Where is Australia’s Joey Barton?
For the uninitiated, Joey Barton captains and plays midfield for the Queens Park Rangers (QPR), a newly promoted side in the Premier League. He enjoys a certain amount of infamy in British sporting circles; having worked his way up through [...]
Pinkwashing cancer – Pink Ribbons, Inc. looks at capitalising on hope
Doco examines how devastating disease became shiny pink marketing dream diverting donations away from organisations doing most of the work towards organisations with better PR. Is this the best use of donors’ money? And what about all the non-pinkified cancers?
ACLU statement on Obama’s signing of NDAA
“Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back the constitutional excesses of George Bush in the war on terror was extinguished today.”
How to conduct the debate on same sex marriage
It’s inevitable that the debate on same sex marriage, which has reached a new level since the passage in Queensland last week of the Civil Partnerships Bill and the decisions of the ALP National Conference on the weekend, will be [...]
Privacy and you
Especially relevant given the infamous “Privacy is for Paedos” line spun by an ex-editor of the News of the World at the UK media inquiry.
The perils of scientific paper retraction
Nature News has a story about one of the most difficult topics in science: paper retraction. For any number of reasons, a published scientific paper are sometimes discovered to be so flawed that they must be withdrawn from publication (which, [...]
Police violence against the #occupywallstreet protest
The protests have been, by almost all accounts, peaceful, even if the protestors didn’t have a permit. The NYPD is nonetheless making mass arrests, using mace, and manhandling protestors. That kind of disproportionate response should scare all of us
What We Didn’t Blog Lately
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:
Up philanthropic creek with a funny paddle
Early this evening London time, Little Britain’s David Walliams clocked off after a mightily impressive feat, swimming 140 miles of the toxic Thames over eight days in aid of Sport Relief. In the process he has managed to raise over [...]
What We Didn’t Blog Lately
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:
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