In a new book, ''Pathologies of Power'' (University of California), Dr. Farmer, who has worked and lived in Haiti for the past 20 years, criticizes human rights advocates and bioethicists for giving short shrift to the health problems of the poor.
What is morphological freedom? I would view it as an extension of one’s right to one’s body, not just self-ownership but also the right to modify oneself according to one’s desires.
The NSA is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking
Our professors do the research. They write the papers and proofread them. They even do the peer review. Then they sign the copyright over to publishers, who don’t pay them a dime —they’re paid by grants and salary, our taxes, and tuition. Harvard th
[Though] most people hate digital rights management (DRM) schemes on digital goods like software and music, that’s exactly what we’d all like for our identity information. For example, I’d love to be able to control how my bank uses, stores, shares,
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A new generation of historians is exploring some of the untold stories of the civil rights movement and its legacies: the experiences not of heroes or murderous villains, but of ordinary Southern whites.
Think of trust as the currency of social capital. Managing trusted relationships is a complex and risky social, emotional, and strategic problem. Social networking systems are still fairly new, so while earning the trust of their users is being increasing