(via The Air Force Wants to Read Your Brain Waves | Mother Jones and also this)
Last year costliest on record for natural disasters
Life, Trifonov declares, is simply self-reproduction with variations.
Approaches to What?
“In our haste to measure the historic, significant, and revelatory, let’s not leave aside the essential: the truly intolerable, the truly inadmissible. What’s scandalous isn’t the pit explosion, it’s working in coalmines.”
Georges Perec (1973) – from ‘Approaches to What?’ in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
Plotting a view from below: An introduction | AntipodeFoundation.org
read.
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory | This American Life
Mike Daisey was a self-described “worshipper in the cult of Mac.” Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out.
Over the past 48 hours, news has broken in India of the existence of at least 12 patients infected with tuberculosis that has become resistant to all the drugs used against the disease. Physicians in Mumbai are calling the strain TDR, for Totally Drug-Resistant. In other words, it is untreatable as far as they know.
In the Spring - Wang Xu and Liu Gang
Guangzhou - China’s migrant metropolis
China’s economy depends on a system regulating workers from around China and beyond. In Guangzhou, the migrant metropolis, Mukul Devichand hears stories of anger and reform.
funding & politics
It is inexcusable that a simple idea – that no American should be denied access to biomedical research their tax dollars paid to produce – could be scuttled by a greedy publisher who bought access to a member of Congress.
‘Incompatible with life.’ US invasion leaves lasting Iraq scars (by AlJazeeraEnglish)
orphan diseases??
Mission Statement
The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), a 501(c)(3) organization, is a unique federation of voluntary health organizations dedicated to helping people with rare “orphan” diseases and assisting the organizations that serve them. NORD is committed to the identification, treatment, and cure of rare disorders through programs of education, advocacy, research, and service.
Hmmm…
“NORD is grateful to the following companies who are active members of the Corporate Council.”
Future Riot Shields Will Suffocate Protestors with Low Frequency Speakers
takingbackearth: It’s not the first crowd control tool to use sound waves, but Raytheon’s patent for a new type of riot shield that produces low frequency sound waves to disrupt the respiratory tract and hinder breathing
