Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Arctic sea ice will be below average again this year | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine – But it’s all a cycle! Or a hoax! Or sun spots! Certainly not anything that humans have caused, or contributed to, or have to do something inconvenient or even painful about!
- In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir by Dick Cheney – The Washington Post – It sounds like a book more designed for current audiences than for any historic perspective from the future.
- Amazon’s tablet will be Android’s White Knight – It’s certainly something I’d take a look at …
- Massive Diet Coke – Nice redesign (though I’m not a Diet Coke fan, if I have a choice in the matter).
- Flash: 99% Bad – Yup. Yup, yup, yup. (And I kept thinking of all those awful, awful restaurant sites out there, which are particularly egregious at abusing Flash.)
- Monsanto GM corn is losing its pest-resistance – Well, there’s a huge surprise.
- 83 Died in U.S.-Guatemala Syphilis Experiments: “We’re talking about intentional deception.” – Disgusting. And particularly so, given that, over in Nuremberg, Germany, we were trying Nazi scientists for doing the same sort of criminal research.
- Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients? Why Stop There? – Sauce for the goose …
- Stuart Varney on the Poor: What They Lack is the Richness of Spirit – Remember when we used to be proud that even the poorest in our country could afford a refrigerator (or afford an apartment that had a fridge in it)? Now it’s being used as a club by the Right to prove that poor aren’t really all that poor.
- 18 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Firefly [Infographic] – Some of this isn’t new, and I knew a lot of it already, so I’ll just quietly note that it is INSANE that it has been 9 years since Firefly first aired.
- The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight « You Are Not So Smart – The bane of the blogosphere (if not the world). “In a political debate you feel like the other side just doesn’t get your point of view, and if they could only see things with your clarity, they would understand and fall naturally in line with what you believe. They must not understand, because if they did they wouldn’t think the things they think. By contrast, you believe you totally get their point of view and you reject it. You see it in all its detail and understand it for what it is – stupid. You don’t need to hear them elaborate. So, each side believes they understand the other side better than the other side understands both their opponents and themselves.”
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Re: Guatemala
Near as I can tell, Nuremberg was the only time anybody was ever punished or even prosecuted for government sponsored human experimentation. And there’s been a lot of it, all over. A surprisingly high percentage of doctors were willing to follow a ways in Mengele’s footsteps so long as there was a paycheck in it.
Y’know, charitable guy that I am, I don’t assume that the monsters who participated in the Tuskeegee or Guatemala experiments were doing it for a paycheck, but because they simply didn’t grok how horrific it was. Which doesn’t necessarily make them less monsters.