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The U.S. Government's Role in Sterilizing Women of Color(thoughtco.com)
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DeepMind-Royal Free deal is “cautionary tale” for healthcare in algorithmic age(cam.ac.uk)
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by isomorph 8y ago
Thanks. I try to post things that are the intersection of tech and ethics. I now see that it had been posted before.
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Dioxins Influence Male Reproductive System (Study of Vietnam Vets) (2006)(sciencedaily.com)
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Stevie Graham breaks into Barclays and HSBC for data, not money(wired.co.uk)
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The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker(libcom.org)
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North Dakota's Native American tribes scrambling to print new IDs for midterms(abcnews.go.com)
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by isomorph 8y ago
Assume this is to do with stereotype threat + gender stereotypes that pink -> girl -> less violent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat i.e. being "primed" for that stereotype by seeing pink
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Baker-Miller pink – a colour that calms people down(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by isomorph 8y ago|1 comments
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by isomorph 8y ago
Bourdain - what a fascinating guy. I like the brutal honesty. Painful to read some of it though. That line at the end - "luck is not a business model" - a classic. Any examples of startup-success-story-type people acknowledging th
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How to create a setlist where no two consecutive songs are in the same key(stackoverflow.com)
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by isomorph 8y ago
Could you please say more about why you felt I had gratuitously editorialised the title? I have checked the definition of the word "editorialise: To present an opinion in the guise of an objective report." - I did not express any
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by isomorph 8y ago
The legal system cannot help at this stage. I have met this guy http://www.oldsquare.co.uk/our-people/profile/james-chegwidd... who successfully defended two boys’ right to choose in the UK (this was only made pos
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by isomorph 8y ago
Actually - someone did make me get circumcised. I was forcibly circumcised as an infant
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by isomorph 8y ago
People downvoting the above - see the cached version of the article to see why the utilitarian / public health justifications are incorrect. I agree - it's on the wrong side of history. When we look back will be shocked at what we
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by isomorph 8y ago
Site has been overwhelmed by traffic - cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.pr...
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by isomorph 8y ago
There are many African students at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (an alumnus of which runs the World Health Organization). The discourse at that institution around circumcision, and the taboo of mentioning it alongside
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by isomorph 8y ago
True, regarding the UK. There are some complex dynamics at work 1. a conflict of interest when there is a financial incentive to do a surgery 2. a pattern of doctors / father who are circumcised feeling the need to promote it to others
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Next cyberattack front could be your car (2016)(washingtonpost.com)
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by isomorph 8y ago
Didn't realise how into it Bill Gates was - thanks for pointing that out. Hearing that boy's sadness in that video is very upsetting.
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by isomorph 8y ago
Says it all, really. Interestingly the same applies back home...
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by isomorph 8y ago
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.pr... There is a definite neo-colonial shadow hanging over it
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Why the “circumcision solution” to the AIDS epidemic in Africa may increase it(blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk)
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Contaminated blood scandal in the United Kingdom(en.wikipedia.org)
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by isomorph 8y ago
Hi - I couldn't find a way to contact you and was unable to reply in situ for some reason. Could you please say more about why you felt I had gratuitously editorialised the title to my latest submission? ( https://news.ycomb
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We are sorry for giving you HIV, says UK government(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by isomorph 8y ago|2 comments
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by isomorph 8y ago
Check this out for some meta stuff on the possible link between mobile phones and acoustic neuroma https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposu... Anecdotally - doctors believe it may be a cause,
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by isomorph 8y ago
They aren’t. Nice bit of local history for Americans though!
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It may not be a boy when dad’s been exposed to dioxin(reuters.com)
1 points by isomorph 8y ago|0 comments
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Dioxin exposure causes men to have more female children(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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