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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Overpopulation Discourse and the Alarmism of Fake Accuracy
(source) So it appears that humanity will welcome its 7 billionth member. The United Nations claims that the baby in question will be born today, on October 31st. Well, “welcome” isn’t exactly the right word. The number, like the 6 billionth … Continue reading
Posted in economics, poverty
Tagged alarmism, fake accuracy, John Pitre, October 31, overpopulation, population, population growth, United Nations, world population
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Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (107): Incarceration
(source) More serious stuff on incarceration. More jokes.
Posted in comedy, political jokes and funny quotes
Tagged humor, incarceration, joke, prison
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The Causes of Human Rights Violations (32): The Just World Fallacy
(source) Here’s another psychological bias that causes human rights violations to persist: the just world fallacy. It seems that we want to believe that the world is fundamentally just. This strong desire causes us to rationalize injustices that we can’t … Continue reading
Human Rights Maps (157): Homicide in NYC is Primarily a Problem of and for Male African Americans
Apparently, it’s more dangerous to be a male black person in NYC than a person of any other race or gender: (source, where you can find an interactive version of these maps) African Americans represent only 25% of NYCs population, … Continue reading
Posted in data, human rights maps
Tagged Black people, causation, correlation, gender, homicide, human rights, maps, murder, New York City, numbers, race, statistics, United States, violence
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OMB, Occupy My Blog all this talk about the “7 billionth person” (cue scary music) http://yhoo.it/taaMMO – perhaps I should post this again: http://wp.me/pd52p-aOz Facebook can make you pretend that you have friends, Twitter that you are important; where’s the … Continue reading
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Political Graffiti (163): Obey
(source, by Shepard Fairey) More political graffiti here.
Posted in art, political graffiti
Tagged freedom, graffiti, obey, politics, Shepard Fairey, street art
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Why Do We Need Human Rights? (27): Do Babies Need Human Rights?
(source, source, graffiti by Dolk, more Dolk here) It seems that babies, although they are obviously human beings, don’t have the same rights as adult human beings. Even compared to young children they have less rights. Young children normally have … Continue reading
Posted in equality, law, philosophy, why do we need human rights
Tagged babies' rights, children's rights, dolk, h+, human beings, human rights, humanity, singularity, speciesism
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Annals of Heartlessness (10): “Let’s Invent Execution by Electrocution as a Way to Settle Some Business Differences”
(source) I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a worse case of commercial cynicism: Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse … engaged in a nasty battle over alternating and direct current, known as the “War of Currents.” Both men knew there … Continue reading
Human Rights Maps (156): Progress on the Millennium Development Goals
Here’s an overview of the countries that have progressed most in terms of the 1st, 4th and 5th Millennium Development Goals (respectively: reduce the number of people living on less that $1.25 a day, reduce under age 5 mortality rate … Continue reading
