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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Sousveillance: Wikileaks and reverse Big Brother
I am an unabashed fan of the practical philosopher Peter Singer. Recently I found an article he wrote for Harper’s, titled Visible Man: Ethics in a World Without Secrets. Essentially it’s about reverse Big Brother – instead of the future … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, History, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Uncategorized
Tagged avatar, big brother, biopolitics, cell phones, Democracy, district 9, facebook, Foucault, george orwell, Harper's, jeremy bentham, julian assange, khaled said, middle-east, panopticon, Peter Singer, power, privacy, rodney king, sousveillance, surveillance, twitter, visible man, wikileaks
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Bad Medical Science
Oh god this video was good: Briefly, it talks about current issues in Medical Science: things that we’re currently doing wrong. He doesn’t give too many solutions… He does, however, mention the cochrane collaboration, which is a group that attempts … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, History, Mental Health, Philosophy, Politics, Science
Tagged ben goldacre, bias, big pharma, cochrane collaboration, epidemiologist, medicine, pharmaceutical, Philosophy of Science, Science
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First Person Survival Accounts
Oh my goodness! I didn’t write anything during all of October? Oh my. Well, to those who were expecting a post in October, I apologize. I guess I’ve just been busy (one conference in Europe and one convention in Vancouver, plus … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Fiction, History, Politics, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged a tale of two cities, anne frank, Cambodia, charles dickens, first they killed my father, genocide, haruki murakami, iris chang, jilenek, Khmer Rouge, loung ung, nazi germany, noble prize, one day in the life of ivan denisovich, Pol Pot, primo levi, surviving auschwitz, the kolyma tales, the periodic table, the piano teacher, the rape of nanking, underground, varlam shalamov, WWII
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