Interesting Links, January 31, 2012

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.

Interesting Links, January 28, 2012

Here are links I found interesting on January 28, 2012:

Arizona Summit – Yep. Our governor is an embarrassment to the state.
Conservatives’ Politics of Fear a Biological Response – Researchers looking at how we fixate on threats uncover more evidence of a biological component to the red-blue divide.

Here are links I found interesting on January 27, 2012:

Here are links I found interesting on January 26, 2012:

Detox therapy death spurs questions on self-help group – It's the Sedona sweat lodge case all over again, with a Canadian twist.
Rick Santorum: Left uses college for "indoctrination" – Just more proof that the GOP wants Americans uneducated and uninformed.
Do the weather forecasters used by the Daily Mail actually exist? – This is pretty weird. "Just who are the mysterious women who produced Positive Weather Solutions' forecasts and were quoted in the Mail?"
SOPA, PIPA, Good Intentions And The Road To Hell – Jim Wright on the drug war, SOPA, and PIPA. surprisingly, they have a lot in common.
PaperPort Notes adds Dragon Dictation to iPad app – THIS is VERY cool. just deleted all my other note-taking apps.

Here are links I found interesting on January 25, 2012:

President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address – Transcript, video, and Fact Check on the New York Times.
Apple Shines with iBooks Author | Ted Landau’s User Friendly View – Ted Landau likes iBooks Author. But he's also concerned (like everyone else) about the EULA and self-publishing revolution.