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A collection of 175 issues

Worse than Opium

The Internet is booming in China (even with all the censorship, a result that violates every premise of extreme versions of the open society). Yet with the boom has come a mental problem: Internet addiction. > Wang Yiming, 21, is a self-confessed internet addict, one of a growing number

What Kind of Reversal Is This?

You're supposed to kill 'em, especially if they're crippled or ugly, not help 'em: > Researchers said Saturday they have used stem cells collected from the amniotic fluid surrounding fetal lambs to grow windpipes, and then implanted the tissue back into the fetuses while

U.S. Will Give Up Control of Internet?

According to The Guardian, we'll have to: > A number of countries represented in Geneva, including Brazil, China, Cuba, Iran and several African states, insisted the US give up control, but it refused. The meeting "was going nowhere", Hendon says, and so the EU took a

Odd Consumer News

For $400 or less, you can built the Automite. It goes 40-55 mph, gets 90 miles to the gallon, and is uglier than the day is long. Link [http://www.prismz.com/automite/]. Making the Yugo look like a luxury ride:

Marshall McLuhan Revival?

> The average American is a ravenous media junkie, consuming up to nine hours a day of television, web time or cellphone minutes, according to new research which raises fresh questions about how technology is revolutionising society. . . > As information technology marches on, and search engine giant Google even raises

Something for Sundy Morning

Quotes from Simone Weil: > All sins are attempts to fill voids. > Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. > Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the

Brews You Can Use

But can I get my wife to wear the radio transmitter? > A beer mat that knows when a glass is nearly empty and automatically asks for a refill has been created by thirsty researchers in Germany. . . > The disc-shaped mat can be attached to a normal beer mat

New Standard Educational Fare?

Just make sure the Internet filter keeps out all references to God: > The $100 laptop computers that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers want to get into the hands of the world's children would be durable, flexible and self-reliant. > The machines' AC adapter would double

What Do You Get When You Cross . . .

. . . geeks with sex, art, and alleged civil liberties? This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen [http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/25/webzine_fsm_porn_tas.html]. My (hopefully limited) sense for the morbid prompts me to mention it here: > Some crazy internet wackos

If It Feels Good, Do It . . .

. . . And if you can do it, it must be good. Those are today's cultural mantras: > British scientists have been given permission to create human embryos that will have three genetic parents. Link [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1772135,00.html].