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The high school junior won the grand prize at this year’s Google Science Fair for her quick Ebola test. If only every student could have ...

Good show. Good soundtrack.

Via Our Hen House , I discovered Chickpeas and Change (now added to my blog list on the left). Via Chickpeas and Change , I learned about ...

Two new troves of documents published by Wikileaks: the Saudi Cables, of which a portion were released yesterday (evidently the most damnin...

Generally speaking, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the relations among the covert state, democracy, and culture. I’ll...

Of course, everyone should see Citizenfour : Looking at the summary of disclosures since 2013 , I was reminded (?) about the revelation...

This will be a short one. For news and commentary, I preferred some shows in the MSNBC line-up: All In with Chris Hayes , The Rachel Madd...

In my previous post , I described Erich Fromm’s notion of the necrophilous character , as both an individual and a cultural pathology. I no...

I’ve recently started following along with Adam Lee’s insightful and entertaining journey through Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged . Re...

Introducing the new PlantEaters app , Mariann Sullivan of Our Hen House says : “The most brilliant ideas are the ones that when you hear ab...

While many are focused on the vicissitudes of the Julian Assange case, I should post briefly about WikiLeaks and the Global Intelligence Fil...

Stupid, creepy ad.

A few days ago, they posted the audio of their arguments in two warrantless wiretapping cases (that post also contains useful background an...

(I had to use "Nerd Scare" - yesterday was the first time I heard it and it made me laugh.) The National Lawyers Guild last mo...

An interview with Ben Kalina yesterday on Democracy Now! reminded me of a book I've recommended several times since I read it several y...

I doubt this is shocking to anyone reading this blog, but we're not always as aware of it as maybe we should be. I'm watching Dougla...

I truly hate to say it, but I was disappointed with Carl Zimmer’s latest book, Brain Cuttings . I couldn’t get the sample chapter to downloa...

That's just very cool.

It was a decade ago, searching for the latest articles on anarchism, that I first came across Eben Moglen . It was this piece - "Anarch...