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Category: Public Health, Medicine, and Science
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Matt Kailey is the author of Just Add Hormones: An Insider’s Guide the Transsexual Experience (Beacon Press, 2005), the editor of Focus on the Fabulous: Colorado GLBT Voices (Johnson Books, 2007), and the managing editor of Out Front Colorado, Colorado’s oldest and largest GLBT publication. And now for the latest transsexual travesty (there’s at least…
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I was on a semi-vacation last week, so this week’s link roundup is a bit larger than normal. Enjoy! Howard Zinn is adding to his People’s History of the United States with a new graphic novel, A People’s History of the American Empire. Read about it at Tom Dispatch, and check out this Viggo Mortensen-narrated…
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by Kelly Bulkeley As of today a total of 116 dream reports about Barack Obama and 104 about Hillary Clinton have been posted on the metaphysicalpoll.com website. Here are some of the questions I’ve heard people asking about these intriguing political fables from the nocturnal imagination. Can we accept these as real dreams? Cautiously, yes.…
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by Renée Bergland When I started my book on the nineteenth-century scientist Maria Mitchell, I expected to find that she had triumphed against impossible odds. “Bias and Barriers” against women’s achievement in the science are pretty intense in the twenty-first century, and I presumed that the obstacles must have been much harsher nearly two hundred…
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Fred Pearce is the author of When the Rivers Run Dry: Water the Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century, March 22nd is World Water Day, an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. Water consumption has tripled in the past 30 years and…
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by Kelly Bulkeley At the conclusion of a recent New Yorker story about her new website posting people’s dreams of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Toronto novelist Sheila Heti said, "I sort of hope that the campaign managers will change the way candidates give speeches as a result of people’s dream lives. It must be…
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by Carl Elliott In his 1967 book, Human Guinea Pigs, Maurice Pappworth tells the story of a poor student who had volunteered for a number of medical experiments in exchange for cash. As the student was undergoing a highly complex cardiac catheterization, he went into profound shock and his heart stopped. Only after several minutes…
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by Margot Adler It’s not something you read in a newspaper or hear on an ordinary news show; it’s only on the comedy shows like Real Time with Bill Maher where you hear it whispered: the idea that John McCain has PTSD, and that it would be scary to have his finger on the button.…
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Is Margaret Seltzer, aka Margaret B. Jones, aka the latest memoirist to be exposed as a fraud, a sociopath who skillfully manipulated her benefactors in the publishing industry? Amy Alexander, co-author of Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis among African-Americans, ponders the question of blame in the Nation: Could it be…
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by Mara Sapon-Shevin When I was in middle-school, the way the “popular kids” tormented those of us who weren’t so lucky, was through something called “Slam Books.” A popular kid (it was usually a girl) would start a notebook with individual pages headed with the names of unpopular students. The book would be passed around…
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