Fatherhood Involvement
Posted on June 21st, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
Filed under: Children's Issues | 5 Comments »
“Lollipop Head”
Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
This post is funny (and you know it’s true)
Filed under: The Culture of Denial and Pretense | 20 Comments »
Richard Pryor As President
Posted on May 12th, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
DC Voucher Program
Posted on May 4th, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
Jack Kemp’s Letter To His Grandchildren
Posted on May 3rd, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
As many know, Jack Kemp passed away last weekend. This letter to his grandchildren after the 2008 election was a snapshot of just what kind of man he was…
Dear Kemp grandchildren — all 17 of you, spread out from the East Coast to the West Coast, and from Wheaton College in Illinois, to Wake Forest University in North Carolina:
My first thought last week upon learning that a 47-year-old African-American Democrat had won the presidency was, “Is this a great country or not?”
You may have expected your grandfather to be disappointed that his friend John McCain lost (and I was), but there’s a difference between disappointment over a lost election and the historical perspective of a monumental event in the life of our nation. Read more »
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“I Don’t Eat That”
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
Near Pandemic
Posted on April 29th, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
The WHO says that we are near a pandemic Wash your hands! Stay home if you are sick!
The World Health Organization warned on Wednesday that a global flu pandemic was imminent, raising its threat level as the swine flu virus spread and killed the first person outside of Mexico, a toddler in Texas.
“Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world,” WHO Director General Margaret Chan told a news conference in Geneva.
“The biggest question is this: how severe will the pandemic be, especially now at the start,” Chan said, but added the world “is better prepared for an influenza pandemic than at any time in history.”
Nearly a week after the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, first emerged in California and Texas and was found to have caused deaths in Mexico, Spain reported the first case in Europe of swine flu in a person who had not been to Mexico, illustrating the danger of person-to-person transmission.
Chan raised the WHO alert level to Phase 5, its second highest warning that a pandemic, or global outbreak of a serious new illness, is imminent.
The new alert a signal to governments and businesses to take action, and to pharmaceutical companies to ramp up antiviral drug production and capacity, she said.
Almost all cases outside of Mexico have had only light symptoms, and only a handful of cases have needed hospitalization.
But in Mexico, where up to 159 people have died from the virus and around 1,300 more are being tested for infection, people struggled with an emergency that has brought normal life virtually to a standstill over the past week.
“I’m depressed. I don’t understand where this came from, how it spreads, how long it will last or what it will to the economy,” an elderly woman named Licha said, sitting on a Mexico City park bench and wearing a surgical mask.
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Virus is Evolving Fast
Posted on April 27th, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
I have to wonder why they are not closing the border - or at least testing those coming into the country in order to contain the infections and the virus is constantly evolving
In the meantime, the best thing to do is to frequently wash your hands and stay away from the sick (and if you are sick, stay at home)
The Flu Wiki Forum has a good summary of what to do in this situation
Avian flu and SARS rudely awoke the world to the possibility of a new pandemic. Could a seemingly more mundane bug now put the world to the test?
The swine flu virus that may have killed more than 80 people in Mexico and appears to have sickened hundreds more is still a mystery contagion. But this much is known: The virus is unusually made up of genetic material from avian, pig and human viruses; it can transmit from person to person; and in many people, it only triggers mild symptoms seen in garden-variety influenza.
The current virus is mainly sickening the young and the healthy, yet such bugs are notorious for their ability to evolve. “We are too early in our investigations to be able to address the lethality of the virus,” said Keiji Fukuda, interim assistant director-general at the World Health Organization, said Sunday. “Properties of flu viruses can change — they can go from mild to being more severe and can move from being more severe to less.”
Filed under: Changing World, Children's Issues | 3 Comments »
Green Jobs For A Green Future
Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
Busy
Posted on April 20th, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
Been a little too busy to blog lately. Plan to get back soon …
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Stuart Goes To Congress
Posted on April 13th, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
It looks like the Minnesota Senate Saga may be coming to an end soon as Franken is officially declared to be the winner. However the GOP will not go down easily
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Terminator Becomes Reality
Posted on April 9th, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
Over the past few months when reading about the unmanned drone attacks in Pakistan, I thought about the unmanned Skynet drones from the Terminator movies (at 2:02 in the video below). It seems that Tom Englehart has had similar thoughts
If we move more toward robotic warfare, my fear is that there is a chance that the system could become “self aware” and determine that all of mankind is a threat and decide to destroy everyone. Similar to Sentinels from the X-Men series
Filed under: Changing World | 6 Comments »
Obama Remarks To Muslim World
Posted on April 6th, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
Spotless Minds
Posted on April 3rd, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
A new therapy could wipe away dreadful memories in humans without using drugs and might eventually help patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, say researchers.
The new procedure relies on a quirky property of memories called reconsolidation. The process of jogging a memory – with an emotional or sensory jolt, for instance – seems to make it malleable for a few hours.
Potent drugs that block brain cells from making new proteins can erase fearful memories during this window. But these chemical are toxic, and wholesale memory erasure could do more harm than good, says Karim Nader, a neuroscientist at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who performed some of the drug studies.
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Coming Soon!
Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
