Scientific racism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. (June 2010) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (March 2011) Scientific racism is the use of scientific techniques and hypotheses to sanction the belief in racial superiority, inferiority or racism. [1] This is not the same as using scientific findings and the scientific method to investigate differences among … more...

Penile hygiene for intact (non-circumcised) males This page offers factual information to help medical personnel and parents understand the proper care of the natural, complete, intact penis. The word hygiene comes from Greek, and means “the protection and promotion of health.” Keeping the body clean is only part of what it takes to be healthful. In some cases, excessive washing can actually cause health problems as will be explained below. This page provides a brief overview of penile hygiene with links to library holdings. Why this page is needed Many physicians today are totally ignorant of the care of the … more...

>Scientific Sexism October 11, 2009bloggerclarissaLeave a commentGo to comments >Chauvinism pervades every single area of our lives to an incredible degree. Even scientists, whose job is to discover and report objective data, prefer to push their patriarchal ideology instead. A recent article in Science Daily is a perfect example of that. The article is titled “Unnatural Selection: Birth Control Pills May Alter Choice Of Partners.” Its main goal is to bash the most important scientific breakthrough of the XXth century: the birth control pill. Many patriarchally-minded people hate the pill because it liberated women from having their lives controlled by … more...

Sitting next to a screaming child on an airplane can make someone want to jump out the window. One man aboard a Vietnam Airlines plane Tuesday attempted to take that adage literally. Luckily for all on board, the plane had already landed, but that didn’t stop 29-year-old Le Van Thuan from opening the plane’s window exit and releasing the emergency slide. But it wasn’t Thuan who wanted to escape, according to the Associated Press. The mother and her screaming child were looking to disembark the plane as quickly as possible after landing at Ho Chi Minh City airport. Turning to … more...

This picture taken by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on January 1, 2012 shows new North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (front row-C) posing for photos with soldiers of the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su 105 Guards Tank Division of the Korean People’s Army honored with the title of the O Jung Hup-led Seventh Regiment at an undisclosed place in North Korea. KCNA / AFP / Getty Images PRINT EMAIL REPRINTS SHARE inShare Kim Jong Il’s aides were standing around a billiard table in the game room of one of the Dear Leader’s villas outside Pyongyang. It was a … more...

(Story has been updated to reflect that Apple CEO Tim Cook’s pay package is over 10 years.) Chief executive officers are not the only highly paid people in America. It’s just their misfortune that, thanks to disclosure rules, they’re among the most visible. This proxy season coincides with an electoral cycle in which income inequality has become a populist issue for candidates in both parties, which means CEO paychecks will be scrutinized as never before. And what can’t evade discovery is that, even among the very rich, CEOs have been consistently overpaid. By overpaid, I don’t mean merely highly paid. … more...

On a Tuesday mid-morning, five people stand next to a white Winnebago (WGO) parked at the New Bethel Baptist Church in northwest Washington, D.C., waiting for the doors to open. Inside, there are 10 Dell (DELL) computer consoles with Internet hookups, wood paneling, and bungee cords to keep the office chairs from rolling around as the vehicle moves. The city-owned Winnebago is known as the Mobile One-Stop Career Center. Since September it has parked itself in front of dozens of churches, recreation centers, and libraries throughout the city’s eight wards, looking for jobless people and promising help. “The most surprising … more...

Some of the same investors who made big profits betting against mortgage bonds before the 2007 housing bust have started snapping up the toxic assets. Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass, who made $500 million when subprime debt cratered, is raising a fund to buy them. He’s joining John Paulson, who made $15 billion in 2007 thanks to the housing bust. Goldman Sachs Group has bought the bonds this year. Remarkably, so has American International Group (AIG) —the insurer that had to be rescued by the U.S. government in 2008 after its wagers on risky mortgages went bad. These investors are … more...