Flesh and Stone - Guest Contributor

Tributes to Aaron Swartz

The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime” by Alex Stamos I did not know Aaron Swartz, unless you count having copies of a person’s entire digital ...

New York’s Medical Schools Urge Congress to Preserve Federal Funding for Scientific Research & Workforce Development

The Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY) today directed a letter to the New York State Congressional Delegation calling on them to ...

Progress in Health: Trending Treatments for Rare Diseases

by Jon Dawson People suffering from rare diseases often find themselves up against a wall when it comes to treatments for their conditions. The National Institutes ...

Swedish Anonymous activists embark on bold trip to Syria

by Jeff Johnston, with additional reporting by Kathlyn Stone Activists within the Anonymous culture in Sweden headed to Syria this week amidst the chaos and inhumanity ...

Piercing the Veil, More Drug Companies Reveal Payments to Doctors

by Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber and Dan Nguyen, ProPublica Eight pharmaceutical companies, including the nation's three largest, doled out more than $220 million last year ...

Stealing Ideas

Reading about Aaron Swartz’s most recent run-in with the law dredged up all kinds of feelings. I’m a long-time admirer of his work and was obviously ...

Are healthful foods really more expensive?

A common belief is that foods that are “good for you” are more expensive than those that are less healthful. However, the results of a ...

Japan Earthquake Update (12 March 2011 2110 CET)

by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 12:07pm Japanese authorities have informed the IAEA that the explosion at Unit 1 ...

How Wisconsin Could Turn Austerity into Prosperity: Own a Bank

by Ellen Brown, Yes! An answer to state budget woes that doesn't need to involve sacrificing workers' rights. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, whose recently proposed bill ...

Tea Party Crashes: The Most Unpatriotic Act

by Susan Lindauer I confess that since November I've been holding my breath, watching the clock for how long Tea Party newcomers could hold out against ...

Zonolite’s continued threat and the government’s inaction

by Eric Stevenson In the rural town of Libby, Montana, mining gave the residents a source of income since the 1920s. Ironically, the same mine ...

Your aging eyes: How you see as time goes by

You may barely notice the changes at first. Maybe you’ve found yourself reaching more often for your glasses to see up close. ...

Dangerous High-Level Nuclear Waste with Nowhere to Go

The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future is meeting January 26-28 in Atlanta, Georgia By Celia Sampol, DC Bureau Many nuclear power advocates appeared in front ...

Who Owns Wild Rice?

by Jeff Nygaard, Nygaard Notes Whenever we look at the world from an indigenous perspective the issues of ownership and wealth come up almost immediately. In ...

The test behind our water pollution program failures

by Peter Maier, PhD, PE Sewage contains carbonaceous (fecal) waste and nitrogenous (urine and protein) waste, which both are used by two different types of bacteria. ...