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Hall of script kiddies.
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Ξ May 5th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
David Barsamian: ....You're very patient with people, particularly people who ask the most inane kinds of questions. Is this something you've cultivated?
Noam Chomsky: First of all, I'm usually fuming inside, so what you see on the outside isn't necessarily what's inside. But as far as questions, the only thing I ever get irritated about is elite intellectuals, the stuff they do I do find irritating. I shouldn't. I should expect it. But I do find it irritating. But on the other hand, what you're describing as inane questions usually strike me as perfectly honest questions. People have no reason to believe anything other than what they're saying. If you think about where the questioner is coming from, what the person has been exposed to, that's a very rational and intelligent question. It may sound inane from some other point of view, but it's not at all inane from within the framework in which it's being raised. It's usually quite reasonable. So there's nothing to be irritated about.
Ξ May 2nd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
Davidson's work demolishes one pillar of this notion, the idea that we have a gene for this or that, in some one-to-one correspondence. It's much more like music. Yes, Mozart and Beethoven used the same notes, but how they arranged them is what matters. Similarly, if genes are turned on at different times, or in the context of different sets of genes, the results can be dramatically different. Humans and chimpanzees, for example, share more than 98 percent of their DNA. The real difference between the species probably lies not in the 2 percent that diverges, but in how the 98 percent that is the same gets orchestrated. As Davidson told me, it's not what the genes are, but "how the genes are used."
So, too, with science itself: How societies use--or misuse--science is what matters. Here in the U.S., biology is becoming synonymous with pharmacology. That's largely because the pharmaceutical industry--the most profitable industry in America--funds more and more research, and lobbies the government to direct more of its vast research budget to test-tube science that will make it easier to find new drugs, not toward social science that will never lead to a product. Of course, molecular biology has provided near miraculous treatments for ailments as diverse as depression and AIDS. But the idea that biology is only about cells and test tubes obscures the rest of human experience, such as culture and politics. The word biology, after all, comes from the ancient words for life and logic. It is the logic of life.
Ξ May 2nd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
The BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran says that early on Friday morning Delara Darabi made a desperate phone call to her parents, saying she could see the hangman's noose.
"Mother they are going to execute me, please save me," she said, before a prison official took the phone away and said: "We are going to execute your daughter and there's nothing you can do about it."
Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty's deputy chief for the Middle East and North Africa, said that the execution was a cynical move to avoid international protests.
"Amnesty International is outraged at the execution of Delara Darabi, and particularly at the news that her lawyer was not informed," she said.
"Amnesty International does not consider her trial to have been fair, as the courts later refused to consider new evidence which the lawyer said would have proved she could not have committed the murder," a statement by the group said.
The statement added that Iran had executed 42 juvenile offenders since 1990, in disregard of international law.
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Ξ May 2nd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
"Evolution favors organisms that can be vengeful when it's necessary, that can forgive when it's necessary and that have the wisdom to know the difference," says McCullough.
