Tensegrities

The Union of Concerned Scientists has created a really interesting guide to some of the ways in which scientists who work for or advise the federal government have seen their work manipulated, suppressed and/or distorted. It’s done in the shape of a periodical table, with each element linked to various examples.

Our new team at Luther, working on instructional design, put together a great week of faculty development. During that time they included this page of resources, which I don’t want to lose — hence the reason I’m blogging about it.

Thanks to Joho for the tip on the new book Rebooting Democracy, available for free download as a pdf, or at Amazon.

This is not new news, but nevertheless it’s further confirmation.

I think Glenn Greenwald is very persuasive. And I agree with him when he notes that

It will never stop being jarring that Pulitzer-Prize-winning revelations from the New York Times that the President and the telecom industry were committing felonies for years culminated in the full-scale protection of the lawbreakers and retroactive legalization of the criminality by the “opposition party” which controls the Congress.

That’s why I find it so disheartening that Obama voted with the President on FISA. It’s not enough to make me stop campaigning for him — in fact, it’s now clear we have to redouble our efforts to build a movement that can not only elect him, but pressure him — but it does take some of the joy out of the process for me.

I’ve been meaning FOR AGES to get our household the basic minimum supplies for an emergency like pandemic flu, but in the months and months that I have not yet done it, the list has expanded almost exponentially. Here’s what they’re recommending right now. And here’s a dailyKos diary update on pandemic flu.