Societal Engineering
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A New Indian Travel Fad: "Divorce Tourism" - Yahoo! NewsPerhaps it's a case of life imitating bad art. In this year's mirthless Hollywood comedy Couples Retreat: Return to Eden, eight Americans attempt to recharge their foundering marriages by undergoing counseling on a tropical island. At about the same time the movie was disappointing U.S. ...
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Decade's top 10 Internet moments - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.comHere is the Webby's list of the 10 most influential Internet moments of the decade: * Craigslist, the free classifieds site, expands outside San Francisco in 2000, impacting newspaper publishers everywhere * Google AdWords launched in 2000 allowing advertisers to target their customers ...
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La révolte des billets | The ObserversEntre les manifestations, l'opposition iranienne ne se tourne pas les pouces. Les jeunes Iraniens ont en effet trouvé un moyen très efficace de faire tourner les autorités en bourrique : la révolte des billets.
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Robots perform Shakespeare to learn how to save peopleFlying robot fairies are joining human actors in Texas A&M University?s production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which runs through Sunday (Nov. 15) in the Rudder Forum. A pizza-sized AirRobot helicopter used for military operations in Iraq, and six toy radio controlled ...
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What would George Orwell think of Google Dashboard? | DVICEThanks to Google, most people know who Eric Arthur Blair is. Doesn't ring a bell? You might know him better by his pen name, George Orwell. You know — 1984, Animal Farm? The question is, if he were alive today, what would he think of Google, and its power to spread information — sometimes very ...
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1Couple flee to save their baby from social workers after girl, 17, is told she is not clever enough to look after her child | Mail OnlineDUH. What does this say about the "intelligence" of the social worker who made the "judgment" / threat to the couple!?JDP added 2 weeks ago
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175% of Potential Recruits Too Fat, Too Sickly, Too Dumb to Serve | Danger Room | Wired.comIf we get the conservatively dreaded "food police", don't be too fast to blame it all on "liberal do gooders". The military apparently has a vested interest too. Then of course, there's the insurance companies and private businesses for who the obese may pose an "unacceptable risk [health ...JDP added 2 weeks ago
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1The coming-out stories of anonymous bloggers - CNN.comGiven the power of employers (practical necessity for a large majority of people to have to work for one), "freedom of speech" has become an oxymoron without its applications to the "private sector".JDP added 3 months ago
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1Corporate Campaigns Manufacture Scientific Doubt By David Michaels / Science NewsAnd judges accept this claptrap!? Disgusting.JDP added 4 months ago
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1German teacher loses battle against pupils' web rankingsConsidering some suppression of student (especially high school) views (posters, etc. - even "off school grounds"!) in the US and other "western democracies", maybe those governments have something to learn from Germany!JDP added 4 months ago
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