Posted on January 30, 2008 by mousomer
This is somewhat late. Non the less…Respectful Insolence has all the gory details:
The American government’s Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) has forced some hospitals to halt a program that threatened to save thousands of lives (and millions of dollars) annually. Why? Because it was, allegedly, an unethical experiment, done without the approval of the [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2008 by mousomer
Chess analysis is a lot like science.
and:
Information is an over-inflated term.
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Posted on January 13, 2008 by mousomer
A good friend has emailed me with a very cute little link, depicting the wows of consumerism. It’s rather charming. Really. Have a look:
http://www.storyofstuff.com/index.html
The good people at “story of stuff” make an interesting mistake glitch, though.
The presenter, Annie Leonard, correctly ascribes consumerism, that plague that makes us violate the earth, to post-WWII American politics. As [...]
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Posted on January 3, 2008 by mousomer
From NotExactlyRocketScience
Is human culture influenced by brain parasites?
From Real Climate:
A new report (pdf) called The Age of Consequences, just released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Center for a New American Security, tries to bring the social sciences, in particular history, geography, and political science, into the forecast of climate change [...]
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