screening

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/oct/30/breast-cancer-screenings-damaging-women Apparently for every life breast screening saves, three women are treated (with radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery) for a cancer that would never have harmed them. But there's no way to know whose cancer will...

The Science for Peace Student's Association at the University of Toronto is showing Loose Change 2nd Ed. Tuesday January 30th from 7-9 PM. I won't be able to attend the screening due to class. It's being shown in Room 179 of University College, 15 King's College Circle (If you happen to be in...

About one week ago, my laptop power supply went, and I bought a generic one as a replacement (the kind where you buy the supply and then a connector that corresponds to the model of your computer). Soon after, the computer started getting blue screens with this error code: 0X00000008e This...

Here is Daniel J. Solove weblog about an Airport Screening toy from Playmobil: http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/10/the_airline_scr.html The rest of it is hilarious as well. CBL

I saw this on my local news (KCAL9 in LA). It's called Electrodermal Screening and it supposedly finds out about the health of one's innards via electrical measurements on the skin of the hands. The reporter offered no counterpoint, no skepticism BTW, and she was astounded that the machine...

http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~1887790,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61891,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4 So, we have this program they want to do: investigate and rate everyone before they can ride on a commercial airliner. You are green: As normal. You...