1. More on Israel's new "no-give, no-take" organ donation system.
…Robby Berman, founder and director of the Halachic Organ Donor Society,
a Jewish organization based in New York, said ultra-Orthodox Jews can't
have it both ways…. "Every Jew has a right to be against an organ donation, but then you can't come and say 'give me an organ.''
2. Are birds shrinking due to climate change? At last, the climate change and evolution deniers can unite.
3. Not from the Onion: Apple: Free iPad With Every Replacement Battery.
4. Chinese airports at nowhere:
"…when the $57-million airport opened in late 2007. Local officials were
so confident that tourists would flock to this beautiful, mountainous
county in southwestern China that they made the terminal big enough to
accommodate 220,000 passengers annually…A grand total of 151 people flew in and out of Libo last year."
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5. Inhalable chocolate and coffee.
6. Matt Ygelsias, world's most underpayed blogger?
Hat tips to Daniel Lippman and Dave Undis.
It’s less than two hours before boarding time but most of the staff of Libo Airport are walking off their dinner of spicy dog meat with an evening stroll around the parking lot.
Beats the usual airport fare of Arby’s and Sbarro.
Its not assorted links, if they don’t have numbers. Please bring the numbers back.
JSIS, fixed!
“Originally, biologists proposed that having a larger body surface to volume might help in warmer climates.”
2. Another example of climate change “science”: predict climate change causing one thing, then when the opposite happens, explain that with climate change too! (We’ve already seen this with climate change that was going to put ski slopes out of business due to lack of snow but now actually predicted snowfall due to increased moisture!) Besides, didn’t North America have one of the lowest regional temperature increases over x time period? And clearly there’s no need to consider any number of factors from breeding to pesticides when climate change is a catch-all…. but what do I know? I must be a “denier”
Careless, that’s what I get for skimming and firing off replies too quickly… thanks! (Biases are hard to see through sometimes)
I recall similar articles about one or more massive western US airports that are now among the heaviest used in the US. Colorado and Texas come to mind. Something about the airports being located too far from anywhere and the terminals being so sprawling they needed people movers because it was too far to walk, and automated baggage transports that were miles in length and that lost baggage.
“Libo” is Mandarin for “Johnstown”
To “N”
re — Israeli Orthodox Jewish Organ Donation.
So no one can mess with your body until your Rabbi declares you are dead, but you can take out organs from other people (and put it in your body) who are still alive according to the same Rabbi?
So no one can mess with your body until your Rabbi declares you are dead, but you can take out organs from other people (and put it in your body) who are still alive according to the same Rabbi?
That does seem to be the argument. Doesn’t make much sense to me, either.
“That doesn’t make any sense. Even those that deny evolution will concede that animals of the same species can become larger or smaller over time– they just deny that one species changes to another. And those that deny that anthropogenic sources are causing climate change agree that climate has changed dramatically over time.”
I find it makes perfect sense. The article is about the interaction of two views that are not controversial at all in the scientific community but which have well known deniers. Alex points out the intersection harmlessly… and the wingnuts are all over the catnip.
If Alex has missed anything it’s that this group has always had a significant overlap to begin with. It’s also not particularly salient for libertarianism that most of these people also deny the benefits that a mixed economy offers.
Registered organ donors in the United States can get preferred access to donated organs by joining LifeSharers at http://www.lifesharers.org. Membership is free. There is no age limit, and no one is excluded due to any pre-existing medical condition.
Nothing could be fairer than giving organs first to organ donors. If you’re not willing to register to be an organ donor, then you should go to the back of the waiting list if you ever need an organ.
More importantly, putting organ donors first creates an incentive for non-donors to become donors. Thousands of Americans die every year waiting for organ transplants. Just about everyone would accept an organ transplant to live, but only about half of us have agreed to donate our organs after we die. It’s no wonder there’s such a large organ shortage.
So no one can mess with your body until your Rabbi declares you are dead, but you can take out organs from other people (and put it in your body) who are still alive according to the same Rabbi?
Sure, it’s like it’s immoral to have sex outside of marriage, but OK to be a pimp. Or something.
The article is about the interaction of two views that are not controversial at all in the scientific community but which have well known deniers.
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