Currently in the works is a custom website publishing (aka. blogging) platform is being created using Python, Django, TinyMCE, jQuery, and 960.gs.
The objective is to create a simple tool to publish posts and pages that are saved to XML files, which are easy to backup and restore in the event security is compromised.
Look for an open source release in the future!
Researcher Sujoy Guha in India has created a new contraceptive that only needs to be applied once, lasts for 10+ years, is reversable, is extremely cheap, ... and is for men.Instead of an invasive vasectomy procedure, a simple procedure of injecting a gel called Vasagel into the vas deferens tubes in a man's testicles. After about 72 hours, the man is no longer potent because sperm are broken apart when passing by this layer of gel (due to the polyelectrolytic effect).When the man decides to have a planned pregnancy, he will undergo another procedure where water and baking soda is injected into the same locations to flush out the Vasagel.The materials used are extremely cheap and a pharmaceutical companies would be losing out of massive amounts of money selling contraceptives to women.Now this won't be available in the US for a really long while, due to drug approval processes and, more importantly, due to Big Pharma lobbying groups. However, since the procedure is at the final stage of approval in India, men can take a nice vacation to India to get temporarily neutered. That vacation would be much cheaper than raising an unwanted child!read the article on Wired.
"In the past, if someone knew nothing and talked nonsense, no one paid any attention to him. No more. Now such people are courted and flattered by conservative politicians and ideologues as "Real Americans"defending their country against big government and educated liberal elites. The press interviews them and reports their opinions seriously without pointing out the imbecility of what they believe. The hucksters, who manipulate them for the powerful financial interests, know that they can be made to believe anything, because, to the ignorant and the bigoted, lies always sound better than truth:
Christians are persecuted in this country. The government is coming to get your guns. Obama is a Muslim. Global Warming is a hoax. The president is forcing open homosexuality on the military. Schools push a left-wing agenda. Social Security is an entitlement, no different from welfare. Obama hates white people. The life on earth is 10,000 years old and so is the universe. The safety net contributes to poverty. The government is taking money from you and giving it to sex-crazed college women to pay for their birth control.One could easily list many more such commonplace delusions believed by Americans. They are kept in circulation by hundreds of right-wing political and religious media outlets whose function is to fabricate an alternate reality for their viewers and their listeners. “Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces,” Sidney Hook said once. No doubt. What we have in this country is the rebellion of dull minds against the intellect. That’s why they love politicians who rail against teachers indoctrinating children against their parents’ values and resent the ones who show ability to think seriously and independently. Despite their bravado, these fools can always be counted on to vote against their self-interest. And that, as far as I’m concerned, is why millions are being spent to keep my fellow citizens ignorant."--Charles Simic (NYR Blog)
"Umwelt is the idea that because their senses pick up on different things, different animals in the same ecosystem actually live in very different worlds. Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--from your ideology to your glasses prescription to your browser window size." --Randall Munroe (xkcd)
the idea can be found in Russell's The Problems of Philosophy
MIT is developing that has such huge implications on the heath of humanity that pharmaceutical companies and the rest of the health care industry are eager to patent it so it doesn't see the light of day.Researchers at MIT have started testing an antiviral drug that broadly targets all viruses that create double stranded RNA. It will kill all viruses and make viral diseases a thing of the past.The drug is not a vaccine and doesn't protect against future infections. But, it is very useful curing someone already infected and could be administered much like penicillin, which was a major medical breakthrough in itself.Think of all the viral diseases that would no longer be lethal... Hepatitis C, HIV, Ebola, Smallpox... and the non-lethal like Herpes.DRACO is a cool acronym in a project called PANACEA, another cool acronym!read the article.read the white paper.more from MIT.
via Only You Kyary Pon.
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