"... Her D.C.I.S., a condition detected almost exclusively through mammography, quite likely never would become life-threatening, yet it transformed her into a cancer survivor, subjecting her to surgery and weeks of even more radiation. By the time of her second diagnosis, she was so distraught that she amputated both of her breasts to restore a sense of control.
a recent Komen print ad that reads: “The five-year survival rate for
breast cancer when caught early is 98 percent. When it’s not? It
decreases to 23 percent.” 
More from article"it offers corporations a seemingly fail-safe way to signal good will toward women, ... if the products they produce are linked to the disease or other threats to public health. Having football teams don rose-colored cleats, for instance, can counteract bad press over how the N.F.L. handles accusations against players of rape or domestic violence. Chevron’s donations to California Komen affiliates may help deflect what Cal OSHA called its “willful violations” of safety that led to a huge refinery fire last year in a Bay Area neighborhood. "
So, I’m eastbound on I-20 going a scandalous 59 miles per hour — four whole miles over the speed limit — but my favorite Joe Jackson song “Steppin’ Out” is on the radio and it always makes me drive fast. I’m out of my strict house. I’m feeling sort of brave. I’m feeling almost free.Story here: http://hoganhere.tumblr.com/post/48....
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Our findings indicate that the baby schema response is a critical function of human social cognition that may be the basis of caregiving and have implications for infant-caretaker interactions.”"Baby Schema in Infant Faces Induces Cuteness Perception and Motivation for Caretaking in Adults.
source: Discover Magazine
What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Meaning is an interaction of expectations, context, memory, and given statements.-- Ray Hyman
Among the most pervasive, and arguably pernicious, notions of the past decade has been that the “creative class” of the skilled, educated and hip would remake and revive American cities. The idea, packaged and peddled by consultant Richard Florida, had been that unlike spending public money to court Wall Street fat cats, corporate executives or other traditional elites, paying to appeal to the creative would truly trickle down, generating a widespread urban revival.
