[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Discussion Thread: Dexamethasone and "Fixing" Broken Girls
- [Shakesville]
Recently Alice Dreger and Ellen K. Feder called our attention to a terrible medical malfeasance regarding FGC at Cornell University. They are now, with their colleague Anne Tamar-Mattis, sending up flares about the use of dexamethasone, "a risky Class C steroid," which is apparently being offered (I use the word advisedly) to pregnant women whose female fetuses are suspected of having a form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which can result in "ambiguous" or "masculinized" genitalia.
And that's not all…
- 'Psychic' octopus predicts German win over England
- [BBC News]
An octopus picks Germany over England, in the latest of a string of predictions that have made it a national celebrity.
- Computer program deciphers a dead language that mystified linguists
- [io9]
The lost language of Ugaritic was last spoken 3,500 years ago. It survives on just a few tablets, and linguists could only translate it with years of hard work and plenty of luck. A computer deciphered it in hours.
- The Icelandic Post-crisis Miracle
- [Paul Krugman]
Iceland is, of course, one of the great economic disaster stories of all time. An economy that produced a decent standard of living for its people was in effect hijacked by a combination of free-market ideology and crony capitalism; one of the papers (pdf) at the conference I just attended in Luxembourg shows that the benefits of the financial bubble went overwhelmingly to a small minority at the top of the income distribution…
But there’s an odd coda to the story. Unlike other disaster economies around the European periphery – economies that are trying to rehabilitate themselves through austerity and deflation — Iceland built up so much debt and found itself in such dire straits that orthodoxy was out of the question. Instead, Iceland devalued its currency massively and imposed capital controls.
And a strange thing has happened: although Iceland is generally considered to have experienced the worst financial crisis in history, its punishment has actually been substantially less than that of other nations…
[much chart porn redacted. -L]
- Chuck Jaffe: A generation of investors is being lost
- [MarketWatch]
A growing number of Americans are unwilling to invest in stocks or stock funds because their faith in the financial system has crumbled.
[And this is bad because why? -L]
- The Linux iLife? Lombard & Fillmore certainly feel like it…
- [OMG! Ubuntu!]
[New audio & video editing freeware. -L]
- Energy firms face pricing probe
- [BBC News]
One energy firm faces investigation over billing differences and another also faces action from the regulator.
- The Art of Type: It’s All Relative
- [Adobe Creative Suite 4 Learning Center]
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