanation of its growth outlook downgrade) that two key factors in the increasingly gloomy outlook for the economy are Washington’s high-wire antics (i.e., Republican hostage taking on the budget) and the prospect of fiscal tightening in the USA. Read More

08.18.11 | 7:44 am
Paging Rick Perry

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on the Texas education system: “I feel very, very badly for the children there.”