'I have always felt a certain horror of political economists since I heard one of them say that he feared the famine of 1848 in Ireland would not kill more than a million people, and that would scarcely be enough to do much good."--Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol. The economist was Nassau Senior, an adviser to the British government.
The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, a women-centric music event held annually since 1976, and which in recent years attracted controversy for refusing to admit transgender women, announced on Facebook that this year will be its last. Their emphasis upon genetic females--and the assumption that male-based culture and genomes cannot be overcome--has proved fatal.
Petrobras is writing off $2.1 billion due to alleged graft.
Since Galileo's time, thinkers have relied on the patronage of others to fund their work, and that patronage - be it from government, business interests or individuals - generally extracts a price. In Galileo's case, that meant softening his position on the Copernican theory under pressure from the pope. In the case of science today, despite Dreger's argument, that pressure comes less as a consequence of political correctness than of economic forces that have shifted academic and scientific institutions to a corporate model not designed to prioritize public interests. (from Ellen Ruppel Shell's review of Alice Dreger's new book.)
Who is.....Marc Mezvinsky?
Chinese scientists have reported editing the genomes of human embryos. The results are published in the online journal Protein & Cell. The reports are excited about the ethical implications of such genetic meddling but the scientists themselves are remarkably discouraging--especially when you think of the competition for research dollars these people must win. The team attempted to modify the gene responsible for β-thalassaemia, a potentially fatal blood disorder, using a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR/Cas9. Of 86 embryos treated, just 28 were successfully spliced, and that only a fraction of those contained the replacement genetic material. They also found a surprising number of 'off-target' mutations assumed to be introduced by the CRISPR/Cas9 complex acting on other parts of the genome. The rates of such unintended mutations were much higher than those observed in gene-editing studies of mouse embryos or human adult cells. The low efficiencies and high number of off-target mutations were worrisome to the lead researcher, Junjiu Huang, who demonstrated remarkable honesty and reflection in his discussion of the project.
We are the sorcerer's apprentices.
Intractable: adjective: Not easily handled, managed, or controlled. From Latin tractare (to handle), frequentative of trahere (draw). Earliest documented use: 1545. You can not read Faulkner without it.
In 1942, 234 British bombers struck the German port of Lubeck, an industrial town of only "moderate importance." The attack was ordered (according to Sir Arthur Harris, head of British Bomber Command) as more of a morale booster for British flyers than anything else, but the destruction wreaked on Lubeck was significant: Two thousand buildings were totaled, 312 German civilians were killed, and 15,000 Germans were left homeless. In retaliation for the British raid on Lubeck, German bombers struck Exeter and later Bath, Norwick, York, and other "medieval-city centres." Almost 1,000 English civilians are killed in the bombing attacks nicknamed "Baedeker Raids," named for the German publishing company famous for guidebooks popular with tourists. The Luftwaffe vowed to bomb every building in Britain that the Baedeker guide had awarded "three stars." The Germans attacked cathedral cities of great historical significance. The 15th-century Guildhall, in York, as an example, was destroyed.
Marc Mezvinsky is the husband of Chelsea Clinton and co-founder of the $400 million hedge fund Eaglevale Partners LP, along with his two former colleagues from Goldman Sachs. Chelsea reportedly already has a net worth of some $15 million. She must be a hard working girl.
Teaching hospitals have long been points of pride for major universities, and in recent years revenue from medical services has served as a lifeline for some schools that have struggled with falling state aid and pressure to slow tuition increases.
Now the marriages between universities and their cash-cow clinical operations are starting to fray as changes stemming from the 2010 health-care law threaten to make university hospitals less profitable.
University-affiliated hospitals tend to charge more for their services than so-called community hospitals because they are also funding research and instruction and handling particularly complex cases. That makes them less attractive to the exchange-based insurance networks created under the Affordable Care Act. Another factor raising costs: Most university hospitals are in urban areas and treat a high share of patients who are uninsured or covered by Medicaid.
Now the marriages between universities and their cash-cow clinical operations are starting to fray as changes stemming from the 2010 health-care law threaten to make university hospitals less profitable.
