Seed Magazine sums up the controversial theories of Joan Roughgarden, author of Evolution’s Rainbow (via Boing Boing). Roughgarden is currently engrossed in devising and alternative approach to the Darwinian view of sexual selection and its underpinnings.
Roughgarden’s first order of business was proving that homosexuality isn’t a maladaptive trait. At first glance, this seems like a […]
Can’t get enough of this. Though WAPO hinted pretty much the same thing a week ago, a recently unearthed fax sort of confirms the suspicion. Boing Boing notes
This appears to be a PDF of the fax that the MPAA’s John G. Malcolm sent to the Swedish Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice demanding […]
Neoliberalism at its finest. A greedy pharmaceutical company is trying to prevent doctors from using one of their drugs, Avastin, for an alternative application, citing “safety concerns” and “development costs” of their “new” drug, which most likely is nothing more than a repackaged version of the old one. The deviousness of the plot is that […]
A new look at the life in “iPod City,” behind the gated world of Apple’s Chinese iPod factories. Now, of course, Apple is not the only company with this sort of business practise, but they must count as one of the larger corporations and as such are setting an unfortunate standard. Plus obviously they have […]
A frightening tale (Boston Globe) of abuse from the dark side of the empire. Of the 250 troubled or disabled students at the Rotenberg Center, Massachusetts, half wear electric shock devices (even in the shower!) and most endure some sort of hands-on correction.
Students would receive electric shocks for behaviors including
‘refuse to follow staff directions’, ‘failure […]
A new blog that uncovers the dismal state of Apple’s products. Most think the biggest gripe with Apple historically speaking is quirky, unproductive design or compatibility issues or indeed the recent issue of proprietary DRM and music file formats. But the thing that stands out over the years is really the quality control, or the […]
Humour, when in the right hands, can be a very powerful weapon. Spoofing the misdirected outrage over the Guantanamo suicides:
(Fafblog) “Oh but Giblets there are dozens of innocent prisoners in Guantanamo” you say because you are a namby-pamby appeasenik who suckles at the teat of terror. Well if these Guantanamo prisoners are so innocent then […]
Will they ever stop using the word “piracy” in official documents? Anyway, this is officially confirming what we already knew. The US lets it be known that they will apply pressure to aid its copyright pimps abroad (WAPO via /.). What that will amount to in the long run is uncertain. For now, we’re seeing […]
And the myth of the over-lenient judiciary. I was baffled the other day as I saw Tony Blair blasting the Tory party over allegedly being too soft on crime. “Voting soft in Parliament” as he put it. You know something has gone terribly wrong when a supposedly social democratic party is accusing conservatives of being […]
The not so invisible hand is robbing funeral homes, harvesting tissue and organs all across the US. Some neoliberal success story that.
The bodies are piling up across America as more people are being killed by the very tissue and organ implants meant to improve their lives.
The problem is a dangerously unregulated body parts industry. The […]
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