Via David Galbraith …
Only dead scientists are known to teens
Teenagers are so out of touch with modern science that they cannot name a single living scientist.
Students, aged 13-16, were asked to name a famous scientist in an online survey carried out by exam board OCR. Isaac Newton (39%) and Albert Einstein (29%) topped the [...]
British towns will get a taste of martial law this summer, courtesy of the Home Secretary and a desperate Tony Blair.
Ministers have ordered the Army on to the streets to join an all-out summer campaign against anti-social drunken and violent behaviour by yobs.
Military police and ordinary uniformed soldiers will help keep youths under control in [...]
Via Agonist …
A controversial report and photos a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist produced on the aftermath of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki have been unearthed almost 60 years after U.S. military censors forbade their publication, the Mainichi has learned.
The late George Weller was the first foreign reporter to reach Nagasaki after it was subjected [...]
Be Famous for Doing Nothing
No talent? No problem! Welcome to the faking-it generation where accomplishment is a footnote to exhibitionism. (Radar Magazine)
No, it’s not a tag line for Seinfeld.
Interesting concept. Could be worth looking into … because it’s a really telling tale of how the media driven contemporary world works. Not that I’ve read or [...]
As reported last month and recently mentioned in Nature, there will not likely be any further examination of the thousands of birth defects, cancers and malicious maladies caused by dioxin exposure.
It’s pretty simple really. No research means no proof of foul play and no chance of reparations for Vietnamese plaintiffs against draconian American bio-tech and [...]
Vietnam commemorates 30 years since “the American War” ended today. A bitter commemoration for everyone involved even though fireworks and festivities usually try to cover up the fact in modern day Vietnam. In the United States, the lessons learned are all but forgotten and the anniversary is getting a brief and rather uncharismatic coverage. Most [...]
The latest official half-yearly figures found the nation’s prison and jail population at 2,131,180 in the middle of last year, an increase of 2.3 percent over 2003.
The United States has incarcerated 726 people per 100,000 of its population, seven to 10 times as many as most other democracies. The rate for England is 142 per [...]
Three American police officers who were caught on video handcuffing a disruptive five-year-old at her nursery school are under investigation.
A video camera running during a classroom self-improvement exercise last month caught images of the girl climbing on a table and punching an assistant principal before police were called to Fairmount Park Elementary in St Petersburg, [...]
There should really be an April Fool’s day roughly every two weeks. Random intervals of course. Typical intermittent reinforcement (”one-armed bandit” experience).
You do read the headlines with extra care. Question everything, doubt anything.
Just how the perfect citizen should function, much to the dismay of the elites. A critical media consumer is a wonderful thing. I [...]
Via BoingBoing …
Don’t say ‘blogger’ to US Immigration.
This sounds like an unbelievable story, but it happened to Canadian blogger Jeremy Wright last week. As already reported on quite a few blogs, Jeremy was detained and interrogated by US Immigration when he arrived in New York last week to discuss a great business opportunity for Jeremy [...]
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