Interesting Links, February 8, 2012

Here are links I found interesting on February 8, 2012:

Rick Santorum: When the Anti-Choice Choose – More hypocrisy from the right. Apparently, to Rick Santorum, abortion is only bad if it's not his wife who needs one.

Interesting Links, February 7, 2012

Here are links I found interesting on February 7, 2012:

How to drop pounds with all-day activities, not exercise – If you ignore the photo of the treadmill desk, this article has some pretty good practical advice.
Mike Daisey’s "The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" is funny, forceful agitprop – A theater review by Mike Rose of TUAW.
Komen Official At Center Of Planned Parenthood Controversy Resigns – Good riddance. Her political agenda likely set the Komen Foundation back millions of dollars.
Prove It: What Makes You Trust a Website? – Really interesting article about design elements and content that make a website trustworthy — or not.

Here are links I found interesting on February 3, 2012:

Lazy media reports Komen Foundation decision as ‘reversal.’ It isn’t. – "So, traditional media, are you still going to keep doing the bidding of the Komen Foundation by pretending it has changed its position? Or are you going to report the truth?"

Here are links I found interesting on February 2, 2012:

Who Is Behind Susan G. Komen’s Split From Planned Parenthood? – The mysterious decision by the leading breast-cancer charity to stop funding the country's most prominent reproductive-health provider.
Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood: The rift – Excellent and objective piece in the Economist about the Komen Foundation's decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood.

Here are links I found interesting on January 31, 2012:

Susan G. Komen charity cuts off grants to Planned Parenthood – "The nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, will no longer give hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to Planned Parenthood." Sure. Why help people plan for their families and prevent unwanted pregnancies? Dumb and pregnant — that's how Republicans want their women.
A new book takes down Breast Cancer Awareness Month – "In 2006, researchers concluded that "for every 2,000 women invited for screening throughout 10 years, one will have her life prolonged and 10 healthy women, who would not have been diagnosed if there had not been screening, will be treated unnecessarily." Though you'd never know it from reading the Komen Foundation's materials, the consensus in medicine now is that early mammograms are of questionable benefit." This is what scares me about mammograms — they might identify a non-existent problem.
More God, Less Crime or More Guns, Less Crime? – Extremely interesting comparison of two books and two lectures. it isnt what you might think.