Random links
- Being Pro-Life Doesn't Make Me Any Less of a Lefty
- A British Muslim on abortion looking at Hitchens, feminists in history, and a profile of who supported recent limits cutting back the age at which abortions are legal in the UK: "49% of women, compared to 24% of men, support a reduction in the abortion limit, according to a YouGov poll conducted this year. 'Polls consistently show... that women are more likely than men to support a reduction' says YouGov's Anthony Wells."
- Could we build a weather machine to stop climate change?
- The potential use of technology in the upper atmosphere to impact the climate as well as the implications on thinks like national security.
- The War of the Israeli Historians
- "This war is between the traditional Israeli historians and the ‘new historians’ who started to challenge the Zionist rendition of the birth of Israel and of the subsequent fifty years of conflict and confrontation. The work of the ‘new historians’ has already had a significant impact on popular perceptions of the historical roots of the conflict. And it may also turn out to have a part to play in breaking down the remaining psychological barriers on the road towards comprehensive peace in the Middle East."
- In Girl’s Last Hope, Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia
- "The experiment, in April, used a disabled form of the virus that causes AIDS to reprogram Emma’s immune system genetically to kill cancer cells. The treatment very nearly killed her. But she emerged from it cancer-free, and about seven months later is still in complete remission. She is the first child and one of the first humans ever in whom new techniques have achieved a long-sought goal — giving a patient’s own immune system the lasting ability to fight cancer."