This may be an unusual post before Christmas – about the hell on earth for women – our world however, is not a peaceful world. A new study in PLoS Medicine shows this new pathologic behaviour from Panzi Hospital, Bukavu, South Kivu, Congo where doctor Mukwege is working (Show me more…)
Finally, here is a technical solution to a proposal that I made here earlier
Ok, we are aware that recovery is always possible with cut & paste into other applications or printing a text -so we may better think about some watermarked graphics. “Don’t ever say anything on e-mail or text messaging that you don’t want to come back and bite you.”
The world is simultaneously infinitely horrible and infinitely wonderful – a short quote to promote this great online book on “Trauma and nonviolent social change” – power up “power-under.
Oppression is a social toxin which, through the mechanism of trauma, literally makes people sick. It is a sickness that causes massive personal suffering, and when left to its own devices it is self-perpetuating and severely impedes efforts to achieve social change. We need to understand how groups of people who have been traumatized by oppression can harness our traumatic experience in ways which enable us to build effective social change organizations and movements. We particularly need to find ways to transform traumatic rage into a constructive force – one which can serve both individual recovery and societal transformation.
I will propose the concept of constructive rage as a framework for addressing this challenge. I attempt in this chapter to present strategies for how to contain the destructive potentials of traumatic experience and power-under, and how to harness the power of traumatic rage as a force for liberation.
The judge at the highest court in Germany Hans-Jürgen Papiersaid in an interview last week
Wir stellen nicht erst seit gestern fest, dass dem Grundrecht auf Datenschutz nicht nur von staatlicher, sondern auch von privater Seite Gefahren drohen können
What will happen once my genome once it is on “medical” hardware? Is it as save as the 8,257,378 Virginian patient records that are now under ransom? (Show me more…)
Google is now indexing Life Magazine and allows the viewing of many Lambarene photos. For example this nice photo of Schweitzer at his 90th birthday is just one click away.
There is also a new biography (that I haven’t read yet).
May 29, 2008 Nature has an interesting commentary by Peter Lawrence (66) about the archaic? practice of retirement of active scientists at a determined age. 
It may be a quite luxurious habit of the science business – people who want to work longer than a certain age – which can be understood by the freedom of “Doing what I like”. Having a mostly pleasant life here on earth as a scientist, it may be a quite logical wish of a 66 year old to prolong the scientific career. (Show me more…)