Received this email from Scott Weinstein, a friend of mine who is an ICU nurse, and thought it worth sharing for the light (as opposed to just heat) that it shines on the question of the H1N1 vaccine: This mail is unsolicited, so you may trash it or read it. …
The question of how things develop, of how the present emerges from the past, may seem abstract enough, but the more i think of it the more it seems central to our entire project. & when you think about it, history/herstory has been a recurrent concern for all our movements …
Getting play in the media: this article about experiments to make sheep gay or straight, from the Slate; a version of this article also appeared in the Sunday Washington Post. Science will gradually convince us that sexual orientation is innate, more like skin color than character. Condemnation of homosexuality as …
Segments about animals are some of the most interesting and subtly political pieces in Quirks and Quarks, the CBC’s national science show. One segment i listened to over the past week – a piece from summer 2005 – provides a case in point. Under the heading Some Crickets Like It …