Very politics-heavy bunch of links, this week. This is, of course, a bit of an inevitability, given the elections taking place in the US coupled with the most recenet WikiLeaks release. That said, there are some good ones in there. Particularly enlightening was The True Size of Africa – an illustration of the distortion provided to us all by the continued use of the Mercator projection. That thing ought to be banned, in favor of the Gall-Peters projection!
In any event, hope you enjoy the links!
Employment:
- Integration Courses: Migrants on The Waiting List 25 October 2010, 7:02 am
- Engineering, Computer-Science Pay More Than Liberal Arts 25 October 2010, 8:35 am
- Agencies Hard Hit By Shortage of Cybersecurity Pros 25 October 2010, 8:37 am
- Gender Parity?: German Women Struggle for Equal Pay 25 October 2010, 8:53 am
- Mobile talent in short supply as jobs are unfilled 31 October 2010, 12:25 am
Medical Tech:
- Brooke the Immortal: An American Child May Hold Secrets to Aging 29 October 2010, 8:43 am
- Degrees of consent in medical trials 29 October 2010, 3:47 pm
Miscellany:
- Unshelved on Sunday, October 24, 2010 24 October 2010, 12:00 am
- The True Size of Africa 26 October 2010, 1:04 pm
Politics:
- Parks, Forests Eyed for the Fuel Beneath 22 October 2010, 1:28 pm
- Court rejects suit over S.F.’s blast at Vatican 22 October 2010, 11:48 pm
- Historians Deliver Damning Verdict: Study Highlights German Foreign Ministry’s Role in Holocaust 25 October 2010, 9:51 am
- Sarkozy’s Perfect Storm: French Fury Goes Beyond Pensions 26 October 2010, 2:12 am
- Rampant Racism?: New Political Party Aims to Scupper Sweden’s Far-Right 26 October 2010, 4:05 am
- Hitler’s Diplomats: Historian Calls Wartime Ministry A ‘Criminal Organization’ 27 October 2010, 5:39 am
- RI to vote on dropping ‘Plantations’ from its name 27 October 2010, 8:02 am
- Child Labor in Uzbekistan: Are German Firms Profiting from Modern Slavery? 28 October 2010, 6:28 am
- Divisions over Biodiversity Protocol: A Visit to the Ecological Battlefield 28 October 2010, 7:57 am
- SPIEGEL Interview With Green Party Chief Claudia Roth: ‘Each Ministry Must Examine Its Own Nazi Past’ 28 October 2010, 9:09 am
- More tuition hikes sought for state universities 30 October 2010, 5:47 pm
Politics: Iraq / Afghanastan:
- On the Border of War: An Insurgent’s Road Trip from Pakistan to Afghanistan 22 October 2010, 2:20 am
- The WikiLeaks Disclosures: New Dimensions in the Iraq War 22 October 2010, 1:50 pm
- Iraq, Nov. 23, 2006: A Day in Hell 22 October 2010, 1:50 pm
- The WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs: Greatest Data Leak in US Military History 22 October 2010, 1:52 pm
- Hellfire from the Sky: Iraq War Logs Reveal Details of Dubious Apache Attacks 22 October 2010, 2:44 pm
- Outrage, Applause, Indifference: US Reacts to WikiLeaks Iraq Documents 23 October 2010, 12:37 pm
- Analysis: Leaked files portray weak, divided Iraq 23 October 2010, 6:15 pm
- Iraqi PM on the defense in WikiLeaks release 23 October 2010, 6:15 pm
- The WikiLeaks Iraq Logs: A Protocol of Barbarity 25 October 2010, 2:10 am
- A ‘Dumb War’: Taking Stock of the Iraq Invasion 25 October 2010, 3:07 am
- The World From Berlin: ‘War Logs Highlight US Failure to Probe War Crimes in Iraq’ 25 October 2010, 3:56 am
- Soldier charged in Afghan killing kept in solitary 27 October 2010, 8:02 am
- Pentagon says WikiLeaks has more secret documents 27 October 2010, 8:02 am
Privacy / Law:
- Georgia Mulls Citizens’ Right to Access Courts via E-File 25 October 2010, 4:16 am
- EFF Urges EU Data Protection Authorities to Call for the Repeal of the EU Data Retention Directive 25 October 2010, 10:19 pm
- Would You ‘Friend’ the Judge? 26 October 2010, 7:08 am
- Pa. Court Opens Door to Discovery of Social Networks 27 October 2010, 4:15 am
- White House Forms Federal Committee on Internet, Privacy Policy 28 October 2010, 3:02 am
- Government Withholds Records on Need for Expanded Surveillance Law 28 October 2010, 3:07 pm
- The Message of Firesheep: “Baaaad Websites, Implement Sitewide HTTPS Now!” 29 October 2010, 12:02 am
- DHS Singles Out EFF’s FOIA Requests for Unprecedented Extra Layer of Review 29 October 2010, 11:03 pm
Robotics:
- The Robot That Reads Your Mind to Train Itself 25 October 2010, 8:37 am
- Robots of the Gulf Spill: Fishlike Subs, Smart Torpedoes 26 October 2010, 1:38 pm
- Researchers Revamp Asimo Robot’s BMI Technology 27 October 2010, 10:03 am
- Patterns of nonverbal emotional communication between infants and mothers to help scientists develop a baby robot that learns 27 October 2010, 9:00 pm
- Robot ‘Hands’ Write Without Fingers 31 October 2010, 3:22 am
Security:
- D.C. Hacking Raises Questions About Future of Online Voting 25 October 2010, 8:37 am
- Total US intelligence bill tops $80 billion 29 October 2010, 8:08 am
Technology:
- Paper Cuts: Amish Hackers Tell All 26 October 2010, 8:29 am
- On the Threshold of the Avatar Era 28 October 2010, 3:04 am
- China’s Web map service challenges Google, Sohu 30 October 2010, 5:46 am
- 7 Programming Languages on the Rise 30 October 2010, 6:34 am
- Japanese Printer Syncs Pictures With Smells 31 October 2010, 3:22 am
-D
Great Venn Diagram–made me chuckle. . .and lots of interesting links that Jason would like as well. And yes, we need the Gall-Peters projection. Honesty please! I knew there were some problems with the former but I didn’t know it was that off. Thanks for sharing.
The link to “Divisions over Biodiversity Protocol: A Visit to the Ecological Battlefield” was frustrating to read. . .and what a surprise that the US wasn’t present. I also don’t sympathize with the statement:
“. . .German Environment Minister Röttgen sees a threat to efforts to rapidly respond to plagues or epidemics. The priority, he says, must be to combat illnesses. “Human lives must be saved first,” he says, “the division of profits later.”
I found this comment very telling of western greed that masks itself behind “a good end result”–if profits weren’t an issue they shouldn’t have a problem sharing them. So, does end result make profiting from a developing country OK? And, it is common knowledge that pharmaceutical companies are not struggling for dollars and cents. What happened to do the right thing because it’s the right thing? Is that a thing of the past (or in this case a thing for the future;). I don’t buy the above reasoning. It’s about saving lives but also about money to the west. I’m sure they could muster up a good finacial team to figure out what is just and ethical for all involved without disrupting research. Making it sound like there is this immediate need to skip that part doesn’t work for me and my idea of global ethics. In addition, if it is about saving lives and improving world health I’m sure that sharing profits will in turn do that for the country that is being taken advantage of.