http://newsrogue.com Newsrogue.com Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:06:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Culture -=- A false debate: voluntary vs coercion. Conservatives like to say "There are only two ways to organize society, coercively, through government, or voluntarily." They're pretending we'd "voluntarily" get along without government. Really there's always going to be force & what matters is electing someone who uses that force ... http://newsrogue.com/2008/07/28/a-false-debate-voluntary-vs-coercion/ Science -=- 97% of drug deaths from legal drugs-=- Tobacco 435,000¹ Alcohol & drunk driving 85,000¹ Bad reactions to prescription drugs 32,000¹ Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs 7,600¹ ——— 559,600 All illicit drug use, direct and indirect 17,000¹ [continued] That's %3.03 http://newsrogue.com/2008/06/16/97-of-drug-deaths-from-legal-drugs/ World -=- Britain's police chief: CCTV does not cut crime "Billions of pounds spent on Britain’s 4.2 million closed-circuit television cameras has not had a significant impact on crime, according to the senior police officer." --timesonline.co.uk [Comments] http://newsrogue.com/2008/05/06/britain%e2%80%99s-police-chief-says-cctv-does-not-cut-crime/ Culture -=- List: The world’s best inventions weren’t made for profit The internet, computer, modern electricity, phones, penicillin, lightbulb (Göbel had it first!), radio & almost everything else through state funding of science & university research. [comments] http://newsrogue.com/2008/05/01/list-the-world%e2%80%99s-best-inventions-weren%e2%80%99t-made-for-profit/ Life extension -=- Speed Vitrification At Low Temperatures - Public Disclosure To Prevent Patenting Description: A low-temperature liquid based method of preserving organs, lifeforms, & dead lifeforms... [continued] http://newsrogue.com/2008/05/01/liquid-based-method-of-preserving-life-public-disclosure-to-prevent-patenting/ Culture- A blue state epidemic: Slavery denial - "We northerners want to believe slavery mostly profited the South. That’s backwards: for over 200 years the North practiced slavery¹, then bankrolled southern slavery², & then sat on those profits for yet another century - with interest - before finally fighting the civil war."[continued] http://newsrogue.com/2008/03/24/a-blue-state-epidemic-slavery-denial/ Culture- Why morons win at economics - What happens when you get out of school during a recession? This: no one's had the time to prove who's better so they're hired completely randomly. Soon the inept have long job histories & are in charge. (The smart retire or do something with their ... http://newsrogue.com/2007/12/12/why-morons-win-at-economics/ Life Extension pbs.org: "a researcher at WFU broke new ground in medical technology when he successfully implanted seven patients with bladders grown entirely in a laboratory." -- [video] [Comments] http://newsrogue.com/2007/11/05/pbsorg-doctor-successfully-implanted-seven-patients-with-bladders-grown-entirely-in-a-laboratory/