Meet the curators. Some Pearltrees stories. Pearltrees interface Help & intro Videos. Histoire de Perles. A new web paradigm: Pearltrees. TEDxSOAS 2012. Reads Emails... To My Old Master. Mastering the Art of Living Meaningfully Well - Umair Haque. Open Society Foundations. My "top ten" books every student of International Relations should read.
Last week Tom Ricks offered us his "Top Ten list" of books any student of military history should read.
The FP staff asked me to follow suit with some of my favorites from the world of international politics and foreign policy. Who is the Wittiest Scholar of International Relations/Foreign Policy. Davidbordwell.net : home. Andaman Islands tribe threatened by lure of mass tourism. Andaman islanders 'made to dance' for tourists on 'human safari' Link to video: Andaman Islanders 'forced to dance' for tourists "Dance," the policeman instructed.
Chatroulette Founder Andrey Ternovskiy Raises New Funding: "50,000 Naked Men" Following a week's worth of back and forth and blown off interviews, including one scheduled at 11 p.m EST, Chatroulette founder Andrey Ternovskiy finally picks up his cell phone after several rings.
Piracy. POSITIVE News. Blogs for Research. Self Improvement. Is Big Pharma Ignoring a Potential Cancer Cure? On April 12, 1955, the first successful polio vaccine was administered to almost 2 million schoolchildren around the country. Its discoverer, University of Pittsburgh medical researcher Jonas Salk, was interviewed on CBS Radio that evening. Cancer drug resurfaces and threatens false optimism. Andy Coghlan, reporter So, we hear news of a miraculous treatment for cancer.
Disappointingly, the story is an old one which has somehow resurfaced on the blogosphere. When we originally published the story four years ago, it created a frenzy on the internet which took us by surprise. Our story reported a new type of treatment that in animal experiments showed promise of potentially being able to tackle most types of human cancer. We often report developments in cancer research, but nothing had ever attracted such a wave of interest.
Prof. David Held on Challenges to Global Governance. Dear 16-year-old Me.
Insane Risks Motor race - Isle of Man TT. Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women [Trailer] - Available on DVD. Study debunks myths about gender and math performance. Public release date: 12-Dec-2011 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Janet Mertzmertz@oncology.wisc.edu 608-262-2383University of Wisconsin-Madison MADISON — A major study of recent international data on school mathematics performance casts doubt on some common assumptions about gender and math achievement — in particular, the idea that girls and women have less ability due to a difference in biology.
"We tested some recently proposed hypotheses that try to explain a supposed gender gap in math performance and found they were not supported by the data," says Janet Mertz, senior author of the study and a professor of oncology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Instead, the Wisconsin researchers linked differences in math performance to social and cultural factors. Waiting to die: Cervical cancer in America. New York, NY - Cervical cancer is a hotly-debated political topic in the United States right now - a debate fuelled largely by Republican presidential contenders.
The cancer is caused by strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is sexually transmitted. As a result, discourse on cervical cancer centres around whether or not newly available vaccines to prevent the disease encourage promiscuity. The Jacobin Spirit. Marx’s key insight remains valid, perhaps more than ever: for Marx, the question of freedom should not be located primarily in the political sphere proper (Does a country have free elections?
Are its judges independent? Is its press free from hidden pressures? Does it respect human rights?). Rather, the key to actual freedom resides in the “apolitical” network of social relations, from the market to the family. Here the change required is not political reform but a transformation of the social relations of production—which entails precisely revolutionary class struggle rather than democratic elections or any other “political” measure in the narrow sense of the term. Organized Religion / atheism / humanism...
'The Fate of an Honest Intellectual', by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from Understanding Power) I'll tell you another, last case—and there are many others like this.
Drugs and Discovery: An Early Modern Perspective, Part II. Editor’s Note: Last week historian Matthew Crawford argued against the overdetermined notions of “discovery” and “invention,” and called instead for a palimpsestic understanding of the plant-derived drugs that appeared courtesy of transatlantic encounters.
Today, he takes his thinking further, looking for the earliest–and persistent– traces of the presence of cinchona bark in the pharmacopoeias of the Amazon. Peru Offers Chinchona Bark to "Science" (Guess Who's Who?) Before 1820, when the alkaloid was isolated, quinine effectively did not exist. Instead, people had a drug known in Spanish as quina or “the Peruvian bark” in English.
Points Forward: Kerwin Kaye, “Drug Courts and the Treatment of Addiction: Therapeutic Jurisprudence & Neoliberal Governance” Editor’s Note: Today marks the first in a new series, “Points Forward,” where your intrepid editors interview recent PhDs in the field of alcohol and drugs history and policy.
Our goal in this is to showcase some of the newest and boldest work in the field, obviously, but we also want to take advantage of the blog’s capacity as a social networking site. As anyone who’s been following Points for the last eleven months knows by now, our purview ranges across the disciplinary and methodological, generic and generational boundaries that, too often these days, give shape to (read: prop up) the contemporary university. By bringing together researchers from different areas–and different points in their careers– to read and comment on one another’s work, we hope the blog will create a social as well as an intellectual space.
Yeah, This Guy Wants to Hear about Your Dissertation.