Polymath's Guide to News and Ideas
Chiropractor Sues Patient Over Negative Yelp Review
CONSUMERIST.COM :Chris Norberg left a negative review on Yelp after he got into a billing dispute with chiropractor Steven Biegel. Instead of quietly fuming like most people who get bad reviews on Yelp do... READ MORE
Britain is criticised for deporting HIV patients
GUARDIAN :The government is today, on World Aids Day, accused of double standards for permitting the deportation of people diagnosed in the UK with HIV to countries where they may not get the drugs they need to stay alive... READ MORE
Brazil targets illegal abortions
BBC NEWS :Brazilian police are investigating more than 1,200 women suspected of having had abortions in a clinic in the state of Mato Grosso Do Sul... READ MORE
Noam Chomsky: “What Next? The Elections, the Economy, and the World”
DEMOCRACY NOW! :World-renowned public intellectual Noam Chomsky discussed the meaning of President-Elect Barack Obama’s victory and the possibilities ahead for real democratic change at a speech last week in Boston... READ MORE
Race, Politics, Religion, Popular Culture
THE KITCHEN TABLE :Conversations with Dr. Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University and Dr. Yolanda Pierce, Associate Professor of African American Religion and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary... READ MORE
L.A. announces plan to reduce backlog of unexamined DNA evidence
LOS ANGELES TIMES :Top city officials Tuesday unveiled a plan to help the Los Angeles Police Department's crime lab reduce its massive backlog of unexamined DNA evidence from violent crimes, but they acknowledged that the funding for the proposal was less than certain... READ MORE
The age when children begin attempting to appear racially colour-blind
BPS RESEARCH DIGEST :Several embarrassing scenes in the spoof fly-on-the-wall series The Office feature the calamitous manager David Brent trying so hard to appear racially colour blind that he actually ends up causing serious offence... READ MORE
Straw puts victims first and says punishment is main point of prison
GUARDIAN :Jack Straw, the justice secretary, is to signal a more punitive approach to prisons today by attacking the "criminal justice lobby" for putting the needs of offenders before those of victims... READ MORE
Making Punishments Fit the Most Offensive Crimes
WALL STREET JOURNAL : Are people who download and view child pornography -- but aren't themselves molesters -- as much of a threat to society as rapists or murderers... READ MORE
Bureau of Prisons bans shackling pregnant inmates
FEMINISTING : Some good news for your mid-week: The Bureau of Prisons recently announced it has changed its policy and now bans the shackling of pregnant women during transportation, labor and delivery... READ MORE