IMAGINE a presidential candidate who spoke with blunt honesty about American problems, dwelling on measures by which the United States lags its economic peers. What might this mythical candidate talk about on the stump? He might vow to turn around the dismal statistics on child poverty, declaring it an outrage that of the 35 most […]
Part spy, part tycoon, Edwin P. Wilson lived large. He claimed to own 100 corporations in the United States and Europe, many of them real and many of them shells. He had an apartment in Geneva; a hunting lodge in England; a seaside villa in Tripoli, Libya; a town house in Washington; and real estate […]
Greece said on Friday it would replace the board of its independent statistics service (ELSTAT) after two members resigned and another was quoted as alleging that 2009 deficit data had been artificially inflated. It said ELSTAT chief Andreas Georgiou would keep his post. The upward revision of Greece’s budget deficit in 2009 to 15.4 percent […]
With at least the tacit backing of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency officials, operatives linked to anti-Castro terrorists introduced African swine fever virus into Cuba in 1971. Six weeks later an outbreak of the disease forced the slaughter of 500,000 pigs to prevent a nationwide animal epidemic. A U.S. intelligence source told Newsday last week he […]
The Central Intelligence Agency took no action after learning the pseudonym and whereabouts of the fugitive Holocaust administrator Adolf Eichmann in 1958, according to C.I.A. documents released Tuesday that shed new light on the spy agency’s use of former Nazis as informants after World War II. The C.I.A. was told by West German intelligence that […]
Mere Tinkering With a Bad Program The Obama administration announced last month plans to repair Secure Communities, the program that compels state and local police to join its wide and expanding hunt for illegal immigrants. From now on, when illegal immigrants are stopped for traffic violations by local police, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will consid […]
Facial recognition technology is a staple of sci-fi thrillers like “Minority Report.” But of bars in Chicago? SceneTap, a new app for smart phones, uses cameras with facial detection software to scout bar scenes. Without identifying specific bar patrons, it posts information like the average age of a crowd and the ratio of men to […]
Doctors are paid higher fees in the United States than in several other countries, and this is a major factor in the nation’s higher overall cost of health care, says a new study by two Columbia University professors, one of whom is now a top health official in the Obama administration. “American primary care and […]
William E. Seidelman MD Science and Inhumanity: The Kaiser-Wilhelm/Max Planck Society First Published in: If Not Now an e-journal Volume 2, Winter 2000 http://www.baycrest.org/journal/ifnot01w.html Revised February 18, 2001. * The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich * The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute of Brain Research, Berlin-Buch * The Kaiser-Wilhelm […]
The term designer babies is by and large just emblematic of the idea that genetic technology can do more than merely correct the frail aspects of human existence. It can redress nature’s essential randomness. Purely elective changes are in the offing. The industry argues over the details, but many assure that within our decade, depending […]
Double Helix co-discoverer James Watson: On the lookout for girls in Corona del Mar, California. circa 196? From: Avoid Boring (Other) People: Lessons from a Life in Science. by James Watson
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5be66ede-9b48-11e0-a254-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1QQLYeELb Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity, by Raymond Tallis, Acumen Publishing, RRP£25, 400 pages Naked Genes: Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age, by Helga Nowotny and Giuseppe Testa, MIT Press, RRP£18.95, 192 pages The Most Human Huma […]
Jonathan Carey did not die for lack of money. New York State and the federal government provided $1.4 million annually per person to care for Jonathan and the other residents of the Oswald D. Heck Developmental Center, a warren of low-rise concrete and brick buildings near Albany. Yet on a February afternoon in 2007, Jonathan, […]
On Feb. 15, 1965, a diffident but self-possessed high school student named Raymond Kurzweil appeared as a guest on a game show called I’ve Got a Secret. He was introduced by the host, Steve Allen, then he played a short musical composition on a piano. The idea was that Kurzweil was hiding an unusual fact […]
Dave Asprey, who says that he has ‘rewired’ his brain through body hacking Michael Galpert rolls over in bed in his New York apartment, the alarm clock still chiming. The 28-year-old internet entrepreneur slips off the headband that’s been recording his brainwaves all night and studies the bar graph of his deep sleep, light sleep […]
Brigitte Lahaie, covered up for the moment, in Jean Rollin’s “Fascination.” The movies have their outsider artists too, filmmakers who work away from the established centers and financial structures, often laboring in blissful ignorance of academic technique. A disproportionate number of these directors work in horror films, for reasons that probably have to […]
ce399. 2012 1 Corinthians 13 (NIV) 1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith […]
Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler. I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. Be they damned & dead! Amen. http://hermetic.com/legis/ccxx/chapter-ii.html
The Voices in Philip K. Dick’s Head By CHARLES PLATT THE EXEGESIS OF PHILIP K. DICK Edited by Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Lethem and Erik Davis. Illustrated. 944 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $40. In 1979, I visited Philip K. Dick for a profile I was writing. In a modest apartment he shared with dusty stacks of […]
A woman with her child at a cholera treatment centre (14 Dec 2010) There have been calls for better public health information throughout the epidemic Continue reading the main story Rebuilding Haiti * The rubble problem * Progress: In graphics * An aid worker’s view * In pictures: Wolfgang Tillmans Voodoo priests in Haiti are […]
Is Madonna Jewish? The material girl’s professed faith has little to do with classical Jewish mysticismIn 1941, Gershom Scholem published “Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism,” a groundbreaking study of Kabbalah’s murky origins, complicated texts and arcane ideas. Scholem, who died in 1982, concluded the book with a vague prediction: “Under what aspects this in […]
Angels Doing Time “The world will end…the mechanical will have Americanized us to such a degree, progress will have atrophied the entire spiritual part within us, [that we will] die by that we had thought we could live by. [We will be destroyed]… by the abasement of the heart.” – Charles Baudelaire. April 9, 1821 […]
Download Interview with #MichaelCudak #DeepEcologist #Philosopher #Poet (PartThree) 19.07 mb wav file. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13818749/DeepEcologyPartThree.wav Summer 2011. Eugene, Oregon. United States. Interviewed by ce399. More at http://earthheart.org/
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In a fiery speech justifying her decision to nationalize the oil company YPF, Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, cited her admiration for Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant, and other state oil companies in Latin America. But here in Brazil, Latin America’s rising oil power, and elsewhere in the region, financial experts greet […]
Modes of Governance in Neo-Liberal Capitalism: An Introduction Hai Ren [1] Neo-liberal capitalism – which has become not necessarily better or more advanced but certainly more complicated and more dominant in contemporary human lives – signals a significant departure from liberal capitalism. Under the guise of liberal capitalism, the Eurocentric norm of stat […]
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