news roundup
31 May 2005 12:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jrtomNY Times: C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights
This is worth reading for the content, but I mostly bring it up as one of the better examples of investigative journalism I've seen recently.
NY Times: Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain
An interesting article, which suggests that the first stages of romantic infatuation (or "NRE", if you like) have a fairly specific neurological signature. The continuing development of fMRI is interesting stuff...although I do wonder at the eventual privacy implications.
NY Times: Got Toxic Milk?
In addition to speculation about exactly what this editorial might do for the US dairy industry, I find this article both an overt and an implicit endorsement of one of my avowals from yesterday (that in order to stop terrorist attacks on us, we need to figure out how to get people to stop hating us enough to want to attack us). Overt, in the sense that it outlines a specific threat against which we presently have no defense. Implicit, in the sense that the author appears to ignore, or not have recognized, that testing for botulin, even could it be made perfect, would not do anything to prevent other toxins' use.
Huffington Post, Phil Angelides: Arnold Proves He's a Bush Republican
Granted, this is coming from the man who is expected to be Arnie's chief rival for the governorship in 2006. But Angelides' points appear to be well made...although I'm not sure they add up to him being a Bush Republican in the fullest sense.
This is worth reading for the content, but I mostly bring it up as one of the better examples of investigative journalism I've seen recently.
NY Times: Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain
An interesting article, which suggests that the first stages of romantic infatuation (or "NRE", if you like) have a fairly specific neurological signature. The continuing development of fMRI is interesting stuff...although I do wonder at the eventual privacy implications.
NY Times: Got Toxic Milk?
In addition to speculation about exactly what this editorial might do for the US dairy industry, I find this article both an overt and an implicit endorsement of one of my avowals from yesterday (that in order to stop terrorist attacks on us, we need to figure out how to get people to stop hating us enough to want to attack us). Overt, in the sense that it outlines a specific threat against which we presently have no defense. Implicit, in the sense that the author appears to ignore, or not have recognized, that testing for botulin, even could it be made perfect, would not do anything to prevent other toxins' use.
Huffington Post, Phil Angelides: Arnold Proves He's a Bush Republican
Granted, this is coming from the man who is expected to be Arnie's chief rival for the governorship in 2006. But Angelides' points appear to be well made...although I'm not sure they add up to him being a Bush Republican in the fullest sense.