In a new book, ''Pathologies of Power'' (University of California), Dr. Farmer, who has worked and lived in Haiti for the past 20 years, criticizes human rights advocates and bioethicists for giving short shrift to the health problems of the poor.
When the old gods had to sacrifice themselves in the darkness of Teotihuacan, when they had to shed their own blood in order to get the fifth sun moving, in the same way it is necessary for the Mexica to keep "sun" Tonatiuh moving by a repetitive and ceas
Human resolvin E1 inhibits both the migration of inflammatory cells to sites of inflammation and the turning on of other inflammatory cells. Aspirin-triggered resolivins are made from omega-3 fatty acids by cellular enzymes. COX-2 inhibitors also inhibit
Google’s net profit margin last year was 29 percent. Amazon’s was 1.8 percent. Should it pay attention to ventures like Mahalo, the new humanly-edited search engine? Should we, as searchers, pay attention? Why?
The NSA is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking
Information is stuck inside HTML pages, formatted in esoteric ways, difficult for machines to process. "Web 3.0", precursor to a refined semantic web, will change this. ‘Web 3.0′ will transform web sites into web services. Unstructured information bec
The plant lignan secoisolariciresinol diglycoside (SDG) from flaxseed may be antitumorigenic due to its estrogenic and antiestrogenic effects, anti-oxidative effects, antiproliferative and anti-aromatase effects. Review of studies showing anticarcinogenic
Sproose provides user generated search results to give the power of search ranking to you, the user. Other search engines only rank web pages based on the number of pages that link to a web page, but such links can be bought by companies or reflect the op
Dream Anatomy shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present. We regard the anatomical body as our inner reality, a medium through which we imagine society, culture and the human condition.
Business narrative is a set of techniques based on the collection and interpretation of stories collected from a workplace. This technique is most effective when applied to seemingly intractable problems such as culture change, trust, innovation, leadersh
Human endotoxemia is, at best, an incomplete model of human sepsis. In two studies using recombinant human activated protein C in the setting of human endotoxemia, there were minimal effects on hemodynamics, inflammation, thrombin generation, fibrinolysis
Hillis has bigger fish to fry than self-programming gadgets. In the past, he's expressed a desire to create machines that transcend what he sees as the limitations of human beings. "I guess I'm not overly perturbed by the prospect that there might be some
People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get. -Celia Green ==There is no a priori reason why a human being should not combine the qualities, say, of Einstein, Shakespeare, Mozart, Darwin, J.M.W. Turner
Microformats are small and gentle syntactic touchups for your web pages.They have one major purpose: to make your data readable by both man and machine...The machine-readable-data (and thus the microformat) concept is not new; it has a very recent fo