Tuesday 16 September 2014

Links, Tuesday 16th September

We know our place, we do. *touches forelock*

"Live television coverage of a speech by Frances O’Grady, General Secretary of the TUC, was cut off this morning minutes after she had warned of a return to a “Downton Abbey” society –  for a newsflash announcing that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting her second child." Indepedent

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"A 2002 study conducted by researchers at the University of New Mexico and published in the journal Addiction showed that motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy and naltrexone, which are often used together, are far more effective in stopping or reducing drug and alcohol use than the faith-and-abstinence-based model of A.A. and other “TSF” — for 12-step facilitation — programs. Results of an updated study have not yet been released." NY Times

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A handy little infographic about contraceptive methods NY Times

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"It looks like it would almost be better for government to hire all those non-ferrous metal [aluminium] workers, pay them their current salaries for doing nothing, and shut down that sector entirely. Easier than building another Medupi." Rolling Alpha

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"conflicts that in Sweden or Japan would be solved through quiet consultations between interested parties in the bureaucracy are fought out through formal litigation in the U.S. court system. This has a number of unfortunate consequences for public administration, leading to a process characterized, in Farhang’s words, by “uncertainty, procedural complexity, redundancy, lack of finality, high transaction costs.” By keeping enforcement out of the bureaucracy, it also makes the system far less accountable." Foreign Affairs

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This is some really serious shit. The UN and donor countries generally need to get on the case.

"In a worst-case hypothetical scenario, should the [ebola] outbreak continue with recent trends, the case burden could gain an additional 77,181 to 277,124 cases by the end of 2014." Wired

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What do people think of this argument?

"But to reduce this as an opposition to black wealth is a mistake. It ignores that there exists a special relationship between us, the common black folk, and the black owners of capital.

We celebrate black success because we expected liberation for one would be liberation for all. Those are the terms under which the struggle was waged. But when political freedom came, it became a case of every person for themselves. Black politicians declared that they did not struggle to be poor and black capitalists proclaimed it was their turn to eat, abandoning previously held notions of a collective struggle." City Press

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A little bit about what it's actually like to have schizophrenia... Cracked

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