University-affiliated hospitals tend to charge more for their services than so-called community hospitals because they are also funding research and instruction and handling particularly complex cases. That makes them less attractive to the exchange-based insurance networks created under the Affordable Care Act. Another factor raising costs: Most university hospitals are in urban areas and treat a high share of patients who are uninsured or covered by Medicaid.
In 2010, then-Secretary Clinton's financial disclosures revealed a net worth totaling between roughly $10 and $50 million. In 2012, the last year for which she disclosed finances, Clinton's net worth was estimated to be between $5 million and $25 million. In 2010, Clinton disclosed two JP Morgan accounts each worth between $5 million and $25 million. Her 2011 and 2012 disclosures show only one JP Morgan account worth between $5 million and $25 million. None knows where the rest of the money went. These figures do not include her husband's net worth or the value of her "Foundation." Now.....how is something like this tolerated in this culture?
Brain scans indicate that, regardless of their chromosomes, gonads and sex hormones, some men and women identify with the sex that the gender-affected parts of their brains make them believe themselves to be.
In the 1960s, The CIA was deep into the counterculture. The CIA's ties to the very liberal National Student Association were the most sensational but the Agency had involvement in many such institutions as the Congress for Cultural Freedom; the International Commission of Jurists; the AFL-CIO; Radio Free Europe; and various leading philanthropic foundations. Those individuals recruited included Gloria Steinem, Paul Sigmund, a longtime professor of politics at Princeton, James P. Grant, the longtime and widely admired executive director of UNICEF, James Scott, professor of political science and anthropology at Yale, Crawford Young, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin and well-known scholar of African studies; Luigi Einaudi, an American diplomat who served as acting secretary general of the Organization of American States, and Duncan Kennedy, professor of law at Harvard.
So, the next time you hear a speech that is prefaced by the pious announcement of "conflict of interest" admissions, think twice.
More than a third of NHS trusts are considering rationing some types of surgery and other treatments. Several have admitted they may impose 'eligibility' rules which could affect smokers as well as the overweight.
Sharyl Attkisson is getting her own Sunday show. The former CBS News correspondent, who resigned from the network last year, will host a new, 30-minute Sunday morning national news program based in Washington, D.C., Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. announced in a press release Wednesday. The show will air on the company's ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX affiliates.
This might be interesting because she thinks she is a reporter.
In 1891 Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray was published. The novel had originally appeared in Lippincot's Monthly Magazine the previous summer, and caused an uproar for what one newspaper called "its effeminate frivolity, its studied insincerity, its theatrical cynicism, its tawdry mysticism, its flippant philosophizing, its contaminating trail of garish vulgarity."
In December, President Obama said that he wished to see Iran ultimately become a "very successful regional power." So, we should be looking at what is happening in the Middle East as a success? "Electricity prices should necessarily skyrocket?" This guy has some very peculiar wishes that do not seem to benefit the citizens I know. But they clearly must benefit someone.
The Human Society of the United States reports that U.S. shelters receive 6-8 million cats and dogs each year. Approximately half of these are euthanized. The reminder are adopted or reclaimed.
Pope Francis triggered international debate recently. Speaking at Sunday Mass on April 12, the pontiff described the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by Turks 100 years ago as "the first genocide of the 20th century" - a characterization of that horrific episode strongly supported by the evidence of history. ("Genocide implies a planned, targeted and systematic slaughter as opposed to planned but random slaughter.)
The Turks were and are mightily offended.
After the Ottoman Empire lost considerable territory on the Balkan War 1912-1913, they entered the First World War on the side of the Germans in 1914. They feared that the Christian Armenians would side with the Ottomans' Christian neighbor and principal enemy, Russia. Turkish propaganda started portraying Armenians as a threat to the empire.
On April 24, 1915, hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were arrested and later executed. This began what most historians have named the Armenian genocide, which lasted for several years. Armenians, including women and children, were rounded up and killed or sent on death marches across the Syrian desert, where they died of starvation or disease.
The Davis-Bacon Act was passed in 1931 to prevent blacks and immigrants from competing with all-white unions for federal contracts during the Depression.
AAAAaaaannnnnddddddd..... a satellite picture of the eastern world and North Korea, outlined, celebrating Earth Day:
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