Link Backlog

I'm working on an interesting though trail that connects Calvino and his take on Newton to some quantum mechanical ideas that I've been encountering in my coursework. It has great potential. In the meantime, here is a dump of links I've been hoarding.

Illichy: Two review articles on why healthcare doesn't always make us better: diagnosis and wellness.

Gender Biology: Gender specific psychopharmacology.

The MIT Technology Review has an well sharpened hatchet for all the eco-romantacists out there, examing Environmental Heresies, among them my babydoll, nuclear power. Through that article I found a old MIT/TR article from last December on Nuclear Waste that is also quite read-worthy.

And to wrap-up, here's something that made me cry so hard I laughed. Everyone's favorite solution to the worlds problems, ITER (see slightly older post for other article on ITER), has two promotional videos that are the biggest waste of time, money, and humanity I have ever set eyes on. Granted, the videos were produced early in the competition cycle which was now many years ago, but even with the tacky old details excluded, the productions are just plain horrible. The Japanese video is slightly better than the French, but both say remarkably little if anything about their advantages as sites at all. What a terrible terrible waste of some incredibly valuable time.