Jack Diehl
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Gene Therapy Protects Against HIV
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News of Note: Gene therapy can protect against HIV “The road to a vaccine against HIV has proved to be far longer than originally anticipated. More than 2 million adults are newly infected with HIV every year and, nearly three decades after the virus was first identified, researchers haven’t found a reliable way to prevent…
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Kentucky church bans interracial couples
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News of Note: Kentucky church bans interracial couples “A small church in Pike County, Kentucky has voted to ban interracial couples from most church activities “to promote greater unity among the church body… “Parties of such marriages will not be received as members, nor will they be used in worship services and other church functions,…
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Occupy Foreclosed Homes
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Looking for another way to fight back against big banks? OccupyOurHomes.org is calling for a national day of action on December 6, 2011. “Everyone deserves to have a roof over their head and a place to call home. Millions of Americans have worked hard for years for the opportunity to own their own home; for…
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For-Profit Private Prisons
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News of Note: Private Prison Charges Inmates $5 a Minute for Phone Calls While They Work for $1 a Day Last year the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison company, received $74 million of taxpayers’ money to run immigration detention centers. Their largest facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, receives $200 a night…
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Is Sex For Pleasure Uniquely Human?
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Talk Nerdy To Me: Is Sex For Pleasure Uniquely Human? “We have a lot of sex. In human culture, sex is so much more than a means of reproduction. Sex is emotional. Sex is communicative. Sex is fun. And when it comes down to it, for most of us, sex just feels good. We have…
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What We Can Learn From the Dutch About Teen Sex
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What Mind Reading: What We Can Learn From the Dutch About Teen Sex “Teen birth rates are eight times higher in the U.S. than in Holland. Abortion rates are twice as high. The American AIDS rate is three times greater than that of the Dutch. What are they doing right that we’re not?… “Coming out…
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Earlier this month Whitehouse.gov (the official site of the White House) launched “We the People”: “Welcome to We the People on WhiteHouse.gov. This tool provides you with a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country. If a petition gets enough support, White House…
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Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle
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“Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffled scientists” There is this website, Fold.it. People go there to play a video game about Protein Folding. Players can contribute to science by solving these puzzles. Wikipedia sums up the news nicely: “. . . online gamers used Foldit to decipher the crystal structure of M-PMV retroviral protease, which…