Hunter Cross

Occupy Wall Street

hunter — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:55:44 +0000

Nearly 80 people were arrested last weekend in a series of incidents with the New York police as the protesters attempted to march uptown. Most are now camped out in nearby Zucotti Park. Demonstrations also took place yesterday in San Francisco, and an "Occupy Boston" protest is planned for tonight, September 30.

- The Atlantic.

First Fully Lab-Grown Organ Successfully Transplanted

hunter — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:52:11 +0000

The synthetic trachea was created by growing the patient’s own stem cells on an artificial ‘scaffold’, which British scientists helped design. Windpipes have been grown from stem cells before, but only using the collagen ‘skeletons’ of donated tracheas

- The Atlantic Wire.

Immune System, Loaded With Remade T-cells, Vanquishes Cancer

hunter — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:49:04 +0000

There was no trace of it anywhere — no leukemic cells in his blood or bone marrow, no more bulging lymph nodes on his CT scan. His doctors calculated that the treatment had killed off two pounds of cancer cells.

- NYTimes.com.

Are jobs obsolete?

hunter — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:28:43 +0000

According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, there is enough food produced to provide everyone in the world with 2,720 kilocalories per person per day. And thats [sic] even after America disposes of thousands of tons of crop and dairy just to keep market prices high. Meanwhile, American banks overloaded with foreclosed properties are demolishing vacant dwellings to get the empty houses off their books.

Our problem is not that we dont have enough stuff — its that we dont have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff.

via CNN.

Goodbye to All That

hunter — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:37:30 +0000

It should have been evident to clear-eyed observers that the Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe. This trend has several implications, none of them pleasant.

via Truthout.

Metropolis II by Chris Burden

hunter — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:43:05 +0000

Youtube

BBC News – Worlds oceans in shocking decline

hunter — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:13:53 +0000

In a wider sense, ocean acidification, warming, local pollution and overfishing are acting together to increase the threat to coral reefs – so much so that three-quarters of the world’s reefs are at risk of severe decline.

Not good news.

The Brain on Trial – The Atlantic

hunter — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:17:42 +0000

When your biology changes, so can your decision-making and your desires. The drives you take for granted “I’m a heterosexual/homosexual,” “I’m attracted to children/adults,” “I’m aggressive/not aggressive,” and so on depend on the intricate details of your neural machinery. Although acting on such drives is popularly thought to be a free choice, the most cursory examination of the evidence demonstrates the limits of that assumption.

via The Atlantic.

Dawes – A Little Bit of Everything

hunter — Sat, 14 May 2011 00:52:28 +0000

“If you can give yourself to someone, then you should.”

Dawes – A Little Bit of Everything (SLYT).

Apple Store Dance to Check it Out!

hunter — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:43:46 +0000

Youtube Link.