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...almost everyone needs a BS-detector upgrade. A democratized media sphere has clear advantages over the controlling, top-down system of the past. But our newfound freedoms as users of information have their complications; and we need to deploy better tools—starting with a strong dose of common sense—to make the best use of it all.Dan Gillmor is director of the Center for Citizen Media, which is affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and the University of California, Berkeley. He will be giving a talk...
...it’s safe to conclude that many of their listeners are still prepubescent. The video follows an animated suit-of-armor on its trippy quest for its one true love: a sword. Viewers indulge in a dangerously large dose of childlike wonder as they watch that suit-of-armor—which is inexplicably and awkwardly worn by an orange elephant—traverse bizarre landscapes replete with lions, tigers, and—wait for it—bears. The youthful simplicity of the video belies the moving-on maturity of the lyrics, which mourn...
...hours and is limited to the first 72 hours after unprotected sex, proponents of Plan B say any obstacle--a doctor who is unavailable to write a prescription or a pharmacy that is out of stock--runs down the clock toward an unplanned pregnancy. The drug, a high-dose variant of ordinary birth-control pills, works in a similar way, by preventing ovulation and fertilization. It can also inhibit a fertilized egg from implanting itself on the wall of the uterus, resulting in what anti--abortion-rights advocates say is effectively an abortion. In any case, it can do nothing...
...drug, which is available only by prescription, is a high-dose variant of ordinary birth control pills and works in a similar way, by preventing ovulation and fertilization. It can also work by inhibiting a fertilized egg from implanting itself in the uterus, a process that anti-abortion-rights advocates say is effectively an abortion. In a concession to opponents, Wal-Mart will keep its policy allowing individual pharmacists with moral qualms about Plan B to turn a customer down, as long as they refer her to another pharmacist or nearby pharmacy. (That policy will not apply in Massachusetts...
...says.“I listen to pop music to anchor my day,” she explains. “It’s music as endorphin, not music as intellectual.”But balance is everything, and Birnbaum claims that a healthy dose of irony can be the only way to truly stomach some pop. “I think it’d be hard for anyone I know to say, ‘I accept all of Britney Spears’s lyrics unquestioningly,’” she says...