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- Wednesday, Mar 28, 2012
Commentary The debate on Genetic Engineering and Nuclear Power is a test case of the intense conflict between corporate rule and democracy -
- Friday, Dec 09, 2011
ZNet Article If people are committed to an unscientific position, no evidence or argument will shake them out of it -
- Saturday, Sep 24, 2011
Commentary On conspiracy theories and human nature -
- Sunday, Sep 18, 2011
Commentary Michael Albert interviews Noam Chomsky on science, religion and human nature -
- Friday, Mar 25, 2011
ZNet Article Why is the world’s largest organization of psychologists so aggressively promoting a new, massive, and untested military program? The APA’s enthusiasm for mandatory “resilience training” for all U.S. soldiers is troubling on many counts. -
- Sunday, Jan 09, 2011
ZNet Article Because he is so well informed and such an authority on the topics, I was inclined to just read the book and agree with everything. Which I did, until I couldn't any more. -
- Friday, Nov 19, 2010
Commentary Comstech is the Organization of Islamic Countries' highest scientific body. It has received millions of dollars from OIC countries, including Pakistan. -
- Saturday, Jun 26, 2010
ZNet Article Mirror neurons, the brain cells believed to be the basis for empathy, have recently been identified in the human brain. And yet we’re left to explain the disjuncture between this deep-seated, pre-reflective, moral intuition and the paucity of act... -
- Tuesday, Jun 08, 2010
Commentary Welcome to the world of "possibilian" neuroscientist-writer David Eagleman, to life in the space between what-is and what-if, between the facts we think we know and the fictions that illuminate what we don't know. -
- Sunday, Mar 28, 2010
ZNet Article An interview... -
- Saturday, Jan 09, 2010
Commentary Originally published in Yale Environment 360, Sonia Shah writes that in the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level e... -
- Sunday, Jan 03, 2010
Video Dr.Devinder Sharma in conversation with Ajay Kanchan on the perils of Genetically Modified Food -
- Friday, Dec 04, 2009
ZNet Article The Uproar Over New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines -
- Monday, Oct 12, 2009
ZNet Article Reviewing Frans de Waal’s The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons For A Kinder Society -
- Monday, Sep 14, 2009
Commentary In times when food is genetically manipulated and chemically contaminated, the metaphor "food for thought" can also stand for manipulated information and be toxic food for thought. Unfortunately, Dr M.S. Swaminathan’s GM: Food for Thought (Augus... -
- Tuesday, Sep 08, 2009
ZNet Article The increasing export of genetically modified crops is part of a regional trend with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay now adopting a soy-based economic model. Argentina has made a radical shift toward soy, which has displaced cultivation of... -
- Sunday, Sep 06, 2009
ZNet Article Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications -
- Tuesday, Sep 01, 2009
ZMag Article Climate politics and prospects in a crucial time frame -
- Saturday, Jun 13, 2009
ZNet Article What is psychology? What does psychological science have to offer those concerned with participatory society and progressive social change? These are some of the questions that would occasionally pop into my somewhat bored mind as I sat at the ba... -
- Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Commentary The funding for academic research has been taken over by business... -
- Wednesday, Apr 22, 2009
ZNet Article If anyone needs further proof that capitalism kills (and warps and maims), on top of the already endless volumes written condemning the system, a recent scientific study published in the highly respected peer review medical journal The Lancet expl... -
- Wednesday, Mar 25, 2009
Commentary Lies, damn lies, and the Monsanto website. Tell a lie a hundred times, and the chances are that it will eventually appear to be true. When it comes to genetically modified crops, Monsanto makes such an effort – and it could be that you too are d... -
- Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009
Commentary The financial meltdown that started in September 2008 was a result of the investments based on "toxic" paper - worthless financial instruments traded for super profits, even while they failed to reflect any value in the real economy. "Toxic Assets... -
- Tuesday, Sep 02, 2008
Commentary After the rats, goats, sheep and cows, it is now the turn of Indians. In a few months from now, if the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of India has its way, the first genetically modified food crop - Bt Brinjal - will be on your table. -
- Thursday, Aug 28, 2008
ZNet Article Author and activist Howard Zinn was one of the speakers at a critical social forum held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, on March 3, 4, and 8, 1969, in which MIT students and scientists had joined together and organized a... -
- Tuesday, Jul 01, 2008
ZMag Article Nobody, except for a small lunatic fringe, still disputes that human-caused climate chaos endangers all of us. Further, most serious scientific and technical groups who have looked at the question have concluded that we have the technological capa... -
- Monday, Jun 16, 2008
ZNet Article Can our state and local governments afford to subsidize businesses that conduct their sales only on the internet, rather than through physical retail stores? And if we could, is there a good reason to do so? -
- Saturday, Jun 07, 2008
ZNet Article At a time when supposed “progress’ is controlled by transnational corporations, the struggle for human emancipation requires perseverance and transnational political organization to be able to control the corporations that seek to control us. -
- Tuesday, May 20, 2008
ZNet Article An invitation to visit Google’s headquarters and meet some of the people who made this ten year old giant that is giving Microsoft the nervies has to start with wonder. ZNet Article With hardly a word in the mainstream press, the FDA has gutted the rules restraining drug companies from exploiting clinical trial subjects in developing countries. - All Newest Content
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