Social Stuff
- “Taking a T.” That’s what HIV-negative gay men call the growing practice of downing the AIDS drug tenofovir and, with fingers crossed, hoping it protects them from the virus during unprotected sex. It’s being sold in packets along with Viagra and Ecstasy in gay dance clubs … How can people be so stupid? Is it so imperative to have sex that you play roulette with your life?
Sometimes I compare the above mentioned self-destructive behavior with my eating disorder; glass houses, what? I recognise my behavior as pathological. Do they?
- Teens Smoking Less, but Using More Pills Now, I expect teenagers to make stupid choices.
Art/Craft World
Science
- A really bad idea: Scientists in Japan and Russia have announced plans to attempt to clone woolly mammoths. How about cloning something that we destroyed but does belong in the modern world instead? Like passenger pigeons.
- U.S. Greenhouse Gases Rose 2 Percent “Under the Bush Administration, the United States has focused on voluntary efforts and bilateral and regional arrangements to combat climate change while devoting about $3 billion a year in government funds to research and development of energy-saving technologies.”
It doesn’t look like voluntary efforts are working. Are you surprised?
- An interesting article on the New Orleans levies for all the engineering geeks out there
Politics
- Cocaine plants to be legalised by the first home-grown President … make that Bolivian President. This should make the War on Drugs even more exciting.
