H7N9 Virus and You.

H7N9 Virus and You.

H7N9, Viruses and You posted by Michael Thomas May 27, 2013 According to new research in China, the H7N9 bird flu has been shown to be transferable not only through direct contact, but also airborn, in ferret models (Zhu, 2013). Ferrets are mammals like us, and the ability of the virus to jump from birds to mammals, and between mammals, should make us...

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Inefficiency of Privatisation

Inefficiency of Privatisation

Many nations, including the US, have taken to the idea of “privatisation”, which really means giving the ownership or responsibility of a certain service to a privately owned institution -corporation- instead of opting for a transparent representative or democratic control. That argument most often given in support of these privatisation efforts is...

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Nick Offerman Interview with HIGH TIMES

Nick Offerman Interview with HIGH TIMES

Nick Offerman arrives for his HIGH TIMES interview and photo shoot directly from the set of NBC’s hit comedy Parks and Recreation, in which he stars as libertarian bureaucrat Ron Swanson. A master woodworker as well as an actor, writer and producer, Offerman sports Swanson’s signature bushy mustache and a well-worn Willie Nelson T-shirt. For...

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Obama curriculum teaches socialism?

Obama curriculum teaches socialism?

Obama trying to take over public education with ‘common core’ curriculum that teaches socialism Whenever he can, President Obama likes to poke fun at anyone who suggests that he’s a closet socialist because that’s what socialists do – they ridicule anyone who tries to “out” them. And yet, every policy he pursues takes a...

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One-Woman Revolution

One-Woman Revolution

Most people’s lifeworks are gathered in one place, and though invaluable to ourselves, rarely would such work be important to hundreds of people scattered all over the world. Trella Laughlin is an exception. For almost 20 years, Laughlin traveled the globe from Bosnia to Nicaragua and elsewhere, video-documenting human injustice for the the Foundation for...

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Occupy and MLK

Occupy and MLK

Almost half a century ago, Martin Luther King took on the herculean task to speak out and fight for the civil rights of America’s disenfranchised. Even so the accent of this struggle-starting in the early 1960s- was focused on putting an end to the odious state of segregation between whites and African-Americans prevalent in the Southern states of the United...

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