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‘This American Life’ Completes Documentation Of Liberal, Upper-Middle-Class Existence

This is funny. — theonion.com CHICAGO—Producers of the long-running Chicago Public Radio program This American Life announced Monday that they have completed their comprehensive 12-year survey of life as a modern upper-middle-class American. In what cultural anthropologists are calling a “colossal achievement” in the study of white-collar professionals, […]

Book on Hezbollah Released

ibna.ir Authored by Mesbah Mahjoub, a book has been released on the thought patterns of Hezbollah led by Seyed Hassan Nasrollah. IBNA: The book entails issues which have led to the success of the Muslim political party in Lebanon and in the physical and psychological wars it has […]

Head Case: Can psychiatry be a science?

newyorker.com Louis Menand The psychiatric literature is so confusing that even the dissidents disagree. Photograph by Dan Winters. You arrive for work and someone informs you that you have until five o’clock to clean out your office. You have been laid off. At first, your family is brave […]

The Montpelier Manifesto

by Thomas H. Naylor, Kirkpatrick Sale, James Starkey, and Charles Keil Recently by Thomas H. Naylor: The Principality of Liechtenstein: A Model of Self-Determination for a World Filled With Chaos Recently by Kirkpatrick Sale: The Decline of the American Empire Petition of Grievances We, citizens of this American […]

Australians implant ‘world first’ bionic eye

brecorder.com Agence France-Presse Australian scientists said Thursday they had successfully implanted a “world first” bionic eye prototype, describing it as a major breakthrough for the visually impaired. Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), a government-funded science consortium, said it had surgically installed an “early prototype” robotic eye in a woman […]

Artificial limbs, controlled by thoughts

salon.com The idea that paralyzed people might one day control their limbs just by thinking is no longer a fantasy By Miguel A.L. Nicolelis, Scientific American This article originally appeared on Scientific American. In 2014, billions of viewers worldwide may remember the opening game of the World Cup […]

Teens Beware: Using Marijuana Could Make You Dumber

wired.com Tanya Lewis Photo: Chuck Grimmett/Flickr Marijuana is the world’s most widely used illicit drug. But smoke too many joints too soon, and you might lose IQ points: A new study suggests extensive marijuana use starting as a teenager could lead to cognitive decline. In a study of 1,037 […]

The new totalitarianism of surveillance tech

guardian.co.uk Naomi Wolf If you think that 24/7 tracking of citizens by biometric recognition systems is paranoid fantasy, just read the industry newsletters Tom Cruise as John Anderton in the futuristic film Minority Report, where the advertisements use recognition technology to call out to the shoppers. Photograph: Allstar/20th […]

Bill Gates: World needs fewer people

wnd.com Bob Unruh Software billionaire Bill Gates, who previously has advocated the reduction of the human population through the use of vaccines, and his wife Melinda marked the 100th year since the First International Eugenics Congress in London with a “family planning” summit with abortionists and the United […]

Ethnic Panic in India

aljazeera.com Interior minister accuses rival neighbour of fabricating messages threatening revenge attacks on indigenous communities. India has accused Pakistan of fabricating threatening bulk messages that triggered panic among migrant workers in southern Indian cities. Thousands of people hailing from indigenous communities in the northeastern state of Assam fled Bangalore and […]

Kurds See Federalism As Best Solution for Syria

rudaw.net ADIB ABDULMAJID The people of Efrin attend the opening of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) office in their city. Photo from loqmanafrin. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – As rifts between different factions of the Syrian opposition have deepened and no unified agenda has been declared, many Kurdish activists consider […]

Czech police arrest Breivik copycat

upi.com OSTRAVA, Czech Republic, Aug. 18 (UPI) — Police in the Czech Republic said they arrested a man suspected of planning a similar attack to that of Anders Behring Breivik in Norway. The 29-year-old man, whose name was not reported, was detained about a week ago in Ostrava, […]

Topless Pussy Riot Supporter Chainsaws Cross

huffingtonpost.com Dominique Mosbergen A topless activist was captured on camera on Friday while chainsawing a crucifix in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Inna Shevchenko, 22, told RBK News she tore down the symbol in support of the members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot. Shevchenko, of the […]

Chinese man blows off hands, builds new pair

theregister.co.uk Phil Muncaster Iron-Man style DIY effort has man grasping again Plucky Chinese gent Sun Jifa showed the world exactly what persistence, and a rudimentary knowledge of welding and prosthetics, can do when it emerged this week that he built his own bionic hands after accidentally blowing the […]

90 Million Americans Can’t Be Wrong

lewrockwell.com Joel Poindexter Those who vote in presidential elections often describe the action as being part of their civic duty; it’s something every good citizen must do. Others consider voting to be a right, and elections are something which every American should participate in. After all, they remind […]